As children return to classrooms while the coronavirus pandemic rages on, members of U.S. school boards endure hostility and threats over mask, testing, and vaccine policies. A Republican running for elected office in a Pennsylvania county on Sunday provided yet another example of the vitriol and even potential danger that school board members face over Covid-19 […]
WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a fixture in Washington political circles for nearly a half century, has been projected the winner of the U.S. presidency and stands to be inaugurated January 20, becoming the country’s oldest leader ever. Biden, a Democrat who served 36 years in the U.S. Senate and eight years […]
The president’s campaign filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to temporarily halt the tallying of votes in both battleground states. Raucous supporters of President Donald Trump tried to get election officials to stop counting ballots in Detroit, Michigan Wednesday afternoon—chanting “Stop the count!” and banging on windows—as major news outlets called the battleground state […]
WHITE HOUSE – U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding Pennsylvania get back to normal business operations at a time the state is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases. “What the hell is happening in Pennsylvania?” Trump asked the crowd at his Tuesday evening campaign rally at Erie International Airport, in the western part of […]
As healthcare workers across the U.S. continue to protest the federal government’s failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment and ensure strict workplace safety standards to protect them from Covid-19, President Donald Trump on Thursday—standing in front of stacked boxes of medical supplies—said that frontline nurses and doctors “running into death just like soldiers run into […]
PHILADELPHIA, PA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced Monday that Gavin Lee Casdorph, 21, of Anchorage, Alaska, pleaded guilty to one count of willfully making false threats in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(e). United States District Judge Edward G. Smith presided over the guilty plea hearing in Easton via video teleconference. […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A paratrooper from the 1st Squadron (Airborne), 40th Cavalry Regiment was found unresponsive in his barracks room here Saturday, March 7, and later pronounced dead. Emergency responders transported Spc. Jason Alexander Thomas, an infantryman, to the 673d Medical Group hospital where medical personnel continued life-saving […]
Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that David Bukoski, 24, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, was recently sentenced for operating a long-running Denial of Service (DoS) for-hire service, known as Quantum Stress, which allowed paying users to conduct wide-ranging attacks on individual and corporate victim domains and networks, preventing them from being able […]
Largest Cocaine Seizure in 21 Years for CBP Area Port of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA – A multi-agency examination of imported shipping containers at the Philadelphia seaport netted 1,185 pounds of cocaine Tuesday. This multi-agency team was led by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and consisted of partner agencies Homeland Security […]