SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Springfield arson suspect set fire to the porch of a home as a family slept inside because he was upset that the residents hadn’t given him food or a place to stay, according to court documents. Eric Boyce, 24, is jailed in Greene County on a first-degree arson charge in Read More…
HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) – Police in western Montana say a woman has been arrested after a man was found fatally shot in a home. KECI-TV reports that Hamilton Police Chief Ryan Oster said officers found the man when they responded to a shooting at around 8 p.m. on Saturday. He said a woman found there, Read More…
PARALIMNI, Cyprus (AP) – Cypriot police have recovered the stolen ashes of a Swedish teenager after a man who said he accidentally stole the urn they were in phoned the family in Sweden, offering a tearful apology and directions to the missing container, the late teen’s mother said Monday. Kinga Bednarz told the Associated Press Read More…
MOLINE ACRES, Mo. (AP) – A man has been charged with shooting another man in suburban St. Louis while putting a trigger lock on a gun. Police in Moline Acres say 33-year-old Hutson Grace Jr. was charged Sunday with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the death of 36-year-old Michael Dillingham. Police say Grace drank beer and Read More…
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – Overnight shootings have left two people dead at a northwestern Indiana convenience store, police said. Tippecanoe County sheriff’s deputies were called to a Family Express store in Lafayette about 7:20 p.m. Sunday after a 911 caller reported shots fired there, said Sgt. Kim Riley with Indiana State Police. When officers arrived, Read More…
FORT WASHINGTON, Md. (AP) – Police in Maryland say that a security guard fired his gun and was stabbed after confronting a possible shoplifter. The Washington Post reports that the incident occurred Sunday evening in the Washington suburb of Fort Washington. Prince George’s County police said the guard’s wound was in his upper body. His Read More…
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP, Minn. (AP) – Meeker County sheriff’s officials say they’re investigating the death of a man found along a road in Kingston Township. Authorities believe the man was killed elsewhere and that his body was dumped along the road. The body was taken to the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office for identification and an autopsy. Read More…
MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) — A man accused of storming into a rabbi’s home and stabbing five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City was raised to embrace tolerance but has a history of mental illness, his family said. “Grafton Thomas has a long history of mental illness Read More…
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) – A Jan. 13 hearing has been scheduled for a Dubuque man charged with neglecting livestock and failing to properly dispose of dead animals. Cesar Gonzalez, 31, faces nearly three dozen counts, according to Dubuque County court records. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him. Read More…
AUBURN, Mass. (AP) – A man who police say injured two people after he threw a knife through the open window of a vehicle during a road rage incident has been arrested, Massachusetts State police said. Two vehicles were traveling west on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Auburn at about 9 p.m. Saturday when one cut Read More…
BALTIMORE (AP) – A man has been charged in the Christmas death of a 7-month-old baby girl in Baltimore. Court documents and police confirmed Herbert Miller, 24, was charged with child abuse and assault following the death of Harlem Phillips on Christmas morning, news outlets reported. Baltimore police said Phillips was taken to a hospital Read More…
LIMERICK, Maine (AP) – The York County Sheriff’s Department identified the deputy involved in a fatal shooting, but the name of the victim was not released as of Monday. The victim died from a single gunshot wound Friday night after Deputy Robert Carr responded to a report of a burglary at a Dollar General Store Read More…
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) – A gunman who killed two people during a Texas church service was fatally shot within seconds by armed congregants, said state officials, who hailed the state’s gun laws that allow weapons in places of worship. More than 240 people were in the West Freeway Church of Christ in the Fort Read More…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A Tennessee man accused of fatally stabbing two people at a bar and wounding another acted in self-defense, his lawyer says. Defense attorney Justin Johnson told The Tennessean that a review of the limited available evidence in the case shows 23-year-old Michael Mosley was defending himself. Mosley is charged with two Read More…
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) – A man shot and wounded by police, who were responding to a large street fight in an eastern Pennsylvania community, was armed with a replica handgun that was made to look like a .45-caliber handgun, authorities said. Emmanuel Celestino-Mendez, 31, of Allentown, was charged with aggravated assault against a police officer Read More…
WILSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama man has been charged with aggravated child abuse after his 3-month-old daughter was found to have a broken arm, broken leg and 22 broken ribs. News outlets report Dashun Montae Bush, a 19-year-old from Wilsonville, was arrested last week. He has since posted bail and been released from custody. Read More…
RAPID CITY, S. D. (AP) – A man who killed a person in a Rapid City apartment has been shot and killed by law enforcement after opening fire on officers, according to sheriff’s officials. Officers were called to the apartment building about 5 p.m. Sunday on a report of shots fired, Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Read More…
PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) – Authorities in Mississippi are searching for the boyfriend of a woman found shot to death and dumped along the side of a road, a county sheriff told news outlets. Warrants for kidnapping and murder have been issued for 31-year-old Darion Hill, Claiborne County Sheriff Frank Davis told The Vicksburg Post. Read More…
CHICAGO (AP) – U.S. marshals have arrested a Virginia woman accused of trying to set a woman and her house on fire. Dominique Fowler was arrested Saturday in a Chicago suburb, according to news outlets. A tip led to the arrest, according to a U.S. Marshals Service statement. Authorities have said Fowler poured gasoline on Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: For a century and a half, America has been California dreaming. The Golden State is a uniquely blessed state in many ways: A stunning geography, temperate weather, oil. and not to mention the original economic engine that powered the ‘49ers, gold, are among its sterling assets. It’s little wonder, then, that for decades, Americans Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The progressive parrots ‘group think’ about all manner of folderol that their adherents, on bended knee and genuflecting vigorously, confirm as received wisdom (“New Yorker editor David Remnick: ‘It’s a source of great frustration’ people still support Trum,” Web, Dec. 23). That President Trump disrupts their cocoon with rude tweets and tantrums as he Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Hell hath no fury like a RINO Republican strategist scorned. That, regrettably, is the takeaway from “We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated,” a smug, sanctimonious op-ed column penned by a quartet of nominal Republicans published Dec. 17 in The New York Times. That headline is too long for a campaign bumper sticker, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Americans have a natural-born yearning for hearth and home where families can grow in peace and prosperity. A certain collection of their would-be leaders prefer to build castles in the air. “Progressives” grabbing for the reins of power in Washington are ignoring warning signs flashing elsewhere from outbreaks of indignant citizens watching officialdom separate Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: How good is the U.S. economy? So good that even CNN, the monomanically anti-Trump television network, was forced to admit it last week. “As 2019 comes to a close, the US economy earns its highest ratings in almost two decades,” CNN reported, dourly relaying findings of a poll it commissioned. “Overall, 76% rate economic Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The contrast couldn’t be more stark: The crashing crescendo of political conflict culminating in the jarring impeachment of President Trump just as Americans begin to tie up the loose ends of the waning year and harken to the calming strains of “Silent Night.” “For everything there is a season,” it is written, “and a Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Presidential impeachment is a serious matter. It’s the penultimate sanction legislators may take against the nation’s chief executive. After that comes removal from office. The way the current case is being handled cheapens the constitutional safeguards protecting our liberties. Lest we forget, it has its antecedents in the now-discredited charge the Trump 2016 presidential Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The power demands of modern life require the infusion of fuel and the disposal of resulting waste. If the nation is to move beyond fossil fuels, common sense dictates that a future run on clean energy must include a robust role for emissions-free nuclear power. While building a dependable supply chain for nuclear fuel, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Don’t smoke ‘em — even if you’ve got ‘em (and you probably don’t). In most of the country — and, increasingly, the world — smokers have been kicked to the curb. Outside casinos in Las Vegas and seedy bars across a few Southern and Midwestern states, cigarette smoking has vanished from most indoor spaces Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The die is cast. President Trump’s enemies have gambled on removing him from office, and now they have nowhere to go but forward along a perilous path. As Democrats line up to pass judgment on the president, they are setting in motion their own day of reckoning. The Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee approved on Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Everyone loves children. They’re the best part of a better world to come. Unfortunately, kids are clueless about both the world as it is and the means to improve it. That’s why they’re sent to school to learn rather than teach. However, climate-change activists have managed to short-circuit the educational process and fashion millions Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Residents of Washington, D.C., may be grimly familiar with the so-called Black Hebrew Israelites, or at least a radical subset of them who are avowedly “Black Supremacist.” They tend to hang out in the capital’s Chinatown neighborhood, near where the Washington Wizards and Capitals play, and shout racist, sexist and anti-gay epithets at passersby. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Live by the identity-politics sword, die by the identity-politics sword. The Democrats are learning that the hard way. With Sen. Kamala Harris of California having pulled out of the party’s 2020 presidential field last week, Democrats are wringing their hands and agonizing at the very real prospect that all of the participants in their Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Spying on a political campaign in an effort to take down a presidential candidate may be frowned upon, but asking questions about how it happened is an impeachable offense. That’s the headshaking narrative of an FBI plot to surveil Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential race and an effort to crush the president for attempting to Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Obamacare, which has been the law of the land for almost a decade, has failed to live up to most all the promises its proponents made. The health care cost curve has not been bent downward. People cannot, despite the former president’s repeated statements to the contrary, keep the plans they had, whether or Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: In the era of social media — where videos gone “viral” are the currency of the realm — hyper-partisanship, and, dare we say, symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome everywhere, political harassment is in vogue. Trump administration officials are routinely heckled and harassed in public places, like restaurants. This obnoxious behavior is corrosive of our Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Some on the left are angry, if not apoplectic, that conservatives are turning the tables on them and co-opting one of their own tactics against liberal policies. But turnabout, as they say, is fair play: Self-styled “progressives,” it seems, aren’t the only ones who can unilaterally decide which laws they will or will not Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: ‘Tis the season for holiday hopes, but Democrats in Washington may have gotten too greedy with their political wish list. Just as leaders of Congress’ blue party eagerly launched their closing arguments in favor of impeaching President Trump for allegedly wielding the nation’s foreign policy apparatus for personal gain, TVs from coast to coast Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Terrorist attacks on civilians are always outrageous, grotesque and tragic. But the atrocity last week in London was darkly ironic, too. The basic events are as grim as they are frankly unremarkable in this age of mass killing. A known Islamic radical went on a stabbing rampage near the London Bridge, slashing anybody he Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Like an autumn breeze that sweeps clean the fallen leaves, good fortune is expelling the dreary effects of the incessant political strife that has tarnished the days of 2019. Even as dour faces in Washington deliver the dismal details of presidential impeachment proceedings, elsewhere the news is of a nation bursting with new-found prosperity. Read More…