If not for his dying mother and a persuasive uncle who helped raise him, Jesus Meraz might have spent an 11th year behind bars at the Clark County Detention Center. Meraz, 38, was first locked up on murder charges in October 2005.
Plaintiffs in the case are seeking an increase in the state's budget for education expenditure to provide a equal educational opportunities to all students.
ACLU and three residents of Ferguson have filed a case to seek a change in the voting system for the school board elections which reportedly undermines the voting power of African-American residents.
Three people have been arrested in connection with the killing of a Syrian journalist in southern Turkey. Naji al-Jarf, the editor of Syrian pro-opposition magazine Hinta, died after being shot in the street in the city of Gaziantep in December.
