Law

Education

11 Ex-Atlanta Public School Employees Found Guilty In Cheating Scandal

10:08am April 02, 2015

by Martha Dalton

They were found guilty of conspiracy when they switched student test scores. The verdicts close a dark chapter for the school system and the city of Atlanta. One defendant, a teacher, was acquitted.

Queue Listen Now

Madison, Wis., Council Votes To Ban Discrimination Against Atheism

8:22am April 02, 2015

by Bill Chappell

In what's believed to be a first in the United States, the city's equal opportunities ordinance is amended "to add nonreligion as a protected class."

Verdict Reached In Atlanta School Cheating Case

8:00pm April 01, 2015

by Jim Burress

Eleven of 12 former public school employees in Atlanta were found guilty Wednesday in one of the biggest cheating scandals in American education.

Queue Listen Now

Sen. Robert Menendez Indicted On Corruption Charges

8:00pm April 01, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

Sen. Menendez of New Jersey has been indicted on corruption charges. These are the first criminal charges brought against a sitting U.S. Senator in seven years.

Queue Listen Now

Oakland Kids Get A Raise From The New Minimum Wage

7:21pm April 01, 2015

by Savannah Robinson

The highest minimum wage in the nation just went into effect in Oakland, Calif. But what does that mean for young people and how are businesses making it work?

Queue Listen Now

National

Prosecutor Apologizes For Putting Innocent Man On Death Row

6:44pm April 01, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to prosecutor Marty Stroud, who put Glenn Ford on death row for the 1983 murder of a jeweler in Shreveport, La. Ford was recently released after nearly 30 years in prison.

Queue Listen Now

Gallup's May 2014 survey found support for same-sex marriage at a new high: 55 percent.

Indiana Law: Sorting Fact From Fiction From Politics

4:05pm April 01, 2015

by Domenico Montanaro

The culture wars are always percolating beneath the surface in presidential politics. And as is often the case in controversies, the facts have become muddled and conflated.

National

Native American Tribes Win Child Welfare Case In South Dakota

10:03am April 01, 2015

by Laura Sullivan

A federal court ruled Tuesday in summary judgment that the state of South Dakota has routinely violated federal law by taking Native American children from their families and tribes.

Queue Listen Now

National

Closing Arguments To Begin Monday In Boston Marathon Bombing Trial

3:32am April 01, 2015

by Tovia Smith

The defense rested its case Tuesday in the trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Because of holidays and judicial housekeeping duties, the trial won't resume until next week.

The 5-to-4 vote crossed the court's usual ideological lines.

Supreme Court Deals Medicaid Blow To Doctors And Health Companies

5:59pm March 31, 2015

by Nina Totenberg

The court ruled Tuesday that private Medicaid providers cannot sue to force states to raise reimbursement rates in the face of rising medical costs.