News of the day from across the nation, April 22
New Jersey’s American Civil Liberties Union is defending a man who is facing a fine for flying flags supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Chapter deputy legal director Jeanne LoCicero says it doesn’t matter whether it’s a lawn sign or a flag.
Gyrocopter case: A man who piloted a one-person gyrocopter through some of the most restricted U.S. airspace and landed on the lawn of the Capitol in Washington was sentenced Thursday to 120 days in jail in a Washington court.
Florida resident Douglas Hughes said his April 15, 2015, flight in the bare-bones aircraft — which began in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — was a way to call attention to the influence of big money in politics.
Georgia authorities filed a murder charge against a man described as a “career criminal” who led authorities to a body believed to be that of a missing Florida priest, the Rev. Rene Wayne Robert, a law enforcement official said Thursday.
Steve James Murray, 28, of Jacksonville, Fla., faces a first-degree murder charge.
Massachusetts will offer tuition rebates to full-time, qualifying students who begin their studies at a community college and go on to earn a bachelor’s degree at a state university.
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and state higher educational officials on Thursday unveiled what they called a first-in-the-nation program at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, one of the state’s 15 community colleges.