Americans anticipate 45% dip in holiday shopping in 2021

Rising costs and tighter family budgets are very much on the minds of American consumers as the holidays and seasonal Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales approach. A new survey finds that…

Business News

Alburgh Man Sentenced to 15 Years’ Imprisonment for Child Exploitation Offenses

The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on November 23, 2021, Randy Sheltra, 59, of Alburgh, Vermont, was sentenced in United States District Court in…

Florida Tax Preparer Charged in Connection with $7 Million Loan Fraud Scheme

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced that Barrie Osborne, 76, of Celebration, Florida, was charged…

Informational: Federal Court arraignments

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The…

Florida Tax Preparer Charged in Connection with $7 Million Loan Fraud Scheme

A Florida tax preparer was charged in an indictment filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania yesterday with scheming to fraudulently obtain more than $7 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans,…

Texas School District’s CRT Course For Teachers Purports ‘American Is Oppressive,’ ‘White Supremacy Is Everywhere’

Teacher training at a Texas public school district teach the tenets of Critical Race Theory, according to a document obtained by Fox News and videos provided by an education activist. Fort Worth…

School and Education News·US and World News

‘Maybe You’ll Need To Report A Relative To The FBI!’ An Atlantic Writer’s Advice For Dealing With Conservative Family On Thanksgiving

A Wednesday article in The Atlantic urged readers to use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to “deprogram” their conservative relatives. “Maybe you’ll plant the seed, sow just a little doubt about whatever Tucker…

US and World News

Left-Wing Billionaire Pierre Omidyar Is Funding An Anti-Facebook Campaign Targeting Online ‘Misinformation’

Left-wing billionaire Pierre Omidyar is funding a constellation of advocacy organizations and campaigns targeting tech giant Facebook for its alleged harms to users, including the proliferation of “hate speech” and “misinformation” on…

US and World News

WaPo Says Americans Should Consider Adding Crickets To Thanksgiving Dinner, Ditching Turkey For Lab-Grown Meat

An article in The Washington Post Wednesday argued that climate change could result in replacing Thanksgiving staples with lab grown meat, plant-based meat alternatives and crickets. Hot summers, wildfires, droughts and flooding…

Food & Dining·US and World News

Twice-Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced to 40 Years for Creating and Trafficking in Images and Videos of Child Sexual Abuse

INDIANAPOLIS – An Indianapolis man was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a Michigan teen and trafficking in child sexual abuse images and videos. He was previously convicted…

Government News

San Diego Resident Sentenced to Nearly 14 Years for Distributing Fentanyl that Resulted in 18-Year-Old’s Death

Assistant U. S. Attorneys Owen Roth and Lawrence A. Casper (619) 546-7710 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY—November 22, 2021 SAN DIEGO—San Diego resident Brandon Jacob Shepherd was sentenced in federal court today to thirteen…

Government News

Woman wins lottery for third time, this time $50k

Talk about luck! A Montgomery County player just visited Maryland Lottery headquarters for a third time to claim her third $50,000 prize. The 61-year-old twice won that amount playing scratch-offs in 2018…

Lottery Results·Maryland News

Daughter listens to dad and wins $30k lottery prize

“You should try playing it, you never know what could happen,” said the father of a New Carrollton woman. She listened to her dad’s suggestion to give Racetrax a chance and wound up $30,734…

Lottery Results·Maryland News

Tesla’s ‘Gigafactory’ In Texas Will Cost Over $1 Billion

Tesla’s new vehicle factory in Austin, Texas, is racking up a considerable price tag. The facility, which Tesla calls the “Gigafactory,” is estimated to cost roughly $1.06 billion, with much of the factory…

US and World News

Biden Admin Invites Taiwan To ‘Summit For Democracy,’ China Calls It A ‘Mistake’

The Biden administration extended an invitation for its “Summit for Democracy” to Taiwan, upsetting China, which views the island as its own. The list of invitees for the summit, which will be…

In the News

NASA Launches Kamikaze Rocket To Collide With Threatening Asteroid

NASA and Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, launched a test rocket designed to crash into asteroids that may threaten the existence of life on Earth. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a…

US and World News

Tech Giant To Invest $17 Billion In Texas Chip Project

Tech giant Samsung is poised to announce a $17 billion investment in a semiconductor manufacturing plant located in Taylor, Texas. The facility is estimated to create 1,800 jobs and will begin producing…

US and World News

Freeburg Couple Sentenced for Defrauding Elderly Family Member

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Ronald Speiser, 81, and Jean Speiser, 81, of Freeburg, Illinois, will spend their next year in home confinement making restitution payments after defrauding an elderly family…

Government News

Fugitive sought for months found by Levy County deputies

Deputies had been searching for Philip Swanson (4/11/81) of Williston for months. Swanson had several active warrants for his arrest based on a 2020 arrest for drugs and domestic violence and had…

Police Blotter

Rosebud Woman Charged with Assaulting a Federal Officer

Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer. Kendall Logan,…

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