U.S. Department of Justice (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department unsealed new charges against a leader of the notorious Japanese Yakuza gang who they accuse of attempting to traffic weapons-grade nuclear materials from Burma to other countries, according to a newly announced superseding indictment. Prosecutors in Manhattan say that beginning […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — The Texas Attorney General’s office is suing to shut down a well-known Catholic nonprofit that helps to shelter migrants in El Paso, Texas. Officials from the AG’s office visited Annunciation House on Feb. 7, demanding it provide extensive documentation that included the identities […]
FBI (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — The FBI announced on Tuesday that the agency is offering up to a $15,000 reward for any information that leads to the whereabouts of Lori Paige – a 12-year-old girl who has been missing from Tallahassee, Florida, since June 3, 2023. “The FBI will stop at […]
Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Harvard University officials are denouncing a cartoon deemed antisemitic after it was posted and then deleted on social media by a student group collective. The infographic from the student groups Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African American Resistance Organization was […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Duvan Perez died last summer during his shift working on a Mississippi farm. His 16-year-old body “became entangled” in a poultry processing machine he was cleaning, according to Mar-Jac Poultry, the company that hired him — a gruesome death that federal regulators later called “a […]
A new exhibit at The Tenement Museum recreates the home of Joseph and Rachel Moore. CREDIT: ABC News (NEW YORK) — For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City’s Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th and early 20th-century working-class New Yorkers. The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – The Utah Supreme Court says it is possible to be found not guilty of murder but be guilty of other crimes in the same case. The state’s high court in early February upheld a ruling by the state’s Court of Appeals in a case involving […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — An eye care bill in the state legislature is pitting two groups of professionals against one another. Senate Bill 210 would allow optometrists to perform certain laser procedures. SB210 is sponsored by Republican Representative James Dunnigan of Taylorsville and Provo Republican Senator Curtis Bramble. The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Business leaders in Salt Lake City are supporting Governor Cox’s homelessness proposal. The plan would see services expand spending by just over 190-million dollars. Most of it would go to fund emergency shelters. City leaders like Salt Lake Chamber CEO Derek Miller credit Cox’s decision […]
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — A young girl has died and her brother has been hospitalized after they fell into a hole they had dug in the sand at a beach Tuesday in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida. Sloan Mattingly, 5, and Maddox Mattingly, 9, were pulled out of the sand […]
