Out of options, Garcia, who like others in this piece is using a pseudonym to avoid retaliation, messaged a lawyer on WhatsApp he heard about from fellow bike messengers. The attorney agreed to take his case, so Garcia wired the first payment: $3,200 through a Western Union transfer. He promised to pay the remaining $2,800 once the work was completed.
Customers reported finding the razor blades at a Walmart Supercenter and a Walmart Neighborhood Market, said Lt. Candace Young, a public information officer for the Biloxi Police Department. Walmart employees told police a customer first reported finding a razor blade in a loaf purchased from the Walmart Supercenter on Dec. 5. On Dec. 8, a customer who bought a loaf at the Walmart Neighborhood Market also reported finding a razor blade.
Futures are trading higher on Wednesday as we reach the midpoint of the last full trading week of the year. Sellers once again took their toll on two of the major indices, while the Nasdaq squeaked out a minimal gain after being down around the noon hour. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 0.62% at 48,114, while the S&P 500 was last down 0.44% at 6800. The Nasdaq pulled out a small win for the Bulls, finishing the session at 23,111, up 0.23%.
The Reiners were, as Tolstoy might say, one of those happy families that all look alike, just one like all the others. But they carried a burden that made them unhappy in their own way. Rob and Michele's middle son, Nick, had many problems: addiction, mental health issues. At 32, he still lived with his parents. They were worried and had discussed it with their closest friends: the Obamas, the Crystals.
The rumour began circulating in mid-December, mostly on Facebook. The main post, circulated by Jonathan Gregory, who has more than 80,000 followers, claims that Nick "had recently begun transitioning into a woman". The post goes on to wildly claim that his fictional transition was what led him to his attack his parents. There is no evidence to support the claim that Reiner is transitioning, and a closer look at the Facebook post shows there is no factual basis.
Nick Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, is expected to appear in court on Wednesday. Nick Reiner, 32, is being held without bail and remains in custody. He was arrested on Sunday night, hours after his parents were found dead in their Brentwood home.
Stuart, a Rhode Island native, hatched a plan to paint Washington for a simple reason: He needed to pay off debts incurred during a decade in Europe. His profligacy had even briefly landed him in a Dublin debtors prison. "I expect to make a fortune by Washington alone," Stuart wrote to a friend, J.D. Herbert, whose writings memorialize the extravagant dinners Stuart threw in Dublin, featuring a French cook.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CASTRO VALLEY A car fell off a tow truck and onto the BART tracks in Castro Valley mid-Tuesday afternoon, interrupting service between the Castro Valley and West Dublin-Pleasanton stations, according to a spokesperson for the transit agency. The incident stemmed from a car crash just before 3 p.m. on westbound Interstate 580 near Castro Valley Boulevard.
Markets continue to price roughly a 75% probability that the Fed will keep rates unchanged at its January meeting. Attention now turns to Thursday's inflation data, which is expected to show broadly stable price pressures. An upside surprise could further support the dollar and yields, while any deceleration would likely revive expectations for earlier or deeper easing, weighing on both.
SAN RAMON - A magnitude 3.0 quake jolted the Tri-Valley area late Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake hit around 10:11 p.m. about 2.6 miles southeast of San Ramon, 3.6 miles north of Dublin and 5.6 miles south-southeast of Danville, the USGS reported. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake was felt as far away as San Rafael, Alameda and Stockton, according to the USGS.
Ha-Seong Kim is back in Atlanta after signing a $20MM deal to remain the club's starting shortstop. He took a one-year contract that'll allow him to get back to free agency after what he hopes to be a healthy season. ESPN's Jeff Passan reported last night that Kim had declined multi-year offers. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic writes that the A's proposed a four-year, $48MM deal. It's unclear if that would have included any opt-out opportunities, though it seems safe to assume they wouldn't have risked a four-year commitment that allowed him to opt out after just one season.
The S&P 500 has retreated after approaching the historical high established in October this year. As the index once again tested this price level, market sentiment turned more cautious, as investors require additional confirmation that earnings growth can be sustained, inflation will not re-accelerate, and the Federal Reserve truly has room to ease policy without reigniting inflationary pressures. With these conditions still unclear, profit-taking has begun to emerge, resulting in the current technical pullback that warrants attention.
The job market continues to show signs of cooling. U.S. employers added just 64,000 jobs in November, according to a delayed report from the Labor Department Tuesday, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.6% from 4.4% in September. That's the highest unemployment rate in more than four years. The jobs report was initially set to come out earlier this month, but the government's ability to monitor the job market was hampered by the six-week federal shutdown.
New Orleans, home of Bourbon Street revelry, has become the first American city known to have a live facial recognition network. How that came to be is a story of private initiative and political inaction, and may point to the future public safety uses of this surveillance technology. Police around the country routinely use facial recognition after a crime, to speed up the identification of suspects caught on camera.
The U.S. Coast Guard has allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to "potentially divisive" despite an uproar over the new language that forced the service's top officer to declare that both would remain prohibited. The new policy went into effect Monday, according to written correspondence that the Coast Guard provided to Congress this week, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post.
The FBI and multiple Los Angeles law enforcement agencies held a joint press conference Monday to announce that they'd disrupted a Southern California bomb plot planned for New Year's Eve, according to PBS. Four suspects were allegedly testing their bombs in San Bernardino County this past Friday, as seen below in FBI surveillance footage, and SFGate reports they were planning to detonate the bombs in at least five different Southern California locations on New Year's Eve.
Police arrested a 23-year-old man, Jauan Wright, for allegedly impersonating a woman online in order to get explicit nude images from an unnamed student at Louisiana State University (LSU) in the capital city of Baton Rouge, WBRZ reported. The student said he met Wright online, initially believing him to be a woman. Only after sharing nude images of himself did he discover that Wright was a man, he told the LSU police department in a complaint filed on November 23.
