BLACKWELL, Okla. (AP) – Investigators say a 34-year-old woman is dead following an exchange of gunfire with police in northern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says Michael Ann Godsey died early Monday after gunshots were fired in Blackwell, about 93 miles (150 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City. The shooting occurred around 3 a.m. Read More…
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) – Lee’s Summit police are investigating after a driver crashed into the department’s front lobby. Police said the car’s 43-year-old driver was taken into custody after the crash early Monday. The investigation into the cause is continuing. KMBC-TV reports the driver would have had to navigate several obstacles, including several limestone Read More…
LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) – Authorities say a shooting that killed an 8-year-old boy in his South Carolina home was part of a robbery arranged by someone living in the house. Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said 23-year-old Linda Lyn Monette planned to have someone burglarize the Lexington home on May 14 and steal several pounds Read More…
The South Bend Tribune reported Monday that the city is doing well despite Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s continued absences as he spends nearly half of his time out of town campaigning to win the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. “Of the 120 days from Feb. 1 through May 31, Buttigieg was away or plans to be away Read More…
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) – A Wyoming doctor accused in a prescription drug conspiracy says his treatment methods were medically appropriate. The Casper Star-Tribune reports Shakeel Kahn testified last week in his federal trial on 21 felonies, including a count of conspiracy to distribute drugs resulting in death. Authorities say he wrote nearly 15,000 prescriptions, with Read More…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Primary and special elections in Pennsylvania on Tuesday will decide nominees or officeholders for several high-profile offices, including mayor of the nation’s sixth largest city and one of the state’s 18 members of the U.S. House. The balloting features primary elections for Philadelphia mayor and two statewide appellate court seats. It Read More…
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) – A Massachusetts man who spent three decades in prison for a killing he says he didn’t commit is heading back to trial. The Enterprise reports that the murder retrial of Darrell Jones in the November 1985 killing of Guillermo Rodriguez in the parking lot of a Brockton sandwich shop is scheduled Read More…
OREM, Utah (AP) – An Orem man is accused of making online threats to shoot YouTube employees, going so far as to drive to their Northern California headquarters with a gun. David Swanson was released from jail Sunday after posting $100,000 bail. The 35-year-old is facing a felony charge of making terroristic threats. According to Read More…
LARNED, Kan. (AP) – Authorities have charged a 31-year-old Kansas prison employee with having unlawful sexual relations with an inmate. Pawnee County Attorney Douglas McNett said in a release that Jennifer Stevenson, of Otis, is charged with one felony count of unlawful sexual relations. The alleged incidents occurred at Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility in Read More…
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say a fight erupted during a weekend conference of local government officials from throughout California. The incident, in which one person was apparently knocked unconscious, occurred around 12:30 a.m. Saturday at the Renaissance Indian Wells Resort & Spa in the city of Indian Wells. Riverside County sheriff’s Deputy Mike Read More…
OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) – A central Illinois man faces a felony charge accusing him of leaving a voicemail for state Sen. Sue Rezin’s office threatening to commit a mass school shooting. The (Ottawa) Times reports 33-year-old Steven A. Tutko of Peru is to be arraigned Thursday and is in custody at the LaSalle County jail Read More…
AUBURN, Wash. (AP) – Authorities say a man was killed after officers were forced to shoot a suspect involved in a domestic incident with a woman in Auburn. KOMO reports officers were called to the Palermo Apartments at 12:47 a.m. Monday, where they found a man involved in an argument in the parking lot. Dave Read More…
DUNBAR, W.Va. (AP) – A police report says a Virginia fugitive died from injuries suffered in a police chase in West Virginia. The Charleston Gazette Mail reports Dunbar police have been tight-lipped about the March 11 chase, but released the report after the newspaper filed a Freedom of Information Act request. The report says 31-year-old Read More…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Police in Providence are investigating an early morning shooting that landed two men in the hospital. The shooting occurred in the city’s Federal Hill section at about 1:30 a.m. Monday. The victims, men aged 22 and 25, were taken to Rhode Island Hospital by friends with what were described as non-life Read More…
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) – A shooting in southern New Jersey has left one man dead and another wounded. Authorities responding to reports of shots fired around 5:30 a.m. Sunday on Vine Street in Camden found 31-year-old city resident Michael Rojas wounded inside a home. He was taken to a hospital but died there a short Read More…
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) – Authorities say a man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of his wife following a dispute about smoking in western Michigan. Muskegon Heights police say the man was arrested Sunday in nearby Muskegon following the shooting, which happened about 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Muskegon Heights Police Chief Joseph Thomas tells Read More…
The Supreme Court announced Monday it won’t hear an appeal from mother who sued after her daughter was strip-searched by a child abuse investigator who never obtained a warrant. Without comment, the justices declined to take up the case against April Woodard, a state caseworker in Colorado who performed the strip search after claiming she Read More…
MOSCOW (AP) – The Kremlin says the arrest of three senior officers of Russia’s top spy agency reflects a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday when asked about the arrests that the Kremlin has coordinated anti-corruption efforts that targeted “all agencies and officials of any rank without exclusion.” Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: America is once more open for business. With the Trump administration’s emphasis on tax reduction, elimination of overbearing and unnecessary regulations, job creation has put a fire under the economy. The result is a steady increase in the U.S. gross domestic product. There’s no mystery about it. Policy affects progress, either by accelerating it Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Running for president has replaced baseball as the national pastime. (We liked baseball better.) Every day there’s a new rookie up from South Bend or Cedar Rapids of the Three-Eye League, or an equivalent, armed with his newspaper clippings about his prowess in the minors. (“Good field, no hit.”) As we went to press, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: “Everybody complains about the weather,” observed Mark Twain, “but no one does anything about it.” That may have been true in his happier day, but not now, when we think man can change anything. Climate change, which is weather over a lengthy period of time, is now on the world’s to-do list. What is Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: “To everything there is a season,” the Good Book counsels, and for diehard critics of Donald Trump, clinging to their belief in his sinister designs, it’s always open season on the president. To “a time to be born, a time to die” they have added “a time to accuse, a time to face accusation.” Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 on a platform with two main planks. He promised to secure the nation’s southern border and preserve the United States as a sovereign power, one with the unquestioned right to determine who enters and who doesn’t. That is still a work in progress, with no help from Democrats and Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Politics is a lot like baseball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. The difference is that if you lose, “there’s no crying in baseball,” as Tom Hanks reminded his ladies of the diamond in the movie “A League of Their Own.” In baseball, you’re supposed to hitch up your pants and move on to Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The two most obstreperous children in the “family” of nations are at it again, rattling sabers as if in unison. Iran’s furtive provocations in the Persian Gulf are roiling the Middle East and North Korea’s resumption of missile testing is once more putting Asia on edge. America’s responses are distinctly different, because the Islamic Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: A president who talks and acts tough on trade has been a long time coming. Donald Trump made getting fair dealing on trade a major plank in his campaign platform and has followed through. China can’t say it wasn’t warned about the imposition this week of additional tariffs on selected goods coming into the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: America’s lengthy love affair with the automobile is about to be put to the test. Self-driving cars, or as the techno-geeks call them, “highly autonomous vehicles,” are revving up to take over the road, and sooner rather than later. Giving up the keys to a collection of rolling computers will require adjustments. Prevention of Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Rep. Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wants the attorney general, William Barr, to break the law. That’s a curious, if not bizarre wish from a distinguished member of Congress. But Mr. Nadler and the Democrats, who are in a frenzy to salvage something from the collusion investigation they expected to Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders or whoever wins the Democratic presidential nomination next year has a big job ahead. The Democrats must find a way to repeal the first rule of campaign persuasion. “It’s the economy, Stupid.” The monthly employment figures compiled by the Labor Department were out on Friday, and they’re stunning by anyone’s Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Pete Buttigieg, Mayor Pete of South Bend, is the rising star of the Democrats this month, Beto having already had his 15 minutes of fame. Mayor Pete and his prospective first lady (sex no longer has anything to do with who’s a lady and who’s a gent) even made the cover of Time magazine. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The U.S. Commerce Department’s blockbuster news, that the economy grew by a stunning 3.2 percent in the first quarter, is good news for everybody unless you’re one of the two dozen Democrats running for president. A little bipartisan celebration of the news is in order. The economic growth accelerated in the first quarter with Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Delirious Democrats, lost in a deep, dark hole of their own making, just can’t put their shovels down. They just know that down there somewhere there’s the key to ridding themselves of Donald Trump. Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion report was a dry hole, but that must be because Attorney General William Barr is keeping Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: America is a nation on wheels. With 328 million prospective drivers eager to go about their business, the challenge is to build cars and trucks that meet a complex array of needs. To balance efficiency with costs, safety and environmental preservation, the Trump administration wants to relax fuel efficiency rules. Despite the inevitable obstacles, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The war in Afghanistan, which was an expensive losing proposition for the Russians, is proving to be an expensive losing proposition for the United States as well. The American struggle to root out terrorism and establish stability in Afghanistan, paid for by American blood and money, is failing. The United States pursued Islamic terrorists Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Democrats can dream of a 50-state strategy, per Howard Dean, but it’s only a dream. The South, once the exclusive preserve of Democrats and yellow dogs, is almost solid again, and this time Democrats and yellow dogs have been evicted and the region is red and safely Republican. The Rust Belt, once a Democratic Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Presidents from Bill Clinton forward have made bold pledges to fix America’s broken health care system. Indeed, the broken system and what to do about it is usually a theme of presidential campaigns. Yet the system is still broken, and government interventions in the medical marketplace have created more problems than they solved. Donald Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week on whether the Trump administration can mandate that the U.S. Census, to be taken next year, ask a simple and logical question about who is a citizen and who is not. Regardless of what the court decides, it’s a controversy that is not likely to go Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Nowhere is the intractable misery of the Islamic Middle East and its impact on American interests more evident than in Yemen, an otherwise obscure Arab country on the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Yemen’s size and isolation belies how easily the United States can get entangled in religious, political and tribal conflict. If Read More…