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By Sarah Varney In January, as Mississippi health officials planned for their incoming shipments of covid-19 vaccine, they assessed the state’s most vulnerable: health care workers, of course, and elderly people in nursing homes. But among those who needed urgent protection from the virus ripping…
Read More High Obesity Rates in Southern States Magnify Covid Threat
The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, Alabama’s second-largest sheriff’s office, and the Mobile County Sheriff, in his official capacity (collectively, MCSO). The lawsuit alleges that MCSO discriminated against current and former female corrections…
Read More DOJ Files Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Against Mobile County Sheriff and Alabama Sheriff’s Office
LOS ANGELAS, Ca. – A Santa Monica man was sentenced Tuesday to 96 months in federal prison for deceiving women he met online and elsewhere into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into his sham companies, and then spending their money on himself. Antonio Mariot…
Read More California Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison, Conning Four Women He Dated into Investing Into Sham Companies
The FBI’s Washington Field Office has released new information and video regarding the pipe bombs placed in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on January 5, 2021, and is seeking additional information from the public. Identifying the person responsible for placing these pipe bombs…
Read More $100,000 Reward For DC Pipe Bomb Suspect, Full Video Release
On September 16, 2012, Mr. Pareshkumar D. Patel, a native of India, was abducted from the Raceway Gas Station he operated along the 5600 block of Jefferson Davis Highway in Chesterfield, Virginia. Mr. Patel’s body was located on September 20, 2012, at the Ancarrow Boat…
Read More FBI Offering $15,000 Reward 2012 Virginia Cold Case Murder
A Montana man pleaded guilty in federal court in the District of North Dakota to a felony charge of obstructing an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proceeding stemming from the 2014 death of an oilfield worker in Williston, North Dakota. Stephan Todd Reisinger, 50,…
Read More Former North Dakota Oilfield Manager Pleads Guilty in Connection with OSHA Worker Fatality Investigation
By Phil Galewitz Last week, as covid vaccine appointment slots were snapped up within an hour at CVS stores in 20 states, slots remained open all day at CVS pharmacies in Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana. The dozens of open appointment slots in the three Southern…
Read More In Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisiana, CVS Vaccine Appointments Go Unfilled
In an indictment unsealed Monday, a federal grand jury in Miami charged a Florida medical doctor and three others for their roles in an alleged scheme to falsify clinical trial data. According to court documents, Dr. Martin Valdes, 64, of Coral Gables, Florida, Fidalgis Font,…
Read More Florida Doctor, Clinic Owner, and Staff Charged with Falsifying Clinical Trial Data
By Blake Farmer As the speed of covid vaccinations picks up, so do the reports of doses going to waste. And it’s more than just a handful at the end of the day because of a few appointment cancellations. Health officials are trying to rein in…
Read More Accidentally Trashed, Thawed or Expired: Reports of COVID Vaccine Spoilage
A corrections officer at the Jackson County Detention Center was charged in federal court today for taking bribes to smuggle illegal drugs to inmates of the facility. Daniel Coach, 26, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City,…
Read More Corrections Officer Charged with Taking Bribes to Smuggle Illegal Drugs to Inmates