‘Why do we need to rush?’ California’s Lake County may have the nation’s slowest elections department Maria Valadez would like everyone to chill out. Every election, the prickly Lake County registrar follows California’s litany of voting laws and certifies thousands of ballots by the time she is required to. And every year, people still complain. … Read more
The Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett / Gazette / AP) The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room-temperature building and giving the grieving relatives fake ashes pleaded guilty Friday to corpse abuse as aggrieved families looked on in court. Jon and Carie Hallford, … Read more
A U.S.-Canada border marker between Emerson, Manitoba, and northern Minnesota. (John Woods / Canadian Press / AP) Two men have been convicted by a Minnesota jury of charges related to human smuggling for a scheme that led to the deaths of an Indian family of four who froze while trying to cross the U.S.-Canada border … Read more
Ramon Rivera, a suspect arrested after multiple people were stabbed early Monday, is escorted by NYPD officers at the NYPD 10th Precinct. AP New York’s criminal justice system has failed crime victims yet again — and its attorneys bear the lion’s share of the blame. Why aren’t the city’s prosecutors asking for mental competence exams … Read more
The marching song Heart of Oak under is fire for ‘language that does not align with values and ethos of today’s Royal Canadian Navy’ The Royal Canadian Navy’s Stadacona Band traditionally plays Heart of Oak when warships leave and return to their home ports.PHOTO CONTRIBUTED The Royal Canadian Navy is coming under fire for steering … Read more
The FDNY honored beloved firehouse chaplain Rev. Monsignor John Delendick, who died of 9/11-related cancer last year, with a plaque in Brooklyn Friday. Brigitte Stelzer When the smoke cleared, he’d touched thousands of lives. A heroic firehouse chaplain who died of 9/11-related pancreatic cancer was honored with a plaque at a heartfelt ceremony in Brooklyn … Read more
The accused man denied he’d touched the complainants breasts during treatment, as they’d described. Ruben Adam Manz, a chiropractor currently on trial facing seven charges of sexual assault, walks into the Court of King’s Bench on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 in Regina.Photo by KAYLE NEIS /Regina Leader-Post Some of the answers Ruben Adam Manz provided … Read more
Carla Beck says the newly minted NDP caucus will begin this session of the legislature by proposing an immediate cut to the gas tax. NDP Leader Carla Beck answers questions from the press following the Saskatchewan NDP’s legislative swearing-in ceremony at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 in Regina.Photo by KAYLE NEIS … Read more
“The View” co-hosts got into another tense political discussion while disagreeing over the validity of President-elect Donald Trump’s new pick for attorney general during Friday’s episode. The co-hosts –– Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin –– were discussing Trump picking Pam Bondi after Matt Gaetz withdrew amid his controversial … Read more
“The community response has already been extremely generous, so we still think we’ll be able to fill our boxes,” says spokesperson for Action Nouvelle Vie. A truck operated by Action Nouvelle Vie. The organization says a refrigerated trailer attached to its building was broken into over the weekend.Photo by Action Nouvelle Vie via Facebook A … Read more
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