Brian Howey

1 month ago | fwbusiness.com | Brian Howey

INDIANAPOLIS — Whitley County Councilman Jim Banks stopped by my office about 16 years ago, doing what any ambitious young politician would do. He was seeking contacts and advice — and conspicuously putting his pin on a political map. While studying at Indiana University, he was president of the campus Republicans. After beginning his career in construction and real estate, the Whitley County Republican Party chairman was elected to the Indiana Senate in 2010.

Feb 21, 2025 | nytimes.com | Jerry Mitchell |Brian Howey |Nate Rosenfield

In a series of interviews from prison, a former Mississippi sheriff's deputy described for the first time how he and others in his department regularly entered homes without warrants, beat people to get information and illegally seized evidence that helped convict people of drug crimes.

Jan 14, 2025 | nytimes.com | Nate Rosenfield |Brian Howey |Sarah Cohen |Rory Doyle

Last summer, a Mississippi police officer approached Vivian Burks as she sat in her car at a local park reading the Bible. He was cordial at first, offering to help Ms. Burks replace her expired tags with the new ones she had in her car. But the encounter changed quickly after the officer, Blaine Musgrove, said he smelled marijuana and a second Carthage police officer demanded to search the vehicle.

Oct 25, 2024 | fwbusiness.com | Brian Howey

NOTRE DAME — About every 80 years America has found itself at a historical hinge point. From the Continental Congress passing the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 2, 1776, that set off the American Revolution, to Col. Joshua Chamberlain’s Union Army defense of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, to the June 6 D-Day invasion in 1944, had events turned out differently we would all be living in a very divergent country. The American election on Nov.

Sep 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jerry Mitchell |Brian Howey |Nate Rosenfield

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had expanded its investigation into the suburban Mississippi sheriff's department where a self-described "Goon Squad" of deputies has been accused of torturing people for nearly two decades. Investigators will seek to determine if the Rankin County Sheriff's Department engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional policing through widespread violence, illegal searches and arrests or other discriminatory practices.