[Source] Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante this week announced that the city’s historic Chinatown became its first area designated as a heritage site, making it part of Quebec province’s Directory of Cultural Heritage. What it means: The city broke the news in a press release on Wednesday, declaring its Chinatown as the only “significant historic Chinatown […]
The owner of an online pornography exchange called “The Ho Zone” — which allegedly featured women who were subject to blackmail, famous female athletes who were hacked, and revenge porn victims — has been arrested by the FBI and charged by federal prosecutors with advertising, receiving and distributing child pornography, federal prosecutors say. Kyle White, […]
Jan. 18—Zeeq Michel uses the same bus stop almost every day to get to and from his after-school job at the Salish School of Spokane. Zeeq, 15, said he used to fear for his safety whenever he’d be stuck waiting by the pole on the corner of Maple Street and Maxwell Avenue, mostly due to […]
HANOVER − How much will it cost to finish the cleanup of a long-polluted site in Hanover? How long will it take? These questions and more were asked by residents and answered by local, state and federal officials at a recent meeting. For just over two hours last Thursday, more than 180 people heard the […]
ST, GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — “We couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” said Washington County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Darrell Cashin. In November 2023, a concerned citizen called the Washington County Sheriff’s Office reporting potential vandalism and property destruction at an archaeological site near Fort Pearce in Washington County, Utah. When officials arrived, they said they […]
Jan. 16—MIDDLETOWN — When new Middletown Mayor Elizabeth Slamka drives by the former Middletown Paperboard site, she doesn’t see the destruction done by the devastating fire that started more than four years ago. “Possibilities and potential,” she said when asked about the future of the 14-acre site. “It’s very exciting. It’s exciting to see what […]
Oklahoma County’s search for a location to build a new jail feels like a game of Whac-A-Mole. On Friday, Commissioner Myles Davidson attempted to convince his colleagues to reconsider land at 1901 E Grand Blvd. for the project — a site already removed from the county’s list of potential jail locations several times. But commissioners […]
U.S. forces have conducted another attack, this time against a Houthi radar site associated with yesterday’s strikes. The attack occurred at 3:45 a.m. Sana’a time, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is stating. The strike was conducted by the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Carney using Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles. It was a follow-on action […]
Shaler police arrested a man accused of stealing a piece of construction equipment in November. Jordan Walthour, 33, is accused of stealing the equipment from a Hampton Shaler Water Authority Construction site. >> Shaler police ask for help tracking path of stolen construction equipment The machine is a yellow enclosed cab Caterpillar track loader and […]
The US military early on Saturday struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that they determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk. That is according to two US officials who spoke anonymously to The Associated Press to discuss an operation that had not yet been publicly announced. The first day of strikes […]
An agreement has been reached to resolve a High Court dispute over the Peter McVerry Trust’s alleged aborted purchase of a €300,000 greenfield site in Co Kerry. A €90,000 sum that the financially troubled homelessness charity was directed to lodge in an escrow account in exchange for a pause to an earlier Circuit Court order […]
One man was killed after the Russian military struck a coal mining site in Myrnohrad, Donetsk Oblast, on Jan. 10, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) announced. The man was killed after several floors of one of the buildings collapsed, the SES said. Law enforcement is still working on identifying the victim. Read also: Russian missile […]