U.S. Attorney, with the Department of Justice, Bryan Schroder announced on Wednesday, that 38-year-old J Cobb Whitmore, a three-time felon, was sentenced for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline sentenced Whitmore on Tuesday to 37 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and 80 […]
Eight Eastern U.S. states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, demanding that it order tougher controls on some Midwestern states over air pollution blowing eastward. New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is leading the lawsuit, saying the Trump administration had failed to impose congressionally mandated anti-pollution standards on parts of the Midwest. “Millions of […]
A female inmate at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center was charged with one count of Distribution of a Controlled Substance in Federal Court on Tuesday after a rash of overdoses on the powerful narcotic Fentanyl in that facility in October. The first of five overdoses at the facility occurred the very same day that 36-year-old Dorothy […]
AST cite a possible medical condition for the three-vehicle accident that occurred near mile 57.5 of the Sterling Highway on Christmas Day. Troopers received a REDDI report on a Ford F-350 “Dually,” that was traveling southbound at mile 50 of the Sterling Highway at 4:36 pm on December 25th, and began looking for the vehicle. […]