A 31 year old Mitchell man awaiting a furlough from jail ended up in front of Judge Chris Giles after some apparent confusion. Giles granted Nicholas Tischler a four-hour furlough earlier this week to see his three-month old son for the first time at his mother’s home in Mitchell. However an apparent communication breakdown led …
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Feb 21
Judge sets $100,000 bond for Jussie Smollett, orders ‘Empire’ actor’s passport surrendered
Chicago Police Dept.(CHICAGO) — A Chicago judge set Jesse Smollett’s bond at $100,000 on Thursday and ordered him to surrender his passport, hours after a remarkable Chicago Police Department press conference in which Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson blasted the ‘Empire’ star, saying that Smollett’s alleged staging of a hoax attack was a “publicity stunt…to promote …
Feb 21
Defendant reaches a deal with prosecutors over a 2015 fire and attempted poisoning
A woman accused of trying to poison her husband and starting a fire in October of 2015 in Mitchell has reached a deal with prosecutors. 40 year old Dawn Long pleaded no contest to aggravated assault during a Thursday court appearance. In exchange for the guilty plea prosecutors agreed to dismiss an attempted first-degree murder …
Feb 21
US Coast Guard lieutenant accused of being a domestic terrorist appears in court for first time
Tamilisa Miner/iStock(WASHINGTON) — A man allegedly caught researching acts of domestic terrorism and amassing more than a dozen firearms will spend at least two weeks in federal custody, a Maryland federal judge decided on Thursday. U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, was arrested on charges of firearm and drug possession, but Judge Charles …
Feb 21
World’s largest bee photographed after vanishing for decades
Sushaaa/iStock(NEW YORK) — A photographer on a quest to capture an image of the elusive world’s largest bee found success while retracing the steps of famous anthropologist Alfred Russel Wallace, who jointly published some writings on evolution through natural selection with Charles Darwin in 1858. Clay Bolt’s search for the Megachile pluto began with picking …
Feb 21
El Chapo conviction cast into doubt after juror says panelists repeatedly violated judge’s orders
STR/LatinContent/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Attorneys for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman say they are “deeply concerned” by an interview in which one of the jurors who convicted the notorious Mexican drug kingpin admitted to ignoring the judge’s orders not to read media reports about the case. The juror, who has not been identified, told VICE News …
Feb 21
Tortoise thought to be extinct for more than 100 years discovered in Galapagos Islands
RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/Getty Images(FAIRFAX, Va.) — A species of tortoise thought by scientists to be extinct for more than 100 years were actually hiding in plain sight on a remote Galapagos island. The Galapagos Conservancy, a Fairfax, Virginia-based organization dedicated to the long-term protection of the Galapagos Islands, wrote on Twitter Wednesday that one of its …
Feb 21
Report: Apple, Goldman Sachs to offer joint credit card
PeskyMonkey/iStock(NEW YORK) — Apple is said to be teaming up with Goldman Sachs on a joint credit card that both companies plan to begin issuing this spring. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports the card, which will use Mastercard’s network, will be rolled out to employees in the next few …
Feb 21
Weekly jobless claims drop to 216,000
glegorly/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Jobless claims took a dip last week, falling by 23,000, according to the latest figures released Thursday by the Labor Department. For the week ending Feb. 16, the number of people filing for benefits dropped from an unrevised level of 239,000 the previous week to 216,000. The four-week average, meanwhile, increased by 4,000 …
Feb 21
DNA test reunites sisters in South Korea after 47 years
MyHeritage DNA(SEOUL, South Korea) — After nearly five decades of living without knowing each other, two South Korean-born sisters embraced each other at a subway station in Daegu, a city 180 miles outside of Seoul, thanks to a DNA test. “The chances of finding each other really are one in a billion without taking a …