Friday afternoon, Emma Didlake, the oldest living United States veteran, met with President Barack Obama in the White House. The veteran was born in 1905 in Bolingee, Alabama. Known as “Big Mama”, Didlake joined the military at the age of 38 in 1943, where she served for seven months as an Army private and a …
On Sunday, police received notification from a grocery store that a gas station clerk had been paid in a $5 bill that he suspected to be counterfeit. 45-year-old Pamela Downs of Kingsport, Tennessee, was identified and arrested. Downs claimed that she had received the $5 elsewhere and hadn’t noticed its illegitimacy, but when police searched …
“I believe these folks deserve a second chance,” President Obama said in a recent White House video concerning 46 prisoners all serving at least 20 years. Some of them were even given life sentences. “I believe that, at its heart, America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second …
Next week, President Obama will be paying a historic visit to Federal Correctional Institution, El Reno to meet with inmates and law enforcement officials. This visit will make him the first US President to visit a federal prison while in office. Located in central Oklahoma, El Reno is a medium-security prison that houses around 1,300 …