Police Records Show Defense Secretary Nominee Was Involved in Alleged Sexual Assault in 2017
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, was involved in an incident of alleged sexual assault in 2017 at a hotel in Monterey, California, according to local authorities. The alleged incident occurred in the early hours of Oct. 8, 2017, and involved a victim who suffered bruising on their thigh, police records released […]
Maine Army Reserve Shooter's Military Records to Be Turned Over to Victims' Families
BATH — A woman who lost her son and husband in the Lewiston mass shooting was granted legal power to request the gunman’s medical and military records. Cynthia Young was made special administrator over Robert Card’s estate in Sagadahoc County Probate Court on Tuesday, almost a year after Card committed the deadliest mass shooting in […]
Families of Lewiston Shooting Victims Ask Judge for Army Reserve Gunman's Medical Records
More than 90 people who lost loved ones in the Lewiston mass shooting last October are trying to obtain the gunman’s medical and military records through his estate. A Sagadahoc County probate judge may determine whether to release those records during a hearing scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. On Oct. 25, 2023, Robert Card, of Bowdoin, […]
Maine Considers Giving Panel Subpoena Power to Access Mass Shooter’s Military Records
PORTLAND, Maine — A Maine legislative committee considered an emergency request on Monday to grant powers to a panel investigating last year’s Lewiston mass shooting that the state’s governor said are critical to unraveling how the killings unfolded. An independent commission is investigating the October shootings that killed 18 people in a bowling alley and […]
Commission Investigating Lewiston Mass Shooting Seeks to Subpoena Shooter’s Military Records
AUGUSTA, Maine — An independent commission investigating the mass shooting that killed 18 people in Maine last month moved Monday to seek subpoena power so it can obtain the military service records of the shooter. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and Attorney General Aaron Frey have tasked the commission with performing a review of the events […]
Texas Public Records Loophole Lets Cities Keep Suicide Reports from Families of Dead Soldiers
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