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 […]
As the U.S. aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt moves towards Yemen from its previous location in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia announced the end to the Saudi-led campaign on the Houthi rebels that has bombarded the Houthi for the last month. The Roosevelt had previously been tasked with carrying out strikes on the Islamic State in […]
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. […]
Additional information is being released in the sinking of the migrant ship off of the coast of Libya over the weekend. It has been determined that approximately 850 migrants were aboard the vessel when it capsized and sank . Only 28 of those aboard are known to have survived the watery ordeal. Many of those […]