Last year, Florida attorney and philanthropist Hugh Culverhouse Jr donated $26.5 million to the University of Alabama. The university, grateful for its largest private contribution ever, reciprocated by naming its law school after him. Hugh and UA, sittin' in a tree ... On June 7, the UA's board of trustees voted to return his donation (and presumably rename the school). Love-hate relationship, I guess.

“History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and exhaustively. In our own time and place, criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can be arrested for something.

CLIVE, IOWA — A Davenport man has won a $100,000 lottery prize.

Steve Logsdon won the third top prize available in the Iowa Lottery’s “Dollar Sign” ($) scratch game. He purchased his winning ticket at SC Mini Mart, 1511 W Locust St in Davenport, and claimed his prize on Monday at the lottery’s Cedar Rapids regional office.

AUSTIN, TEXAS (June 3, 2019) — The Rutherford Institute is sounding the alarm over so-called “school safety” legislation passed by the Texas legislature that requires schools to form “threat-assessment teams” to identify students who are deemed suicide risks and refer those students to mental-health authorities.