Day: August 4, 2023

14-year-old boy charged with homicide after accidentally fatally shooting 9-year-old

11:47 am August 4, 2023

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree reckless homicide after accidentally fatally shooting a 9-year-old last month, authorities said. The teen said he shot Harwinder Singh in the back seat of a car after finding a gun in the glove compartment when a man got out of the vehicle to enter a business, a […]

Former NBA player sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding league’s health benefit plan

11:40 am August 4, 2023

The United States Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that former NBA player Terrence Williams has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of more than $5 million. Williams has been incarcerated in Brooklyn since the spring of 2022 after he threatened witnesses in his case. Williams, […]

8 dead, 4 injured in Thailand after train collides with pickup truck

11:37 am August 4, 2023

Eight people were killed when a freight train struck a pickup truck that was crossing railway tracks in an eastern province of Thailand early Friday morning, authorities said. The accident at 2:20 a.m. also injured four people in the Muang district of Chachoengsao province, according to the State Railway of Thailand. The 54-year-old driver, Wichai […]

Scientists say Endangered Species Act is as essential as ever after 50 years of success

11:36 am August 4, 2023

Biologist Ashley Wilson carefully disentangled a bat from netting above a tree-lined river and examined the wriggling, furry mammal in her headlamp’s glow. “Another big brown,” she said with a sigh. It was a common type, one of many Wilson and colleagues had snagged on summer nights in the southern Michigan countryside. They were looking […]

Kamala Harris repeats the phrase ‘our space cooperation’ three times in less than 30 seconds

11:00 am August 4, 2023

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered another redundant word salad Wednesday, this time repeating the phrase “space cooperation” over and over. Harris’s tenure as President Biden’s vice president has been characterized by a series of strangely worded and repetitive public statements. As she hosted Mongolian Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai at the White House to discuss tourism, […]