RENO, Nev., (KOLO) The video is grainy and its black and white, but someone watching it might very well recognize the players and what they are up to. It’s nearly 11 o’clock last Saturday night and you’re watching a crime in progress. It’s a theft with literally hundreds of victims. Two women–perhaps in their late 20’s or […]
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – A postal carrier is being credited with saving a man who slipped on ice in Cobb County Monday morning. Jack Bostic, 67, was working to clear the ice off his steep driveway so he could get to a doctor’s appointment when he slipped and hit his head. Mail carrier Amanda Price found […]
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A New York City postal worker has been arrested on federal charges, accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts from the mail she was trusted to process. As CBS2’s Jessica Moore found out, she allegedly stole a child’s letter to Santa. “It’s sad. The public trusts you […]
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – A former Tampa Bay area postal employee faces up to 15 years in federal prison for stealing more than $2 million in Social Security checks. A U.S. Attorney’s Office news release says jurors found 48-year-old Stacy Darnell Mitchell guilty Wednesday of theft of government property and theft of mail. His sentencing date hasn’t been […]
Volkswagen AG Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay $4.3 Billion in Criminal and Civil Penalties; Six Volkswagen Executives and Employees are Indicted in Connection with Conspiracy to Cheat U.S. Emissions Tests VW to Pay $2.8 Billion Criminal Fine in Guilty Plea and $1.5 Billion Settlement of Civil Environmental, Customs and Financial Violations; Monitor to Be […]
MEXICO CITY (AP via Courthouse News) – 1/10/17 – Mexico’s new foreign relations secretary says the country isn’t only willing to negotiate changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement, it wants negotiations as soon as possible. Luis Videgaray says there’s “enormous uncertainty” following the U.S. election of Donald Trump as president. Trump has pressured companies not […]
(Courthouse News) – 1/10/17 – A federal jury sentenced Dylann Roof to death on Tuesday for the murder of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina church in 2015. Roof is the first individual sentenced to death for federal hate crimes. He stared straight ahead and fidgeted with his hands as he awaited the verdict. Afterward […]
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement on the sentencing of Dylann Roof: “On June 17, 2015, Dylann Storm Roof sought out and opened fire on African-American parishioners engaged in worship and bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He did so because of their race. And he […]
Justin Kaliebe, 22, of Babylon and Bay Shore, New York, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and 20 years of supervised release with special conditions (including computer monitoring, a prohibition on contact with jihadists, search conditions, mental health treatment and a curfew, among others) following his guilty plea on Feb. 8, 2013. Kaliebe pleaded […]
APWU News – 1/9/17 – President Dimondstein spoke about the recent victories and future challenges for the American Postal Workers Union during his address at the installation of officers on Nov. 5, 2016.