Andrew Gillum — Tallahassee’s former mayor who barely lost a 2018 bid to be Florida’s governor — was reportedly found drunk in a hotel room with a male escort who suffered an apparent drug overdose. The reported incident involving Gillum, 40, occurred early Friday at a hotel in Miami Beach. The Palm Beach Post reported …
Prosecutors in New York are reportedly reinvestigating Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination in light of new information presented in a Netflix documentary. According to the New York Post, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s office announced Tuesday that they’ll be working with the Innocence Project to reexamine the high-profile case. The District Attorney has reportedly reached out …
A Colorado woman was arrested late last month for allegedly planning to kidnap the son she lost custody of with the help of a right-wing fringe group. Local police and the FBI reportedly arrested Cynthia Abcug, 30, in Montana on December 30. Citing an affidavit, the Daily Beast reported that Abcug planned to take her …
On Friday, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin pardoned a man who is serving a prison sentence for fatally shooting another man during a home invasion in May 2014. The Louisville Courier Journal reports that Patrick Brian Baker — who was convicted of reckless homicide and other charges in the shooting death of Donald Mills — had …
Authorities in Utah and Arizona have criminally charged an Arizona public official for allegedly operating a trafficking ring that involved transporting pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. to give birth, then paying them to give their babies up for adoption. Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen—who is also an adoption attorney licensed in …
Following the House of Representatives’ steps, the Senate voted Tuesday to pass the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund bill, which would provide financial assistance to ailing first responders and their families until 2092. The Senate voted 97-2 to replenish the 9/11 victims fund, which was projected to be depleted by the end of next year. …
The Alabama State Senate passed a bill that represents a near-total ban on abortions on Tuesday night. AL.com reports that the senate voted 25-6 to pass a bill that would criminalize pregnancy terminations except in cases where the mother’s life is in serious danger. If signed into law, it will be a felony for a …
A Republican legislator in Minnesota was reportedly arrested this weekend on suspicion of trespassing. According to the Duluth News Tribune, state Rep. Matt Grossell addressed the incident in a statement on Saturday afternoon, hours after he was released on his own recognizance from a Ramsey County jail. “Saturday morning, I received a citation in St. …
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested on Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK after Ecuador reportedly withdrew asylum. As NBC News reports, Assange, 47, had been living at the embassy for nearly 7 years, and has been under investigation for alleged rape and sexual assault in Sweden since 2012, when he reportedly skipped …
A recently-released video reportedly captured the tense moments when Canadian authorities took custody of a newborn baby girl from an indigenous woman while she sat in a hospital bed. According to The Canadian Press, Thursday’s incident was live streamed by the woman’s uncle. In it, the woman’s seen cradling her baby while Winnipeg Child and Family …
A New Jersey township agreed to pay $235,000 to an ex-court administrator who said a co-worker squirted breast milk on her in a “sexually hostile workplace.” NJ Civil Settlements first reported on the August 21, 2018, payout last week. Cheryl Jeannette, 51, filed a lawsuit against Belleville Township in 2015, alleging she was subjected to a “hostile …
Authorities in Arizona say a state lawmaker threatened a Department of Public Safety trooper upon being pulled over on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. According to the Arizona Republic, Arizona Rep. David Cook registered a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit. Authorities allege he also failed to follow instructions during a field …
