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Ohio congressman and former Ohio State assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan has been accused of participating in the cover-up of widespread sexual abuse in OSU’s wrestling program. Jordan was accused by Adam DiSabato, who was the team captain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. DiSabato was appearing in front of a hearing in the Ohio legislature as a witness for House Bill 249, which would waive the statute of limitations and allow the OSU athletes who had been abused to sue the university. DiSabato told the House Civil Justice Committee that several team officials, including Jordan, were aware that...

A Tennessee judge gave a college student a driving lesson in court this week: don't correct the police. Clay Palmer, a student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, honked his car horn when he saw a policeman turn on blue flashers to pass through a red traffic light. The officer then turned the flashers off after moving through the intersection. Palmer said officer Matthew Puglise then stopped his patrol car and issued him a ticket for honking his horn for no reason -- a violation of the city noise ordinance. The charge was reduced to a warning Wednesday when...

A special commission took the FBI to the woodshed for significant flaws in the case of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was convicted of spying for Moscow for 22 years. Some say that was the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history. The commission was chaired by former FBI and CIA Director William Webster, which, under the circumstances seems a little like asking the fox to guard the henhouse because Hanssen was spying while Webster was director. Anyway, the commission came out with a somewhat scathing 107 page report simply titled "A Review of FBI Security Programs." The report recommends many...