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Brown was sentenced in 2017 to five years in prison. She was let out last year due to COVID-19 concerns in the federal prison where she as serving her time.The appeal was based on arguments about a juror that Brown contended was improperly removed from her 2017 trial because he said the “Holy Spirit” told him Brown was not guilty of fraud and tax charges.

Two Pathways for Resuming Cruises: What You Need to Know All the new details the CDC has released for simulated cruises as part of the framework on the Conditional Sailing Order. The CDC did switch gears. After releasing phase 2A one month ago, the agency has now released 2B and 3 as part of the framework of the Conditional Sailing Order. With the backlash the CDC received on 2A and the subsequent letter released two weeks ago with alterations, we are now seeing the return of cruising take shape. That being said, we are not there yet. Both phases 2B...

Police responded to reports of a robbery at a Wells Fargo bank in St. Cloud shortly before 2pm Thursday Unconfirmed number of employees and customers are still being held inside the branch Local police and FBI are currently on the scene allegedly attempting to negotiate

Charge upgraded to felony because of slurs, records showWildwood police arrested a 77-year-old woman after they say she admitted to throwing a Whopper at a Burger King worker while calling the victim a “stupid Black (expletive).” Officers arrested Judith Ann Black, of The Villages, on Friday. Police said they were called to a Burger King on Seven Mile Drive just after 6 p.m. Investigators said they spoke with the victim who told them that an older woman was not satisfied with her Whopper and was screaming at the victim while standing at the counter. The victim said she asked Black...

Size measurements of two neutron stars are narrowing down what kinds of exotic matter might exist in their extremely dense cores.Neutron stars are the tricksters of the celestial sphere. Their age, their temperature, even their size is not always what it first appears to be. But with the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) aboard the International Space Station, astronomers are finally beginning to make some headway measuring these stars’ actual size — and with that, some insight into their strange interiors.Members of the NICER team presented two independent size measurements of the most massive neutron star known at the...

On February 3, 2021, in the wake of the “deadly events” of 1/6, Biden’s new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a 60-day stand-down and total purge of the U.S. military’s rampant, undefined “extremism” problem. Though the details of this purge were always kept vague and framed in apolitical terms, it was immediately obvious the target would be MAGA — with the buzzword “extremism” tagged onto various proxies for Trump supporters, conservatives, and opponents of globalism of all stripes.

Fed-up Parents Yell “No More Masks” at Salt Lake City Granite School District Board Meeting. May 6, 2021

I was triggered by another poster who wrote, "Send in the Clowns". This reminded me of Frank Sinatra singing the song of the same name. I recall vividly, as a youngster, listening to 'Ol Blue Eyes is Back, watching the album spin on the turntable and me singing the song.Those were the days people had a wide variety of musical tastes. You could listen to standards on the radio, rock-n-roll, country and western and more while holding all of that in common with multiple generations.Here is the full album at the link.

Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson and Jefferson County School District Superintendent Chad Martin will hold a news conference about the shooting at 4 p.m. Thursday at the school district office. Initial reports given to EastIdahoNews.com by law enforcement identified the suspect as male. However, since then multiple sources have said that information is incorrect and identified the suspect as a female student. Rigby Middle School sixth-grader Lucy Long retraced the ordeal to IdahoEdnew.org, she said she heard gunshots near her classroom around 9 a.m., followed by loud bangs on the door. Someone locked the door and turned out the lights,...

AUSTIN, Texas — Longhorns linebacker Jake Ehlinger, brother of former Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger, was found dead off campus on Thursday afternoon, according to the Austin Police Department. APD said Jake Ehlinger was found around 12:20 p.m. at the 1200 block of West 22nd Street. No information on a cause of death was released, but police said the death is not considered suspicious.

(GREENVILLE, SC/FOX Carolina) - On June 30, South Carolina will return to its pre-pandemic unemployment program. On Thursday, Governor Henry McMaster directed the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) to end the state's participation in all federal unemployment benefit programs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Governor said the decision is in response to labor shortages. DEW Director Dan Ellzey said there are over 81,600 open job positions across the state. Ellzey said the agency believes reemployment is the best course of action for economic recovery. ------ "What was intended to be a short-term financial assistance for the...

Sunday evening was a family birthday celebration for the Reynas. It was the first time they had seen each other in over a year and the cousins were the most excited. "They were running around the yard and they had Nerf wars," said Adriana Reyna. "They were wrestling and just enjoying family time." It turned out someone called 911 on the family, stating there were gunshots and people fighting, according to Adriana. Taide Pineda was one of the responding officers who said he did not see any weapons, just Nerf guns. Once they noticed what was going on, the officers...

Explanation: NGC 3199 lies about 12,000 light-years away, a glowing cosmic cloud in the nautical southern constellation of Carina. The nebula is about 75 light-years across in this narrowband, false-color view. Though the deep image reveals a more or less complete bubble shape, it does look very lopsided with a much brighter edge along the top. Near the center is a Wolf-Rayet star, a massive, hot, short-lived star that generates an intense stellar wind. In fact, Wolf-Rayet stars are known to create nebulae with interesting shapes as their powerful winds sweep up surrounding interstellar material. In this case, the bright...

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Liz Cheney may hold views that are typically at polar opposites of the political spectrum. But on Thursday the progressive lawmaker from Vermont jumped to the defense of the Wyoming conservative, as she's expected to be ousted from her leadership position by House Republican leaders. -snip- "Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will likely be voted off the House Republican Leadership. Her crime: acknowledging the reality that Trump lost the election," Sanders, an independent who identifies as a democratic socialist, tweeted Thursday afternoon. The Vermont senator then took aim at the GOP more broadly. "The Republican Party...

A weightlifter from New Zealand is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics, Reuters reported Wednesday. Laurel Hubbard, 43, reportedly has been eligible to compete in the Olympics since 2015 after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) set new guidelines for transgender athletes. She qualified for this summer's coronavirus-delayed Summer Games in Tokyo after the IOC approved rule changes for qualifying events due to the pandemic. Hubbard hasn’t yet been named to the New Zealand women's weightlifting team, but her spot is essentially guaranteed, according to Reuters. USA Weightlifting spokesman Kevin Farley told Reuters that...

The 1619 Project was developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times that supposedly focuses on the cause(s) and consequences of slavery, etc, but does this "project" miss the target intentionally or otherwise? Before anything like this "project" (opposed by President Donald Trump and numerous other politicians, educators, etc, across the United States) should have even been attempted, much less potentially taught within classrooms in high school or beyond, were the times before the 1600's explored or even much less considered? Those origins could be covered in a "1400's Project" that deals with how the slave trade began in...

The short answer is, it depends... However, putting some of these conditions aside and focusing on population size, the minimum number is likely very small compared with the approximately 7.8 billion people alive today. Smith's research into early human civilizations and space colonization gives him pretty good insight into our apocalypse survival hopes. He expects big cities would be most vulnerable if global civilization were to crumble, as they import almost all of their food and are heavily reliant on electricity. Surviving populations would, therefore, likely spread out to find resources. A surviving population of just a few hundred people...

Thursday, Gov. Tim Walz announced the path to ending COVID-19 restrictions in Minnesota. Walz's three-stage plan will have most of the state's COVID-19 restrictions lifted by mid-summer. Part of that plan includes ending the statewide mask mandate when 70% of Minnesotans ages 16 and older are vaccinated, or by July 1. The state is currently on track to reach that mark by the end of next month. Restrictions will start loosening beginning on Friday, May 7, with limits for outdoor dining, events and other get-togethers ending. The mask requirement will also end for outdoor settings under 500 people. Additionally, the...

A state senator attended a virtual meeting while behind the wheel of his car on the same day his colleagues introduced a bill to punish distracted driving. Ohio state Senator Andrew Brenner, a Republican, tried to disguise his whereabouts by adding a CGI background of a home office during Monday's conference call. But he was busted thanks to the sight of a seatbelt draped across his torso - and by the background momentarily dropping when he leaned back in his car seat. Brenner attempted to defend his actions to The Columbus Dispatch, saying: 'I wasn't distracted.' 'I was paying attention...