About damn time: A team of top federal prosecutors and investigators has taken the first steps toward a formal criminal investigation into oil giant BP’s actions before and after the drilling rig disaster off Louisiana. The investigators, who have been quietly gathering evidence in Louisiana over the last three weeks, are focusing on whether BP […]
This is all we know so far: The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it was responding to another oil drilling rig accident near Morgan City, Louisiana. The “mobile inland drilling unit” overturned in the Charenton navigational channel south of U.S. Highway 90 at Morgan City. UPDATE. Here’s some more: Officials say an oil drilling rig […]
From WLWT-Cincinnati: Police arrested a Carthage man accused of beating a homeless man and issued warrants for three other suspects in the attack. Investigators said Michael Hesson and three other men, who police said were active-duty military personnel, went to a homeless camp near West Mitchell Avenue and ordered a homeless man and his girlfriend […]
A FOIA request from the ACLU has uncovered some really disturbing facts of inmate deaths inside our immigration jails: As one man lay dying of head injuries suffered in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2007, for example, a spokesman for the federal agency told a reporter that he could learn nothing about the case […]
The carnage continues, this time in Alabama: Two women and their children were shot to death this morning at a Greenhill residence, according to friends of the victims’ family. Identities of the victims have not been released by law enforcement officials, but they have confirmed four people are dead. Family friends say the victims are […]
Didn’t expect this: Former White House political adviser Karl Rove and counsel Harriet Miers have agreed to face questions from Congress about allegations of improper political influence in the Justice Department, the House Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday. Both will give depositions to investigators from the committee, and claims of privilege will be “significantly limited,” according […]
This goes beyond absurd: We’ve now learned that since investigators began trying to build a case, they’ve made eight arrests: seven for drug possession and one for distribution. These are arrests that resulted as the sheriff’s department served search warrants. We’ve also learned that the department has located and confiscated that bong. So the police […]
Welcome back to the sixties: No bombs were thrown into the party, but just after 3 a.m. several miles away, someone crept into a clearing in the woods and set fire to the predominantly black Macedonia Church of God in Christ, reducing it to a skeleton of charred metal and wood. Investigators have yet to […]
This time it happened a couple of miles from me: A former Hamilton resident who worked the audio-visual system for an area church allegedly sent child pornography while on the job. Albert Jefferson Stone, 28, of Harrison Avenue in Cincinnati was arrested Wednesday, Nov. 12, by the FBI and charged in U.S. District Court with […]
That’s what the FBI is wondering: FBI agents investigating government watchdog Scott Bloch have subpoenaed any records that would reveal whether concerns about the 2004 elections prompted him to clear Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of ethics violations. Bloch, the U.S. special counsel who investigates federal employee whistleblower complaints, found no merit to allegations that […]