A Palm Beach County judge has released the grand jury records in the 2008 Jeffrey Epstein criminal case. The records contain nearly 200 pages, including the testimony of at least one girl who was molested by Epstein, a New York financier who abused hundreds of underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion for decades. Epstein […]
Phoenix is being sued over not responding to a request for communications between elected officials and the city’s police union, according to a complaint filed in Maricopa County Superior Court on Wednesday. Ken Chapman, a local community organizer and activist, alleges that the city broke state public records law by failing to respond to his […]
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s massive Pantanal wetlands haven’t technically entered annual fire season, but already the number of blazes has broken records and is leading experts to predict this year will be the most devastating in decades. Typically the world’s largest tropical wetlands dry out and are prone to fires from July to September. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans advanced a resolution Thursday that would hold President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records related to the special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to recommend contempt charges against Mark Zwonitzer, who worked […]
Michael Whatley, the current chair of the Republican National Committee, appeared on Fox News late last week to summarize what he sees as the foundational question of the 2024 presidential race: The RNC chief obviously had some grammatical trouble toward the end of the quote, but putting that aside, Whatley peddled a familiar refrain. Republicans […]
The man accused of murdering a 43-year-old Azle woman and concealing her body in a yard admitted to striking the victim on her head with his fist and wrapping her body in sheets from her bedroom, according to court documents. Shane Breshers was arrested June 14 as the primary suspect in the killing of Heather […]
Smoke from the South Fork and Salt fires blots out the sun Tuesday along NM Highway 70 outside of Tilley, NM. (Photo by Danielle Prokop / Source NM) Officials from many agencies responding to the unfolding natural disaster in southeast New Mexico have said an investigation is ongoing about the cause of the South Fork […]
Jun. 19—CONCORD — The leading Republican and Democratic candidates for governor said they both have broken state records for donations raised by this point in the campaign. Former U.S. Sen. and Republican hopeful Kelly Ayotte said she had raised more than $4.2 million since the campaign began, which already is nearly double the record $2.2 […]
A brutal heat wave will continue to swelter from the Midwest to Northeast on Wednesday, set to break more record highs as millions take to the outdoors to mark the Juneteenth holiday. Eleven cities either tied or hit record highs on Tuesday and the extreme heat triggered air quality alerts in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, […]
Fairfield County real estate transactions for May 27 to June 7. First name indicates the seller of the property; second name represents the buyer Amanda Bloom Township 686 Betz Road NW; Wirtz William J; Johnson Joshua P; 5/30/2024; $575,000 8445 Ohio Wesleyan Court NW; Stubbs Gary A; Breese Benjamin; 5/30/2024; $440,000 650 Heidelberg Court NW; […]
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK CITY (Reuters) – U.S. cities are breaking decades-old temperature records this week as a heat wave stretches from central to eastern portions of the country, the National Weather Service said on Tuesday, in what officials are warning could become a deadly weather event. With roughly 80 million people from Indiana […]
Jun. 17—AUSTIN — Texas’ production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs), refinery activity and exports have achieved new record highs, according to the most recent monthly energy economic analysis by Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) Chief Economist Dean Foreman. By TXOGA’s estimates for May 2024, Texas produced a record-high 5.7 mb/d […]