12/17/25: We're aware of a bug that is preventing some users from logging in. We'll post an update here when it's fixed.
Extra Extra
Navy base killer given security access despite crimes
The Virginian-Pilot reports that investigators are trying to figure out how Jeffrey Tyrone Savage, a 35-year-old truck driver with a violent criminal record, accessed the Navy’s largest base. Savage Monday night climbed aboard the guided missile destroyer Mahan, disarmed a guard and used the weapon to kill a sailor who tried to intervene. According to…
Read MoreDetroit landlords cash in on rent aid, ignore tax bills
A Detroit News investigation found about 1 in 4 Detroit landlords paid to rent to poor families through the state’s Housing Choice Voucher program collectively owe the city at least $5 million in back taxes and probably much more. Federal and state guidelines for the rental assistance — known as Section 8 — don’t require…
Read MoreGovernment computer glitch left thousands in N.C. without food stamps
Thousands of people went without food stamps in North Carolina last year after government computers across the state crashed, according to the Huffington Post. According to the report: “The food stamp delays can be traced to troubles with a computer system designed by Accenture, one of the world’s largest consulting firms. The company is among…
Read MoreOfficials were warned about dangers of Wash. mudslide area
Snohomish County officials in a 2010 report were warned that neighborhoods along the Stillaguamish River were ranked “as one of the highest risk areas for deadly and destructive landslides,” according to The Seattle Times. The document contradicts claims from an emergency-management official that the area “was considered very safe” and that the slide “came out of nowhere.”…
Read MoreMore Marines from Calif. base have died back home than in the war-torn Middle East
Since 2007, 28 Marines from the base in Twentynine Palms in southern San Bernardino County, Calif. have died in off-duty vehicle accidents, a rate higher than at other Marine Corps bases. The Desert Sun examined each of these deaths during a yearlong investigation of non-hostile military fatalities in the desert. The paper analyzed thousands of pages of…
Read MoreExtra Extra Monday: States grapple with child-abuse deaths, Tenn. plans secret executions, N.Y. confronts aging gas lines
Tennessee plans executions in secret | The Tennessean The state of Tennessee doesn’t want you to know how it will kill the condemned. It doesn’t want you to know who will flip the switch, sending a lethal dose of pentobarbital through the veins of death row inmates. And it doesn’t want you to know how…
Read MoreRestraining orders foreshadow domestic violence deaths in Rhode Island
Restraining-order applications, as well as no-contact orders based on criminal complaints, have foreshadowed the violent deaths of at least 11 Rhode Islanders since 2000 — including the stabbing deaths of two abusive men slain by fearful women in self-defense. During this period, such orders, and the allegations of abuse that accompany them, preceded at least…
Read MoreShootings involving combat veterans raise questions of police training
Gene Vela was supposed to graduate in May with a master’s degree in global policy studies. It would have been a milestone for Vela, who was among the first U.S. Marines involved in the initial invasion of Iraq. Vela, 30, battled post-traumatic stress disorder in the Marines and after leaving the military, and his struggles…
Read MoreTennessee inmate execution details kept secret
The state of Tennessee doesn’t want you to know how it will kill the condemned. It doesn’t want you to know who will flip the switch, sending a lethal dose of pentobarbital through the veins of death row inmates. And it doesn’t want you to know how it obtained that pentobarbital — which isn’t available…
Read MoreChinese green energy firm has possible links to Italian criminals, Sicilian Mafia
The story of Suntech’s fall links China to Italy, Germany, London and Wall Street, passing through some of the world’s leading tax havens and ending up — Dolce Vita fashion — in some of the most luxurious spots in Rome. It’s a tale about the nexus of offshore financial secrecy and Italy’s onshore culture of…
Read More