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Oklahoma sheriff says recording of killing talk was illegal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

An Oklahoma sheriff’s office says a newspaper’s audio recording in which the sheriff and others are reportedly heard discussing killing two journalists and hanging Black people was illegal and predicted felony charges will be filed.A post on the sheriff’s office Facebook page — the agency’s first public comment since the comments by Sheriff Kevin Clardy and others were reported by the McCurtain Gazette-News — does not address the recorded discussion, but calls the situation “complex” and one “we regret having to address.”The threatening comments by the officials that were recorded have sparked outrage and protests. Oklahoma’s GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt and state Rep. Eddy Dempsey, a Republican who represents the area, have called for Clardy and others to resign. NAACP leaders in Oklahoma also called for the FBI and the Department of Justice to investigate.The sheriff’s statement calls the past 72 hours “amongst the most difficult and disruptive in recent memo...

Air Force unit in document leaks case loses intel mission

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is investigating how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly hundreds of highly classified documents, and in the meantime has taken away the intelligence mission from the unit where the leaks took place, Air Force leaders said Tuesday.Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Congress he has directed the Air Force inspector general to go look at the Air National Guard 102nd Intelligence Wing based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira served and look at “anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong.” Teixeira, 21, was charged Friday in the U.S. District Court in Boston with unauthorized removal and retention of classified and national defense information. He is expected back in court for a hearing Wednesday. The leaks have raised questions as to how a single airman could have removed so many documents without being detected, why there were not safety checks in place and how the documents could ...

Chicago woman charged after altercation, crash at gas station in Forest Park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

FOREST PARK, IL — A 31-year-old woman has been charged after a verbal altercation at a gas station led to two crashes in Forest Park.Police said the incident happened at the Thornton's Gas Station, located at 601 Harlem Avenue, around 3:10 p.m. Sunday. An investigation revealed the woman, identified as Kendra Nance of Chicago, was the passenger in a vehicle her boyfriend was driving. The couple pulled into the gas station due to car troubles and soon after engaged in a verbal dispute with other customers.According to police, customers threw an object at the vehicle the couple was in. Nance's boyfriend then exited the vehicle, and she entered the driver’s seat as the verbal dispute continued between the two groups.Police said Nance's boyfriend attempted to stop her and opened the car door, before she purposely crashed the vehicle into the car belonging to the other group — dragging her boyfriend through the parking lot while doing so.  She then fled at a high-rate of s...

Cook County correctional officer charged; accused of beating inmate 'more than 30 times'

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

CHICAGO — A Cook County correctional officer has been charged after he allegedly beat an inmate "more than 30 times" last year.Richard Smith, 44, is charged with official misconduct and aggravated battery following an incident at Cook County Jail on Sept. 20, 2022.Smith allegedly struck a 24-year-old inmate inside the jail's residential treatment unit "more than 30 times." Smith, who has been employed by the Cook County Sheriff's Office since 2010, was removed from working with individuals in custody following the incident as the investigation unfolded, authorities said.The condition of the 24-year-old was not given, but a press release states he was "treated for his injuries."Sheriff Tom Dart's office said cameras were the reason Smith was caught. A supervisor reviewing camera footage noticed the incident and reported it, authorities said.Smith was issued a $50,000 bond Tuesday. Police: Man helping get goose out of road struck, killed in suburbs The Cook County Sheriff's Office s...

2nd 14-year-old charged in shooting death of international GSU graduate student

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

CHICAGO — A second 14-year-old boy is charged in the death of a Governors State University graduate student who police said was shot and killed during a robbery near a Walmart on the city's South Side in January.The male juvenile was arrested Monday in the 1200 block of W. 83rd St. in connection with the shooting death of international student Devsish Nanpedu. SEE ALSO: Boy, 14, charged in shooting death of Governors State University graduate studentAccording to police, on Jan. 22, 23-year-old Nanpedu and another man were approached by two juveniles who demanded their personal belongings in the 8400 block of S. Holland in Princeton Park, near Walmart.Nanpedu and the man complied but were shot, police added. Both victims were taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, where Nanpedu later died from his injuries.A spokesperson for the university called the incident "a tragic loss of life for his family and the GSU community."Read more: Latest Chicago news headlinesThe 14-year-ol...

DOJ seeking longest sentence yet for Jan. 6 defendant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

(The Hill) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) will seek a 24-year prison sentence for a Jan. 6 rioter convicted of assaulting police officers, which if imposed would be the longest term of any case related to the 2021 attack at the Capitol. In a sentencing memo submitted on Monday, federal prosecutors argued that Peter Schwartz already had a lengthy criminal record before the events on Jan. 6, when he and others assaulted groups of officers. Schwartz, a Uniontown, Pennsylvania native, was convicted last December of several charges for his role in the Capitol insurrection, including four counts of felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers using a dangerous weapon. The DOJ said that Schwartz — who traveled to Washington, D.C. with his then-wife Shelley Stallings — “stole chemical munitions, including pepper spray, that had been left behind by the fleeing officers and used that pepper spray as a weapon to attack those same officers as they desperately tried...

Tiebreaker helps Bulls' chances to keep first round pick..a bit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

CHICAGO — Despite the fact that the team wasn't playing in the playoffs, the Bulls did have something on the line on Monday.That's when the NBA broke ties in the standings between the teams that didn't make the postseason - and the Bulls got a little help in their question to try and keep their first round pick.The Bulls won their tiebreaker drawing with the Thunder as they are officially 11th in the NBA Draft order..They have an 8.5% chance to get in the Top 4 (So they keep the pick, not trade it to the Magic).They have a 1.8% chance for the No. 1 pick..@WGNNews pic.twitter.com/4mBBLsBFgt— Larry Hawley (@HawleySports) April 17, 2023After each team finished with a 40-42 record, the Bulls won their tiebreaker against the Thunder for the 11th spot in the draft order. It's the second time in the last three years the Bulls have done so, having won the tiebreaker with both the Kings and the Pelicans for the eighth overall pick in 2021.Yet the team is faced with the same problem as ...

WATCH: Woman tries flirting with trooper before arrest on suspicion of human smuggling

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

MISSION, Texas (KVEO) — A woman accused of trying to smuggle two undocumented immigrants into the United States tried to flirt her way out of an arrest, and was captured on a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper's body camera.The video of her arrest was posted on Twitter by DPS Lt. Christopher Olivarez.On Wednesday, April 12, troopers stopped a gold Chevrolet Malibu in Jim Hogg County. After speaking with the driver, Lidia Elizabeth Badillo, a Mexican national living in Edinburg, troopers suspected she was smuggling two women.Badillo is seen on the trooper's body cam footage saying that she and her two friends, who she claims she met four months ago at "Club Fuego," were going to go get drinks at a bar. Photo: Texas DPSWhen asked if the driver's licenses presented were legitimate, Badillo told the trooper that she did not know. Body of missing Mission woman found in Nuevo León Moments later, as the trooper states he is going to run the driver's licenses through the system, Ba...

Police: Man arrested, 2 shot after Elgin parking lot fight

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

ELGIN, Texas (KXAN) — A 25-year-old man was arrested after two people were shot during a fight in an H-E-B parking lot early Tuesday morning, the Elgin Police Department said in a release.Police said multiple shots were fired into a vehicle in the parking lot at 1080 East U.S. Highway 290, hitting two people. One person was taken to the hospital by helicopter with serious injuries. Another person was treated at the scene, EPD said.Officers initially responded to the shots fired call around 12:15 a.m. While at the scene, police got a call for a shooting victim near 800 State Highway 95 North, which is about two miles away from the first call, police said.After investigating throughout the night, police said a suspect, identified as Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., was taken into custody and charged with deadly conduct, a third-degree felony.EPD said the investigation is still active and additional or enhanced charges could be filed.

A few days of wet weather

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:58 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Pre-dawn showers and thunderstorms raced across Caldwell, Bastrop, and Fayette Counties with brief heavy rain and lightning. The "highest" rain total measured was .16" at the Fayette Power Plant.Light rain moved north over Hays, Bastrop, Travis, and Williamson Cos. during the noon hour. More areas of light rain are expected this afternoon with only a few hundredths of an inch measured.Scattered areas of rain will affect some of the area Wednesday morning. Decreasing clouds are forecast during the afternoon. A better chance of thunderstorms pops in the Thursday afternoon/night forecast period. Present forecast trends point to the majority of these thunderstorms, which could be severe, affecting the eastern half of the area, essentially from the interstate eastward.Active weather possible Thursday afternoonStorms remaining active during the eveningThe Storm Prediction Center's Thursday severe outlook includes a SLIGHT risk over Milam and adjacent sections of Lee and W...