A full day of testimony is expected Friday in the Karen Read murder trial after there was no court Thursday. Murderous romance or frame job? Things to know so far in Karen Read murder trial Brian Higgins, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent is expected to take the stand. He traveled back […]
A UPS employee in Southern California was charged Tuesday with shooting his friend and coworker in an execution-style killing last week. Rhean Jalipa Fontanoza, 46, allegedly shot and killed Expedito De Leon, his childhood friend, while De Leon was out delivering packages last week, according to a press release from the Orange County district attorney’s office. […]
A memorial service was underway for one of five people killed in a car crash in Bartow County Thursday afternoon. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Aimee Odom, 21, died when a Kia van struck her SUV along I-75 Sunday night. Four other people from the same family also died in […]
A student rushed to help when gunfire erupted on the Kennesaw State University campus, only to realize the victim was his friend, news outlets report. The young woman was shot and killed during a dispute Saturday, May 18, outside the Austin Residence Complex dorm at the Atlanta-area university, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was a “true friend” to Russia and was admired both at home and abroad, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a message on Monday, after it was confirmed that Raisi died in a helicopter crash a day earlier. Raisi “was rightly highly respected by his compatriots and enjoyed great prestige abroad,” […]
KENNESAW, Ga. – Anthony Harrison, a senior at Kennesaw State University, said he woke up to the sound of gunshots at the Austin Residence Complex on campus. “And all I can remember is just walking out and being completely horrified of what that scene was,” he told FOX 5 reporter Eric Mock. Harrison said he […]
An Ojai Valley man was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty last month in the 2019 sledgehammer death of his friend and roommate. During the hearing in a Ventura courtroom, family and friends of the victim, 22-year-old Houston Auer, gave statements to Judge Derek Malan. The defendant, Cameron Scott Lykins, also […]
A man from Ojai has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for the 2019 slaying of his friend. Authorities say 28-year-old Cameron Scott Lykins killed Houston Auer on May 12, 2019, at Auer’s grandmother’s home on the 1100 block of Meyer Road in Ojai. Lykins and Auer got into an altercation in a […]
A 23-year-old hiker went missing in Rocky Mountain National Park Sunday after he texted his friend that he had reached the summit of a mountain. Lucas Macaj from Colorado Springs, Colorado texted his friend around 1 p.m. to let them know he was at the summit of Longs Peak, a mountain in the Rockies. That […]
Dividend stocks tend to struggle in high-interest-rate environments. The core reason is investors have an abundance of low-risk, high-yield income options when interest rates spike. Conversely, fund managers have historically pivoted to top-tier dividend stocks when interest rates fall. The logic behind this trend is that dividend stocks ought to deliver superior returns to risk-free […]
My history with former U.S. Senator Bob Graham, who passed away April 16 at age 87, goes back a couplegenerations. His father, Ernest “Cap” Graham, was in the Florida Legislature at the same time as mygrandfather, Guy M. Strayhorn. They became acquaintances as fellow cattlemen, with Cap from Dade Countyand my grandfather from Lee County. […]
Every Mother’s Day, my children wash my car and help me plant flowers. Last week, as I prepared the garden beds of my two side-by-side homes, I found one of what I call “Claire’s hollyhocks” growing where it didn’t belong and relocated it alongside its cohorts. One morning in the spring of 2005, my next-door […]