May 20—LOOGOOTEE — The Barr-Reeve Lady Vikings tennis team earned another tennis sectional championship on Friday at Loogootee; However, Washington High School fell just short with a loss to South Knox at Vincennes Lincoln. Rain caused havoc with the schedule throughout the week at both sites and pushed bot championship matches back to Friday, however, Barr-Reeve was able to garner the 3-2 win ...
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a Canadian former Guantanamo Bay detainee's bid to vacate his convictions for the 2002 murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan and other crimes he committed at age 15 to which he later pleaded guilty. The justices declined to hear an appeal by Omar Khadr, now age 37, of a lower court's refusal to hear his case on the grounds that he had waived his right to appellate review as part of a 2010 plea agreement before a U.S. military commission. Khadr was one of the youngest prisoners held at the detention facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Ex-President Jacob Zuma's 15-month prison sentence disqualifies him from being a lawmaker.