WASHINGTON – The White House, State Department, and Capitol were all affected by reports of widespread power outages across Washington and its suburbs Tuesday afternoon. The utility company Pepco said it was investigating the outage reports. Spokesman Sean Kelly said he did not have details about locations or how many …
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DALLAS – Dallas has a new vault to store historic city documents, including items from the 1963 JFK assassination. Mayor Mike Rawlings helped dedicate the storage area in the basement of Dallas City Hall on Wednesday. It has protective lighting, controls for temperature and humidity, and more than doubles the …
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ATLANTA – A teenager is hospitalized with burns covering 70 percent of his body after two other teens attacked him with a pot of boiling rice while he was sleeping. WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/1JAp6dz) reports the 17-year-old victim is in a medically-induced coma in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta …
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DENVER – Denver impresario Lu Vason has died, leaving a legacy of creating opportunities for black cowboys and of celebrating a little-known aspect of Western history. The 76-year-old Vason, who founded the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo three decades ago, died Sunday in a Denver hospital of heart complications, family spokesman …
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CHICAGO – Federal records indicate the judge overseeing the hush-money case of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert donated $1,500 to the then-Illinois congressman’s re-election campaigns. Federal Election Commission records show Thomas M. Durkin gave $500 to the “Hastert for Congress” campaign in 2002, and $1,000 in 2004. Durkin was …
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With less than two months until the end of the year, the Biden administration is running out of time to win the reauthorization of a spy program it says is vital to preventing terrorism, catching spies and disrupting cyberattacks. The tool, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, will …
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A couple from Chicago “forced” four children to help them steal nearly $1,000 in merchandise from a suburban Macy’s store that has been an ongoing target of retail theft this holiday season, authorities said Wednesday. Angelo Almaraz, 26, of Chicago, and his 32-year-old domestic partner Thalia Morales, of Hammond, Indiana, …
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The explosion of online antisemitism after Hamas attacked Israel is having real-world consequences, warned one tech expert, who emphasized that social media companies were unprepared to respond to Jewish hate. “Oct. 7 was the largest hijacking of social media platforms by a terrorist organization,” said Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor, the founder …
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A suspect accused of six murders across Texas during a day-long shooting spree was previously charged with assaulting a family member and bailed out by a non-profit progressive group, according to local reports. Shane James, 34, is accused of killing six people and injuring others in Bexar County and Austin. …
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New research suggests that holding students back a grade is helpful, but opposition subsists, an education columnist in the Washington Post wrote. “Most of the educators I know don’t like grade retention — the term of art for holding a student back. They prefer to help students improve without squashing …
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