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date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A set of corporate entities co-founded by Frank Carone, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ trusted political confidante, helped orchestrate a sprawling “money laundering scheme” that ultimately bilked $3.5 million from a major insurance company, according to a new federal lawsuit.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/companies-co-founded-by-nyc-mayor-adams-adviser-frank-carone-named-as-defendants-in-money/article_22f223c6-a250-11ee-87a3-132a17c603ff.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The lead investigator at the 6abc helicopter crash site said Friday that nothing has been found so far indicating why Chopper 6 went down Tuesday night in Burlington County, killing the pilot and a photographer.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/why-philly-news-helicopter-crashed-is-still-a-mystery-ntsb-official-says-investigation-expected-to/article_c4a507de-a24f-11ee-a2f2-27f57a906541.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The acquittal of three Tacoma police officers charged with killing Manuel Ellis ended their criminal troubles, but the fallout from Ellis’ death is far from over.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/what-comes-next-for-tacoma-officers-acquitted-of-charges-in-manuel-ellis-death/article_3c5980da-a24f-11ee-8163-9b7b9bd12497.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Iran’s foreign minister denied that his country is helping Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack commercial ships traveling through the Red Sea, warning the waterway won’t be safe as long as Israel maintains its offensive in Gaza.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/iran-dismisses-us-intelligence-tying-it-to-red-sea-attacks/article_b462832a-a24e-11ee-b8d9-674d8f1c65a2.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — President Joe Biden said he “can’t think of one” reason presidents should receive absolute immunity from prosecution, as Republican front-runner Donald Trump has claimed.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/biden-says-presidents-can-be-subject-to-criminal-prosecution/article_259f6162-a24e-11ee-a2ef-cbe2333ae938.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through Center City on Saturday afternoon to disrupt the last-minute Christmas shopping blitz with sorrowful reminders of the ongoing siege in Gaza — a protest that culminated in a tense standoff with police officers and the arrest of two protesters for disorderly conduct near Rittenhouse Square, authorities said.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/two-protesters-were-arrested-at-a-pro-palestinian-march-in-philly-during-the-christmas-shopping/article_9183d828-a24d-11ee-bfb7-2fb7a62c1b3d.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Coronavirus transmission is once again spiking in California entering the winter holiday season — and a new subvariant may be partly to blame, officials say.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/a-new-coronavirus-variant-may-be-behind-californias-covid-rise/article_e8104e5c-a24c-11ee-877c-df80fef7b0ed.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Flu activity is rising rapidly as we head into Christmas week, according to the latest figures from the Georgia Department of Public Health released Friday.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/georgia-sees-a-spike-in-flu-activity-ahead-of-christmas/article_8e8c3828-a24c-11ee-83ca-c38884e0ba07.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
LONGMONT, Colorado (Reuters) — Two Colorado paramedics were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide by a jury on Friday for their role in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died after police roughly detained him, put him in a choke hold, and the medics injected him with a powerful sedative.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/colorado-paramedics-found-guilty-in-death-of-elijah-mcclain/article_b0fd6e6e-a24b-11ee-ab49-0b09344406b5.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-24, updated: 2023-12-24, from: Marianas Variety
(Reuters) — A drone launched from Iran struck a chemical tanker in the Indian ocean early on Saturday, the U.S. Department of Defense said.
https://www.mvariety.com/news/national/pentagon-says-iranian-drone-attack-hit-chemical-tanker-near-india/article_4d535068-a24b-11ee-8c75-3b15062383d4.html Save to Pocket