Month: July 2022

OPINION: President Biden is breaking records and making history on the southern border. But this is not good. During this fiscal year, federal authorities encountered more than 1,746,119 undocumented migrants, a record for any fiscal year since 1960, according to reports from the Personalized Border Patrol. To make matters worse, more than half a million migrants who crossed the US border illegally this fiscal year have successfully evaded authorities, according to a new report released by the Department of Homeland Security. The department said there has been a monthly average of about 55,000 “runaways” (illegal immigrants who are detected by…

Nichelle Nichols, who rose to fame as communications officer Lt. Uhura in the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89. Nichols died Saturday in Silver City, New Mexico, his son Kyle Johnson said. “Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away. Her light, however, like the ancient galaxies now seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn and inspire us,” Johnson wrote on his official Facebook page on Sunday. “His was a life well lived and a model for us all.” His role…

A West Haven man was arrested Saturday in Wallingford after police say he threw an ax at two people in a road rage incident. According to a Wallingford police news release, Charles P. Smith, 33, of 171 Second Avenue in West Haven, was backing his car into traffic on South Turnpike Road shortly after noon at the Redwood Flea Market . Another driver honked at Smith, which made him angry, according to the release. “Smith then drove his car around the victim’s car, slammed on his brakes, got out of his car, ran up to the victim and pulled the…

RONALD TOWNSHIP, Michigan — An SUV driven by an alleged drunken driver plowed into a group of bicyclists participating in a charity event in west Michigan, killing two men and seriously injuring at least three others, authorities said. The vehicle crossed a center line in Ionia County on Saturday and struck the bicyclists on a rural road, the sheriff’s office said. “The impact caused critical injuries to all bicyclists and emergency responders worked diligently to preserve the lives of the victims,” ​​the sheriff’s office said. Two men died. The three survivors had serious injuries. All were from the eastern part…

Update on July 31, 2022 at 10:55 a.m.: The Great Falls Police Department says the mountain lion has been safely removed and is in the custody of Game Wardens. According to GFPD, the big cat broke a window and entered the basement of the home. The game wardens were able to calm it down. Montana FWP says no humans were injured, but the cat was injured by broken window glass. FWP says, “It is FWP policy not to relocate mountain lions, and because of that policy as well as her injuries, the adult lioness was euthanized shortly after the incident….

Kyiv, Ukraine — A small explosive device carried by an improvised drone exploded at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet on the Crimean Peninsula on Sunday, killing six people and prompting the cancellation of ceremonies there honoring in the Russian navy, officials said. Meanwhile, one of Ukraine’s richest men, a grain merchant, was killed in what Ukrainian authorities said was a Russian missile attack on his home. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion of a drone in a yard at the naval headquarters in the city of Sevastopol. But the seemingly improvised and small-scale nature…