Ten suspects have been detained in a large-scale raid to break an international people-smuggling ring that illegally brought Chinese nationals into Germany, authorities said. More than 1,000 officers from the federal police and other law enforcement agencies were involved in the early Wednesday operation that spanned eight states. A total of 101 residential and business […]
EMERY COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said the illegal introduction of Utah chub at the Millsite Reservoir has put another fish species at risk. The DWR said the species at risk is called the bluehead sucker, which lives in the Millsite Reservoir. The DWR called the bluehead sucker “a species […]
RED BUD, Ill. – A roofing contractor in Red Bud, Illinois, is calling out a competitor, alleging they’re not properly licensed. Illinois law requires roofing contractors be licensed with the state. “Make sure that you do your homework before you hire a contractor,” Ed Kupinski, owner of Five Star Roofing & Exteriors, said. Kupinski says […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds. Only about one-third of U.S. adults say Trump did something illegal in the hush money case for which jury […]
Brick, 26, is an Indonesian man who is set to be caned nine times for trying to illegally enter Singapore. This was his fifth time trying to sneak into the country, local media reported, citing authorities. Caning is a judicial punishment in Singapore that can be given to male offenders who are below 50. A […]
Apr. 3—Three Alaska voters filed a complaint Tuesday against the state Division of Elections asserting that it violated state law when it certified a ballot measure that seeks to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries. The Division of Elections certified last month that a grassroots group successfully gathered the signatures needed to put a […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A failed Australian taxi-industry disruptor told a court on Tuesday that Uber began illegally operating its ridesharing service in Australia a decade ago to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. Taxi Apps, an Australian startup that developed taxi-hailing app GoCatch, lodged a 196-page statement of claim in the Victoria state Supreme […]
Spring is here and summer is on the way, and for many people, that means it’s time for vacations. But like almost everything else, the cost of vacations are on the rise. If hotel costs seem higher than usual, especially luxury hotels, the reason might not be because of supply and demand. A federal class […]
(Reuters) – A Texas appeals court on Thursday reversed its prior ruling and acquitted a woman who had been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to vote in the 2016 election against state law, after a higher court ordered it to reconsider. Crystal Mason was convicted of illegally voting two years after that […]
A Texas appeals court tossed out a woman’s five-year prison sentence for voting illegally Thursday, ending a yearslong saga that garnered national attention. Crystal Mason was sentenced in 2018 to five years in prison after she testified she did not know that she was ineligible to vote because she was convicted of tax fraud in […]
A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump‘s claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voted illegally. Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and a conservative talk show host, was fined $5,000 […]
A Georgia Republican Party official who baselessly claimed there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election voted illegally nine times, a judge determined Wednesday. Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, received a public reprimand for voting in multiple elections in 2008 and 2010, even though the terms of his probation […]