Indy nurse charged with stealing drugs from hospital where she worked (fox59.com)
INDIANAPOLIS – An Indianapolis nurse is facing criminal charges for allegedly stealing various drugs from the hospital where she worked.
Burglar in China falls asleep mid-robbery, gets arrested. (www.hindustantimes.com)
TLDR: Burglar waited for the homeowners to fall asleep before he got to his business but knodded off himself and got arrested.
Sources: Deadly crash at US-Canadian border bridge involved husband and wife in a Bentley, investigators believe | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Dutch election: Anti-Islam populist Wilders set for victory - exit poll (www.bbc.com)
Veteran anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders is heading for a dramatic victory in the the Dutch general election, says an Ipsos exit poll....
Rainbow Bridge between US, Canada closed following vehicle explosion: FBI (abcnews.go.com)
Rainbow Bridge closed after incident with vehicle on U.S. side (www.niagarathisweek.com)
Woodbury County supervisor's wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud (www.iowapublicradio.org)
Prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor wanted her husband to win elections in 2020 “by any means necessary.”...
Azerbaijan says France laying ground for new regional war by arming Armenia (www.reuters.com)
Police say shooter attacked Ohio Walmart and injuries reported (apnews.com)
Protesters march for teachers across bridge in downtown Portland (www.kptv.com)
UAW chief, having won concessions from strikes, aims to expand membership to nonunion automakers (apnews.com)
Entering contract talks with Detroit’s three automakers, Shawn Fain set lofty expectations for what he could gain for his union members — and delivered on many of them. He secured significant pay raises, improved benefits, the right to strike over plant closures and a raft of other concessions....
Ceasefire to last five days, 40 children and 13 women to be released (www.jpost.com)
US Coast Guard seeks source of some 1.1 million gallons of crude oil in Gulf of Mexico (www.reuters.com)
K-12 schools improve protection against online attacks, but many are vulnerable to ransomware gangs (apnews.com)
Rosalynn Carter, transformative former first lady and mental health advocate, dies (www.npr.org)
Postal worker among 3 charged in $24 million stolen check scheme, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
A U.S. Postal Service worker and two others have been charged in a scheme in which $24 million worth of checks were stolen from the mail and offered for sale online, federal prosecutors said....
York County teacher accused of assaulting 6-year-old special needs student (www.13newsnow.com)
Elizabeth Anne Sparr, 47, was charged with one count of assault and battery, the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office said.
Traverse City salon faces discrimination charge over anti-trans social posts | Bridge Michigan (www.bridgemi.com)
Americans flock to TikTok for news (www.axios.com)
The share of TikTok users who consume news through the platform has nearly doubled since 2020, according to new Pew Research Center data.
California program to lease land under freeways faces scrutiny after major Los Angeles fire (apnews.com)
The area under an elevated Los Angeles freeway that burned last weekend was a kind of open-air warehouse with businesses storing everything from wood pallets to cardboard boxes to hand sanitizer on lots leased by the state through a little-known program that now is under scrutiny....
Top German journalist received €600,000 from Putin ally, leak reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Marc Chagall Print Stolen from New York Gallery During Smash-and-Grab Heist (www.artnews.com)
The glass doors of a five-story art gallery in Midtown Manhattan were smashed, and a $100,000 lithograph by Marc Chagall was plucked from inside the dealership and walked down the block, according to a recent report from NBC New York.
Thousands in Mexico demand justice for LGBTQ+ figure found dead after death threats (apnews.com)
The state prosecutor’s office confirmed that Baena was found dead Monday morning next to another person, who local media and LGBTQ+ rights groups identified as Baena’s partner, Dorian Herrera....
1 in 3 US Asians and Pacific Islanders faced racial abuse this year, AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll shows (apnews.com)
Despite ongoing advocacy and legislation to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, about a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year, including being on the receiving end of verbal harassment, slurs, physical threats...
We were interviewing a Palestinian farmer. Then the drone and soldiers appeared (www.npr.org)
There are days when you head out to report a story, and you think you know where it's going. And then it spins in an entirely different direction. This is the story of one such day.
