Frank Mooney
Leaders of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s labor union said for a long time that the department did not have enough money to keep the city safe, long before the terrible fire in Pacific Palisades. “It’s a damn shame,” Escobar said at a city Fire Commission meeting in February, “that it took this incident, the … Read more
A New Jersey police officer who wasn’t on duty was charged and jailed after she reportedly broke into a house and abused two people last week. The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said that 32-year-old Rebecca Sayegh was charged with home invasion murder and two counts of assault. She was also charged with terroristic threats, criminal … Read more
Texas hospitals had to pay almost $122 million in medical bills for illegal aliens in one month last year. That was the first month the state tracked the numbers. In August, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an order telling the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC) to keep track of how many “individuals not … Read more
The lawyer for the boat driver who crashed into a ship off the coast of Clearwater, Florida, on Sunday, killing one and hurting ten others, says that his client did not leave the scene of the accident. The family of the victim is now demanding answers about the investigation, which has not yet led to … Read more
CLOUDSIDE, Ohio — A split Ohio Supreme Court decided on Tuesday that Ohio can keep its ban on gender-affirming care for children in place while an appeal is being heard. Transgender girls and women are also not allowed to play sports for girls by law. A lower court’s decision from March had stopped the 2023 … Read more
Police say that four people were killed Monday when a car crashed into an after-school camp in a small village in Illinois. Illinois State Police (ISP) say the fatal accident happened at 3:20 p.m. when a car went off the road for no clear reason and crashed through a building at the YNOT After School … Read more
Bryan Kohberger’s lawyers asked the judge in Idaho to take away the death sentence as a possible punishment if he is found guilty, but the judge said no. Four college students, Kaylee Goncalves (21), Xana Kernodle (20), Madison Mogen (21), and Ethan Chapin (20), died. Kohberger is charged with first-degree murder in their deaths. It … Read more
A man from Inglewood remembers being attacked outside his home and being scared for his life while being yelled at racial slurs. At 6:40 a.m. on April 15, 41-year-old Javier Ibarra was on his way to work when he opened a gate outside his home on the 200 block of West Hyde Park Boulevard. Surveillance … Read more
A California county superintendent said that members of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) school board should bring lawyers to meetings, take classes on ethics, and get training in how to deal with conflicts after video of them using “antisemitic tropes” at a recent tense meeting surfaced. “Over the past few months, my office … Read more
Thousands of pensioners across the UK have been underpaid a staggering £804.7 million in state pension benefits, according to the latest update from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Since launching a nationwide review in January 2021, the DWP has identified nearly 131,000 underpayment cases — with some individuals owed as much as £12,000. … Read more