14 Defendants Indicted, Including the Entire Administration of the Colombo Organized Crime Family

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, a 19-count indictment was unsealed charging 14 defendants, including 10 members and associates of the Colombo crime family of La Cosa Nostra and a member…

Virginia Beach Couple Sentenced for $31 Million Coupon Fraud Scheme

NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia Beach woman was sentenced today to 12 years in prison, following last month’s sentencing of her husband to over 7 years in prison, for perpetrating a counterfeit…

Attorney General Alan Wilson joins 20-state push to protect 2nd Amendment

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that, if left intact, inappropriately permits federal regulators to outlaw a…

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Attorney General James Calls on Congress to Prioritize Funding for Programs to Address Climate Crisis, Environmental Injustice

Coalition Urges Inclusion of Clean Energy, Air, Water, and Climate Change Initiatives in Reconciliation Bill NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 20 state attorneys…

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Ghanaian National Sentenced for Online Romance Fraud Scheme

NORFOLK, Va. – A Ghanaian national was sentenced on Friday to 40 months in prison for wire fraud as part of his scheme to defraud victims on a dating website. “The defendant…

Homestead Man Sentenced for Role in Braddock-Area Drug Case

PITTSBURGH, PA – A resident of Homestead, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served and two years of supervised release with 180 days home confinement, on his conviction of…

Hammond Man Sentenced to 117 Months of Imprisonment

HAMMOND-Salvador Alvin, 26, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon following his guilty plea to possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a firearm in…

Shooting in Henderson Lands Man in Federal Prison for More Than 19 Years

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Henderson man was sentenced today to 235 months in prison for two counts of Felon in Possession of Ammunition. On June 10, 2021, Caleb Malik Batchelor, pled guilty…

Jones County Man Sentenced to More Than 9 Years for Shooting

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Jones County man was sentenced today to 115 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, which he used to assault with the…

Nicki Minaj Twitter Rages on Piers Morgan, Meghan McCain and others after posting a ridiculous anti-vax story

Nicki Minaj went into a Twitter rage on Tuesday and now, she’s being trolled in epic fashion. Minaj posted an anti-vax message which has yet to be removed by the social media…

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DC Detectives investigate Homicide on Kennedy Street

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a homicide that occurred on Friday, September 10, 2021, in the 100 block of Kennedy Street, Northwest. At approximately 9:41…

D.C. News·Police Blotter

Ida-No: Biden met by hundreds of Trump supporters in Gem State

Hundreds of anti-Biden protestors gathered in Boise, Idaho ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to the state on Monday, CNN White House Correspondent Jeremy Diamond reported. The protestors gathered outside the National…

US and World News

Facebook exempts celebrities, some politicians, Hollywood elite from its overreaching rules and censorship

Facebook is exempting certain popular accounts from its platform rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Facebook has constructed a content review system known as “XCheck” that privileges…

Tech and Gaming·US and World News

Texas plastics corporation will pay nearly $3M for violating Clean Air Act

HOUSTON – Formosa Plastics Corporation has agreed to pay $2.85 million in civil penalties and improve its risk management program to resolve alleged violations of the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions of the…

Jury Convicts Foreign Service Officer and Former Spouse for Obtaining U.S. Citizenship by Fraud

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal jury convicted a California woman and Russian-born man on Friday on charges of conspiracy and obtaining U.S. citizenship by fraud. According to court records and evidence presented at…

Methamphetamine trafficking sends Belt man to prison

GREAT FALLS — A Belt man who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine in Cascade County was sentenced today to 38 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, Acting…

Navajo woman sentenced to 19 years in prison for manslaughter in Indian Country

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Trudy Martinez, 30, of Bread Springs, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced on Sept. 10 in federal court to 19 years in…

High-Ranking Member of Los Zetas Cartel Sentenced in Eastern District of Texas to a Term of Life Imprisonment

PLANO, Texas – A Mexican national and high-ranking member of the Los Zetas cartel received a life sentence for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney…

Beloit Man Sentenced to 4 Years for Illegal Gun Possession

MADISON, WIS. – Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Fabian Jones, 29, Beloit, Wisconsin was sentenced on Friday, September 10 by Chief U.S.…

Black Miami Nurse threatened to kill Kamala Harris: She ain’t really black

Miami, Florida – Thirty-nine-year-old Niviane Petit Phelps, of Miami-Dade County, pled guilty on Friday in federal district court to a six count indictment charging her with making threats to kill Vice President…

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