Crime
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Social media figure gets home detention in Capitol riot case
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - A pro-Trump social media influencer who posted video of himself at the U.S. Capitol during last year's riot was sentenced on Monday to three months of home detention aft...
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Syria Kurdish forces close in on IS-controlled prison wing
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - BEIRUT (AP) - U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters deployed inside a prison in northeast Syria on Monday, closing in on the facility's last wing controlled by militants f...
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PG&E's criminal probation to end amid ongoing safety worries
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Pacific Gas & Electric is poised to emerge from five years of criminal probation, despite worries that nation's largest utility remains too dangerou...
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In deadly start to year, 3 journalists killed in Mexico
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - A journalist has been killed the northern Mexico border city of Tijuana - the second in the city in a week and the third in Mexico this month. Mexico ...
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Lawsuit: 1st Wyoming Black sheriff fires deputy for racism
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming's first Black sheriff last year fired a white deputy who is accused of tormenting a Black subordinate for years with racist name-calling th...
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Spanish monarch's sister and husband break up after 25 years
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - MADRID (AP) - The sister of Spain's King Felipe VI, Cristina de Borbón, and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, are announcing the end of their marriage after nearly 25 yea...
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Judges approve special grand jury in Georgia election probe
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Judges have approved a request for a special grand jury by the Georgia prosecutor who's investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others br...
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Avenatti cast as both thief, generous lawyer at NYC trial
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - California lawyer Michael Avenatti stole nearly $300,000 in book proceeds from porn star Stormy Daniels, a prosecutor told jurors as the once high-flying...
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Belgium OKs 4th vaccine shot for immunocompromised people
Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - BRUSSELS (AP) - Belgium's health ministers have approved a recommendation to use a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine to better protect people with a weakened immune sys...
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1-year prison term for Westmont orthopedic practice worker who wrote fake prescriptionsJan 24, 2022 12:00 am - A former administrative assistant at an orthopedic practice in Westmont has been sentenced to one year in federal prison for writing fraudulent opioid prescriptions for ...