8 sentenced

in shootings

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Eight people accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa have been sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center during a protest.

A police officer was wounded in the July 4 shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas. A former U.S. Marine Corps reservist convicted of attempted murder in the shooting was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in prison, which is the maximum punishment.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of two judges overseeing the sentencing, said the protesters’ actions were “an assault on democracy.” The seven other protesters received prison terms ranging from 30 to 70 years.

Guthrie family

‘in agony’

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal to viewers Tuesday. She pleaded with them to step forward with any information about her missing mother. Her plea came a day after news organizations said a ransom note months ago had indicated that she was dead.

Eighty-four-year-old Nancy Guthrie was reported missing from her Arizona home on Feb. 1. Authorities believe she was taken against her will. Savannah Guthrie says her family “cannot be at peace” while her mother’s whereabouts are unknown. Authorities recently conducted a search near the Arizona-Mexico border but didn’t report finding her.

Former inmate

can’t sue

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs. The justices ruled Tuesday against Damon Landor, holding that a federal law designed to protect inmates’ religious rights does not permit lawsuits for money damages.

The high court agreed with lower courts that had ruled the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act can’t be used to hold those who violate inmates’ rights financially responsible.

The justices declined to adopt the rationale from a 2020 decision that allowed Muslim men to sue over their inclusion on the FBI’s no-fly list under a sister statute.