Category: National News
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Washington Man Gets 8+ Years In Prison For Raping Child While On Trip To Canada
A 63-year-old Port Townsend, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 102 months in prison and ten years of supervised [...]
Baltimore Struggles To Prosecute Felonies As Attorneys Keep Quitting
Laurel Duggan
The Baltimore state’s attorney’s office is facing widespread resignations as it struggles to prosecute the city’s massive backlog o [...]
AWOL: FEMA Denies Texas Gov. Abbott’s Emergency Declaration Over Border Crisis
Kaylee Greenlee
The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s request to declare a federal emergency in the s [...]
Bridge Operators Must Promote ‘Race And Social Justice’ To Get A Job In Seattle
Laurel Duggan
The job responsibilities of a bridge operator for the Seattle Department of Transportation officially include promoting equity, dive [...]
Russian Hackers Behind SolarWinds Attack Are Targeting The Supply Chain, Microsoft Says
Ailan Evans
The same group of Russian hackers behind the December 2020 SolarWinds attack are targeting companies in the U.S. technology supply ch [...]
Louisiana Man Heads To Federal Prison After Stealing FBI Car
Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Timothy Brian King, 34, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced this week by United [...]
West Virginia Man Sentenced To 14 Years, Offering $100 To Child For Sex
A West Virgina man was sentenced Friday to 168 months in federal prison for a sex crimes against a minor.
George Albert Romer, Jr., 63, of Buckhan [...]
Frontier Airlines Denies Boarding For Florida Family Taking Child To Boston For Medical Care Over Mask
By LUCAS WALL
Frontier Airlines, on Saturday morning, refused to allow a family of four to board a flight from Orlando to Hartford, Connecticut be [...]
Maryland Twin Brothers, Both Sex Offenders, Get 10 Years In Federal Prison For Possession Of Child Porn
U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander on Friday, sentenced Matthew Curtis and Tyler Curtis, ages 24, both of Hampstead, Maryland, each to 10 years i [...]
Fiscal Year 2021 Becomes Third-Highest Year On Record In Border Encounters, Reaching 1.7 Million
Kaylee Greenlee
Border officials encountered the third-highest number of migrants at the southern border on record, reaching more than 1.7 m [...]