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In a recent Windsor Star news story, reporter Trevor Wilhelm, covering the opening of a coroner’s inquest into the death of Chad Romanick, quoted the widow speaking of the “gentle, patient, thoughtful” man who developed a drug addiction and was depressed and suicidal. Romanick was accused of attempted murder and killed himself when police showed […]
New York has a $237 billion state budget, three weeks late. Lawmakers added $4 billion in spending above the $233 billion Gov. Hochul proposed in January.
Stephen Colbert is taking his “Late Show” out of its storied New York
Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More
Auditors said the Department of Human Services may have flouted a state law when it rushed to launch a federally funded cash assistance program for low-income Georgians shortly before Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection in 2022.
ECTOR COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- We're learning more about an Ector County murder suspect accused of killing a 75-year-old man, stealing multiple vehicles, and leading law enforcement on a multi-county manhunt earlier this week. 26-year-old Trevor James Myrick, of Hobbs, New Mexico, was killed in an officer involved shooting Tuesday afternoon in Irion County, about five []
Conventional political wisdom dictates that Republicans have no shot at securing the support of the vast majority of labor unions. But a few cracks are starting to appear in the union love affair with the Democratic Party and offer the GOP a unique opportunity. This week, Axios reported that the political action committee associated with […]
Athens, Georgia, Mayor Kelly Girtz (D) is fighting a local recall effort against him after the murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley in February. Following Riley's murder, Girtz defended sanctuary city policies in private emails.
I have badly underestimated Donald Trump. Thursday was the day that his justices — it turns out that they are indeed his justices on the Supreme Court, just as he claimed — got it through my thick head: Trump is not just competent but masterful. He is not just capable, he is supreme. Because Trump is clumsy at his alleged crimes, surrounding himself with flagrant thugs, telling obvious lies, leaving prolific trails of damning evidence, offering ridiculous defenses for indefensible conduct, I had...
A strong police presence has remained in Millfield today after a man died from his injuries following an alleged serious assault. Northumbria Police, the North East Ambulance Service and the Great North Air Ambulance were call called to Lily Street around 8.40am on Wednesday, April 25. A man in his 40s was taken to hospital with ‘serious injuries consistent with having been assaulted with a blunt instrument’. He sadly died in hospital in the early hours of Thursday, April 25. A male suspect,...
Stephen Colbert is taking his show on the road for the first time. The destination is Chicago during the Democratic National Convention this summer. Colbert told the audience of "The Late Show" on Wednesday that the show would be broadcast from Chicago's storied Auditorium Theater from Aug. 19 to 22 on the CBS Television Network."This is exciting; summer is around the corner, and so is the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois," Colbert said. "It should be a fun time because...