WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will be getting back the $75,000 in fines he paid to a Connecticut court for failing to appear at a deposition last month in a lawsuit over his assertions that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a judge has ruled. Relatives […]
John Jacob Astor IV was one of the wealthiest people in the world.Library of Congress / Getty When John Jacob Astor IV died on the Titanic 110 years ago, he was one of the richest people in the world. He built landmark New York hotels like the Astoria Hotel and the St. Regis. Astor’s wife, […]
Days before his birthday in August 2019, an employee at a Kentucky-based laboratory asked his office manager to not arrange a celebration for his birthday. It wasn’t the fear of getting older, but rather an anxiety disorder that can spur “panic attacks in stressful situations,” according to court documents. The employee, who was hired in […]
The Russian missile cruiser “Moskva” before it sank.Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press The Moskva, Russia’s Black Sea fleet flagship, sank on Thursday after an explosion. Russian state media reported in 2020 that the ship was due to take a holy relic on board. It’s unclear whether the relic — a piece of the “true cross” — was […]
Editorial cartoon Vote ‘no’ on rezoning golf course The Riviera Golf Club consists of several non-contiguous parcels of property that wind their way through the heart of the 55+ community of Riviera Golf Estates. As originally intended, the golf course acts as a flood plain for the surrounding community. The owners of the golf course […]
NEW YORK — A trillion dollars: That’s how much money famed investor Bill Browder believes Vladimir Putin and Russian oligarchs have stolen from the Russian people since the fall of the Soviet Union. “And that was money that was supposed to be spent on health care and education, roads and services,” Browder said at a […]
A man in India has died by self-immolation after his boss reportedly demanded to have sex with his wife in exchange for a transfer. Gokul Prasad, a 45-year-old technical lineman, was feeling distressed after his boss, junior engineer Nagendra Kumar, offered to process Prasad’s transfer if he sent “his wife [over] for a night.” Both […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday to forcibly kissing a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018 in a deal that is likely to keep him out of jail. Gooding also publicly apologized for the first time to two other women who accused him of similar behavior in separate […]
Garry Chadwell, the athletics director and assistant principal at Kenwood High School, was arrested at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in connection with the statutory rape of a teenager, according to the Montgomery County booking log. Chadwell was booked into the Montgomery County jail Tuesday evening and later released on a $30,000 bond, according to the booking […]
University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax has sparked online outrage again for her comments about Asian immigrants. Wax, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Eastern Europe, criticized immigrants who criticize the U.S. during an interview with conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson on his Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Today” on April 8. The […]