On April 17 a two-and-a-half-year investigation and judicial process came to a close when Robert Thompson, 53, of Rockwood, Maine, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment for evading federal income tax and for illegal sales of lobsters. The Court also ordered Thompson to pay the Internal Revenue Service restitution of $65,172. “When it comes to […]
The Denpasar District Court in Indonesia, on Tuesday, handed down a conviction of “guilty” of premeditated murder to Chicago woman, Heather Mack, age 18, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, age 21, and sentenced the Americans for the murder of Mack’s mother, Sheila Ann von Wiese-Mack in August. Wiese-Mack was the widow of jazz and classical composer, James L. […]
An Oklahoma debate over which cell phone is better, the Apple or the Android, turned violent when two Tulsa roommates took it to the street early on Tuesday morning. Tulsa police were dispatched to the Evergreen Apartments on East 25th Place in response a stabbing victim there. A woman called 991 just after midnight reporting a […]
Cuba is praising President Barack Obama’s decision to remove the Caribbean island nation from Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. Josefina Vidal, Havana’s chief diplomat for U.S. affairs, issued a statement Tuesday welcoming Obama’s “fair decision to take Cuba off a list that it never should have been included on.” Obama informed Congress of […]