Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday. The four were traveling Friday in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates….
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield FOLADI VALLEY, Afghanistan (Reuters) – In a small village surrounded by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby son she lost last year after a harrowing birth with no medical care. “It was too hard for me when I lost my baby….
EGG HARBOR TWP. — The former board president and administrator of a charter school here are accused of giving contracts to the ex-president’s outdoor furniture business. “The misuse of taxpayer dollars for personal gain should not — and will not — be tolerated,” Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in a statement. According to the…
Rape and other charges were dropped Monday against a Hagerstown-area man after a prosecutor said the alleged victim in the spring 2022 case could not be located. Assistant State’s Attorney Christine Remsburg told Washington County Circuit Court Judge Joseph S. Michael on Monday morning, when the matter was scheduled to go to trial, that the…
This column is part of a weekly round-up of notable grand jury indictments and court decisions, following through on cases reported by Savannah Morning News public safety reporter Drew Favakeh. If there are cases you’re curious about, email Drew at AFavakeh@savannahnow.com. Three men acquitted in 2019 homicide On Feb. 6, the Chatham County Jury acquitted…
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – French bailiffs attempted to enforce a seizure order on three Paris properties owned by the Malaysian government in a case linked to a $15 billion court award to descendants of a former sultan, according to the heirs’ lawyers and court documents seen by Reuters. The bailiffs tried to…
State and city officials have made statements in response to Sunday’s violent activities at the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. On Sunday afternoon, what started as a peaceful music festival to protest against the proposed facility, turned into a violent, fiery evening. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Atlanta police…
A social media influencer pleaded guilty Monday to using identities she stole to obtain more than $1 million in pandemic relief to help fund a lavish lifestyle, prosecutors said. Danielle Miller, 32, assumed identities through the online Massachusetts driver’s license portal and other methods and displayed some of the cache from her scheme on social…
A local alcohol board has recommended denying license renewals for clubs Kalakutah and Onyxtwo Indianapolis bars with a history of shootings, assaults and other violence. The Alcoholic Beverage Board of Marion County voted unanimously on Monday to deny the renewals, deeming the clubs public nuisances and sending its decisions to the Indiana Alcohol & Tobacco…
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Matt Johnson via Flickr In her latest bid to be president, Marianne Williamson seems to have some early, and unlikely, fans for her 2024 Democratic primary campaign: Republicans. No, Republicans aren’t actually interested in sending the geodesic-dome-inhabiting, self-help-book-writing, new-age, far-left Democrat to the White House. But they are interested…
