Kimberlee Kruesi

No new charges will be filed because all of the major players involved are now dead, but authorities say closing the case provides closure to one aspect of a complicated piece of Tennessee history.

First responders argue the information is vital to helping them take extra precautions. But civil liberty and community activists have expressed concerns of potential profiling.

Witnesses said Edmund Zagorski’s fists clenched when the electricity was applied and his body tensed and appeared to rise during the two times the current went through him. He did not move afterward.

A federal appeals court declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada on Tuesday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage in 30 other states.