SELMA − An independent investigation has cleared Selma Assistant Police Chief Natasha Fowlkes of any criminal wrongdoing, but she has resigned from the force, Mayor James Perkins said. Perkins place Fowlkes on administrative leave with pay in mid-June, pending an internal investigation. Perkins did not state the reason for the leave at that time. Fowlkes […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — While France celebrated the anniversary of victory over the Nazis on Wednesday, Algeria commemorated a more somber anniversary: The crackdown by French colonial forces on Algerian independence activists the same day 79 years ago. Both events took place on May 8, 1945. In Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron lay a wreath […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas denied any wrongdoing amid reports of pending indictments related to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. The longtime congressman released a statement Friday saying he and his wife “are innocent of these allegations.” “Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people […]
Mar. 8—POLK COUNTY, Minn. — In response to allegations that he used excessive force that led to a man’s death, an East Grand Forks undercover officer claims his actions were “lawful, constitutional and proper.” Aeisso Schrage is accused, through a federal civil case, of wrongfully killing a man in Rhinehart Township in January. He filed […]
UVALDE — A city-commissioned independent review of Uvalde police’s response to the Robb Elementary School shooting cleared several of its local officers of wrongdoing, infuriating parents of the 19 children killed in the massacre and at least two city council members who rebuked the report after it was released Thursday. City officials hired private investigator […]
After an Arizona voter posted a photo showing she had received two mail ballots from Maricopa County, a local elections official debunked any inference that something sinister occurred. “Maricopa county at its finest … My first time ever voting in a presidential preference election and I received not one but two mail-in ballots. Thank you @stephen_richer,” Aubrey […]
PALMETTO — Four months after an incident involving the Palmetto Police Department and Breonte Johnson-Davis, a 36-year-old Palmetto father who died after being detained on Nov. 2, 2023, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation concluded that officers did not use excessive force in deploying a Taser two times on Davis before he was pronounced dead […]
Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, vehemently denied wrongdoing while testifying at a court hearing on Thursday as she rebutted accusations that her romantic relationship with a deputy prosecutor on the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump meant she should be disqualified from the case. The district attorney testified that her relationship with […]
House of Representatives Democrats are decrying the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as a “political” stunt. Representative Anna Eshoo, D-C.A, said that Mayorka’s historic impeachment on Tuesday was a “political stunt” and that there was “no evidence of wrongdoing.” “With no evidence of wrongdoing, House Republicans voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro […]
The Boise police officer who shot a 25-year-old man in 2022 was justified and “responded commendably,” according to a report from the city’s newest Office of Police Accountability director. Jonathan Manee, of Boise, pulled a handgun on Boise Police Cpl. Cody Evans after he tried to persuade Manee, who was stalling traffic on busy Fairview […]
A former chief of staff to Wayne LaPierre – who resigned as the National Rifle Association’s chief executive on Friday – has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in connection with a civil lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general’s office. As part of the settlement announced on Saturday, Joshua Powell – one of five […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The names of more than 150 of Jeffrey Epstein’s former associates have been identified in newly unsealed court documents, including central Ohio businessman and founder of L Brands, Les Wexner. Epstein was a millionaire known for associating with high-profile celebrities, billionaires and politicians. Accused of sexually exploiting dozens of underage girls […]