Valerie Richardson

John Hickenlooper draws ire for linking Planned Parenthood rampage to concealed-carry holders

Gun-rights advocates are crying foul after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper linked last week's deadly Planned Parenthood shooting to the prevalence of concealed-carry permit holders in Colorado Springs.

December 1, 2015

Robert Dear, Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings suspect, narrowly avoided SWAT assault

A SWAT team was moments away from launching a "final assault" on the Colorado Springs gunman Friday when he surrendered, ending his five-hour stand-off with police not in a hail of bullets but by throwing his gun on the floor.

November 30, 2015

Colorado FOP blasts ‘race baiting morons’ claiming Robert Lewis Dear Jr. spared because he is white

The Colorado Fraternal Order of Police had some choice words -- including "race baiting morons" and "delusional fools" -- for those who say the suspected Colorado Springs gunman wasn't killed by police because he was white.

November 30, 2015

John Cox, California entrepreneur, proposes donor logos on politicians

You can tell who sponsors NASCAR drivers by the patches on their jumpsuits. So why not do the same for politicians?

November 26, 2015

Madison Gesiotto reports threat after pro-life column; Ohio State law school deans offer critique

All Madison Gesiotto wanted to do when she met with the dean of her law school was report a threat prompted by a newspaper column she wrote pointing out the high abortion rate in the black community.

November 24, 2015

Millennials: Government should ban speech that offends minorities

Forty percent of millennials support government censorship of speech offensive to minority groups, according to a survey released Friday.

November 21, 2015

Planned Parenthood campaign asking for one-word description backfires badly

Planned Parenthood Action Fund's social-media campaign asking for a one-word description of its work so far hasn't turned out exactly as planned.

November 20, 2015

Oklahoma Gov. Fallin moves to defund Planned Parenthood for ‘alarming’ overbilling

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin moved Thursday to cancel the state's contracts with two Planned Parenthood affiliates, but she didn't cite the Center for Medical Progress's explosive hidden-camera videos.

November 20, 2015

Paris attacks threaten climate message, cancel COP21 march, frustrate activists

The global warming movement is reeling in the aftermath of last week's horrific terrorist attack in Paris -- because it threatens to step on its message ahead of the much-anticipated United Nations climate change summit in the French capital.

November 19, 2015

Governors who welcome refugees face blowback over security risks

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper insists that the state can welcome Syrian refugees without posing a security threat to residents, but Libby Szabo doesn't understand how he can be so sure.

November 18, 2015

North Dakota voters select ‘Fighting Hawks’ to replace ‘Fighting Sioux’

Say good-bye to the Fighting Sioux and hello to the Fighting Hawks.

November 18, 2015

U.S. ‘discriminates’ against Christian refugees, accepts 96% Muslims, 3% Christians

Less than 3 percent of the Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far are Christian and 96 percent are Muslim, the result of a referral system that Republican Sen. Tom Cotton says "unintentionally discriminates" against Christians.

November 17, 2015

North Dakota fans still embrace Fighting Sioux nickname, reject replacement monikers

The University of North Dakota has narrowed down its nickname choices to the Roughriders and the Fighting Hawks, but hockey fan Duffy Doubek isn't thrilled with either.

November 16, 2015

Tax rates on cellphone service hit record high: report

Forking over $399 for an iPhone is only the beginning: Wireless customers pay an all-time high of nearly 18 percent on average in combined taxes and fees on their cellphone bills.

November 16, 2015

Aaron Allmon verdict deals blow to military’s high-profile attack on sex-related offenses

As Air Force missions go, the prosecution of Tech. Sgt. Aaron D. Allmon II on explosive sexual-harassment charges ran into turbulence and wound up in a nosedive.

November 15, 2015

Republicans call on Obama to start defeating Islamic State

Frustrated Republicans called Sunday on the White House to get serious about fighting Middle East terrorism in the wake of a series of attacks, culminating in the massacre in Paris.

November 15, 2015

Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate: Terrorist attacks linked to climate change

Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders doubled down Sunday on his insistence that climate change leads to terrorism, a connection he called "pretty obvious."

November 15, 2015

Marco Rubio: Hillary Clinton’s refusal to blame ‘radical Islam’ like refusing to blame Nazis in WWII

Marco Rubio said Sunday that Hillary Rodham Clinton's refusal to agree that the United States is at war with radical Islam would be "like saying we were not at war with the Nazis because we were afraid to offend some Germans."

November 15, 2015

Obama still plans to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees despite Paris terrorist attacks

The White House says it won't let its plans to bring Syrian refugees to the U.S. be derailed by Friday's terrorist attack in Paris, with a top official insisting Sunday that American authorities know how to weed out potential problems within the refugee community.

November 15, 2015

Aaron Allmon, Air Force photographer, cleared of most charges in sexual-harassment ‘witch-hunt’

An award-winning combat photographer who once faced up to 130 years in prison for sexual harassment may avoid jail altogether after being cleared Friday of the most devastating charges against him.

November 14, 2015