Courtesy Addy Tritt(NEW YORK) — Addy Tritt had an idea while browsing in a Payless shoe store that was closing and selling its remaining shoes for $1. “I was just walking around and looking and I started grabbing handfuls of shoes thinking, ‘This would be great to donate and this, this and this,” Tritt, 25, …
Category: News
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Apr 03
17-year-old Ohio boy charged with 73 counts of delinquency in a nationwide ‘swatting’ spree that left police scrambling to phony 911 calls
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) — A 17-year-old Ohio boy was charged with 140 counts of delinquency — stemming from what authorities said is the latest in the dangerous trend of “swatting” in which prank 911 calls are placed to draw a SWAT team response. The teenager, whose name was not released because he is legally underage, allegedly …
Apr 03
NATO Secretary General addresses joint session of Congress as alliance celebrates 70th anniversary
BOLDG/iStock(WASHINGTON) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered an address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, kicking off a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers and the celebration of the alliance’s 70th anniversary. “The strength of a nation is not only measured by the size of its economy, or the number …
Apr 03
Trump’s economic advisers want to exempt commercial trade if he closes border
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has not yet made a decision about closing the southern border, the head of the National Economic Council said on Wednesday, but he said he and other top advisers had raised serious concerns about the potential economic impact and were proposing that commercial trade be allowed to continue. …
Apr 03
Legal immigrants with jobs in the marijuana industry are being denied US citizenship
(ABC News) Oswaldo Barrientos stands outside the mayor’s office in Denver after meeting about immigration and the marijuana industry. (DENVER) — Denver Mayor Michael Hancock sat at a round wooden table, shaking his head in disbelief before dropping his head into his hands in his sprawling downtown office Tuesday afternoon. He was listening to a …
Apr 03
Oregon woman arrested for carrying more than 100 lbs of marijuana
A 32 year old woman from Portland Oregon is facing felony drug charges for carrying about 122 pounds of marijuana in her vehicle. According to court documents Trooper Austin Schmitz observed several large boxes in the back of a vehicle with Oregon license plates on I-90 near Chamberlain last Saturday. A short time later at …
Apr 03
‘She was the love of my life,’ says boyfriend of slain University of South Carolina student,who got in wrong the car
nazarethman/iStock(ROBBINSVILLE, N.J.) — Slain University of South Carolina student Samantha Josephson “was the love of my life,” her boyfriend said at an emotional vigil on Tuesday night — days after police said the college senior was kidnapped and killed after she got into a car she mistakenly thought was an Uber. Family, friends and community …
Apr 03
American tourist kidnapped in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park: Officials
benedek/iStock(KAMPALA, Uganda) — An American tourist was kidnapped on Tuesday evening while visiting Uganda’s most popular national park, officials said. A group of unidentified armed men ambushed tourists in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in southwest Uganda and abducted an American, along with the Ugandan driver, according to a statement from Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono …
Apr 03
Feds investigate Martin Shkreli for allegedly running drug business from prison
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Even a court-ordered seven-year stint to federal prison may not have stopped Martin Shkreli from slinging drugs. Shkreli was sentenced by a Brooklyn, New York federal court judge in 2018 for securities and conspiracy charges that stemmed from an investigation into his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, for hiking up the …
Apr 03
New global flight-tracking system could prevent another MH370 disappearance mystery
guvendemir/iStock(NEW YORK) — A new technology may be the solution to preventing another Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappearance from ever happening again. On Tuesday, Aireon, a Virginia-based global satellite tracking company, unveiled a fully operational global GPS flight tracking system that increases coverage from 30 percent to 100 percent. The system will allow for real-time …
