JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — After being gang-raped by armed men while collecting firewood, the 28-year-old tried in vain to get help. Some clinics were closed, others told her to return later and she had no money to access a hospital. Five months after the assault, she lay on a mat in a displacement camp […]
Read MorePembroke – A 61-year-old Laurentian Valley man who repeatedly entered his neighbor’s garage to steal beer and other items on his property was sentenced to four months house confinement including wearing a GPS ankle monitor to ensure he never step foot on his neighbour’s property for the foreseeable future. Terry Berryman stood before Justice Jeffery […]
Read MoreBALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge is considering whether to temporarily block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Social Security Administration systems that hold sensitive data on millions of Americans. A group of labor unions and retirees sued the Trump administration and asked the court to issue an emergency order limiting DOGE’s access […]
Read MoreHamas said on Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual nationals who died in captivity in Gaza. The Palestinian militant group’s offer appears aimed at keeping up momentum on negotiations over the future of the Gaza ceasefire and the release of all […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judges in two separate lawsuits refused Friday to order the Trump administration to not destroy U.S. Agency for International Development records after it said it has disposed of only old or unneeded documents and is no longer destroying records anyway. Both cases involve the destruction of classified documents as part of […]
Read MoreMcALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has launched a review of organizations that provide temporary housing and other aid to migrants, suggesting they may have violated a law used to prosecute smugglers. The Department of Homeland Security has “significant concerns” that federal grants used to address a surge of migration under former President Joe […]
Read MoreSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A representative for the estate of actor Gene Hackman is seeking to block the public release of autopsy and investigative reports, especially photographs and police body-camera video, related to the recent deaths of Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa after their partially mummified bodies were discovered at their New Mexico home […]
Read MoreBritish Columbia’s government is proposing giving cabinet broad-reaching emergency powers to respond to what Premier David Eby calls the “human-caused disaster” coming in like a freight train from the United States. A bill, tabled in the legislature Thursday, gives cabinet the power to implement charges on vehicles using B.C. infrastructure, such as highways and ferries, […]
Read MoreA B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted production orders to name cryptocurrency account holders to a man who claims he lost $26 million in bitcoin in a fraud connected to a person who claimed to live in Vancouver. The court ruling posted Thursday was issued last month involving Lixiao Wang, who petitioned the court for […]
Read MoreSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Attorneys for the daughter of a U.S.-sanctioned Russian billionaire asked a U.S. federal court Tuesday for access to the financial records of officials including the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, whose administration is under scrutiny for seizing and selling the family’s 265-foot (81-meter) megayacht and not releasing documents […]
Read MoreWhen Congress pushed ahead last year with adding 10 new daily flights to Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration had data showing an unnerving number of near misses in the already-crowded skies — something lawmakers apparently did not know. The FAA, which manages the nation’s airspace and oversees aviation safety, had data […]
Read MoreA Valleyview library board member has resigned, stating the board is abusing its power, lacking transparency, dismissing public input, miscommunicating and intimidating the public. Kelli Reimer resigned as a trustee on social media on March 4, after almost 15 years serving the library in different capacities. “Despite my commitment to advocating for library users and […]
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