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People who have pleaded guilty to crimes they didn’t commit would have an easier time challenging their convictions under a bill passed by New York lawmakers this week. It passed

People who have pleaded guilty to crimes they didn't commit would have an easier time challenging their convictions under a bill passed by New York lawmakers this week, over the objection of prosecutors who warned it might also open the door to endless appeals by the guilty. Under current state law, people who plead guilty to a crime are usually barred from trying to get those convictions tossed out on the grounds that they are actually innocent, except in cases involving new DNA evidence. Other types of evidence of innocence could be considered, as well as arguments that a person was c...

Volunteers from across Winnipeg are helping Habitat for Humanity this week as it builds the largest Manitoba development in the organization’s 35-year history.

More than 1,000 students, staff and faculty at East Carolina University participated in the 27th Polar Bear Plunge on Jan. 19. and jumped into ice cold water at the Eakin