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A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author and journalist has been accused of killing her elderly father with an ice axe on Election Night.

A 33-year-old Seattle woman killed her father with an ice ax after the pair got into an argument over keeping the lights off on Election Day, prosecutors alleged last week. Corey Burke, who “appeared to be having a mental health crisis,” is accused of murdering Timothy Burke, 67, inside their Seattle home around 8 p.m. last Tuesday... “Corey stated … when her father started arguing with her, about the lights being shut off, that she ‘just freaked out,’” according to the documents. “The defendant told Detectives that she knew that she could not convince him to keep the lights off,...

Rachel Powell’s life has been living Hell since she broke a window to “save lives” near the tunnel where Roseanne Boyland died on Jan. 6. With her upcoming sentencing hearing in October, Powell fears she may be sentenced to years in prison because of the decisions she made that day.For most of her confinement from Feb. 4, 2021, until now, Powell has been on strict court-ordered confinement with an ankle monitor inside a small cabin in rural Pennsylvania. At times, she, her family, and her old employer have been relentlessly harassed. The silver lining, says Powell, is that her immediate...

The Justice Department is seeking 8 years in prison for a Pennsylvania woman accused of directing Jan. 6 rioters into the Capitol building with a bullhorn. Federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memo Wednesday that they are seeking eight years in prison for Rachel Marie Powell, 41, who was convicted of all charges brought against her in July. Obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property, entering a restricted area with a weapon and engaging in violence on Capitol grounds were among her charges. The prosecutors said that they are seeking the eight-year sentence due to “her conduct on...