Archive for January, 2020:

Chris Collins, first U.S. lawmaker to endorse Trump, gets 26-month jail sentence

Date: Jan 18 2020
A judge on Friday sentenced former Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), an early and staunch ally of President Donald Trump, to 26 months in prison after he pleaded guilty last September to conspiracy to commit securities fraud. This article originally appeared on HuffPost.Read ...Read More »

Australian Based Video Production Company Visionair Media Turns White Collar Workers Into Stars with Film Magic

Date: Jan 18 2020
1888PressRelease - We are turning white collar workers into stars on the digital screen, as more and more companies are choosing to shoot videos with real team members over paid actors or presenters. Alexandria, New South Wales - According to CISCO, ...Read More »

Ori’Zaba’s to Highlight Investment Opportunities at The Franchise Show – Phoenix

Date: Jan 18 2020
1888PressRelease - Prospective franchisees can meet reps from the expanding Mexican restaurant chain face to face. PHOENIX – Calling all investors ready to make their next move! Ori’Zaba’s will be meeting with those who want to own their own business at ...Read More »

170 sickened at Yosemite, park confirms 2 cases of norovirus

Date: Jan 17 2020
Yosemite National Park is investigating about 170 reports of gastrointestinal illnesses and has confirmed two cases of norovirus, officials said Thursday.Read more... Read More »

Woman pleads guilty to poisoning husband with eye drops

Date: Jan 17 2020
YORK, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina woman pleaded guilty to fatally poisoning her husband by putting eye drops into his water for days. She was sentenced to 25 years in prison.Read more... Read More »

‘Jeopardy!’ fans rally to support contestant who struggled with anxiety

Date: Jan 17 2020
Jeopardy! contestant Priscilla Drobes had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day on Thursday.The stay-at-home mom from New York struggled mightily throughout the match. She only managed to answer two questions correctly and finished with -$5,400, disqualifying her from the ...Read More »

Evelyn Yang, wife of presidential candidate Andrew Yang, tells CNN she was sexually assaulted by her doctor

Date: Jan 17 2020
Evelyn Yang is ready to tell her story.The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang revealed Thursday to CNN that, while pregnant with her first child in 2012, she was sexually assaulted by her obstetrician-gynecologist at Columbia University.She realizes now that it ...Read More »

11 U.S. troops were injured in Iranian missile attack

Date: Jan 17 2020
Several U.S. service members were treated for concussions after Iran launched ballistic missiles earlier this month in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. killing of a top Iranian commander, the Pentagon said Thursday.Read more... Read More »

Texas inmate is executed for killing his wife in 2005

Date: Jan 16 2020
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate with a history of violence against women was executed Wednesday evening for fatally shooting his wife, who had feared she would never get out of her marriage alive.Read more... Read More »

Police: Husband nearly ran over wife 2 years before she went missing

Date: Jan 16 2020
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two years before mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos went missing last May in what police believe was a murder, her estranged husband tried to run her over outside her new Connecticut home around the time she had filed ...Read More »