It started as a traffic stop for a broken tail light. Then the case of self-proclaimed sovereign citizen Michael Mattingly devolved into a series of delays, unusual filings and, eventually, a ...

"Sovereign citizens" in Wyoming challenge traffic laws and court authority with fringe legal theories, but rarely, if ever, work. Criminologists ...

The University of South Carolina Police Department. A man who claims “diplomatic and sovereign status” has sued the University of South Carolina’s police department in federal court over claims of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A neighborhood where reported stabbings left five people dead is pictured on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, on the Key Peninsula.

The sovereign citizen movement, according to a 2013 paper from the University of North Carolina School of Government, is a catch-all term encompassing several anti-government groups such as the ...

The 32-year-old man previously ordered by a judge to stay away from the Pierce County home where four people were fatally stabbed Tuesday had several prior run-ins with the police, mostly during ...