A suspect in a break-in in Tulsa, Oklahoma, drowned in a pond while running from police on Thursday, the Tulsa Police Department said. At about 4:30 a.m., Tulsa police officers responded to an alarm going off at the clubhouse of an apartment building, the police department said on Facebook. When …
Read More »Mortgage rates blow past 7% for first time in two decades
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate topped 7% for the first time in more than two decades this week, a result of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes intended to tame inflation not seen in some 40 years. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the key …
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A Texas mother of a toddler, scraping by on her husband’s income, was desperate to return to work but struggling to afford child care. A young Florida warehouse worker had barely left behind a turbulent past of homelessness and abuse only to be mired in debt. When both women learned …
Read More »Son found guilty of hiring hitman to kill alleged mobster father at McDonald’s drive
A New York man was convicted Wednesday of orchestrating the murder of his father in what prosecutors said was a plot to take over the older man’s lucrative real estate empire. A federal jury found Anthony Zottola Sr. and an associate, Himen Ross, guilty of conspiracy and murder-for-hire in the …
Read More »Justice Department recommends 6 months in prison for Steve Bannon for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena
Washington — The Justice Department on Monday recommended Steve Bannon, the right-wing radio host and ally of former President Donald Trump, be sentenced to six months in prison and fined $200,000 after he was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House select …
Read More »Inflation stayed uncomfortably high in September
Inflation continued to wallop Americans in September, with a key measure of price increases hitting a 40-year high last month, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. Core inflation, which tracks average price increases except for volatile food and energy costs, rose 6.6% over the past 12 months — its highest …
Read More »Former San Antonio officer who shot teen in McDonald’s parking lot arrested
James Brennand — a former San Antonio Police Department officer who shot and critically wounded a teenager who was eating in his car in a McDonald’s parking lot — has been arrested and charged with assault. Brennand was fired from the force on Oct. 4, two days after the shooting. …
Read More »Homicides rose in 2021, but FBI data incomplete
The number of murders reported in the United States ticked up last year, the FBI said Wednesday, but the bureau warned that changes to its data collection program prevented nearly half of law enforcement agencies — including police in New York City and Los Angeles — from turning over their …
Read More »Seattle software engineer gets probation for 2019 Capital One hack
A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to time served and five years of probation. U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik said sentencing former Amazon software engineer Paige Thompson to time …
Read More »Army major and wife indicted for conspiring to give Russia medical secrets
An Army physician and her anesthesiologist wife have been indicted for conspiring to give Russia medical information to help its invasion of Ukraine, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Maj. Jamie Lee Henry, a doctor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and her wife Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist in Maryland, told …
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