EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County authorities say a woman suffered life-threatening injuries when someone splashed her with an unknown type of caustic chemical. Police in El Monte say officers responding around 1 a.m. Saturday found the victim on a driveway with severe burns to her face and body. She’s hospitalized in critical Read More…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Students from a Maryland school where a girl was killed in a shooting and a reporter from the Capital-Gazette newspaper where five people were shot to death last month are urging lawmakers to approve stronger gun-control measures. Dozens of people rallied Saturday in a driving rain outside the Maryland State House Read More…
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Las Vegas police say a man was fatally stabbed with a knife as he drove a car. Police say the man died at a hospital after being stabbed and crashing a 2004 Mercedes Friday evening northwest of the Las Vegas Strip. Police say the man and a woman were the only Read More…
GOLETA, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say a California man suspected in multiple bank robberies throughout the state killed himself just hours after holding up one last bank. Santa Barbara County sheriff’s officials say a man flashed a gun and demanded cash from a teller at a bank in Goleta on Friday. A short time later Read More…
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) – The lawyer for a man who caused a flight disturbance says his client will likely be returning to South Korea since he is not facing additional prison time. Pacific Daily News reported Friday that South Korean Dentist Kwon Woo Sung was detained for 57 days for assaulting flight crew aboard a Read More…
LENOIR, N.C. (AP) – A second suspect is facing charges after a North Carolina deputy was shot during a traffic stop and the gunman later killed in a shootout with law officers. News outlets report the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office charged 47-year-old James Edgar Roberts. Investigators believe Roberts drove around gunman Kerry Townsend and Stephanie Read More…
PITTMAN, N.J. (AP) – Authorities say a man who recently moved in with a New Jersey woman has been charged in her beating death. Gloucester County prosecutors say 33-year-old Daniel Brennan of Greenwich is charged with first- and third-degree murder, criminal restraint, theft and credit card theft/fraudulent use and weapons counts. Prosecutors describe him as Read More…
LADY LAKE, Fla. (AP) – Authorities in Florida say deputies shot and killed a man who punched and then shot dogs following a domestic dispute with his wife. Capt. Tony Prevatt with the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said a woman told deputies her husband had punched a dog three times in the face and then Read More…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Police say three men are hospitalized following an early morning stabbing outside a nightclub in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood. Police say a 33-year-old man was stabbed in the left shoulder shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday. A 32-year-old man was stabbed in the left arm, shoulder and cheek. A 29-year-old man was stabbed Read More…
SUFFIELD, Conn. (AP) – Police say a man crashed a vehicle in Connecticut and fled the scene, leading them on a chase. The New Britain man crashed into another vehicle Friday night in Suffield on Interstate 91, and allegedly led state troopers on an eight-mile chase. Twenty-year-old Edward Martinez was arrested on a ramp off Read More…
DALLAS (AP) – The driver of an SUV that struck and killed a Dallas police officer on a motorcycle has been arrested. Authorities say 32-year Dallas Police Department veteran Senior Cpl. Earl Jamie Givens was killed by a suspected drunken driver Saturday while accompanying the funeral escort of another Dallas officer. Givens was stopped on Read More…
VINELAND, N.J. (AP) – Prosecutors say a man shot and killed by a police officer in New Jersey was carrying garden shears wrapped in a T-shirt and told officers he had an explosive. The Cumberland County prosecutor’s office said Friday that the July 14 encounter with Vineland police lasted almost a half-hour before 37-year-old Rashaun Read More…
BOSTON (AP) – The Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill aimed at closing the so-called “bodyworks loophole” that critics say helps businesses act as fronts for human trafficking. The bill, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Mark Montigny, would add “bodyworkers,” bodywork therapy and bodywork facilities to the state’s licensing structure overseen by the Division of Read More…
MESA, Ariz. (AP) – Mesa police say an officer and a man were hospitalized after the man’s car struck the officer during a traffic stop and that the officer then shot the man. Police say the incident occurred early Saturday morning when police pulled over a man who was suspected of being impaired. Police Department Read More…
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) – Iowa authorities are looking for a work-release inmate who failed to return to a Dubuque center. The Iowa Department of Corrections says 32-year-old Sylvester Paul Hubbard did not return to the Dubuque Residential Center on Friday night from his job. His escape comes a week after he was admitted to the Read More…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is expected to be noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his foundation is a sponsor and he typically is the star attraction. Organizers haven’t heard one way or another if Read More…
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – Tulsa police have arrested a teen in the fatal stabbing of another teen following a street fight involving at least 10 people. Tulsa police Sgt. Dave Walker said in a statement Saturday that 17-year-old Shandrick Richardson was arrested and charged in the Friday stabbing with first-degree murder. Police say that during Read More…
BRIDGEWATER, Conn. (AP) – Police say they have discovered a dead body in a Connecticut river. The body was found early Saturday morning in a section of the Housatonic River passing through Bridgewater. It was found in the water at the Lake Lillinonah boat launch at Main Street South around 6:45 a.m., and sent to Read More…
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s Foreign Minister has held a telephone call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which he complained about the Americans’ arrest of a Russian woman on allegations of being a covert agent. U.S. prosecutors have accused Maria Butina of working to infiltrate political organizations, including the National Rifle Association, before Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Ours is not an age for reflection, patience and slow-dancing. Our age demands instant gratification. Sooner than that, if possible. Thus the slow-dancing in the latest exchange since the famous Singapore handshake, originating in a hand-carried letter to Pyongyang. The response came back in another hand-carried letter, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continuing Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Baseball is the reason God made summer. Summer stretches out with the solace and symmetry of a long fly ball to deep center field, climbing ever higher and hanging in the sky as if the afternoon could go on forever. Whether watching a ball game from a box seat on the third-base line or Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The most depressing thing about Donald Trump’s astonishing cuddle-up with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is that it reveals how small the president’s mastery of history and power politics. Worse, he does not hear the minor chords in the music of America, a gift most Americans acquire in the womb. Like Barack Obama before him, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: ‘Bias” isn’t complicated, and recognizing it is so easy a child can see it, and usually does. Every parent discovers this. If bias and the appearance of bias were persons, they would be identical twins whose mother couldn’t tell them apart. Though usually personae non grata in law enforcement, these twins palled around with Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Gershwin got it right: “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy, the fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high.” It’s the season for sitting on the bank of the creek with a fishing pole and letting life come to you. But sometimes those fish aren’t biting, and the flies and mosquitos are. The dog Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: President Trump knows how to make a point by showing up late for a meeting. He arrived 30 minutes late Thursday at a session of the NATO summit, missed scheduled meetings with two world leaders, and talked to reporters for an unscheduled 35 minutes and then flew off to London for greater opportunities for Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Donald Trump says he wants excellence and higher productivity in government and you might think liberals, always eager to expand the work of government, would stand up and applaud. But there’s not even the sound of one hand clapping. The reaction of the “progressives” to attempt to modernize civil service rules that monitor the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Six Catholics, three Jews, three women, five conservatives and four liberals. Not a Protestant, man or woman, anywhere in sight. Indeed, the U.S. Supreme Court might count more true-blue Roman Catholics than the College of Cardinals in Rome. Diversity, thy name is John Roberts. The make-up of the court is not necessarily a reflection Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Perhaps it’s no longer a matter of if, but of when, and under what circumstances, Theresa May’s career as prime minster comes to a humiliating end in Britain. The resignations of David Davis, the cabinet minister overseeing Brexit, and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, within a day of one another have seen to that. The Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: George Washington, who saw at first hand the limitations of surmise, conjecture and theory, nailed it. “Reason and experience,” he said, “both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” This has always been the settled belief in the cathedrals and temples of the City on the Hill, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: More than a decade ago Chief Justice John Roberts suggested a foolproof formula for eliminating racial discrimination, a goal that nearly everyone says he wants. “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race,” he said, “is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Mr. Justice Roberts and his opinion in the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Close your eyes and imagine you’re astride a Harley-Davidson. There’s an American flag emblazoned on the gas tank between your hips, an engine eager to thunder under you, and that man astride a Harley hog at your side looks like he could be Donald Trump. No easy riders here. But so much for a Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Oh, Canada. Land of funny accents, mounted police, and soon, legal marijuana. The Canadian parliament has made “recreational use” of the weed legal, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau supports the new law, which legalizes possession of less than an ounce of marijuana for Canadians 18 and older, effective Oct. 17. “We have seen in Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The Do No Harm Act, proposed by several Democrats in the U.S. Senate ranging from the far left to the farther left, is a sneaky case of mislabeling. If there were truth in marketing, it would be called the Do A Lot of Harm Act. The new legislation would eviscerate the 25-year-old Religious Freedom Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: John Bolton, the president’s national security adviser, has completed a meeting in Moscow to talk about an agenda for the Trump-Putin agenda later this month in Helsinki, and the talk was about “strategic stability in the world, control over nuclear weapons and, in general, a disarmament dossier.” A spokesman for the Russians says they Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: There’s something about Helsinki, dark and cold in winter but bright and sunny in summer, that lends itself to meetings of global importance. The usually sleepy Finnish capital hard by the Russian border made its debut on the world stage in 1975, when it was host to a 35-nation meeting that changed the course Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Justice Anthony Kennedy finally announced his long-awaited and highly anticipated exit from the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, enabling President Trump to appoint a steady conservative successor. The High Court is stuck, like a needle on an old phonograph record, with a succession of 5 to 4 decisions reflecting the deep and unbridgeable division Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Women in Saudi Arabia have been driving for almost a week and, to the surprise of some of the imams, the sky is still in its customary place. By eliminating the prohibition, Saudi Arabia relieves itself of the dubious distinction as the only nation anywhere forbidding women behind the wheel of an automobile. The Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The U.S. Supreme Court had a lesson Tuesday for the good-hearted folk who would apply feelings instead of the Constitution to the interpretation of the law. By the familiar 5 to 4 vote on constitutional issues, the High Court upheld the clear language of Congress in support of President Trump’s order limiting the entry Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: It may be lonely at the top, but it’s even lonelier just below. That’s where Peter Strzok, the rogue FBI agent, can expect to find himself this week as he submits to a congressional grilling about his role in the FBI investigations of the presidential campaigns of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Though Read More…