Residents that have been displaced by a fire that broke through an apartment building at 650 Parliament St. last summer will likely not be able to return to their homes until the fall of this year. The return date for residents has been pushed back again after the building management announced in March that residents […]
The owners of a cat made famous online because of its permanent scowl have been awarded $710,000 (£500,000) in a case by a California federal court. Grumpy Cat Limited sued the owners of US coffee company Grenade for exceeding an agreement over the cat’s image. The company only had rights to use the cat to […]
You will smell it before you see it. Goody’s, a 30-year-old West Indian restaurant known for its oxtail and jerk chicken, brims with locals, many of Caribbean descent with discerning palates. It is a staple for residents of Arverne, Queens, a tight-knit but often overlooked neighborhood located between Rockaway Beach and Far Rockaway. On a […]
When things go wrong, those in power often promise to make it right. But do they? This is the first in a series in which The Times is going back to the scene of major news events to see if those promises were kept. After Colombia’s government signed a peace deal with the country’s main […]
A man arrested by Illinois police for stealing what turned out to be his own car has come to an out-of-court settlement with a Chicago suburb. Northwestern University PhD student Lawrence Crosby was 25 when the incident happened in 2015. A woman called the police when she saw him trying to fix a loose part […]
US President Donald Trump has outlined plans for a new US immigration system designed to favour younger, better educated, English-speaking workers. In an address at the White House, he proposed moving away from the current system that favours applicants with family ties to the US. He said border security would be beefed up and a […]
WASHINGTON (THE WASHINGTON POST) – Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, refused again on Thursday (May 16) to testify to a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and was again sent to jail for up to 18 months. Manning, 31, served […]
Two prisoners on death row have been put to death by lethal injection. Wife murderer Donnie Johnson and mass murderer Michael Samra were both executed in the US today. Johnson murdered his wife with a plastic bag in 1984, while Samra killed five people, including two children, over a dispute about a pickup truck. Johnson […]
A wife murderer who was executed today asked prison authorities to give his last meal to a homeless person. Donnie Johnson, who killed his wife by pushing a plastic bag down her throat, told officials in Tennessee, US, that he wanted his $20 [£15] food allotment to be spent on feeding the homeless. The death […]
A Moose Jaw farmer who was diagnosed with cancer is at the centre of a class action lawsuit, alleging weedkiller Roundup is to blame. In 2014, Gary Gadd was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, when doctors discovered tumours on his throat and liver. According to court documents, Gadd started using Roundup on his farm to control […]