Month: August 2022

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the shooting spree of ‘Sandy Hook Elementary School, marking the first time the Infowars host has been held financially accountable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in US history was a hoax. The jury in Austin has yet to decide how much Host of Infowars must pay punitive damages Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewiswhose son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators…

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) – A missing 14-year-old girl who disappeared while babysitting her younger brother and sister in Brooklyn last week was found Thursday in Harlem, according to a police source who spoke to PIX11 News. “She was staying in an apartment. Someone called the police,” the source said. Harlem 24th Precinct Police Officers responded and took the teenager to a local hospital for medical evaluation. Detectives from the 77th Precinct in Brooklyn, the area where the teenager lives, were going to the hospital to interview her, according to the source. PIX11 News is no longer identifying the teenager…

Firefighters in the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico are among firefighters across the West battling the McKinney wildfire in Northern California. [InciWeb photo] Warm, dry weather could fuel fire growth The McKinney wildfire near Yreka in northern California grew by more than 1,000 acres from Wednesday to Thursday, but rain and the efforts of firefighters have so far kept the blaze from becoming a fast-moving megafire. over 100,000 acres. The fire advanced 1,149 acres to reach 58,668 as of Thursday morning. It was 10% contained, fire officials said. First reported on July 29, the fire grew by tens of…

MIAMI – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Tampa’s top prosecutor Thursday, accusing him of incompetence and dereliction of duty for vowing not to prosecute those who seek or perform abortions. In a surprising announcement, Mr. DeSantis, a Republican, suspended Andrew H. Warren, the elected Hillsborough County state’s attorney. In June, Mr. Warren, a Democrat, was among 90 elected prosecutors nationwide who pledged not to prosecute those who seek or perform abortions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Florida imposed a 15-week abortion ban in April. The decision immediately raised concerns among Democrats, including Mr. Warren, who say the governor…

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Channel 2 Action News has learned a power outage in Decatur caused officials to evacuate the courthouse. The outage occurred around 2 p.m DeKalb County Superior Court Clerk Debra DeBerry tweeted an evacuation alert Thursday afternoon. 🚨 Alert: The DeKalb County Courthouse is currently being evacuated. Stay away from the area until further notice. pic.twitter.com/FQAbHAGUIN — DeKalb County Clerk (@DKSuperiorClerk) August 4, 2022 “All courts were closed and judges were escorted from the facility. Inmates who were there for the hearings have been returned to the DeKalb County Jail,” the county said in an email to…

The Biden administration is declaring a public health emergency for the monkey pox outbreak in the United States, which now has more virus infections than any other country in the world The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, announced the decision Thursday in an informational meeting with the main public health officials. “This public health emergency will allow us to explore additional strategies to get vaccines and treatments faster to affected communities. And it will allow us to get more data from jurisdictions so we can effectively track and attack this outbreak,” Robert Fenton. the White House’s newly…