Month: November 2021

Adam Hollingsworth, the activist known as the “Dread Head Cowboy,” was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail on a contempt charge for arguing with a Cook County judge. The contempt charge lands a day after Hollingsworth, who is representing himself in his animal cruelty case, had repeatedly talked over Judge Michael McHale and made

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong held a news conference to address recent homicides, the surge in robberies, and the addition of tactical units. Last week, three more people were killed in Oakland bringing the homicide rate to 127 homicides this year. There were 104 homicides at this point last year. OPD

With the recent end of the nearly 14-year conservatorship that oversaw major aspects of her life and career, pop star Britney Spears on Monday extolled the powers of prayer and correct medication. “That beautiful … nice … and warm [expletive] fuzzy feeling when you’ve been waiting patiently for 13 years to be able to live

Bye, N26. We hardly knew you. Photo: Christophe Gateau/dpa (Photo by Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images) The headline above is deliberately provocative: obviously by many yardsticks fintech is continuing to explode like no other business in the world. Yet there’s a strong case to frame 2021 as the year that very dominant companies failed

A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students and wounding six other people, including a teacher, authorities said. Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said at a news conference that he didn’t know what the assailant’s motives were for the attack at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, a

Marcus Lamb, founder of Daystar TV, died Tuesday, the evangelical Christian network announced on Twitter. He was 64. “It’s with a heavy heart we announce that Marcus Lamb, president and founder of Daystar Television Network, went home to be with the Lord this morning,” the announcement read. “The family asks that their privacy be respected

WALNUT CREEK — In response to the recent mass burglary at the downtown Nordstrom , the City Council on Wednesday will consider spending $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to shore up the police department. Most of the funding would go toward paying five additional officers to patrol downtown including the Broadway Plaza luxury

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — A woman testified on Tuesday that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was often in the room when the witness, then just 14, had sexual interactions with the financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell “was very casual,” she told a New York City jury. “Like it was no big

Fox Nation host Lara Logan on Monday compared Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, to Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor widely known for conducting inhumane experiments on prisoners in concentration camps during the Holocaust.  “This is what people say to me, that he doesn’t represent science to them,” Logan said of Fauci

Coronavirus “Bigger the drop during the holiday, bigger the bounce that follows.” Travelers queue up at the south security checkpoint as traffic increases with the approach of the Thanksgiving Day holiday Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, at Denver International Airport in Denver. AP Photo/David Zalubowski In a matter of days, the new COVID-19 variant omicron, which

Germany’s national and state leaders will decide Thursday on what kinds of measures they will implement to curb a recent rise in COVID-19 cases. Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel and her successor, Olaf Scholz, spoke with the country’s 16 governors Tuesday, agreeing that “additional measures” need to be taken. New infections have increased in recent weeks.

Honorary lamplighter Danny Fenster, an American journalist recently freed from prison in Myanmar, lights the center candle in the giant Menorah sculpture in Campus Martius to kick off Chanukah. With him are Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II and Detroit Mayro Mike Duggan. The Menorah in the D 11th annual lighting event in Campus Martius Park

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The young woman who was brutally beaten as a group of Asian American students were attacked aboard a SEPTA train earlier this month is speaking for the first time since the assault. The 18-year-old Central High School student spoke outside the Municipal Services Building in Center City Tuesday afternoon, where people rallied

ROXBURY (CBS) — One person was shot on Rockland Street in Roxbury Tuesday afternoon and has been taken to the hospital. Boston Police said they received a call about a shooting around 1:30 p.m. So far, no arrests have been made. The condition of the person who was shot is also unknown at this time.

(CBS Baltimore) — The supply chain is made up of the many steps that brings a product to a customer. But right now the chain seems to be broken, or at least crimped in places. Store shelves are partly empty, deliveries are delayed, and prices are rising. Bottlenecks at many steps along the way are

(CBS Baltimore) — The supply chain is made up of the many steps that brings a product to a customer. But right now the chain seems to be broken, or at least crimped in places. Store shelves are partly empty, deliveries are delayed, and prices are rising. Bottlenecks at many steps along the way are