Frank Mooney
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low-income families buy food. In Texas, Florida, the rest of the 50 states, Washington, DC, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands, the most a family of eight can get in May 2025 is $1,756. Different states have different requirements for who can apply, how to apply, and when to … Read more
It was just approved that eligible American families, especially those who live in a certain state, will get a package of tax breaks and extra money. The “Empire State’s” FY 2026 state budget, which was passed in April 2025, includes policies that are meant to make taxes easier for people to pay. Concerns about the … Read more
The New York Police Department said that a fight over a bus seat turned deadly over Mother’s Day weekend and killed a father of three girls. Several local news sites, citing the NYPD, said that the fatal stabbing victim was identified as 41-year-old Alvin Francis of Queens, New York. Todman-Francis told the New York Daily … Read more
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has stopped a program that was going to stop the number of geese in the area by capturing and blasting them to death. In a letter sent to Democratic lawmakers on May 9, M. Scott Bowen, director of the state office, told them about the decision. In April, Sen. … Read more
Police say a man killed his family with a gun, called 911, and then killed himself Monday morning. The bodies of a couple and their two young children were found in a house in northwest Montana. Kalispell is a city of just under 30,000 people that is in the shadow of Glacier National Park. Police … Read more
The wreckage of the house was where the bodies of a man and a woman were found. Their names have not been released. The Gloucester County prosecutor’s office told WPVI in Philadelphia that the deaths are “suspicious,” but they wouldn’t say more. Authorities say the huge explosion and fire in New Jersey on Sunday that … Read more
A sudden blast woke up a sleepy New Jersey neighborhood and killed two. Around 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, May 11, police were called to a house on Tranquility Court in Washington Township. After the property was destroyed, two people were taken from the scene of the crime to safety. ABC 6, NBC 10, … Read more
On Friday, May 9, an alligator was seen fighting with an orange lawn chair on a resident’s front porch. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office and other local officials were called to take the alligator away. (Surprise!) The alligator lost more than just the fight. Doorbell cameras in the homes in Fort Myers’ Tortuga neighborhood caught … Read more
Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security and a former governor of South Dakota, was met with opposition when she was presented with an honorary doctorate at Dakota State University in Madison on Saturday, coincidentally the day that the university was holding its commencement ceremonies. The nomination of Noem as this year’s commencement speaker was … Read more
During the course of a weeklong operation, officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and removal officers in Houston made 422 arrests of individuals suspected of being illegal immigrants. The operation targeted some of the most dangerous criminals, including one illegal immigrant who was wanted in Colombia on charges of murder. ICE officials were responsible for … Read more