The proposed sale of Blackjewel LLC mines in Wyoming includes a plan to pay all the company’s employees whose last checks bounced in early July. According to an Oct. 7 court filing, Blackjewel hoped to close the sale of the Wyoming properties yesterday. Last week, a West Virginia federal bankruptcy court tentatively approved the sale Read More…
Apple Inc. and Google both removed apps associated with Hong Kong’s antigovernment protests from their digital stores in recent days, thrusting the two Silicon Valley giants into the controversy engulfing U.S. companies related to the unrest. Apple removed from its App Store a crowdsourced map service that allows Hong Kong protesters to track police activity, Read More…
In July, Wealth-X released their findings on which US colleges have produced the most millionaires. The study focused on those alumni deemed to be ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals: those with fortunes of $30 million or more. The report analyzed the Wealth-X database of the world’s wealthiest people and used Wealth-X’s Wealth and Investable Assets Model to estimate the number Read More…
U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt paid a visit to the Rocky Mountain Front Saturday to hear about conflicts with grizzly bears. The secretary heard numerous calls for delisting grizzlies from their threatened species status in and around Glacier National Park, but he says changes may be able to be made prior to delisting. Secretary Bernhardt took Read More…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will consider pardoning Israeli Naama Issachar – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on the local RT network. Paskov announced that a request had been received from Israel to grant amnesty to Issachar, who was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison after being caught with cannabis at the Moscow airport. “We know Read More…
High pressure is bringing sunshine and lighter southwest winds for our Monday, helping temperatures move a little closer to more familiar mid-October levels than the 30s we experienced over the weekend. Look for afternoon readings today in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – Police are investigating two recent incidents of white supremacist vandalism in a Massachusetts town. Falmouth police found two swastikas, a drawing of male genitalia and several large circles on the dock at the Megansett Yacht Club on Oct. 6. The Cape Cod Times reports the images were drawn or formed with Read More…
News Monday, October 14th 2019, 9:18 AM AKDTBy: Associated Press SEWARD, Alaska (AP) – An Oregon woman died in a weekend head-on crash on the Seward Highway. Alaska State Troopers say 39-year-old Wendy Cox died at Mile 66. Her hometown was not immediately released. Troopers say roads at around 8 a.m. Saturday were slick and Read More…
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz tried to crash a congressional hearing considering impeachment against President Trump — but got the boot because he’s not a member of any of the committees doing the investigation. Gaetz, a Republican and Trump loyalist, complained that he was kicked out of this morning’s hearing with Fiona Hill, a former national Read More…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The Ohio Department of Aging is accepting nominations for the state’s Senior Citizens Hall of Fame. It honors current or long-time Ohio residents age 60 or older who have made and continue to make a lasting impact on their communities, professions or vocations. The department says 486 people have been inducted Read More…
Martin Guptill was run out on the last ball of the Super Over. Credits: Image – Getty, video – Newshub New Zealand’s heartbreaking conclusion to the 2019 Cricket World Cup won’t be repeated with the ICC scrapping the controversial boundary countback rule. The Blackcaps lost the World Cup final at Lord’s against England in July, Read More…
WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Wis. — A man walked from an Indianapolis suburb to Wisconsin — a 351-mile journey — to have sex with a person he believed was the 14-year-old girl he had been talking to on Facebook, prosecutors said. Instead, 32-year-old Tommy Lee Jenkins had been talking to a Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputy working with Read More…
SPOKANE, Wash. — Attention J.R.R Tolkien fans! If you have ever dreamed of stepping foot into the world of Middle Earth, you can find a close replica in West Spokane. Ryan Oelrich is the owner of the Hobbit House inspired by “Lord of the Rings.” The longtime Tolkien fan says he has collected memorabilia for Read More…
By Amanda Lamb, WRAL reporter Holly Springs, N.C. — Warrants unsealed Monday show that investigators are focusing on a boyfriend in their efforts to find out what happened to a Holly Springs mother missing for more than six months. Monica Moynan, 23, was reported missing by her mother in July, but the woman told police Read More…
FROSTPROOF, Fla. (AP) – A man accused of killing one woman and sexually battering and abducting another in Florida earlier this month has been arrested in Atlanta. News outlets quote authorities as saying 30-year-old Taiwan Blandin of Frostproof, Florida, was captured Saturday after fleeing from Atlanta police and crashing a stolen car. Polk County Sheriff Read More…
LEISCESTER, Vt. (WCAX) Vermont environmental officials have confirmed the presence of zebra mussels in Lake Dunmore. Department of Environmental Conservation officials say the aquatic invasive species was recently spotted by a member of the lake’s greeter program. They say the Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association then contracted divers to remove an estimated 100 to 200 Read More…
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Nevada police say a man is dead and another has been hospitalized following a shooting in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Sunday that the man died at an apartment in the southwest Las Vegas Valley. Authorities say a second man was listed in serious but stable condition at the Read More…
Russian-backed Syrian fighters wasted no time capitalizing on the US withdrawal from Syria Monday, deploying troops deep inside Kurdish territory south of the Turkish border less than 24 hours after Team Trump announced American forces would be leaving northern Syria. Washington’s former Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS said they invited in the government Read More…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Two more people were wounded, one critically, in the same section of Philadelphia where six people ranging in age from 14 to 27 were wounded the evening before by gunfire during a violent weekend in the city. Police said the latest shots reported shortly after 1030 a.m. Monday hit a 21-year-old man Read More…
A couple of bears in Colorado were caught on video enjoying the state’s warm weather last week by crashing a resident’s pool and taking a dip as they prepare for winter hibernation. The two young bears were having their “pool party” in the backyard of a home in Boulder on Oct. 9, Boulder police said. BABY Read More…
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Latest on Columbus statues defaced around the country (all times local): 3:10 p.m. A statue of Christopher Columbus in a Southern California park was found to be vandalized with red paint on the federal holiday honoring the 15th century Italian navigator. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports a police officer discovered Read More…
RENO, Nev. (AP) – One of three men convicted in the 2018 killing of a man on the south edge of Reno will be sentenced just three days after the verdict’s announcement. KOLO-TV reports that Quentin Moore is scheduled to be sentenced Monday by a jury. Moore and Jamil Geronimo were found guilty of first-degree Read More…
The Billings Fire Department and Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office had worked together to get the man out of the water where he was found unconscious sometime after they were called for a rescue at about 8:13 a.m. The rescue took place along an area of the river about a mile down Old Blue Creek Road. Read More…
RINGWOOD, N.J. (AP) – Authorities say a woman was driving drunk when she rear-ended a police cruiser, injuring an officer. The crash in Ringwood occurred around 7:20 p.m. Sunday. Authorities say a 55-year-old Oakland woman was driving at a high rate of speed when her vehicle struck the cruiser driven by a Ringwood officer. The Read More…
ABC issued a correction and apology Monday for reportedly using video from a Kentucky gun range while falsely claiming it depicted a fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and Turkish forces. The network aired the footage on Sunday night and Monday morning, framing it as battlefield video, when, in fact, it appears to be from a night gun demonstration at the Knob Creek Read More…
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) – Police in Virginia are investigating the death of a baby boy whose remains were found in a residential area. Chesterfield County police Capt. Jay Thornton said in a news release Monday that the remains of a male infant were found Thursday while officers were working to serve outstanding warrants. News outlets Read More…
A Michigan teen is facing criminal charges after indicating during a school assignment that “killing people” made him happy — and later admitting he kept a hit list, according to reports. The unidentified 14-year-old boy was taken into custody Friday when staffers at the Pontiac Academy of Excellence contacted the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, the Read More…
Jayme Closs — the Wisconsin girl who was kidnapped and held hostage for several months after her parents were murdered in front of her — says she’s feeling “stronger every day” as she marks one year since the horrific night that changed her life. Closs was 13 years old on Oct. 15, 2018, when her parents — James, 56, and Read More…
The study in the well-respected Annals of Internal Medicine rocked the nutrition world by suggesting that the negative health effects of red and processed meat had been overstated. The international group of researchers, headed by Bradley C. Johnston, an epidemiologist at Dalhousie University in Canada, concluded that warnings linking meat consumption to heart disease and Read More…
Beijing may send a delegation led by Vice Premier Liu He, China’s top negotiator, to finalize a written deal that could be signed by the presidents at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit next month in Chile, one of the people said. Another person said China also wants Trump to scrap a planned tariff hike in Read More…
Four Texas federal prison inmates were nabbed over the weekend after escaping to go on a booze run, authorities said. The quartet was caught late Saturday after being seen leaving the grounds of the Federal Prison Camp in Beaumont and cutting through a ranch, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. “The inmates Read More…
Popular supermarket chain Publix late last week announced a voluntary recall of its Deli White American Cheese over concerns the product may contain “foreign material.” Publix announced the recall in a Friday statement posted to its website. The company didn’t specify what the foreign material is, but did note the cheese was sourced from Great Read More…
The U.S. continues to see a rise in the number of sexually transmitted diseases, according to health officials — and in Hawaii, the increase is believed to be linked to online dating. Health officials in the Aloha State have reported a significant increase in chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. All three of the infections were at or near Read More…
President Trump on Monday predicted that the “Fake News” media will protect Hunter Biden after the son of former Vice President Joe Biden said he would step down from the board of a Chinese-backed private equity fund. “Wow! Hunter Biden is being forced to leave a Chinese Company. Now watch the Fake News wrap their Read More…
The Pentagon is accelerating plans to get all American troops out of Syria in the coming days and weeks, two U.S. officials tell Fox News. It’s not clear right now when all the roughly 1,000 US troops in Syria will be pulling out of the country. A small garrison in southern Syria near Jordan with over Read More…
Investigators on Monday charged a Chicago man with multiple counts of first-degree murder after a weekend shooting rampage left five of his neighbors dead in what police have called an act of “savagery.” Krysztof Marek, 66, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder in Saturday’s deadly shooting, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. One woman died at a hospital Sunday while Read More…
Jennifer Aniston just threw major shade at the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In an interview with Variety, the former “Friends” star discussed life in the movie industry before the rise of Marvel films — and she expressed her disdain for it. “You’re seeing what’s available out there and it’s just diminishing and diminishing in terms of: Read More…
The co-founders of a political research firm behind allegations about President Trump’s ties to Russia have a book coming out next month. Random House announced Monday that “Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump” will be published Nov. 26. The book was co-written by Fusion GPS founders Read More…
A former top National Security Council expert on Russia testified to Congress behind closed doors Monday, the latest ex-administration official to be subpoenaed as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Fiona Hill, 54, wouldn’t comment as she arrived on Capitol Hill, but her attorney said the British-born Harvard grad had received a Read More…
The parents of a British teenager killed in a crash involving a US diplomat’s wife came to New York to make a direct appeal on Monday, begging both President Trump and their son’s accused killer to “Just do the right thing.” Charlotte Charles, 44, and Tim Dunn, 50, traveled to the US after almost two Read More…
At a rally in Minneapolis President Donald Trump touted a change in federal policy giving states and cities a level of veto power over refugee resettlement in their jurisdictions. Not surprisingly, given Trump’s polarizing nature, this change was met with no small amount of blowback. “Trump’s executive order requires state and local governments to consent Read More…
The White House said President Trump condemns a violent video showing a likeness of him shooting and stabbing political opponents and members of the news media. “Re: the video played over the weekend: The @POTUS @realDonaldTrump has not yet seen the video, he will see it shortly, but based upon everything he has heard, he Read More…
WEST GLACIER — Glacier National Park has decided to close the alpine section of the Going-to-the-Sun Road to vehicles for the season because of winter weather conditions. The road typically closes between Avalanche Creek and Jackson Glacier Overlook on or before the third Monday in October, weather and road condition dependent. Sign up now for Read More…