Police praised an 8-year-old boy for saving his 10-year-old sister from a kidnapper and carjacker in Middletown, Ohio. The children were with their great-grandmother, 69-year-old Nita Coburn, who parked in front of the hospital entrance at Atrium Medical Center to help her sick daughter get inside. Coburn told WCPO-TV she thought she had locked her car doors, but later realized that a safety...Continue Reading

If you stole something in the ancient world, you really didn’t want to get caught. The old Hebraic law had some of the least dire consequences, only requiring a malefactor to pay several times the value of the thing pilfered. Other societies would sentence thieves to hard labor or asset confiscation. Some would even remove fingers, a hand, or an arm. Today’s sentences arenâ€...Continue Reading