NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – A U.S. Navy airman has been sentenced to 25 years confinement, with 15 years suspended, for attempting to kill his wife in a murder-for-hire plot. Uriel Gerardo-Olivas was sentenced Friday following a court-martial at Naval Station Norfolk. Media reports say he also will receive a dishonorable discharge. In return for pleading Read More…
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) – The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says an inmate at the minimum-security Jackie Brannon Correctional Center in McAlester has escaped. A DOC news release says 39-year-old Christopher Jacobs was discovered missing around 10 a.m. Saturday. The department says other inmates told investigators Jacobs walked away from the unfenced prison and got into Read More…
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) – A Fort Wayne woman has been sentenced to six years in prison on neglect charges stemming from her 2-year-old son’s beating death. Twenty-seven-year-old Amber V. Garrett was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in June to two felony neglect counts involving her son and daughter. The Journal Gazette reports that Garrett Read More…
ENUMCLAW, Wash. (AP) – The FBI and Enumclaw police have searched the farmhouse of a former King County official who is the target of a corruption investigation. KING-TV reports that the agents searched Allan “Benny” Thomas’ property on Friday but did not make any arrests. Thomas was the longtime commissioner of King County Drainage District Read More…
ATLANTA (AP) – Jurors were unable to agree on a verdict in the trial of a 25-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a Georgia college student during a 2015 fight in the school’s student union. News outlets report that prosecutors say they will retry Justin Stephens in the death of Christopher Starks, who was Read More…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office says six corrections officer have resigned after an internal investigation into accusations of inappropriate conduct. The Commercial Appeal reports that the identities of the deputies were not provided. A social media post from the sheriff’s office said the investigations focused on inappropriate relationships with inmates at Read More…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A 55-year-old man has been fatally shot outside his north Wichita home. Wichita police say the shooting happened around 10 p.m. Friday in the Benjamin Hills neighborhood. The Wichita Eagle says the man had just returned from a trip to the grocery store after work to his home when he was Read More…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A Louisiana man faces a mandatory life sentence after being convicted of kidnapping, torturing and sexually abusing another man. The Advocate reports that jurors convicted 31-year-old Almoine Lemar Powell of Baton Rouge on Friday of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated second-degree battery and two counts of second-degree sexual battery. His sentencing is Read More…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Delaware State Police say they are investigating a shooting at a nursing home in Wilmington where two people were shot. Police said troopers were sent to ManorCare of Wilmington for a report of a shooting at about 1:12 p.m. Police say two people sustained gunshot wounds, but authorities did not elaborate. Read More…
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio man has entered a plea to charges in the death of his girlfriend’s 11-month-old son and faces decades in state prison. The Blade reports 32-year-old Eric Mathis entered an Alford plea in a Toledo courtroom Friday in the beating death of 11-month-old Nehemiah Wright on New Year’s Day 2018. Read More…
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) – A northeastern Kansas man has been charged with first-degree murder, rape and aggravated criminal sodomy in the death of a woman. The Kansas City Star reports that 28-year-old Felipe Chavez Jr., of Shawnee, was charged Saturday in the death of 30-year-old Lucia Frayre, of Kansas City. Police say the charges stem Read More…
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) – Cydney Clanton and Jasmine Suwannapura ran away with the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational on Saturday, shooting an 11-under 59 in best-ball play for a six-stroke victory. Clanton and Suwannapura took a five-shot lead into the final round after shooting an alternate-shot 63 on Friday at Midland Country Club in the Read More…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Police in Kansas City say the death of a woman whose body was found in a car is being investigated as a homicide. Police say the body of 40-year-old Kaaya Wright, of Kansas City, Missouri, was found Friday in Blue Valley Park. Police say a man driving through the park Read More…
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – Authorities say a 19-year-old man who ran from police and refused orders to drop a gun has been shot and wounded by officers in the southwest Ohio city of Dayton. Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl at a news conference Friday identified the man as Re’al Streety, who is in critical but Read More…
FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) – The stepson of a slain Missouri Ku Klux Klan leader has been sentenced to a total 59 years in prison for his role in the death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Paul Jinkerson Jr. was sentenced Friday. A St. Francois County jury found him guilty in May of involuntary manslaughter, Read More…
EARLVILLE, Iowa (AP) – The trial of a man accused of using a corn rake to kill his wife has been moved from Delaware County to Dubuque County. The Telegraph Herald reports that the judge’s order to move the first-degree murder trial of 43-year-old Todd Mullis was released Friday. Mullis, who remains in custody on Read More…
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) – A young couple has been arrested on suspicion of strangling their newborn to death at a Southern California hospital. Police in Oxnard said their officers were summoned to St. John’s Medical Center Friday morning to investigate the baby’s death. Sgt. Brandon Ordelheide said 20-year-old Andrea Torralba and her boyfriend, 21-year-old David Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: If your wallet has felt a little fatter recently, you’re not alone. After a decade or so of stagnation, Americans’ wages are finally starting to grow, and not a moment too soon. As of this spring, wages were growing at about 3.4 percent year over year — the highest rate in more than a Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The United States can’t run on a shoestring, but even a king’s ransom wouldn’t suffice when there is little interest in fixing the hole in the nation’s money pocket. The U.S. Treasury has never been so flush with cash and at the same time, the federal ledger has seldom recorded so much red ink. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Politics is sometimes a lot like high school, with its surfeit of backbiting, goofy, mean occasionally clever nicknames, and scrambling for popularity, but the latest cannonading of tweets and trivia between President Trump and “the Squad” is taking metaphor a bridge too far. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s feud with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her ladies, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Democrats dissatisfied with the contents of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election can’t seem to resist the temptation to pry off the lid of Pandora’s box. Craving the key to impeaching President Trump, they risk the danger of refusing to let bad enough alone. Their obstinacy could ultimately serve Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Professional soccer has been banging on the American consciousness for decades, trying to win recognition as the equal of baseball, football and basketball in the public eye. The media elites have tut-tutted and clucked their tongues, lamenting the reality that American sports fans have not embraced professional soccer in the way of the rest Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Diplomacy isn’t always diplomatic. Kim Darroch, late the British ambassador in Washington, had several choice things to say about what he thinks of President Trump, and now he’s gone. He put his remarks in a cable (more correctly called a “cablegram”) to London and a busybody in the Washington embassy or the Foreign Office Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Children may be our closest brush with heaven this side of eternity. Their innocent vulnerability reaches out to the rest of us for compassion and protection. That’s why the cynical and the conniving wield them as the perfect tool to enhance political machinations. We’re watching now the use of immigrant children from Central America Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Beware of Greeks bearing false promises. That’s the lesson of the end of the Syriza government in Athens, whose four years in power ended over the last weekend in a definitive general election. The general election results show the anger and discontent of the Greek public in stark relief. The main center-right opposition party Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Politicking is about possibilities and promises, and President Trump used both in opening his bid for re-election. The most ambitious item in the category of “promises made, promises kept” is preparing astronauts for a trip to Mars. The president described a flurry of goals for his second term: “We will come up with the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: “Virtue-signaling” is a favorite sport on the rich left. Baseball, boxing and football are for sissies. Virtue-signaling is the current fad word for acting “holier than thou,” perfected by creative liberals to publicly express feel-good sentiments to advertise a signaler’s moral correctness. Virtue-signaling should not be confused with virtue, which is a godly trait Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The executive suites of corporate America have been the source of a lot of bonehead mistakes. Some of those mistakes are famous (perhaps infamous to stockholders): New Coke, the AOL-Time Warner merger, the Blockbuster Video (remember them?) decision to turn down a profitable acquisition offer from Netflix. But Nike’s capitulation to the new forces Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Summer has arrived and the heat is on, naturally. Some like it hot, but for those who don’t, recalling the ache of last winter’s frigid fingers and toes may ease the discomfort. It’s smart to remember the atmospheric tribulations that blow hot and cold and resist the madding crowd, certain, like Chicken Little and Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The hallmarks of a functioning democracy are clear enough. Open elections, a free and unfettered media, an unbiased judiciary system. The most important is the guarantee that a citizen can write or speak his opinions, popular or not, without fear. The United States does well on open elections (despite the Russians), a free media Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: American medicine is the best in the world, so an ancient bit of wisdom goes, “just don’t get sick.” American medical innovations are unmatched anywhere in the world, and when the rich get really, really sick the United States is where they come. The politicians who keep trying to “fix” the system’s shortcomings — Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Tough words softened by gentle deeds are preferable to gentle words trampled by rough and reckless action. President Trump vows to begin deporting illegal immigrants by the millions, a campaign promise that helped elect him and may well do so again. He didn’t invent the chaos on the border, but he is the first Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Forty-nine soldiers from “the Great War,” as World War I was once known, can now “requiescat in pace.” The people of Prince George’s County, Maryland, can rest in peace, too. The U.S. Supreme Court liberated the Peace Cross in Bladensburg this week from the anger of vandals who wanted to evict the 40-foot-tall cross Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: President Trump is accused by his critics, enemies and assorted soreheads of being the most divisive president since, well, maybe Chester Alan Arthur, or somebody. Perhaps he is, but much of the record of his first three years suggests that sometimes divisiveness works. He puts on a good show, too. His opening rally this Read More…