This year marks 50 years since Freedom Summer, when nearly 1,000 volunteers travelled throughout the Southern United States to register black Americans to vote. Many…
A Cleveland utilities worker was arrested on Thursday in connection with a massive FBI drug investigation. On Wednesday, 92 people were indicted in Operation Fox Hound, which authorities call one of northern Ohio’s largest heroin busts. FBI special agent Vicki Anderson said 80 of the suspects have been arrested so far. Public utilities custodial […]
Two classmates of Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and a third person face federal charges in connection with the April 15 attack, federal law enforcement sources said Wednesday. Boston police announced the arrests Wednesday morning, adding that there was “no threat to the public.” They were expected to appear before a federal judge Wednesday […]
Two Chicago men have been charged with the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old high school honor student who was gunned down at a Kenwood Park late last month only days after marching at President Obama’s inauguration. Micheail Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, each were charged Monday with one count of first-degree murder and two […]
Four Southern California men have been charged with plotting to kill Americans overseas and in the United States by joining al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, federal officials said Monday. The defendants were arrested for plotting to bomb government facilities and public places after federal authorities uncovered their plans to engage in “violent jihad,” FBI […]
former deputy auditor for the Cuyahoga County Auditor’s Office and one of his acquaintances have been indicted on corruption charges connected to Jimmy Dimora and Frank Russo. Samir Mohammad, who worked in the auditors office in that position from April 15, 2004 until sometime in 2010, and Hamdi “Sam” Qasem are accused of using the […]
former deputy auditor for the Cuyahoga County Auditor’s Office and one of his acquaintances have been indicted on corruption charges connected to Jimmy Dimora and Frank Russo. Samir Mohammad, who worked in the auditors office in that position from April 15, 2004 until sometime in 2010, and Hamdi “Sam” Qasem are accused of using the […]
A mother has been arrested for repeatedly poisoning her daughter in a warped bid to get doctors to pay more attention to her. Blanca Montano is said to have made her seven-month old girl so sick she was admitted to hospital. She then poisoned her nine times as she lay on the ward. Doctors became […]
A mother has been arrested for repeatedly poisoning her daughter in a warped bid to get doctors to pay more attention to her. Blanca Montano is said to have made her seven-month old girl so sick she was admitted to hospital. She then poisoned her nine times as she lay on the ward. Doctors became […]
