Apr. 18—An Effingham County resident received high praise this week for putting himself at risk to save a motorist in dire need of assistance. During the Effingham County Board’s meeting Monday, Effingham County Sheriff Paul Kuhns presented Travis Macklin of rural Mason with the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office Distinguished Act Award for helping a driver […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Tuesday of potential global economic damage from rising tensions in the Middle East as the Biden administration said it was readying new sanctions in response to Iran’s malevolent activity in the region. Yellen spoke out against Iran’s “malign and destabilizing activity” in remarks ahead of this week’s […]
A report prepared for the Missouri House Ethics Committee found no direct evidence to support that House Speaker Dean Plocher committed an ethical violation in pursuit of an expensive technology contract even as the document painted a portrait of an obstructed investigation. The report also found that Plocher received nearly $4,000 in government reimbursements for […]
The long-anticipated public corruption trial of a decorated cop who parlayed 17 years of policing into decades of public service at the highest levels of Miami-Dade County government, was delayed at least a week as an appeals court mulls the interaction between the suspended commissioner and the judge overseeing the trial. Late last week as […]
Elon Musk has threatened to leak damaging evidence he believes will prove one of Brazil’s top judges has betrayed the country, escalating a showdown over the censorship of social media in the country. The owner of X now finds himself squarely in the middle of a political struggle in Latin America’s largest economy, one that […]
Alejandro Mayorkas is not guilty of a high crime or misdemeanour, the Republican senator Mitt Romney said, making clear he will not vote to remove the US homeland security secretary from office if his impeachment goes to a trial. Related: Mayorkas impeachment: petty, doomed … but still potentially damaging “Secretary Mayorkas is following the position […]
More than two-thirds (69%) of Germans do not consider Israel’s military action in Gaza to be justified in view of the many civilian casualties, according to the results of a new survey published on Friday. Of 1,296 people polled for the ZDF broadcaster, 87% also said the West should exert more pressure on Israel to […]
BALTIMORE — A Republican who has been active in Howard County elections is facing concerns from state senators considering whether she should fill a spot on Maryland’s top elections board that was vacated earlier this year when a GOP appointee was charged for attending the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Diane L. Butler, […]
Half of Germans believe that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip in response to the terrorist attack by the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement on October 7 goes too far. Fifty per cent of respondents expressed this view in a survey published on Thursday by the Infratest dimap Institute for German public broadcaster ARD. The […]
Mar. 3—Four Mentor Police officers who were first to arrive at the scene of an active shooting at a mobile park in November 2023 and took gunfire while attending to victims are being recognized by several local organizations. During the State of the City address at Mentor High School’s Paradigm on Feb. 27, City Manager […]
Turkey has joined Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan in condemning Israeli forces firing on Palestinians waiting for the delivery of aid, with its foreign ministry calling the event “yet another crime against humanity”. Israel said many of the dead were trampled in a chaotic crush for the food aid in Gaza City, and that its […]
Turkey has joined Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan in condemning Israeli forces firing on Palestinians waiting for the delivery of aid, with its foreign ministry calling the event “yet another crime against humanity”. Israel said many of the dead were trampled in a chaotic crush for the food aid in Gaza City, and that its […]