Racial identity of activist questioned but does it matter?
Questions about the racial identity of a well-known activist in the “Black Lives Matter” movement have stirred controversy and drawn a blistering response. But the central question remains: Does his race matter?
Lawyer says Sen. Cochran’s marriage helps blogger’s defense
U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s new marriage to his executive assistant could become part of a blogger’s defense against charges related to photos taken of the Mississippi Republican’s now-deceased first wife while she was incapacitated with dementia.
Food Babe blogger Vani Hari taking heat over health science
As truth wars go, Vani Hari of the Food Babe blog has produced a doozy.
Trial delayed for blogger in Rose Cochran photo case
Trial has been delayed until June 8 for a political blogger accused of photographing bedridden Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife, without permission, in a nursing home.
Trial nears for accused Cochran photo blogger
A political blogger who shook up last year’s Senate election by photographing U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s bedridden wife is set for trial March 30.
Investigation continues in tea party official’s death
A tea party official charged with conspiring to take photos of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife inside a nursing home apparently committed suicide Friday, police said, days after Cochran won a nasty Republican primary.
Cochran keeps calm amid Senate race scandal
U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran is in the fight of his political life in a brutal, too-personal Republican primary that has drawn his bedridden wife into the melee and resulted in criminal charges against some of his opponent’s supporters.
Cochran: Use of wife’s photo ‘amateurish’
Republican Sen. Thad Cochran said Wednesday he thinks it’s “kind of amateurish” that supporters of his primary opponent, Chris McDaniel, photographed his ailing wife in a nursing home and used her image in a political video against him.
Cochran says unauthorized photo incident ‘bizarre’
Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi said Friday that it’s “unfortunate” and “sort of bizarre” that somebody photographed his ailing wife in a nursing home and posted her image online in a political video against him.
Three more arrests in Sen. Cochran photo probe
Investigators say a Mississippi tea party official and two other men arrested Thursday conspired with a conservative blogger to use photographs of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s ill wife to push allegations that the longtime Republican senator was involved in an inappropriate relationship with another woman.
Hearing set for blogger in Cochran photo flap
A conservative Mississippi blogger accused of taking an unauthorized photo of Republican Sen. Thad Cochran’s ill wife and posting it online was to appear today in Madison city court.
Cochran children shocked mom’s photo posted
U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s adult children said Monday they were shocked someone apparently tried to use their mother’s debilitating dementia for political purposes as their father seeks re-election in Mississippi.
Man accused of exploiting Sen. Cochran’s ill wife
Authorities say a conservative Mississippi blogger went into a nursing home, photographed the bedridden wife of Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran without permission and posted an image online as part of an anti-Cochran video.
Blogger’s death in Iran window onto cyber patrols
In his last blog entry, activist Sattar Beheshti wrote that Iranian authorities had given him an ultimatum: Either stop posting his “big mouth” attacks against the ruling system or tell his mother that she will soon be in mourning.