Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison, fined $3M for money laundering
PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and fined $3 million for a single money laundering count in a sprawling case involving allegations
FEMA opens disaster recovery centers in Vermont after last month’s floods
BERLIN, Vt. (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has opened disaster recovery centers in Vermont communities hit hard by violent flooding in mid-July while Gov. Phil Scott said he sought another federal disaster declaration on Wednesday
Trump campaign was warned not to take photos at Arlington before altercation, defense official says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign was warned about not taking photographs before an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony earlier this week to honor service members killed in the Afghanistan War withdrawal, a
Ludacris’ gulp of untreated Alaska glacier melt was totally fine, scientist says
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Rapper-turned-actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges sparked concern from some social media followers when he knelt on an Alaska glacier, dipped an empty water bottle into a blue, pristine pool of water and drank it.
Nvidia is Wall Street’s 2nd-most valuable company. How it keeps beating expectations, by the numbers
Nvidia has once again turned out quarterly results that easily exceeded Wall Street’s forecast s. The company has seen soaring demand for its semiconductors, which are used to power artificial intelligence applications. Revenue more than doubled in
2 men from Europe charged with ‘swatting’ plot targeting former US president and members of Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. president and several members of Congress were targets of a plot carried out by two European men to intimidate and threaten dozens of people by calling in bogus reports of police
Water buffalo corralled days after it escaped in Iowa suburb and was shot by police
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An escaped water buffalo was located Wednesday, days after it was shot and wounded during a weekend attempt to return it to its owner’s suburban property, officials said. The animal was found
Former police officer accused of killing pregnant girlfriend and staging it as a suicide
BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of killing a woman he is accused of sexually exploiting when she was underage and then trying to stage the death as a
US Open: Cyberbullying remains a problem in tennis. One player called it out on social media
NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Garcia, a U.S. Open semifinalist two years ago, drew attention Wednesday to the ever-present problem of cyberbullying in tennis, particularly by people who bet on matches, after her first-round loss at the
Workers are breaching Klamath dams, which will let salmon swim freely for first time in a century
Workers are breaching the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River on Wednesday, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in
