EVERETT, Wash. – Everett Police are looking to identify a woman caught on camera stealing multiple packages from homes in the 300 block of 142nd Place SW last week. “It’s just a sense of violation,” said homeowner Haney Labib. “I know it’s only packages, and they can be replaced, but this was in broad daylight.” […]
A Texas man pleaded guilty on Friday to assaulting officers at the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, the United States Attorney’s Office District of Columbia announced in a news release. Kyle Douglas McMahan, 42, of Watauga, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers — a felony. He will learn his sentence on Sept. […]
A former prisoner’s claims against Polk County over sexual misconduct by a corrections officer have been dismissed. Justin Mowery sued the county over the actions of Brianna Miller, a former Polk County Jail officer. While incarcerated from January to March of 2022, Mowery said Miller forcibly kissed and touched him while he was working in […]
By Neil Jerome Morales and Mikhail Flores MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Thursday his country needed to “do more” than protest the “illegal action” taken by China against his country’s navy during last week’s routine resupply mission in the South China Sea. “We have filed over a hundred protests, we have […]
The European Court of Human Rights is set to rule on Tuesday in a case concerning alleged Russian abuses committed in Ukraine’s occupied Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. Ukraine, which brought the case to Europe’s top rights court, says Russia has repeatedly violated human rights in Crimea since February 2014, when Moscow annexed the territory […]
There was a big John Denver look- and sound-alike contest in − where else − Colorado. Cue “Rocky Mountain High” for background music. Hundreds signed up and competed. What was surprising was the third-place finisher. Are you ready? John Denver himself. He had cut his Dutch boy hairdo. He wore contacts instead of his granny […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Atlanta to promote the Biden administration’s efforts to quell the import of illegal drugs into the U.S., Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced new sanctions against members of a Mexican drug cartel accused of trafficking fentanyl, cocaine, meth and migrants through the southern border. Included in the sanctions are eight members of […]
The High Court has dismissed separate challenges by Reddit and Tumblr against the decision by the State’s media regulator to include them in a list of video-sharing platforms to be subject to a new online safety code. Ms Justice Siobhan Phelan rejected all of the media companies’ arguments against Coimisiún na Meán decisions. Both companies […]
Jun. 13—WASHINGTON — A judge imposed one year of probation Thursday on an Auburn woman who admitted to two federal misdemeanors stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol building. Kimberly Sylvester, 59, appeared in U.S. District Court by videoconference where a judge sentenced her to two, one-year terms of probation to […]
June 11 (UPI) — The U.N. Human Rights Office said Tuesday that Israel’s hostage rescue operation in Gaza may have been indiscriminate, disproportionate and negligent in a such densely populated area, potentially constituting a war crime. Expressing profound shock at the reported deaths and wounding of hundreds of Palestinians in Saturday’s operation in Nuseirat to […]
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) Founder and CEO Warren Buffett is rightly regarded as one of the greatest investors of all time. The so-called Oracle of Omaha has been running the company for roughly 60 years and has nearly doubled the average annual return of the S&P 500 over that duration. Due to the […]