By Gitte Laasby of the Journal Sentinel
A 25-year-old man suffered numerous gunshot wounds in a shooting shortly after 4 p.m. in the 5200 block of N. Teutonia Ave., Milwaukee police said.
The man is being treated and is expected to survive. Investigators are working to develop a motive and suspects.
In another shooting Sunday, a 20-year-old man was shot around 9 p.m. in the 3000 block of N.
Birmingham City Council is under growing pressure to stop targeting spending cuts on front-line social care and voluntary groups after being heavily criticised in two High Court decisions.
The local authoritys Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition is facing a 19 million hole in its budget this year following judicial reviews which have halted plans to reduce social services provision and grants to voluntary organisations.
Mr Justice Blake ruled in the High Court that a decision to axe a 1.4 million funding scheme for 13 third sector groups, including the Citizens Advice Bureau, was unlawful.
Neither the cabinet nor the full council paid due regard to their responsibilities to promote equality under the Disability Discrimination Act and failed to consult properly with people who would be hit by the cuts.
Last week, Mr Justice Walker came to the same conclusion when allowing a judicial review into a cabinet decision to save 17.5 million by restricting social services care to adults whose needs are critical the highest category of disability indicating an inability to perform the simplest tasks without help.
More than 11,000 people currently receiving help will be re-assessed and about 4,000 with substantial needs stand to lose council-funded care as a result.
By Jesse Garza of the Journal Sentinel
A 22-year-old man accused of causing a head-on collision that injured two people while driving drunk the wrong way on I-43 was charged Wednesday.
Joel Julian-Jorge of Milwaukee was charged with multiple counts, including injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle causing great bodily harm, in connection with the crash, according to a criminal complaint.
Julian-Jorge had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.15, almost twice the 0.08 level considered legal proof of drunken driving in Wisconsin, when the car he was driving early Monday slammed into a sport utility vehicle while heading east in the westbound lanes near Loomis Road.
A male passenger suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash and a man driving the SUV was also injured, according to the complaint.
Bail was set at $11,000 for Julian-Jorge, who was in the Milwaukee County Jail Wednesday under an immigration hold, according to jail records.
His immigration status was under investigation, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.
The U.S. Department of Justice is studying whether to reexamine the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.
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Department spokesman Xochitl Hinojosa said Monday the department is reviewing “the request to open the Malcolm X murder. We decline further comment at this time.”
Alvin Sykes of Kansas City — architect of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act who in an April 6 letter asked the Justice Department to review Malcolm X’s assassination — praised the department’s consideration.
He said he is hoping Attorney General Eric Holder will bring “more investigative resources and prosecutorial jurisdiction to credibly address the guilt or innocence of a broader net of past, present and potentially future suspects in this case.”
A new biography by the late Manning Marable raises questions about who was involved in Malcolm X’s killing at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem on Feb. 21, 1965 — less th
Chris Game, honorary senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Local Government Studies, says the forthcoming local elections could see the continued recovery of the Labour Party after last years General Election disaster.
Local elections should be primarily about our choosing which councillors should represent us and which policies our councils should, or should not, pursue.
They should not be diminished by treating them, as Prime Ministers regularly do, as mock parliamentary elections or, this time, as our first chance to give an electoral verdict on the national coalition.
This year, though, is a bit different.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Republicans who control the Indiana Senate have advanced major, politically charged proposals in the final weeks of the legislative session by inserting amendments into other bills. That means there are no public hearings on the issues, including defunding Planned Parenthood, fining boycotting lawmakers and changing rules surrounding the indicted secretary of state.
Critics say that if the legislation is such a good idea, it should go through the typical public hearing process.
Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, says the Senate prefers to follow the typical legislative process. But he says the five-week boycott by House Democrats earlier this session changed the timeline and meant less time for committee chairmen to schedule hearings. Read full post…