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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A South Florida woman was arrested Wednesday after allegedly funding a $1.2 million spree of private jets, mansions, and diamonds by swindling an event decor business. Broward Sheriff's Office Deerfield Beach detectives say the suspect, 32-year-old Keshon Litesha Rivers, operated a scheme from May to August of 2025 to steal over $1.2 million from the owners of Event Décor Direct in Deerfield Beach. An investigation revealed that Rivers targeted Event Décor Direct, a company she had an established professional relationship through her own business, Lock and Key Designs. Detectives say Rivers used the stolen...

CORNELL – A woman from Cornell was arrested Wednesday and arraigned on multiple felony charges related to resisting, obstructing and assaulting a Michigan State Police (MSP) Trooper during an animal neglect investigation. Brianna Makosky, 22, was arraigned in the 94th District Court on Thursday on three felony counts of resisting, obstructing and assaulting a police officer. Her bond was set at $4,000 cash/surety. The charges stem from an incident that occurred on Wednesday in Cornell. According to a news release, the MSP Gladstone Post received a report of alleged animal neglect on Tuesday. After an initial investigation, authorities obtained...

In November, Minaj appeared at the United Nations in support of the Trump administration to speak on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. In December, she was interviewed by Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk and the chairwoman of Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization. Then, after sharing increasingly supportive social media posts of conservative politics and the Trump administration, Minaj met with Trump and described herself as “probably the president’s number one fan." The move has been met with backlash from many of the rappers’ fans. Videos of her music being booed in clubs have gone viral,...

A photograph from the Epstein files shows a chummy 2015 dinner attended by some of Silicon Valley's most powerful figures, with Jeffrey Epstein later boasting the gathering was 'wild'. The image, released by the US Department of Justice, shows Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg seated at a dinner table alongside SpaceX boss Elon Musk, and Joi Ito, the former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel was also in attendance, but he was not pictured. The photograph was emailed by Epstein to himself on Monday, August 3, 2015 - just one day after he...

According to reports, an Australian tourism firm found itself embroiled in controversy earlier this year when it put out an article about an idyllic destination known as the Weldborough Hot Springs. ... Keen to visit the hot springs but with no idea how to actually get there, tourists headed to the general area and then asked local businesses for directions. The trouble was, the hot springs didn't actually exist. It turned out that the company had been using an AI to write some of its articles and the system had 'hallucinated' the entire thing. The firm's owner explained that they...

@GoodwinMJ Reform’s plan for ending the illegal migration chaos Leave the ECHR Scrap Human Rights Act New British Bill of Rights Derogate refugee convention Criminalise illegal migration Detain and Deport No bail, no right of appeal Statutory duty to deport Build new detention centres Use Ascension Island as backup New voluntary returns scheme Offer £2500 to leave Data sharing to deport illegals New offences for illegal entry

Hello, all. I'm considering spending winters in Jacksonville Beach, FL; mainly because I'm tired of the NE winters, this one being particularly bad. Based on some research I've done, it seems that it may be possible to live within walking (or biking) distance of stores for basic food items, restaurants, etc. (which is what I'm able to do now, and would like to have). JAX airport appears to be about 40 minutes from the beach area, which is not too bad, and the flight down from the NE is only about 2.5 hours which is also nice.

The British government said it had referred Peter Mandelson's correspondence with Jeffery Epstein to police because it appeared that "market sensitive information" had been "compromised."LONDON — A rare royal apology, resignations and allegations of leaked government intel: The new release of Epstein documents has provoked outrage and a demand for answers in Europe over ties between prominent figures and the late sex offender. Norway’s royal family has found itself at the center of a storm over the more than 3 million documents the Justice Department released Friday. And in Britain, the former Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, have...

Amber Glenn, a figure skater with Team USA in the Winter Olympics, claimed that it had been a “hard time” for the LGBTQ community under the Trump administration. While speaking to reporters, Glenn claimed that the Trump administration’s policies weren’t “just affecting the queer community, but many other communities,” according to The Blast. “It’s been a hard time for the community overall and this administration. It isn’t the first time that we’ve had to come together as a community and try and fight for our human rights,” Glenn told reporters. “And now, especially, it’s not just affecting the queer community,...

A federal statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein's death has surfaced in newly released Justice Department files but it carries a date that appears to precede the moment he was officially found dead inside his New York prison cell. The document, issued by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and dated Friday, August 9, 2019, states that Epstein had already been found unresponsive and pronounced dead. But prison records and official accounts show Epstein was not discovered unresponsive until the morning of August 10, 2019, when a corrections officer delivering breakfast found him in his cell...

Renaud Camus. Two journalists have just embarked on the exercise of writing a ‘biography,’ or rather a damning pamphlet, against the writer Renaud Camus, on whom they intend to heap all the ignominy of having invented and popularised the phrase ‘the great replacement.'” But what crime is this when the expression is now swallowed and spat out by everyone, including and especially on the Left, by certain MPs and politicians who today make it a point of pride and a programme? To feed its fundamental need to feel useful, the Left needs scapegoats. As Le Figaro editorialist Eugénie Bastié points...

Daily Readings from the USCCBFifth Sunday in Ordinary TimeJesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” Matthew 5:13Sodium chloride, also known as salt, is one of the most commonly used substances in the world, used for seasoning, preserving, and purifying. Sodium chloride is a very stable compound and cannot lose its flavor unless there is a chemical reaction or dissolution. Why, then, did Jesus suggest that salt could lose...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday ruled out Tehran ever giving up uranium enrichment in its negotiations with Washington, insisting it will not be intimidated by the threat of war with the United States. Araghchi told a forum in Tehran that Tehran had little trust in Washington, and even doubted that the US side was taking renewed negotiations seriously. “Why do we insist so much on enrichment and refuse to give it up, even if a war is imposed on us? Because no one has the right to dictate our behavior,” Araghchi declared.

Participants in the US Olympic teams are just that- members of a team. Those teams represent a country- in this case the United States of America. Teams are funded through various sources- a mix of corporate sponsorships, individual/philanthropic donations, event revenue, and grants. Financial services Stifel corporation is the primary sponsor of the US Ski teams. Note that they are called the US Ski teams, not the US Woke Ski Teams. The Freestyle team has chosen to dampen enthusiasm for itself is a series of self-aggrandizing interviews. History and tradition mean nothing to them. They are woke. “It brings up...

Alamelu, a gray-haired woman who wears a bright pink sari and a gap-tooth smile, has lived in the Kalvari Nagar leprosy colony in India for 22 years and another colony before that. Her family sent her away when she was only 12 years old after she was diagnosed with what is likely the world's most misunderstood and stigmatized disease. They feared her presence in the home would tarnish the family's reputation and her siblings would never be married. Alamelu, who is now 75, never saw her family again. Like most residents of Kalvari Nagar, this woman was cured of leprosy...

The only people worried about ICE at the polls either shouldn’t be at the polls or are benefiting from the votes of people who shouldn’t be at the polls. White House ‘can’t guarantee’ ICE won’t be at polls – Democracy Docket Senate Democrat ‘greatly afraid’ of ICE being used for voter intimidation Yesterday – The Hill ‘Worst-case scenarios’: How Democratic election officials are preparing for potential Trump intrusion in the midterms – CNN And here we go… “I am, we are all, greatly afraid with these roving ICE vans that we see in Minneapolis and other cities. Could those ICE...

---snip--- On March 19, 2001, Hall arrived four months prematurely and without a heartbeat before medics successfully revived him. After initially tipping the scales at 2 pounds, 9 ounces, he subsequently dropped even further to 1 pound, 13 ounces. "It was a scary, scary time," Hall's mother, Stacy Gooden-Crandle, told Seahawks.com. "He was born at 23 1⁄2 weeks, and it was a scary, scary time.

"Protests and sabotage marked the opening of the Winter Olympics in Milan as Italian police used water cannons and tear gas to beat back demonstrators."

Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif has confirmed that he has the male chromosome, revealing the biological reality months after identifying as female in order to compete against women in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Khelif admitted not only that he is a man, but also that he has elevated levels of testosterone, in an interview with the French sporting magazine L’Equipe. “I have female hormones. And people don’t know this, but I have taken hormone treatments to lower my testosterone levels for competitions,” Khelif told L’Equipe, continuing to assert that he is not transgender, but is a woman. The boxer has...