A state appeals court has upheld the latitude of local police chiefs to decide who can and can't carry a handgun in Massachusetts, overturning two lower-court judges who found that a police chief in Taunton acted unreasonably when he revoked a license to carry from a man whose gun was stolen from his car.
Paul Caras, then 76, picked up his drug-addicted grandson one day in January 2017 to take him to Rhode Island. On the way, he made a brief stop at his home, leaving his grandson in the car with Caras's Sig Sauer P232 handgun in the unlocked glove compartment. He had the gun in the car because he had made several trips to the bank that day.
A 19-year-old woman was intentionally burned to death in Bangladesh after she refused to retract accusations that her school's principal had been sexually harassing her, Al Jazeera is reporting.
The April 10 murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, described in the report as "a disgrace to humanity," was allegedly carried out by as many as 17 of Rafi's schoolmates, all male, who tied her up, doused in kerosene and set her afire because she would not "withdraw the sexual harassment complaint she had filed with police" against her school principal.
