Winnsboro mayor faces six fraud counts after Louisiana attorney general orders arrest over alleged Medicaid scheme
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced that Winnsboro Mayor Alice Wallace was arrested on April 21 and charged with six counts of government benefits fraud, accusing the small-town mayor of illegally collecting roughly $75,000 in Medicaid benefits over a five-year span while drawing a sala...
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Coachella music festival sees more than 200 arrests across two weekends in the California desert
The Indio Police Department arrested 203 people over the two weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, with drug possession, fake IDs, public intoxication, and a wave of fraudulent disability-parking violations topping the charge sheet, the Mercury News reported. The second weekend a...
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FBI takes over DNA testing in Nancy Guthrie disappearance as Pima County investigation drags on
Pima County authorities have handed DNA samples recovered from Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home to the FBI for advanced testing, a move that marks the most significant forensic development in the 84-year-old woman's disappearance since she vanished on February 1. The transfer puts the federal government'...
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Hegseth ends mandatory flu vaccine for U.S. troops, citing medical autonomy
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the U.S. military will no longer require all service members to receive the annual flu vaccine, a move he framed as restoring personal choice and religious liberty to the men and women in uniform. The directive takes effect immediately. Under the...
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Two CIA officers dead in Mexico crash after cartel lab raid as sovereignty dispute erupts
Two Americans killed in a vehicle crash in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua were working for the CIA, Fox News confirmed through a U.S. official, raising hard questions about the scope of covert American involvement in Mexico's drug war and who in Mexico City knew about it. The crash also kil...
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Former Capitol Police officer sues Blaze Media over false Jan. 5 pipe bomb accusation
A former Capitol Police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Blaze Media and two of its reporters, alleging they fabricated a claim that she planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both major political parties the night before the br...
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Missouri man convicted of killing girlfriend after claiming she was abducted
A Jasper County jury needed just one hour to convict Aaron Malone of first-degree murder in the death of his 24-year-old girlfriend, Aspen Lewis, after a three-day trial laid bare a trail of blood, surveillance footage, and a story that fell apart under questioning. Malone, 24, had told police he be...
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U.S. Marines board and seize Iranian cargo ship in first clash of naval blockade
U.S. Marines rappelled from a helicopter onto an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman on April 19 after the vessel refused to comply with six hours of warnings and a Navy destroyer disabled its engine, marking the first forcible interception since the American naval blockade of Iran began ...
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L.A. woman arrested at LAX for allegedly trafficking Iranian weapons to Sudan
Federal agents arrested a Woodland Hills, California, woman at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night as she prepared to board a flight to Turkey, and the charges filed against her read like a plot from a spy thriller. Shamim Mafi, 44, an Iranian national and lawful permanent U.S. resid...
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Supreme Court sides with D.C. officer, rebukes lower court's piecemeal approach to Fourth Amendment stops
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in favor of a Washington, D.C., police officer who arrested a minor during a 2 a.m. vehicle stop, rejecting a lower court's decision to throw out the evidence by picking apart the officer's reasons for suspicion one at a time instead of weighing them together. The ...
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