WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service will commemorate the centennial of President John F. Kennedy’s birth by dedicating a Forever stamp in his honor at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. The 10 a.m. February 20 Presidents Day ceremony, free and open to the public, will kick off the 6th Annual Presidents Day Family […]
SACRAMENTO (Courthouse News) – 1/9/17 – With an iron grip on a bustling tribal casino’s vault, a trio of Northern California casino officials spent millions of dollars on lavish shopping sprees, exorbitant home renovations and international vacations, under the nose of their tribal employer, according to a 69-count criminal indictment. According to a the indictment handed down […]
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, AP via Courthouse News VILLA DE REYES, Mexico (AP) — Word spread quickly through cellphone messages and shouts between co-workers that Ford Motor Co. had canceled its new $1.6 billion car plant at its sprawling 700-acre high desert site in north-central Mexico. “When I saw it on the phone, (I thought), ‘Well, no, it […]
Julie Brown says a postal worker threw a package containing powerful medication into her front yard and her service dog in training ate it. Since the bag wouldn’t fit inside her mailbox, the postal worker left it inside her front gate where no one saw it before her dog Nahla tore into it. “Losing Nahla […]
DENVER – A piece of a family’s personal history had been forgotten about, until now. It all started when Jean had written a letter to her sister, while she was trying to make it in the big city. “She was in college and I was in Kansas City,” said Castle. A letter like this is […]
(Courthouse News) – 1/6/17 – Dylann Roof is so consumed by his white supremacist beliefs that he even wore shoes to court this week that had racist symbols drawn on them, an FBI agent testified Friday. Roof faces death or life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing nine black church members in […]
WASHINGTON (Courthouse News) – 1/6/17 – The long slog that was the 2016 election finally came to an end on Friday, after Congress, meeting in a joint session, formally certified President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. Vice President Joe Biden, as president of the Senate, led the final count. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan also presided. Though […]
On December 12, 2016, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Brian Cisek, former Sergeant-at-Arms of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 56 (located in Grand Rapids, Mich.), was sentenced to two years of probation and was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and a $100 special assessment. Cisek previously […]
When people hear about mailmen and dogs, most people think of them as natural enemies. But Jeff Kramer the mailman and Tashi the black lab are not your typical dog and mailman duo. A few years ago, Kramer’s route took him past a house on Bluebell Avenue in Boulder for the first time and out […]
WASHINGTON – 1/6/17 – With the United States Postal Service already beginning to phase out of door delivery of mail, Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-CA) re-introduced her bipartisan H. Res. 28 stressing that door delivery must not end. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) joined Davis as lead cosponsors of the resolution. “Ending door delivery of […]