On Thursday, Chicago police confirmed they were investigating the shooting death of a 31-year-old woman who was slain at the same spot as her 14-year-old son was murdered just days earlier. The mother, Delisa Tucker, was shot in the chest Wednesday morning near Chicago’s Wentworth Avenue while visiting the location where her 14-year-old son, Kevin …
Monthly Archives: November 2021
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden share Thanksgiving message honoring those lost during pandemic
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden sent appreciation to service members who lost their lives during the pandemic in a Thanksgiving video message posted on Twitter. Biden said: “As we give thanks for what we have, we also keep in our hearts those who we lost, and those who have lost so much. …
HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ releases teaser and shares premiere date for Season 2 on January 9th
HBO released a teaser for Season 2 of Euphoria is coming to HBO on Jan. 9. Euphoria, from creator Sam Levinson, follows a group of high school students as they deal with drugs, sex and violence. Euphoria Season 1 wrapped up in August 2019l, and HBO also released a pair of special episodes that aired …
Kevin Spacey to pay $31M for breaching ‘House of Cards’ contract
Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay nearly $31 million to TV studio Media Rights Capital (“MRC”) for breaching his contract with the TV series ‘House of Cards’, due to behavior leading up to his 2017 termination from the Netflix show amid allegations of sexual misconduct. MRC filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior …
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Maine 911 Dispatcher Helps Deliver Baby
Scarborough dispatcher Amanda Marden, who is a certified and licensed emergency medical dispatcher, this week received a 911 call from a family in Old Orchard Beach. It turns out a woman was in active labor. Marden ended up helping the family deliver a healthy baby boy while waiting for the first responders to arrive. As …
Guilty: Verdict in Ahmaud Arbery Murder Case
All three men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in Feb. 2020, have been found guilty of murder. Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan face minimum sentences of life in prison. #BREAKING: Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, who pursued Ahmaud Arbery, have been convicted of murder. The …
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Waldo County Man Arrested in Texas on Child Abuse Charges in Maine
Steven Mathis, 32, of Winterport has been arrested in Texas and extradited back to Maine to face criminal charges of child abuse and exploitation. Mathis was interviewed and confessed to sexually abusing several identified children along with uploading images of the abuse online and disseminating the images to various people. An electronic device was seized …
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Federal jury finds white supremacists conspired in deadly Unite the Right rally
A federal jury on Tuesday found that white supremacists conspired to take part in violence during a 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia which left three people dead. The jury in the civil trial ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on four of the six counts they faced, but deadlocked on two federal …
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President Biden orders 50M barrels from emergency oil stockpile to bring gas prices down
President Joe Biden has ordered the release of tens of millions of barrels of oil from the strategic reserve in a move to bring down gas prices. During remarks from the White House on Tuesday, Biden ordered an additional 50 million barrels from the reserve, which is an emergency stockpile of oil stored in underground …
Good Morning America’s Michael Strahan to fly to space on Blue Origin
Good Morning America co-host and NFL legend Michael Strahan announced that he will fly to space on Jeff Bezos’ ‘Blue Origin’ on its next flight, to take place on December 9. It will be the rocket’s third human flight this year, and marks the first flight with a full astronaut manifest of six crew members …
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