HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A visit to the Pennsylvania House floor by two former police officers who helped protect the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot of 2021 drew boos and walkouts by some Republican legislators this week. Witnesses said the appearance Wednesday by former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and his ex-boss, […]
The architects hired by Oklahoma City Public Schools to design a new Capitol Hill High School building — perhaps the most-watched and most-scrutinized project to be paid for through a $955 million bond proposal — presented their plan on Monday to the district’s Board of Education. The plan includes a three-story new high school building […]
Tribal leaders gathered Saturday afternoon at the World Peace Rose Garden at the California state Capitol to commemorate the centennial of the Indian Citizens Act of 1924, and to celebrate the achievements of Native American military veterans. Frank Ramirez, national director of governmental affairs at the National American Indian Veterans Inc., hosted the event with […]
A Blue Springs Marine Corps veteran convicted of injuring an officer during the Capitol riot was sentenced Friday to five years in prison. John George Todd III, 34, chose not to address the court before his sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell. The sentencing hearing was held in U.S. District […]
Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records set off a political firestorm in Washington on Thursday, with Republicans furiously lambasting the verdict as a miscarriage of justice while Democrats commended New York jurors for rendering a fair judgment in one of the most historic trials in American history. Republicans unsurprisingly rallied […]
BALTIMORE — Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer from Maryland who defended the building during the Jan. 6 riot, will join former police colleagues in campaigning for President Joe Biden in battleground states. According to the Biden campaign, Dunn, former Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, and Officer Daniel Hodges are scheduled to appear in battleground […]
A federal grand jury last week indicted a Miami Lakes woman on one felony and four misdemeanors related to the Jan. 6, 2020, riots at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Citing the Capitol’s closed-circuit television footage, cell phone records, photos, videos and text messages, FBI agents say Barbara Balmaseda, 23, illegally entered the […]
President Joe Biden’s campaign showed up outside former president Donald Trump’s New York City criminal hush money trial with actor Robert De Niro and two former police officers in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the January 6 2021 US Capitol insurrection. It was a sharp about-face for Mr Biden’s team, which had […]
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Motorcyclists from around the state filled Lansing on Sunday, in a ride to honor servicemen and women who are prisoners of war or missing in action. It’s a nationwide initiative called Ride for Freedom. Duane O’Parka, president of Rolling Thunder Michigan Chapter Five, said the intention is to bring awareness to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An upstate New York man has pleaded guilty to charges that he snatched away a police officer’s can of pepper spray during a chaotic clash with officers guarding the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot. Federal prosecutors said Friday that Troy Weeks, 38, was among a group that tried […]
WASHINGTON — A former Boston police K-9 officer who helped in the response to the Boston Marathon bombing was sentenced Friday to 20 months in prison for attacking a Capitol Police officer with a chair during the Jan. 6 riot. Joseph Fisher of Plymouth, Massachusetts, was sentenced after a court hearing in which he called […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him “a menace to our society.” Christopher Joseph Quaglin argued with and insulted U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden before […]