Jim Jordan (R-OH) has made himself the Republican gadfly attempting to sting Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A. who has secured the first, and so far only, conviction of former president Donald Trump. But now the biter appears to have been bitten–by none other than Bragg. Bragg’s office is taking credit for being part of efforts […]
The death of a man who crashed a UTV in Lincoln County is the same the flood-related death Gov. Kristi Noem mentioned during a Sunday press conference. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety confirmed the two events are one and the same to the Argus Leader in an email Monday. At about 2 p.m. […]
A elderly man has died, following a UTV crash Saturday afternoon near Lake Alvin, 5 miles east of Harrisburg, according to a press release from the South Dakota Department of Public Safety press release Sunday. The crash happened at in about 2:10 p.m. in the 27000 block of 480th Avenue and involved a 2013 Kawasaki […]
East of Harrisburg, Lake Alvin has hit the point of bursting. Significant rains, starting Thursday and continuing into late Friday night, filled the lake’s spillway, a water control structure meant to control the release of water into Ninemile Creek, a tributary of the Big Sioux River. When an Argus Leader reporter arrived 5 p.m. Thursday […]
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed on Friday to testify before Congress as Republicans attempt to discredit former President Donald Trump’s conviction, but indicated that could happen only after Trump is sentenced next month. Bragg’s office has resisted calls to testify before Congress citing the ongoing case against the former president, but in a letter […]
NEW YORK — Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, went into former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial besieged by death threats from extremists, reproval from political commentators for creating a national distraction (“Save the mug shots for Georgia, the handcuffs for Jan. 6,” wrote Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal) and criticism from legal […]
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Just over a year after taking office as Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg took a career-defining gamble: charging a former U.S. president with crimes using an untested legal theory. The roll of the dice paid off on Thursday, when a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — When Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan district attorney in 2022, he stunned the public and his own staff by pausing an investigation into former President Donald Trump that appeared to be hurtling toward an indictment. Two top prosecutors were so upset with the decision, they quit. One called Bragg’s hesitation […]
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alvin Bragg says he decided to become a lawyer after guns were pulled on him six times while growing up in New York – three of those times by police. A quarter-century after graduating from Harvard Law School, the Manhattan district attorney’s legacy is set to be defined […]
Porn star Stormy Daniels says she had sex with Donald Trump at a Lake Tahoe hotel in July 2006. To keep her from telling that story, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen says, “the boss” instructed him to pay Daniels $130,000 shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says that nondisclosure agreement […]
After days of witness testimony and reviewing the exact moment of Alvin Motley Jr.’s death, a Shelby County jury returned a guilty verdict in the second-degree murder trial of Gregory Livingston. Livingston, a 57-year-old former contract security guard for Kroger, was arrested in September 2021 following the gas station shooting that killed Motley. Motley was […]
After Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg finishes his trial with Donald Trump, he’ll have to turn to Harvey Weinstein. The disgraced former Hollywood mogul saw his 2020 conviction on sex crimes charges overturned Thursday by New York’s top court in a 4-3 decision that shocked the public. But Catherine A. Christian, a former prosecutor who […]