Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — A man accused of starting dozens of fires throughout the Portland metro area has pleaded not guilty. Allen Michael Singlehouse, 39, appeared in court for the first time on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to five counts of first-degree arson and two counts of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPRING LAKE, MI (WXMI) — The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office says it was Kenneth Boone who called 911 on Sunday morning to report he’d harmed James Boone, his 64-year-old father. Today, he was arraigned on an open murder charge. Captain Mark Bennett explained, “When deputies arrived on scene
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BETENDORF, IA (WQAD) — – Fired up Republican voters packed into Pleasant View Baptist Church on December 2 to talk about illegal immigration and the impact it has throughout the nation. Voters heard from energetic speakers like Scott Presler and from local high school students who are focused
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EL Paso, Texas — Chapin High School is now in search of a new head varsity football coach. Sources confirm to ABC-7 that football coach Rene Hernandez is leaving the program. Hernandez was the head coach for the Huskies for the last 13 seasons, but he’s been with the program for 20 years. Hernandez had
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BATON ROUGE, LA (WGNO) — A body scanner at Louisiana State Penitentiary helped correctional officers thwart a visitor’s smuggling attempt at the prison Sunday. The body scanner detected a foreign object inside of 30-year-old Erin J. Harrison of Kinder, Louisiana. When Department of Corrections officers questioned Harrison, she
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Outgoing Sen. Johnny Isakson gave a farewell speech on Tuesday in which he urged his colleagues to work together across the aisle and act from the heart to produce results, receiving a rare standing ovation. “We may be called a liberal, we may be called a RINO, we may be called whatever it is —
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — A Rutherfordton man has been charged in the case of a woman whose body was found Thursday in Rutherford County church. Investigators with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office secured warrants Tuesday on Jonathan Andrew Weeks, 44, for breaking and entering a place of
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Four workers who were recently fired from Google are planning to file unfair labor practice charges against the company with the National Labor Relations Board. The workers will ask the NLRB to conduct an investigation into Google. The filing is expected to be made later this week, according to a representative for the former employees.
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Former Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson denies he intentionally lied to Mayor Lori Lightfoot after he was found sleeping behind the wheel in an incident that led to his firing. “I acknowledge that I made a poor decision and had a lapse of judgment on the night of October 16. That was a mistake and
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(CNN) — Fiona Hill, exasesora principal de Rusia del presidente Trump, y David Holmes, consejero de asuntos políticos de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Ucrania, testifican juntos públicamente este jueves ante la Comisión de Inteligencia de la Cámara de Representantes en la investigación de juicio político contra el presidente Donald Trump. Esto es lo
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Donald Trump aseguró que le gustaría un juicio completo en el Senado si la Cámara vota por continuar con el proceso, durante una entrevista extensa y a veces dispersa con Fox News este viernes. Su entrevista se produjo después de que una parte de la Cámara de Representantes concluyera su quinto
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los demócratas pasarán de investigar al presidente Donald Trump a comenzar su procesamiento esta semana en el desarrollo más significativo e histórico hasta ahora en una batalla de destitución que se mueve rápidamente. La tensión aumenta a medida que los republicanos lanzaron el domingo una nueva ofensiva para destruir la legitimidad del proceso
Continue Reading If your 2019 went anything like ours, it sounded a lot like this: “What is happening? What does it all mean? How long will the human species stay alive if the planet’s on fire?“ They’re all powerful questions. And according to Dictionary.com, we’ve been tackling a lot of heavy stuff in 2019. That’s why the
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On Tuesday, as part of NATO meetings in London, President Donald Trump sat down with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to chat. The two men took a series of questions from the assembled reporters, with Trump doing the vast majority of the talking. I went through the transcript of what Trump said and pulled out
Continue Reading Sen. Kamala Harris‘ abrupt departure Tuesday from the 2020 presidential race underscores how much the financial landscape has shifted for Democratic presidential contenders — richly rewarding the candidates who can appeal to small-dollar donors and hobbling some of those competing for the favor of the wealthy contributors who have traditionally fueled campaigns. The two fundraising
Continue Reading California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal corruption charges stemming from his misuse of more than $200,000 in campaign funds. Read his plea agreement here: cnn.com/2019/12/03/politics/duncan-hunter-plea-agreement/index.html
Continue Reading Brandt Jean, who redirected the national conversation on police violence when he embraced the ex-Dallas police officer who killed his brother, Botham Jean, accepted an ethical courage award from a law enforcement organization Tuesday — but not without reservations. The Institute for Law Enforcement Administration honored Jean at a ceremony in Plano, Texas. Before handing
Continue Reading A Senate hearing on Russia policy became a platform for Democrats to hammer home the point that President Donald Trump, some of his senior officials and Republican lawmakers have been spreading a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election. That theory has been at the heart of Trump’s justification for withholding
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Doctors at Duke University Medical Center this month “reanimated” a heart for a first-of-its-kind transplant performed on an adult in the United States. Heart transplants typically come from donations after brain death, in which the still-beating heart of a person who has been declared brain dead is transplanted into a recipient. The approach used at
Continue Reading California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal corruption charges stemming from his misuse of more than $200,000 in campaign funds. Read his plea agreement here:
Continue Reading The State Department is offering $5 million for information that leads to the arrest of an American citizen on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List. An indictment unsealed in federal court on Monday accuses Jehad Serwan Mostafa, 37, of providing material support to al-Shabaab, which the US has designated a terrorist organization for its activities
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Winter is coming — for our French fries. Unusually cold and wet weather during the potato harvest season has left some growers in the US and Canada unable to harvest a significant portion of their crop. Now, processors across North America are rushing to find potatoes from additional sources to keep up with the increasing
Continue Reading Armed with never-before-seen phone records, Democrats on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump’s allies of coordinating with a conservative journalist to peddle “false narratives” about Trump’s opponents as part of his multi-pronged pressure campaign on Ukraine. The House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report — which was made public Tuesday — says the committee’s top Repubican, Rep. Devin
Continue Reading Inspections and maintenance of a California utility’s transmission-line towers were inadequate for years, and that helped lead to an equipment failure that ignited the state’s deadliest wildfire, state investigators say in a recent report. The report sums up an investigation by the California Public Utilities Commission’s Safety and Enforcement Division (SED) into the November 2018
Continue Reading The Dow closed sharply in the red — marking its third day of losses — after President Donald Trump said a trade deal with China might not be accomplished until after the 2020 election. Trump on Tuesday suggested to reporters in London that a trade deal with Beijing might come much later than many expected,
Continue Reading A New Zealand newspaper has apologized for publishing a cartoon that mocked the measles outbreak in Samoa that has killed more than 50 people. The Otago Daily Times, based in the city of Dunedin, ran a cartoon that depicted two women exiting a travel agency. One of them says, “I asked, ‘What are the least
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ANTHONY, New Mexico — A married Anthony vitamin shop employee who lives in a “rundown mobile home” and claimed to be a police officer is accused of embezzling over $640,000 and spending the funds to wine and dine girlfriends on the side, take lavish trips to Las Vegas and elsewhere as well as purchase illicit
Continue Reading Quick — tell me in 10 words or less why Kamala Harris was running for president. Was it: a) To be a populist fighter “for the people,” as her campaign slogan promised? b) To be a more electable version of the liberal policies espoused by the likes of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren? c) To
Continue Reading The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has had little impact on public opinion. In late November, just like in October, 50% of Americans wanted to impeach and remove Trump from office in CNN/SSRS polling. Moreover, Trump’s approval ratings remain in the low 40s, and impeachment really hasn’t shaken up the Democratic race for president.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS, LA (WGNO) — City officials have offered a $5,000 reward for information about the shooting on Canal Street that left 10 people injured, two critically. NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson issued the following statement: “What happened in our city overnight was a cowardly and senseless act that
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