U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday publicly introduced Merrick Garland, a federal appellate court judge whom Republicans snubbed for a seat on the Supreme Court in 2016, as the attorney general to lead the country’s Justice Department in his new administration. Garland, 68, has served 23 years as an appeals court judge in Washington but […]
The Alaska State Troopers, a Saxman-based VPSO, and members of the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad are en-route to the community of Hyder in connection with a fatal motor vehicle accident there, says AST. Alaska State Troopers in Ketchikan received a report of a fatal accident in the community of Hyder at 11:02 am on Tuesday. […]
Announcing on its radio station on Tuesday, the Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the Sunday attack at the Draw Muhammad art event at the Curtis Culwell Center, saying that “Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this exhibit was portraying negative pictures […]
Police are searching the Phoenix apartment of a man they say was involved in the shooting attack on Sunday at the American Freedom Defense Initiative event that took place at the Curtis Culwell Center, wounding one officer, Bruce Joiner, in the ankle. Both gunmen, outfitted in body armor, were shot and killed by a Garland […]