A former finance manager of a nonprofit organization that assists West Virginia disaster victims was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison for the theft of $871,000 from the group. Benjamin Cisco, 30, of Charleston was sentenced in federal court for his May 2023 guilty plea to two …
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Things are looking up for one Nashville baking company, all thanks to an innovative CEO and trays of warm biscuits. Like so many companies across the nation, The Tennessee Bun Company’s sales started to plummet in 2008. The outlook was grim; CEO Cordia Harrington was getting ready to cut hours …
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Raymond Hosier is wearing his purple rosary beads to school again. A day after a federal judge ordered a New York middle school to reinstate the seventh-grader, who was suspended for wearing the Catholic prayer beads last month, the 13-year-old Schenectady boy is proudly displaying them again. He wears them …
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SALINAS, Calif. – A Northern California man has filed a legal claim over a police baton beating captured on video and posted online. The Monterey Herald (http://tinyurl.com/o8ss7o7 ) reported Thursday that Jose Velasco is demanding unspecified damages from the city of Salinas, California. If the city denies the claim, Velasco …
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BILLINGS, Mont. – An escalating legal fight over a $59 million federal dam project on Montana’s lower Yellowstone River could decide the fate of an endangered, dinosaur-like fish population that has been blocked from its spawning grounds for decades. Construction on the dam northeast of Glendive is set to begin …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A medical examiner has ruled as accidental the death of a man who fell from an elevated tram at Orlando International Airport last month. The medical examiner in Orlando released a report Monday showing that 32-year-old Adam Lee died from blunt trauma to the head. Lee was …
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BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana’s attorney general is showing no signs of backing off his effort to retry the last imprisoned member of the “Angola Three.” Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said Wednesday that he is convinced Albert Woodfox is guilty of the 1972 slaying of Louisiana State Penitentiary prison guard …
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BALTIMORE – Authorities say a mother placed her living toddler in a swing at a Maryland park one morning and he remained there until he was found dead of cold and thirst two days later when someone spotted the mother pushing her lifeless child in the swing. The Charles County …
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PONTIAC, Mich. – A Michigan judge has sent three children to juvenile detention for refusing to have lunch or talk to their father as required under a court-ordered custody agreement. Oakland County Judge Lisa Gorcyca (GOHR’-sih-uh) says the children, aged 15, 10 and 9 years, can see their father but …
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Authorities want to talk to a man who donned a fairly realistic bear costume — head and all — and wore it when harassing a bear and two sows trying to feed on pink salmon in an Alaska river. The incident happened Monday on the Chilkoot River …
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