A 77-year-old New Jersey woman accused of stealing more than $1 million in benefits from her dead aunt’s bank account over 25 years has been indicted in federal court, prosecutors said. After the death of her aunt in 1998, the woman drained her bank account of about $1.01 million in retirement and survivor benefits paid […]
This article was originally published in Arkansas Advocate. U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told a group of Arkansas educators Tuesday that the goal of the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program “is to prevent defaults.” “Which is better, letting someone pay what they can afford or throwing our hands up and doing nothing?” Cardona asked […]
Apr. 21—WATERFORD — Glastonbury native Tashia Sowell can trace her love of the law to at least the age of 5, around the time she first started talking about becoming a judge. Just ask her parents, Sowell said, who used to take her on personal field trips to the courthouse to watch court proceedings at […]
A New Jersey man has been convicted in a scheme to steal more than $3 million from a publicly funded program meant to help victims of traumatic brain injury, federal prosecutors said Friday. C.R. Kraus, of Manville, about 50 miles southwest of Manhattan, was convicted of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, five counts of healthcare […]
The voicemails and emails last year came from his supporters, praising his work and asking if he could connect them with Donald Trump. Not a weird ask for Mike Lindell, the pillow salesman who now makes a name for himself by questioning election results. But the callers and writers had the wrong Mike Lindell: they […]
Students at Heatherstone Elementary School in Olathe found the sunny side of the eclipse this week. The school arranged a variety of activities to celebrate the phenomenon Monday. When she realized the eclipse was coming up, first-grade teacher Nancy Smith went to the PTO with a plan. Themed T-shirts for the school’s students were purchased, […]
When a developer came to the Miami City Commission in February 2020 with a deal to build a luxury high-rise on city-owned land, commissioners voted unanimously in favor of the project. As part of the agreement, the developer had promised to build a new fire station and give the city $10 million for park improvements […]
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college student, walked the grassy grounds of an […]
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college student, walked the grassy grounds of an […]
Unsettled weather continues in the Modesto area, with rain canceling Saturday’s planned Modesto RecFest along the Tuolumne River and cutting short the second session of the Modesto Nuts High School Baseball Showcase but the sky clearing for Sunday morning’s Modesto Marathon. The forecast for this week is for sunny days Monday and Tuesday before turning […]
The Biden administration on Wednesday issued one of its most ambitious climate rules, a push that could cause electric cars to make up the majority of U.S. auto sales eight years from now. The final version of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Cars rule is the strictest federal climate regulation ever issued for passenger cars […]
Senate Republicans attacked new rules released by a federal judicial rule-making body on Wednesday preventing the practice of “judge-shopping,” which conservatives have used to ensure they get a favorable hearing when trying to strike down Biden administration policies. The new rules issued by the Judicial Conference of the United States ― a 26-member body that […]