House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday unveiled a plan to advance foreign aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan in separate bills and move a fourth piece of legislation wrapping other Republican national security priorities together. Those GOP priorities would include implementing a loan-lease program for Ukraine aid, which would lend Ukraine money backed by seized […]
A man charged with the murder of Scott County Deputy Caleb Conley pleaded guilty to charges related to a separate case out of Northern Kentucky. Steven Sheanshang, 46, pleaded guilty Monday to charges of burglary and being a persistent felony offender, according to court documents. The indictment for the Kenton County said Sheanshang entered a […]
A somber gathering in southeast Fresno to mourn a woman who died in a car crash was shattered by the sudden sound of gunfire that ended with a man shot and killed. Andrew Levi Hammond, a 28-year-old from Coarsegold, is accused of three separate killings in Fresno County between 2020 and 2022. Opposing attorneys in […]
By Patricia Zengerle, Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will consider aid to Israel and Ukraine as separate legislation this week, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday, more than two months after the Senate passed a bill combining the two. Leaving a meeting of House Republicans on […]
FILE – Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, left, and his wife, Nadine Menendez, arrive at the federal courthouse in New York, Sept. 27, 2023. The May 2024 bribery trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez should be postponed until July or August after it was learned that his wife, a codefendant, has […]
A Pueblo man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the 2021 death of Raymond Ray, according to court records. The plea deal, which was signed on March 28, stipulates that Nicholas Tumblin, 33, will serve 44 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the murder, plus 16 years for the […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico State Police said the Santa Fe Police Department officer shot earlier this month was also bit by his own department’s K9. News 13 also learned this is the same K9 that is the subject of a lawsuit against the department for an incident in 2022. The K9, named Ayke, […]
Mar. 29—Anchorage police said Friday they had not made any arrests in separate shootings that occurred roughly eight hours apart on Thursday morning. Samuel Biel, 22, died in the hospital Thursday after he was shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the Turnagain neighborhood around 12:05 a.m., police said. The department released […]
A pedestrian was killed on West International Speedway Boulevard just east of DeLand Friday morning and the westbound lanes of the highway were blocked, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The vehicle involved in the crash remained on the scene. The crash happened about 5 a.m. in the westbound lanes of West International Speedway Boulevard […]
Mar. 26—Three Albuquerque Fire Rescue firefighters have been suspended after being arrested for DWI in separate incidents in the past two weeks. AFR spokesman Jason Fejer said Angelo Abeyta, 54, Rane Hanni, 37, and Mateo Keyohara, 27, are all on paid administrative leave as the agency conducts an internal investigation. The three were charged with […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed Bernardo Arévalo, the newly elected president of Guatemala, to the White House on Monday to praise his battle against corruption and promote their work on stemming migration from Central America. “Your leadership can help rebuild the Guatemalan people’s trust in their institutions, and give them a sense […]
The Los Angeles Police Department is seeking the public’s help to find the suspects in separate shootings that left two women dead. The first incident occurred around 8:50 p.m. on March 19. Officers were called to the 800 block of South Hoover Street, where they found an unresponsive female. When LAPD arrived, they found a […]