News Stories from October 14, 2021
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Homelessness, police, Amazon top Seattle mayoral debate
Oct 14, 2021 10:35 PM - The two candidates for Seattle mayor agreed that tackling an ongoing homelessness crisis was the top issue facing the the Northwest's largest city, but they differed sharply about how to pay for that
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Join 'Search for Spiders' at Oct. 23 nature program in ElginOct 14, 2021 10:26 PM - What a great time of the year to look for little, eight-legged creatures! They're creepy, they're crawly, and they're cool!
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Made in India virus kits boost testing, and local industry
Oct 14, 2021 10:16 PM - Soon after the pandemic began, India's government, with funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, tasked the country's most advanced bioscience innovation hub - the publicly funded Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, or C-CAMP - with quickly finding a way to locally produce virus test kits and their components
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Ex-Dominion worker's attorneys fight for defamation suit
Oct 14, 2021 9:51 PM - Attorneys for a former security director of Dominion Voting Systems say President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, campaign attorneys and conservative media outlets recklessly spread an uncorroborated report that the director tried to fix the 2020 election for Joe Biden
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Murdaugh charged with taking insurance money in maid's death
Oct 14, 2021 9:30 PM - A prominent South Carolina lawyer has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper
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Robert Durst sentenced to life in best friend's murder
Oct 14, 2021 9:28 PM - New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more that two decades ago
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Bill Clinton in hospital for non-COVID-related infection
Oct 14, 2021 9:21 PM - A spokesman for Bill Clinton says the former president is being treated in a Southern California hospital for a non-COVID-related infection
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Republican congressional candidate switches races, will try to unseat Rep. Lauren UnderwoodOct 14, 2021 8:55 PM - A Republican congressional candidate who had been seeking Illinois' 16th District seat is changing races and will pursue the 14th District seat now held by two-term Democrat Lauren Underwood of Naperville.
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California highway reopens but fire still a threat to homes
Oct 14, 2021 8:26 PM - A key Southern California highway closed for days because of a wildfire was reopened Thursday evening but authorities warned that flames still posed a threat to remote properties in a coastal mountain range
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Miami commissioners vote to end police chief's stormy tenure
Oct 14, 2021 7:55 PM - Miami city commissioners have unanimously voted to fire Police Chief Art Acevedo after a short and stormy tenure in which he clashed with city officials and members of his own police force
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