Archives: 2018

Ex-pilot sentenced to year in prison for flying drunk

A former Alaska Airlines pilot who admitted to being drunk while flying an aircraft with more than 80 passengers on board has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison, the U.S. Attorney in central California said Wednesday. David Hans Arntson, 63, of Newport Beach, California, had previously pleaded guilty to one felony count of operating a common carrier…

Arrest made in fatal shooting of Black Lives Matter activist

  Muhiyidin D’Baha speaks during a meeting with North Charleston city council about the killing of Walter Scott by a North Charleston police officer Saturday, after a traffic stop in North Charleston, S.C., Thursday, April 9, 2015. Chuck Burton/AP NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a Black Lives Matter activist known for…

Accused Russian spy had shirtless Putin photo on phone, college friends say

“Some were, became conscious early, of this very outspoken advocacy of the Kremlin and some eyebrows were raised at American University when in 2017, former National Security Director Susan Rice got an office, an academic office, where she’s working on a book at American University, that was in the same suite of offices where Maria Butina had a job as a student worker,”

In wake of shooting, gun ownership under debate in Toronto

TORONTO — Of all the things people in Toronto are horrified by in the aftermath of the shooting that killed two people and injured 13, this stands out: The man responsible had a handgun. To mass shooting-weary America – where there are about 300 million guns of all kinds – possession of a handgun might seem commonplace. But in Toronto, the very idea…