https://reason.com/2016/08/31/brickbat-no-room-at-the-inn/
Mike Gonzalez / CC/SA Scott Shatford is the first Airbnb host to be punished under Santa Monica, California's law banning...
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https://reason.com/2025/12/18/brickbat-return-to-sender-2/
Dec 15, 2025 - Mary Ann Magdamit, a former U.S. postal worker in Torrance, California, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison...
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https://reason.com/2023/04/17/brickbat-defensive-driving/
Gwinnett County, Georgia, sheriff's office Master Deputy Walter Pollock has been charged by the Georgia State Patrol with DUI, failure...
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https://reason.com/2020/05/27/brickbat-stakeout/
New York City building inspectors are staking out intersections trying to spot contractors performing "non-essential" construction and remodeling work, in...
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https://reason.com/2019/06/27/brickbat-smoked-out-2/
In Nebraska, Fairbury Public Schools has announced it is expanding its drug-testing program to include nicotine. Students who take part...
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https://reason.com/2020/03/25/brickbat-like-father-like-son/
A federal grand jury has indicted Anthony "Tony" Bean, the chief deputy at the Grundy County, Tenn., Sheriff's Office, on...
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https://reason.com/2026/02/04/brickbat-a-game-of-telephone/
A former employee of the U.S. House of Representatives was arrested and indicted in federal court for stealing government-issued cellphones...
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https://reason.com/2013/11/12/brickbat-they-should-have-gone-as-the-sw/
California's Serra High School has suspended a coach, an assistant coach and a teacher after finding they attended a non-school...
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https://reason.com/2014/06/30/brickbat-im-in-shock/
Thomas Mathieu, 70, says he recalls feeling a low blood sugar incident coming on, so he pulled his car over...
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https://reason.com/2022/09/19/brickbat-leaf-them-alone/
The Seattle City Council has unanimously approved a measure that would bar city employees and contractors from using gasoline-powered leaf...
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https://reason.com/2025/10/01/brickbat-family-discount/
Sep 29, 2025 - A public school administrator in Akron, Ohio, resigned after being suspended for attempting to sell the school district's lawn mowers...
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https://reason.com/2026/01/15/brickbat-it-might-be-safer-to-walk/
Former Littleton, Colorado, school bus aide Kiarra Jones pleaded guilty to multiple charges after video and bus camera footage showed...
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https://reason.com/2020/12/28/brickbat-the-killing-floor/
The European Court of Justice has upheld a Belgian ban on kosher and halal slaughter of livestock. Jewish groups say...
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https://reason.com/2012/06/14/brickbat-toothless-yokels/
When Sabrina Grant read the email from a teacher's aide at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Framingham, Massachusetts, she was...
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https://reason.com/2022/10/28/brickbat-freeze/
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't waiting for Parliament to pass a new gun control bill that lawmakers have been...
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https://reason.com/2017/11/29/brickbat-somebody-set-us-up-the-bomb/
Creative Commons A Modesto, California, family is fighting to have a suspension removed from their 5-year-old son's permanent record. Jackson...
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https://reason.com/2024/01/23/brickbat-miami-vices/
Former Miami-Dade School Board vice chair Lubby Navarro has been charged with organized fraud of $50,000 or more, organized fraud...
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https://reason.com/2024/09/13/brickbat-sleep-tight/
Freshmen at North Carolina's Riverside High School got something extra when they received their school-issued Chromebooks recently. The Chromebooks, which...
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https://reason.com/2025/06/16/brickbat-thats-not-funny-2/
In Riverview, Missouri, James Carroll faces a city-issued subpoena, signed by Mayor Michael Cornell, after posting an online joke implying...
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https://reason.com/2021/09/07/brickbat-throw-some-more-rights-on-the-barbie/
The Australian legislature has passed a law allowing the police to hack the devices of anyone targeted as part of...
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https://reason.com/2024/08/06/brickbat-no-need-to-hurry/
The Houston Police Department halted more than 260,000 investigations between 2016 and 2023 because of a lack of personnel. Now,...
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https://reason.com/2014/11/03/brickbat-foreign-language/
Parents of some students at St. Mary's Church of England Primary School in Kidderminster are upset their children were excluded...
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https://reason.com/2013/03/26/brickbat-another-one-rides-the-bus/
Mar 26, 2013 - KCRA Video shows Stephanie Wilkerson, a driver with Florida's Hillsborough County School District, literally kicked an 8-year-old special needs student...
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https://reason.com/2024/07/26/brickbat-pants-on-fire/
St. Louis firefighter Arnold Britt has pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and fraudulent use of a credit/debit device. Britt...
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https://reason.com/2023/02/08/brickbat-two-wrongs-dont-make-a-right/
New York City prosecutors had some 550 convictions in cases investigated by police officer Joseph Franco thrown out, most involving...
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https://reason.com/2020/02/28/brickbat-a-mans-home-is-his-castle/
Officials in Suffolk County, New York, are considering two ordinances that would ban residents of apartment buildings, condominiums and other...
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https://reason.com/2023/08/31/brickbat-shameful-indeed/
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell recently vetoed a bill that would order the owners of an apartment building to rent...
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https://reason.com/2026/01/16/brickbat-hearty-appetite/
Jan 15, 2026 - In Madera County, California, federal authorities arrested former welfare benefits worker Leticia Mariscal for using her position to steal food...
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https://reason.com/2017/03/03/brickbat-pokemon-go-away/
Mar 3, 2017 - Marcelahirkova / Dreamstime.com A new Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, ordinance will require the developers of Pokemon Go and other games to...
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https://reason.com/2018/07/27/brickbat-its-around-here-somewhere/
Coloradonative / Dreamstime.com Two Department of Energy employees left radioactive material in their car when they stopped for the night...
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https://reason.com/2023/06/09/brickbat-great-balls-of-fire/
Osceola County, Florida, sheriff's Deputy David Crawford has been charged with misdemeanor culpable negligence with personal injury after firing his...
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https://reason.com/2021/02/12/brickbat-slight-mix-up/
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar announced she will step down after she failed to advertise as required by law a...
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https://reason.com/2025/06/11/brickbat-freedom-of-religion-3/
The monks of St. Catherine's Monastery, a 1,600-year-old Greek Orthodox site in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, closed its doors to visitors...
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https://reason.com/2021/05/18/brickbat-i-hear-you-knocking-2/
An Oregon grand jury has indicted Forest Grove police officer Bradley Schuetz for official misconduct after he drove home a...
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https://reason.com/2020/12/30/brickbat-no-one-could-have-seen-this-coming/
Tiffany Pacheco, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance, and her husband Arthur have been charged with conspiracy...
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https://reason.com/2012/10/10/brickbat-banned-in-brazil/
YouTube has blocked a video critical of a mayoral candidate in Campo Grande, Brazil. Braziilan law limits personal criticism of...
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