The family of a 19-month-old who died after being exposed to fentanyl, allegedly at an Airbnb property in Florida, is suing the vacation rental company over the toddler’s death. Enora Lavenir died Aug. 7, 2021, while her family was staying at a rental in Wellington, Florida, during a visit from France, the family said in…
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…
WASHINGTON — Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday released security video from the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, using footage provided exclusively to him by Speaker Kevin McCarthy to portray the riot as a peaceful gathering. Carlson acquired the tapes as part of a deal for McCarthy, R-Calif., to win the speaker’s…
Candice Gay, Quillan Jacobs’ sister, speaks to a crowd of friends and family during a vigil for Jacobs on Nov. 19, 2021 outside of the Second Baptist Church in downtown Columbia. Jacobs was shot and killed by police after a separate shooting incident left five people injured. Columbia community members are calling for greater police…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A sharp drop in illegal border crossings since December could blunt a Republican point of attack against President Joe Biden as the Democratic leader moves to reshape a broken asylum system that has dogged him and his predecessors. A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows…
Alberto Mariani/AP A former high school art teacher is leading a bipartisan effort to recall an elected official for shirking his lawful duty and perpetuating a Trumpian fiction about voter fraud in Cochise County, Arizona. “It’s the far-reaching effects of ‘The Big Lie,’” Eric Suchodolski, 53, of Sierra Vista, told The Daily Beast. “It’s basically…
The US Capitol reflected in a puddle as people walk by in Washington, on Feb. 22, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — When the House Ways and Means Committee traveled to Petersburg, West Virginia, last month for its inaugural field hearing on “the state of the economy in Appalachia,” it met at the…
Mar. 6—Mercer County man sentenced to prison for fentanyl crime bluefield, w.va. — Jermaine Antwon Jones, 34, of Bluefield, was sentenced Monday to five years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl. According to court records, Jones sold a quantity of fentanyl on Jan. 11,…
Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who recounted President Donald Trump’s conduct in the lead-up to the Capitol attack, during a hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 28, 2022. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — In appearing before the Jan. 6 committee last…
Mar. 6—GRAND FORKS — A Grand Forks man was sentenced to 18 years in prison on charges of assault, terrorizing and gross sexual imposition. Craig Eugene Peltier, 54, had his sentencing hearing on Monday, March 6. According to an affidavit in the case, law enforcement was dispatched on Aug. 19, 2021, for a reported sexual…
