Month: May 2023

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fired The Texas House of Representatives has voted 121-23 to impeach Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The vote means Paxton is suspended from office as the matter moves to the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is needed to convict Paxton, which would permanently remove him from the attorney general’s office and bar him from holding a future elected office in Texas. The vote to approve the 20 articles of impeachment (including bribery, dereliction of duty and obstruction of justice) comes after testimony earlier this week from investigators appointed by the General Investigative Committee of the…

QUINCY, Mass. — Two men from Quincy and Worcester are charged in a “large-scale Massachusetts drug trafficking enterprise” after state police and U.S. postal inspectors intercepted a three-kilogram shipment of suspected cocaine from Puerto Rico in Massachusetts, state police said. Stephen Marsden, 35, of 100 Cove Way, Quincy, and Evans Klimavich, 41, of 4 Allison Circle, Worcester, were arrested Friday after investigators executed search warrants at their home, state police said . Marsden was charged with cocaine trafficking; possession of a Class C narcotic (edible THC) with intent to distribute; possession of a Class E narcotic (Xanax) with intent to…

AUSTIN – Lawmakers have once again ignored calls for Texas to move quickly to install air conditioning in all prisons. In the final budget package that clears roadblocks as the session ends, the Senate rejected a House request to use more than half a million of the state’s surplus to speed up the installation of modern HVAC systems in prisons A Democrat and a prisoner advocate reacted angrily to the news that the Department of Criminal Justice did not receive funds earmarked for air conditioning. “We had a chance to get it right,” said Rep. Carl Sherman, D-DeSoto, who fought…

Forestry crews from Keren Kayemet Israel (KKL-JNF) and the Israel Fire and Rescue Services battled at least 176 separate forest fires across Israel on Saturday, amid a severe heat wave that heard all over the country. In the north of the country alone, 53 fires had to be put out on Saturday. The coastal area suffered 32 fires, the Jerusalem area 28, the south 24, the central region 22, while the West Bank suffered 14 fires throughout the day. Near Acre, traffic was diverted from the Acre East intersection due to thick smoke from a nearby forest fire, according to…

STOUGHTON, Mass – Police have arrested a man in connection with a chaotic scene in Stoughton Wednesday night that police say began as a road rage incident and ended in a shooting and three-car crash . Anh Kieu, 39, of Quincy, was arrested without incident at his apartment Saturday on a warrant issued the day before. He faces four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and marked lane violations for the pursuit that ended with an innocent vehicle being hit. Police say the incident began at the 9/11 store on Washington Street in…

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. may be here to stay as new polls show that Democratic voters are not enthusiastic about re-electing President Biden in 2024. Kennedy’s poll numbers have remained steady since he launched his 2024 presidential campaign, with the most recent Fox News poll this week showing the challenger at 16% of the Democratic primary vote , a major part for a primary challenger against an incumbent. Biden’s other main challenger, author Marianne Williamson, won 8 percent of the vote while the president stagnated, maintaining 62 percent of Democratic primary voters’ support since April. DEM 2024…

Give this item as a gift Share this article without paywalls. In this version of Hot off the Wire: » House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and debt ceiling negotiators have reached a “crunch time” as they scramble to reach a deal with the White House to raise the nation’s debt limit, avoid the ‘default and reduce federal spending. » An Army veteran, Jessica Watkins, who stormed the US Capitol in a military-style formation with her fellow Oath Keepers has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison. A political aide familiar with the plans says two-term North Dakota Gov. Doug…

MIAMI — When Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his run for president Wednesday, confirming years of speculation, he delivered a Twitter-verse speech that addressed issues most Republicans would get behind: He would build a border wall, end inflation and, by a large majority, President Joe Biden would win in November 2024. But DeSantis followed that standard campaign rhetoric with a wide-ranging discussion that touched on a number of more niche issues. Along with billionaire Elon Musk and a supporting cast of other sympathetic conservatives, DeSantis delved into the concerns of a certain kind of connected Republican: tech censorship and cryptocurrency regulation….