A Colorado police officer convicted in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain was sentenced to 14 months in jail on Friday. Randy Roedema, an Aurora police department (APD) officer, was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in October. He is the first official to face jail time for the killing of McClain, […]
Inflation plaguing Europe increased to 2.9% in December, after seven straight monthly declines, figures show. The rise in price levels cast doubt on predictions for swift interest rate cuts from the European Central Bank (ECB). The figure released on Friday was up from the 2.4% annual inflation recorded in November – but well down from […]
Jan. 4—A New London teenager was sentenced to 40 months in prison on Thursday for the armed robbery and assault of a 62-year-old man. Jecob Mattei, who was 16 at the time, was one of two men arrested by New London police in connection with the Dec. 6, 2021, robbery in the parking lot of […]
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, does not confirm the information about the months-long access of hackers “inside” the company to the personal data of subscribers and their leakage. Source: company’s spokesperson Iryna Lelichenko on Facebook Quote: “The official investigation of the cyberattack on the Kyivstar network that took place on 12 December 2023 is still […]
Russian hackers who shut down Kyivstar had penetrated the company’s internal system months before the attack and likely had access to a variety of users’ personal data, said Illia Vitiuk, the cybersecurity chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in an interview with Reuters published on Jan. 4. Ukraine came under a massive cyberattack […]
The first is last — when we’re talking about the calendar and the S&P 500. Since 2004, the major index has risen only half of the time during the first month of the year. That’s a lower rate than any other month. Granted, the average returns for the S&P 500 during June and September have […]
DENVER (AP) — The email, addressed to the 13-year-old swimmer from the U.S. Center for SafeSport, came out of the blue. “Between approximately 2019 and 2022, you allegedly engaged in a pattern of behavior which constitutes Sexual Misconduct,” it read, with both final words capitalized. That was in April 2022. It took three months for […]
OLATHE, Kan. — An 11-month-old boy dead after being left in a car for hours. FOX4 is hearing from the little boy’s mom who is demanding the person who left her child in that car be charged. “Augy needs to matter, and I feel like right now Augy does not matter,” Persyda Trevino, that little […]
Not one, but two sets of parents have an intriguing New Year’s Eve birth story to tell their children one day. A couple from Connecticut and another from New Jersey welcomed twin babies … who were born on different days, in different months and even in different years. In each case, one baby was born […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday recommended a six-month term of imprisonment for a man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — an attack that he has admitted to joining. Ray Epps, who is scheduled to be sentenced next Tuesday, pleaded guilty […]
Bloomberg has a piece on how the buying process continues to evolve with the times. Remember when online shopping became the necessary rage? Now it’s short-term leases. These aren’t new, in fact — big cities have long offered six- to 12-month leases for clientele who don’t want to miss out on midyear updates to taillights. […]
Wayne Rooney has been sacked as manager of Sky Bet Championship club Birmingham. The former Manchester United and England striker has overseen just two wins in 15 games following his controversial appointment at St Andrew’s in October. Supporters called for Rooney’s removal as the side slumped to a 3-0 defeat at Leeds on New Year’s […]