VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) – A former bookkeeper for a Mississippi county has pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to eight years in prison. The Vicksburg Post reports state Auditor Shad White announced Tuesday that Warren County Circuit Judge James Chaney sentenced Paula Hunt and ordered her to repay more than $140,000 to the county’s Read More…
DEMOPOLIS, Ala. (AP) – Police searching for a 5-year-old Florida girl who was reported missing last week by her mother, who said the girl disappeared from home overnight, found human remains in rural Alabama, authorities said Tuesday. The team looking for Taylor Rose Williams found a body, according to a statement issued by police in Read More…
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – A federal judge has refused to set bond for a Louisiana man accused of threatening President Donald Trump via social media posts last week. KTBS-TV reports U.S. Magistrate District Judge Mark Hornsby told 31-year-old Friedrich Ishola that bond couldn’t be set Tuesday because of a parole hold on pending state charges. Read More…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court’s left-leaning justices on Tuesday appeared willing to allow a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Mexican teenager shot over the border by an American agent, but the case will depend on whether they can persuade a conservative colleague to join them. The high court heard arguments in a Read More…
Australia’s highest court on Wednesday agreed to hear an appeal by Cardinal George Pell of his convictions for molesting two choirboys in a cathedral more than two decades ago. Some events in Pell’s career and the criminal case: July 16, 1996: Auxiliary Bishop George Pell is appointed archbishop of Melbourne. He molests two choirboys that Read More…
As Kentucky’s Republican governor trailed by thousands of votes in his re-election bid and Democrats took the reins of the Virginia Statehouse, social media posts offered an unsubstantiated explanation for the Election Day results: voter fraud. The messages seized on small-scale voting issues or pushed inaccurate reports to call into question all the election results. Read More…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – A Russian accused of running a website that helped people commit more than $20 million in credit-card fraud has been extradited to Virginia to face criminal charges. Twenty-nine-year-old Aleksei Burkov made an initial appearance in Alexandria Tuesday after being extradited from Israel. Russian officials objected to his extradition. The federal indictment Read More…
A federal appeals court in D.C. was asked Tuesday to hear a lawsuit brought against former special counsel Robert Mueller by conservative author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi. Larry Klayman, a conservative activist and attorney representing Mr. Corsi, filed a notice of appeal challenging a lower court judge’s recent decision to dismiss their complaint. Mr. Read More…
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) – Opening arguments have begun in the Long Island trial of a driver accused of plowing into a group of Boy Scouts, killing one of them, after pounding back vodka during a morning round of golf. Prosecutors on Tuesday said Thomas Murphy was driving drunk and reckless from the golf course on Read More…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Officials in Maryland say four correctional officers have been injured trying to break up a prison fight. A Tuesday statement from the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services says one officer from the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland was taken to the hospital with a stab wound to the Read More…
DOVER, Del. (AP) – Authorities in Delaware have released the names of two men who were killed when their car hit a utility pole. Dover Police said Tuesday that 22-year-old Luis Bamaca Roblero and 28-year-old Kevin Castro-Giron were killed in Sunday’s crash. Police say Roblero was driving a Toyota Prius that crashed about 5 a.m. Read More…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) – Middle Tennessee wide receiver Zeke Cobb has been suspended from the program as he faces rape charges. Murfreesboro police spokesman Larry Flowers said Tuesday that Cobb has been served a sealed indictment on two counts of rape stemming from an incident in 2018. Flowers didn’t have any additional details on the Read More…
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – The Latest on the second trial against a border activist accused of harboring immigrants (all times local): 2:40 p.m. A judge has banned an Arizona border activist from mentioning President Donald Trump during his retrial on charges of harboring immigrants. U.S. District Court Judge Raner Collins on Tuesday granted a motion Read More…
Hillary Clinton says “many, many, many people” are urging her to enter the 2020 presidential race, but that at the moment she has no plans to run. Ms. Clinton, the party’s 2016 presidential nominee, has yet to close the door on a bid, teasing the idea during public relations tour for the book she co-authored Read More…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man accused of coercing hundreds of children into producing and electronically sharing sexually explicit images has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. Thirty-five-year-old Brandon Bjornstad, of Neche, pleaded guilty in February to 18 counts, including charges of sexual exploitation of minors and extortion. Authorities say he shared Read More…
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s highest court agrees to hear appeal from the most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse. Sign up for Daily Newsletters Manage Newsletters Copyright © 2019 The Washington Times, LLC. Please read our comment policy before commenting.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Officials in Anguilla are preparing a warrant for the arrest of a Connecticut man who refused to return to the Caribbean island to face charges in the death of a hotel resort worker, the attorney general for the British territory said Tuesday. Attorneys for Scott Hapgood, of Darien, said he skipped Read More…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – An Ohio man who previously served nearly 20 years in prison for carjacking has been sentenced for robbing a phone store in New Jersey. A federal judge in Newark sentenced 47-year-old Frederick White to 25 years Tuesday for a 2016 armed robbery of a store in Orange. The former Westerville, Ohio, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Evo Morales had a problem. It was 2016, and the three-term Bolivian president, an ardent leftist and the first indigenous president the South American nation ever had, wanted badly to run for a fourth term in 2019. But Bolivia’s constitution had term limits, and Mr. Morales was barred from running for and serving another Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Largely overlooked amid Virginia Democrats’ (understandable) gloating about capturing control of the Virginia General Assembly for the first time in 20 years and narrowly winning the Kentucky governorship, there were election results — from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Arizona and Mississippi and back to Kentucky — that should help take Republicans off suicide Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Is Mexico a failed state? With the horrific slaughter of a family of Americans living there earlier this month — and a host of other bad news to boot — signs point to yes. Nine Mormon Americans — six children and their mothers — were killed in the horrifying attack, when the SUVs they Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Anniversaries are an opportunity to commemorate something special that mustn’t be forgotten. In Iran, there is a long memory for something especially malign — the 1979 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the beginning of a 444-day hostage crisis. The current mullahcracy has chosen the 40th anniversary of that jarring day to Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The last time the baseball team from Washington won the World Series, Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. That would be the American League’s Washington Senators, who — 95 years ago in 1924 — defeated the New York Giants of the National League four games to three. On Oct. 4, 1924, “Silent Cal” Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Cry, yet again, for Argentina. The South American nation — rich in farmland, durable institutions and an educated population — has, for nearly a century, been an economic basket case. With the results of its recent presidential election, that sad tale looks set to continue. Argentina is a useful reminder to our progressive friends Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: When it comes to the shell game, the best advice is not to play. Elizabeth Warren claims her new “Medicare for All” proposal presents the nation with a winning health care system without raising middle-class taxes. It’s a sleight-of-hand plan that would shuffle costs around while worsening them in the process. The up-and-coming candidate Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: It’s being characterized variously as “anxiety” (The Washington Post), “handwringing” (The Hill), “a Maalox moment” and “alarm” (The New York Times), and “growing uncertainty” and “a pervasive feeling of unease” (the Associated Press). That’s how, in just the past two weeks alone, articles in the mainstream media have described the flop-sweat panic setting in Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: “Boo” only startles when its target is caught by surprise. Democrats chose Halloween to spring a preliminary impeachment vote on the nation, but their move was spotted a mile away. Adversaries of President Trump have been loudly proclaiming their intention to expel him from office since the day he was elected. Now that the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: “Have broomstick, will travel” is not how Hillary Clinton’s calling card reads, but it should. The septuagenarian professional politician is swooping over the American landscape in her billowing jackets, threatening to once again lay waste to the presidential election process. Last time around, Republicans were relieved to have survived her reign of error. As Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The design of the United States government is riddled with checks and balances intended to prevent any one branch from becoming so powerful it could dominate the other two. This, the Founders believed, would safeguard our liberties. All that went out the window when, as part of the Dodd-Frank banking reform legislation, Congress created Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper,” wrote T.S. Eliot in “The Hollow Men.” A dark commentary on the despair gripping the European continent following World War I, it fits as a preface to the last moments of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, almost. “He died after Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Hope paved humanity’s lengthy pathway to the 21st century, but fear threatens to take it from here. It shouldn’t. Beyond the gloomy headlines, advances in human knowledge are making these supposedly dreadful years actually the most amazing ever. “King” Lebron James grovels before China’s Communist dictatorship, apologizing for an NBA executive’s “misinformed” Hong Kong-backing Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Having the best of intentions is no protection from the worst of consequences. That’s the sobering lesson from the government-run experiment with renewable fuels. Promoted as a cleaner alternative to gasoline, federal fuel mandates have their own environmental impacts. Though America’s farmers have reaped the benefits of selling food crops for fuel production, it Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Nearly three years since she lost the 2016 presidential race to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton clearly still hasn’t gotten over it and moved on. One Washington, D.C.-based talk-radio host speculates that Mrs. Clinton — who turns 72 on Saturday — wakes up every morning at her estate in Chappaqua, N.Y., facedown on the floor Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Perhaps Ralph Northam should head north of the border when his term as Virginia governor is up. Canadian voters are rather indulgent of leaders who occasionally don blackface, apparently. That’s just one lesson we can draw from the news that Justin Trudeau has been re-elected to a second term as Canada’s prime minister. Mr. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: In the program for an exhibition of his works at a museum in Stockholm in 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol famously predicted “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” The phrase “15 minutes of fame” has since come to describe anyone or anything that’s a short-lived blip on the pop culture Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: After being acquitted in May 1987 of all 10 counts of larceny and fraud — charges that some said were politically motivated — in connection with a New York City subway project, former Reagan administration Labor Secretary Ray Donovan turned to the Bronx prosecutor and famously asked, “Which office do I go to, to Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Attorney General William Barr kicked up a storm last weekend — by stating the obvious. In a speech delivered at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana on Saturday, the attorney general pointed out that a rising tide of “militant secularism” is waging war on religious communities from coast to coast. Not content to Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Politics is a mean competition, one that makes pro football look like two-hand touch by comparison. The game on the gridiron, at least, has rules meant to ensure a level playing field. Not so with the contest currently underway in Washington in which Democrats are using every trick at their disposal to knock out Read More…