Day: October 19, 2023

California tech CEO sentenced to 8 years for COVID, allergy test fraud case

6:11 pm October 19, 2023

A Silicon Valley executive who lied to investors about inventing technology that tested for allergies and COVID-19 using only a few drops of blood was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $24 million in restitution, federal prosecutors said. Mark Schena, 60, was convicted last year of paying bribes to doctors […]

Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate gets execution delayed for sentence review hearing

6:11 pm October 19, 2023

The November execution of a man on Idaho’s death row was delayed on Wednesday because the state’s parole board has granted a hearing to consider changing his sentence to life in prison. An Idaho judge last week issued a death warrant for Thomas Creech, the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Creech was convicted of killing […]

User’s manual to House gambit to temporarily sidetrack Jordan and install McHenry as interim speaker

6:10 pm October 19, 2023

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, won’t face another round of voting for speaker today. He was expected to lose additional votes. So Jordan is now getting behind an interim plan to empower House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., as acting speaker on a temporary basis. Jordan would remain the GOP “nominee” for […]

NFL owner goes viral for unique dances moves after Aces claim back-to-back WNBA championships

5:13 pm October 19, 2023

The Las Vegas Aces became the first WNBA team in more than two decades to win back-to-back championships with a narrow victory in Game 4 of the WNBA finals on Wednesday night, and owner Mark Davis could hardly contain himself. Davis, owner of the Aces and the Las Vegas Raiders, saw his team defeat the […]

Iran hostage victim on parallels between 1979 crisis, Gaza captives: Iran’s fingerprints ‘are all over this’

5:10 pm October 19, 2023

Rocky Sickmann lived through 444 days of terror as one of 52 Americans held captive during the Iran Hostage Crisis that began in 1979. The former Marine is now urging people to pray for the hostages facing an uncertain future in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on with no end in […]