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Dunkirk Police Arrest Man on Drug and Weapon Charges Following Warrant Execution
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Dunkirk Police Arrest Man on Drug and Weapon Charges Following Warrant Execution

Dunkirk, New York (WNY News Now) A man from Dunkirk was arrested on an outstanding warrant and charged with several felonies after it was discovered that he was in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.Fernando Martinez Jr., 44, was taken into custody by Dunkirk Police officers on Central Avenue close to 4th Street on Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at around 11:05 p.m. A January 2024 inquiry into Martinez's alleged possession of a semi-automatic weapon resulted in an active warrant.Officers found other evidence of illicit activities while making the arrest. According to reports, Martinez had 0.9 grams of cocaine, 3.2 grams of fentanyl, and 6.5 grams of methamphetamine in his possession. A digital scale, cutting tools, several glassine envelopes, and $446 in cash—all of which are frequent...
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Karen Read is accused of killing her police officer boyfriend. Here’s what we know about the murder case.
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Karen Read is accused of killing her police officer boyfriend. Here’s what we know about the murder case.

Two years ago, on a frigid morning, Boston Police Officer John O. Keefe was discovered unconscious in the front yard of another officer's suburban residence. Shortly after his death, his girlfriend, Karen Read, was accused of killing him. The 44-year-old Read asserted her innocence and said that there was a large-scale plot by police to blame her in the murder. Jurors were unable to reach a consensus following a nine-week trial and five days of deliberations in a Norfolk County courthouse located just outside of Boston. On July 1, a court ruled a mistrial. A new trial was set for April 1 after prosecutors promised to retry Read. Read was accused of driving under the influence, leaving the scene of a collision that resulted in death, and second-degree murder. According to court documents, j...
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Nikki Giovanni’s legacy lives through the writers who knew and were inspired by her
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Nikki Giovanni’s legacy lives through the writers who knew and were inspired by her

The journey from Nikki Giovanni's house in Christiansburg, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., which Kwame Alexander had made many times, felt different on Thursday morning. He had been at Giovanni's deathbed three days earlier, together with her family and a few close friends, as the renowned poet and campaigner drew her final breath. At the age of 81, Giovanni passed away on Monday due to complications from lung cancer. During the week, Alexander assisted with funeral preparations alongside her spouse, Virginia C. Fowler, and other individuals. But as he drove home alone, Alexander thought back on the special relationship he and Giovanni had formed over the years and how it encapsulated the influence she had on the lives of many Black writers. Alexander, a 56-year-old young adult fiction auth...
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‘It beats working’: Bill Belichick explains stunning UNC coaching decision
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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‘It beats working’: Bill Belichick explains stunning UNC coaching decision

Bill Belichick, the recently hired football coach at the University of North Carolina, said on Thursday that he is committed to the collegiate game and is not searching for a way back to the professional ranks. A large portion of the football community was taken aback this week when the University of North Carolina hired Belichick, whose stellar NFL career contrasts sharply with a bare collegiate curriculum. The six-time Super Bowl winning coach told reporters in Chapel Hill, "I didn't come here to leave." "I m here to do the best I can for the University of North Carolina and the program." The University's Board of Trustees and Board of Governors must approve Belichick's five-year deal. "We've been playing football at Carolina since 1888 and I suspect that in those 136 years, there are fe...
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Biden’s clemency and pardon list includes former elected official, lawyers and medical bill company owner
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Biden’s clemency and pardon list includes former elected official, lawyers and medical bill company owner

Washington A tax lawyer involved in the largest tax fraud case ever; a county commissioner convicted of accepting nearly half a million dollars in bribes, including a stone-fired pizza oven; and the owner of a Medicare billing business in the Detroit area who masterminded a $26 million Medicare scam. In the biggest single-day act of clemency in contemporary history, President Joe Biden commuted the federal sentences of all of them on Thursday. In a broad and historic move, Biden commuted nearly 1,500 sentences and granted 39 pardons to inmates who had been released from prison more than a year ago under the CARES Act, a pandemic-era law designed to reduce overcrowding in federal prisons and convicted of non-violent crimes, many of which had to do with illegal drugs. The offense will now ...
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House passes bipartisan bill adding new judges that Biden has vowed to veto
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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House passes bipartisan bill adding new judges that Biden has vowed to veto

Washington Despite President Joe Biden's vow to veto it, the House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bipartisan bill supported by the federal judiciary that would add hundreds of new judgeships. Prior to President-elect Donald Trump's election victory last month, the law was regarded as uncontroversial and had already passed the Senate with bipartisan backing. Massachusetts' House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark urged colleagues to vote against the bill in a memo she sent out prior to Thursday's vote. She noted that although this plan aims to address our court system's backlog, House Democrats should maintain objectivity on the implications of permitting a sizable number of new, vacant judgeships in the event of a Trump administration. On Thursday, the bill was approved by the Ho...
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UCLA student sues California doctors, says she was ‘fast-tracked’ into transgender surgery
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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UCLA student sues California doctors, says she was ‘fast-tracked’ into transgender surgery

A UCLA student is bringing a medical malpractice lawsuit against several California hospitals and healthcare providers, claiming she was misdiagnosed with gender dysphoria and then hurried onto a path of irreversibly harmful puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery. In a lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, claimed that she was sexually abused as a young child and that by the time she was eleven, she was struggling with the idea of becoming a woman and had started to think that life would be simpler if she were a boy. She told her then-school counselor about this, and the counselor informed her that she was transgender and called her parents to confirm this. Breen, who was also suffering from anxiety, depression and undiagnosed p...
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‘Vanderpump Rules’ star James Kennedy arrested on domestic violence charge
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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‘Vanderpump Rules’ star James Kennedy arrested on domestic violence charge

Police said James Kennedy, a reality star on Vanderpump Rules, was arrested earlier this week on a misdemeanor domestic assault complaint. Burbank Police verified to NBC News that the 32-year-old DJ, whose full name is James Kennedy Georgiou, was taken into custody Tuesday night in Burbank, Los Angeles County, after officers were called to a residence for a fight between him and a woman at approximately 11:30 p.m.The event was initially reported by TMZ. According to police, Mr. Georgiou was arrested after the inquiry found it to be a domestic incident. After posting bond, he was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence. According to the police, the Burbank City Attorney's office is still reviewing formal charges. Ally Lewber, who also starred on the reality show, is Kennedy's girlfriend....
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Raise a glass: A lot of top-shelf booze is more within reach this holiday season
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Raise a glass: A lot of top-shelf booze is more within reach this holiday season

This holiday season, alcohol will cost you a little more than it did last year. Additionally, there are ways to get more for your money whether purchasing a round of drinks or bringing a bottle to an event. Beer continues to be less expensive than many liquors, and alcohol is still typically less expensive at home than in pubs and restaurants. But some spirits, including many tequilas and whiskeys, are seeing noteworthy price drops that have made even top-shelf bottles a bit more affordable. According to official inflation data issued on Wednesday, the average cost of whiskey purchased for domestic consumption has decreased by almost 2% in the past year. Conversely, beer served outside the house costs roughly 4% more. And on Thursday, federal regulators turned a spotlight on retail booze p...
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Trump says it will be ‘hard’ to bring down grocery prices, pins hopes on lower energy costs and better supply chains
13Dec By Grace ThompsonNo Comments
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Trump says it will be ‘hard’ to bring down grocery prices, pins hopes on lower energy costs and better supply chains

Despite making lowering grocery prices a central platform of his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump is admitting that it might be challenging. But in an interview with Time magazine, which named him 2024's Person of the Year, Trump stated that he still thinks supply chain improvements and cheaper energy prices will make it possible. When asked if he believes his presidency will be a "failure" if grocery costs don't decline, Trump said it won't, while criticizing the present administration for its handling of inflation, which first caused food prices to rise. "They got them up, you see. I want to take them down. Once something is up, it's difficult to take it down. In the interview that was released on Thursday, he stated, "You know, it's very hard." However, I believe they will. That e...
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