Cresco Man Will Spend a Decade in Federal Prison for “Tormenting” Minnesota Woman for Two Years

A Cresco man who cyberstalked a Minnesota woman for nearly two years was sentenced on July 30, 2021, to ten years in federal prison. Michael Shawn McGuire, age 58, from Cresco, Iowa,…

GOP lawmakers claim ‘conclusive’ evidence that COVID-19 was lab leaked

Andrew Kerr The virus that causes COVID-19 entered the human population due to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sometime before mid-September 2019, according to a new report from…

Health and Wellness

U.S. to allow thousands of Afghan allies, families special visa to escape Taliban retribution

Kaylee Greenlee The Biden administration expanded a program helping Afghan allies leave the country as Taliban violence increases, the State Department said Monday. The program was expanded to a “Priority 2” designation…

US and World News

New York public schools are ‘food shaming’ students who can’t pay lunch bills Gov says

NEW YORK, NY – As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many families in New York are struggling to pay their bills. One of those bills is their child’s school lunch meal.…

New York News·School and Education News

Murphy pledges funding to complete Toms River Field of Dreams

TOMS RIVER – Governor Murphy, the Kane family, and a bipartisan group of local leaders today visited and toured the future site of the “Toms River Field of Dreams”, a soon-to-be state-of-the-art, fully-accessible,…

New Jersey News·Ocean County News

Pete Buttigieg visits Baltimore to visit Port, see federally funded project

ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today welcomed U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to Maryland’s Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore. During the visit, the governor touted the Port as an example of successful…

Maryland News·Politics

American gymnast Sunisa Lee wins individual gold medal

Sebastian Hughes on July 29, 2021 American gymnast Sunisa “Suni” Lee won gold in the women’s individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, ESPN reported. Lee received a total score of…

Local Sports News

SNL comedian Michael Che joked about Simone Bale after she comes out about being sexually abused by Larry Nassar

Steven Hall on July 30, 2021 Michael Che, a Saturday Night Live comedian, is receiving criticism after reposting jokes about Simone Biles and Larry Nassar, the former gymnastics doctor who sexually abused her…

Entertainment News·Local Sports News·Politics

Fauci’s Agency Dumped Millions Into Chinese Entities To Study Infectious Diseases Since 2012, Federal Data Shows

Andrew Kerr on July 28, 2021 27 of the Chinese organizations, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, received funds from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIH subagency to perform research on infectious diseases, the data…

Politics

Cook County Man Sentenced to 64 months in Prison for Possessing Firearms as a Convicted Felon

URBANA, Ill. – A Dolton, Ill., man, Jerry Caldwell, 59, of the 14000 block of Shepard Drive has been sentenced to 64 months in the Bureau of Prisons for possessing firearms as…

Will an unprovoked bull attack you?

The city of Pamplona would have been packed with thousands of visitors last month, but for the second consecutive year, the annual “Running of the Bulls” was canceled due to COVID-19. That…

Pets and Animals

10 Additional Defendants Federally Indicted for Roles in Heroin and Fentanyl Distribution Scheme

WILMINGTON, Del. –David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a Superseding Indictment was recently unsealed charging 14 individuals with conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl and…

Winslow Man Sentenced for Benefits Fraud

BANGOR, Maine: A Winslow man was sentenced today in federal court for Social Security fraud, health care fraud and theft of government money, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. U.S. District…

D.C. Mayor retreats on previous “Defund the Police” stance pledges to hire more cops now

WASHINGTON, DC – The Defund the Police movement launched by Democrats in America has failed. It’s over. It didn’t work. In fact, in lead to more violent crime than at almost any…

Police Blotter

HSI and Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office seize 2 domain names attempting to impersonate Walmart website and purporting to sell COVID-19 treatment or prevention drugs

BALTIMORE – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland seized fraudulent websites that contained numerous uses of the legitimate Walmart trademarked logo and appearing to mimic a legitimate Walmart website. The…

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