A Florida surgeon was charged in his wife’s death after she went into cardiac arrest on his operating table and he hesitated to call 911, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s office. Benjamin Brown, 41, was arrested Monday on a homicide and negligent manslaughter charge, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Deputies […]
Newport News medics did not transport a man shot in the head to the hospital for roughly an hour after he was incorrectly pronounced dead at the scene of the October shooting, a responding police officer testified during a court hearing Wednesday. Quandrell Williams, 39, ultimately died Oct. 25 — 10 days after the shooting […]
On Tuesday, Joe Biden unveiled the most restrictive immigration policy of his presidency with an executive order enabling the mass rejection of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border when crossings reach certain levels. The order would allow the US government to temporarily shut down the border when the number of people seeking entry exceeds a […]
A “shy” dog spent months in a Florida shelter — then her luck turned around. “After 188 days waiting on a forever home one of our longest resident dogs Sky finally found her forever home,” the Humane Society of Pinellas wrote May 4 on Facebook. “We are so happy for her and her new family!” […]
The father of a North Texas toddler whose February death has been linked to fentanyl poisoning faces a charge of injury to a child because he waited more than two hours to call 911 after his daughter became ill, according to court records. Two-year-old Nevaeh Meshelle Reed was visiting her father at an apartment in […]
Unlike most personal finance questions, the answer to this one is short and simple: yes, waiting until April 1st to take your first RMD will affect the amount of your second year’s RMD. The IRS rules on required minimum distributions – RMDs – demand that anyone turning 73 in 2024 withdraw a certain minimum amount […]
A grandma thought she scored a winning lottery ticket in Maryland, but she went to work and waited until the morning to have it confirmed. Then realized she was a $100,000 winner. The woman from Baltimore County bought three scratch-off tickets — which she normally plays to “keep my mind alert,” the Maryland Lottery said […]
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps had an unusual path to space: She waited an extra six years to fly. Epps will finally fly to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Saturday night (March 2) on the SpaceX Crew-8 mission for NASA, performing the second long-duration mission by a Black woman on the orbiting complex. […]
A Ukrainian HIMARS strike killed at least 60 Russian troops gathered in an open field, The BBC reported. The troops were waiting for a senior commander when the missile attack occurred. Russia has repeatedly flouted simple military operations to deadly effect. A Ukrainian HIMARS strike wiped out at least 60 Russian troops who were gathered […]
A shelter feared Precious the cat wouldn’t survive — but a man was waiting “patiently” for her to get better. Now, the man is starting a new chapter as the cat’s owner, according to the Lenoir County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in North Carolina. “Stories like these melt our hearts […]
A Missouri woman’s patience paid off when her scratch-off lottery ticket paid out a big prize. The woman used winnings from another lottery ticket to buy a 500X ticket from a 7-Eleven in Affton. As she scratched, prizes began to be revealed. “When I scratched that first bonus spot prize to see the dollar amount, […]
Lawyers who represent the government in federal court face a never-ending supply of 1st and 14th Amendment cases from creative plaintiffs. Most such Constitutional claims don’t stick. They hit a well-oiled wall of federal case law and slid right off. Applying the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment to bar Trump’s 2024 candidacy presents the […]