Day: January 17, 2025

Second arrest made in Florida bowling alley shooting that left off-duty ATF agent paralyzed: ‘Senseless’

1:44 pm January 17, 2025

Florida authorities have charged a second person with attempted murder this week in connection with the December shooting of an off-duty federal agent that left him paralyzed. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested Tia Heyward, 23, on Wednesday after investigators determined she allegedly aided Christopher Smith, 18, in the Dec. 27, 2024, shooting of an […]

Fire at Central California power plant prompts evacuations, shut down of Highway 1

1:31 pm January 17, 2025

Monterey County sent out an emergency alert system warning Thursday evening to say the North County Fire Department is responding to a fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant in Central California and some areas are under evacuation orders. The Moss County Sheriff’s Office issued emergency evacuation orders due to a fire at the Vistra […]

AI scammers pretending to be Brad Pitt con woman out of $850,000

12:30 pm January 17, 2025

A happily-ever-after with whom a woman assumed to be Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt quickly turned into a living nightmare. On Jan. 12, the French television channel TF1 aired an episode of its show “Sept à Huit,” which told the story of a 53-year-old interior designer named Anne who revealed that she had lost 830,000 euros […]

Biden defends inflation policies, says ‘red states really screwed up’ their economies in final interview

11:03 am January 17, 2025

President Biden defended his administration by insisting inflation was down and that “red states” were screwing up their own economies. Biden sat down with MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell for the last interview of his administration before officially leaving office on Monday. The two discussed many topics, including Biden’s handling of the economy and the threat […]

DeSantis touts Florida’s ‘future way of thinking,’ vows state will ‘do our duty’ to help incoming Trump admin

10:29 am January 17, 2025

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doubled down on his past criticism of California, praising the Sunshine State’s “future way of thinking” on “Hannity” Thursday. “Seeing what’s happened in California shows the failures that we were talking about that night unfortunately exacerbated a really horrific situation,” DeSantis said, referencing his debate with Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2023. […]