Day: July 28, 2023

Minnesota, South Dakota companies scrap major healthcare merger

6:04 pm July 28, 2023

A merger that would have created one of the largest health service companies in the Upper Midwest has been scrapped. Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services and Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Sanford Health announced Thursday that they would not proceed with the merger they had been discussing since late last year. It would have created a system […]

Embattled ex-Hogan aide killed by 2 gunshot wounds, 1 self-inflicted: autopsy report

6:02 pm July 28, 2023

A former Maryland political aide who failed to appear for his trial on federal corruption charges died after suffering two gunshot wounds — one of them self-inflicted — as FBI agents closed in on him in Tennessee, according to an autopsy report made public Friday. Authorities said agents acted in self-defense, and there will be […]

Woman dead, 6 others hurt after boat crashes, capsizes in Chicago’s Lake Michigan

6:00 pm July 28, 2023

A woman died and six other people were hospitalized after a boat struck a Chicago breakwall early Friday and capsized in Lake Michigan, authorities said. CHICAGO-AREA MAN WHO DROWNED TRYING TO SAVE KIDS IN LAKE MICHIGAN WAS 9/11 SURVIVOR The seven boaters were returning to shore about 4 a.m. when their boat hit a breakwall […]

New batch of ‘Facebook Files’ shows social media giant continually bowed to Biden demands, Jim Jordan says

5:59 pm July 28, 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, shared another batch of newly subpoenaed documents that he said “reveal Facebook bowed to the Biden White House’s pressure to remove posts” from the social media platform on Friday. A lengthy social media thread dubbed “The Facebook Files Part 2” began with the link to a Wall Street Journal report headlined “Facebook […]

Evidence leaks in Madison Brooks case take ’emotional toll’ on family as defense doubts conviction

5:14 pm July 28, 2023

WARNING: GRAPHIC DNA from the four suspects charged in the alleged rape of Madison Brooks was not found inside the Louisiana State University sophomore, according to her leaked autopsy, which was exclusively obtained by WBRZ. Genetic material from one of the suspects, Kaivon Washington, was found around the LSU student’s genital area, and an abrasion […]