Dec. 26—FARRELL — A Youngstown man caught on video that showed Farrell police using force to arrest him asked Farrell City Council for compensation of his medical bills. Aries Devon Shaw, 28, was sentenced Nov. 30 to 90 days to 24 months less 1 day confinement to be served on house arrest, followed by 5 […]
Dec. 25—The Cumberland County Commission is asking the Tennessee Department of Transportation to name a bridge on Hwy. 127 N. in honor of a resident who died in a traffic accident near that site earlier this year. David “Dave” Warren Garrett grew up in Fentress County but decided to make Cumberland County his home after […]
To stay or go: a question generations of young Irish people have asked themselves. Following Covid, many of our young people have started stretching their legs again, with places like Canada and Australia proving as popular as ever for those who want to see what life is like further afield. For Hannah Nash, saying goodbye […]
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday demanded that the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals toss the federal election interference case against him, arguing again that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. “The structure of our government, the text of the Constitution and its early commentators, common-law immunity doctrines, our political history, the Supreme Court’s […]
Donald Trump has asked an appeals court in Washington DC to throw out charges that he sought to subvert the 2020 election, in the latest of a series of high-stakes legal maneuvers between the former president’s lawyers and the US department of justice. In a filing late on Saturday lawyers for Trump argued to the […]
Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Saturday to throw out special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of the former president related to the Jan. 6 uprising, arguing that Trump is immune from prosecution for acts he committed as president. This follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to fast-track Trump’s appeal of a previous […]
Donald Trump on Saturday night urged a federal appeals court to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal case against him for seeking to subvert the 2020 election, contending that he is “absolutely immune” from the charges because they related to his official duties as president. In a filed with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, […]
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged Vatican bureaucrats Thursday to avoid “rigid ideological positions” that prevent them from understanding today’s reality, an appeal made days after he formally allowed priests to bless same-sex couples in a radical change of Vatican policy. Francis used his annual Christmas greeting to the Holy See hierarchy to encourage the […]
A former Trump White House aide has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that alleged he violated state and federal laws in connection with the online publication of laptop content attributed to Hunter Biden. The president’s son sued Garrett Ziegler and his company, Marco Polo, in September, claiming they broke state and federal […]
Dec. 21—The Latah County Prosecutor’s Office proposes that the judge in the Bryan Kohberger case schedule a trial for summer 2024 in Moscow. Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Ashley Jennings filed a motion for a scheduling order Thursday. She requested Latah County District Judge John Judge schedule a status conference to decide on a trial date […]
A smirking Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday asked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) if she could remove President Joe Biden from the ballot in her state. (Watch the video below.) Subbing for Fox News host Sean Hannity, Conway appeared to wax sarcastic with her guest after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled to omit Republican front-runner […]
Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject special counsel Jack Smith’s request for the justices to decide whether the former president is immune to prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he is immune to criminal proceedings because he was president at the time of his […]