Day: April 7, 2023

San Francisco surveillance video illustrates agony of city crime in Bob Lee’s final moments

3:13 pm April 7, 2023

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING A man stumbles into the view of a surveillance camera aimed outward through the glass front door of a building lobby. He reaches out, placing his left hand against the doorframe before collapsing on to the sidewalk outside. The view changes to another camera, this one outside, facing the other way. The […]

Schiff leads California Senate fundraising race with $6.5M in first quarter

3:12 pm April 7, 2023

Rep. Adam Schiff’s California Senate campaign has so far raked in more cash than his two rivals combined, in what’s shaping up to be one of the most closely watched primary races of the 2024 election cycle. The retirement of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has sparked a fierce competition between three House Democrats all vying […]

Epstein cellmate, an ex-cop, convicted of killing 4 people

2:06 pm April 7, 2023

A former New York police officer who once shared a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein has been convicted of killing four people in a series of murders that prosecutors have described as being “gangland-style.” Nicholas Tartaglione was found guilty Thursday in White Plains federal court following a three-week trial on the December 2016 slayings in […]

What’s so good about Good Friday?

2:00 pm April 7, 2023

On this eve of Easter, why this focus on blood and death and gore today – Good Friday? Isn’t there sufficient agony and suffering in the world today to consider rather than pondering unpleasant events from 2,000 years ago? What, precisely, is “good” about Good Friday? We’d all prefer to avoid unpleasant, even if unavoidable, […]

NY judge in Trump hush-money case gave $15 to Biden in 2020, FEC records indicate

1:58 pm April 7, 2023

Judge Juan Merchan, the New York state judge presiding over former President Trump’s criminal case, made small political donations to progressive groups and Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, federal campaign contribution records indicate. Federal Election Commission reports show that Merchan, a judge employed by the New York State Office of Court Administration, made a $15 […]