quote [ For six days a week and nine hours a day, the victims were forced to hand out Pixie sticks and religious literature in exchange for donations, all of which they turned over to the church, prosecutors say. Then, they were locked inside their homes. ]

quote [ A Supreme Judicial Court justice handed Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins a major victory Monday, ruling that Boston Municipal Court Judge Richard Sinnott III had ?no authority? to force Rollins to push ahead with the prosecution of a Straight Pride protestor. ]

quote [ Police departments aren?t often accused of unethical Photoshop manipulation, but that?s the controversy that has erupted in Portland, Oregon. The police were discovered to have Photoshopped a suspects mugshot to make his face look more like the perpetrator in a bank robbery. ]

quote [ Over the past three years, the structures that once allowed executives and internal activists to hash out tensions had badly eroded. In their place was a new machinery that the company's activists on the left had built up, one that skillfully leveraged media attention and drew on traditional organizing tactics. Dissent was no longer a family affair. ]

quote [ Arpaio?s loss in Arizona?s Senate Republican primary is a fitting end to the public life of a truly sadistic man. ]

quote [ The guards did not check on him for three hours, officials said. The disclosures came as the guards and the warden at the jail were removed. ]

quote [ Add bird feces to the long list of substances to trigger false positives in drug field tests. ]

quote [ Mr. Epstein, the financier indicted on sex trafficking charges last month, hanged himself and his body was found Saturday morning. ]

quote [ Hispanic workers at the company?s Morton, Mississippi, chicken processing plant were subjected to touching and sexually suggestive comments, were hit, were charged money for ?normal everyday work activities? and faced retaliation after complaining, EEOC alleged.

After immigration authorities rounded up hundreds of workers in a massive sweep at seven Mississippi food processing plants, friends and family members are desperately searching for answers. ]

quote [ ?Juanita? (not her actual name) was on a road trip from San Jose, California, to Mexico via Phoenix, Arizona. In Mexico she was going to try to reunite with her fiancé, from whom she was estranged. (...) South of San Jose, she stopped to pick up a pregnant-looking hitchhiker who turned out to be accompanied by two men. All three were from the Manson Family. ]