September 27, 2013
#Sidney's Picks: Arrested for Calling 911 on Her Batterer
The Best of the Week’s News
- The ACLU is challenging local laws that can have a battered woman locked up or evicted if she calls 9-1-1 too many times.
- How the Vatican got snookered on stem cells.
- The sheriff of Mingo County was assassinated in April, and his death sparked an epic public corruption investigation that reached all the way to the local court house.
- “LoveInt”: NSA employees have used their eavesdropping powers to spy on their intimate partners on at least 12 occasions since 2003.
- Michael Grabell’s wife gave birth to the couple’s second child in July (the same week he won a Sidney Award). The little boy’s life was saved by a simple blood oxygenation test that revealed a correctable congenital heart defect. Grabell wants the test made available to all newborns.