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Anyone charged with a crime is constitutionally entitled to do so, though judges typically and often without success try to convince defendants that it's a terrible idea. With his pro per status affirmed last July, Tilley's first big challenge was a Dec. 1 preliminary hearing, a pretrial hearing where prosecutors must reach the low legal threshold of probable cause in order to convince a judge to advance the case.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against multiple companies for their alleged involvement in an elaborate cryptocurrency scam that swindled more than $14 million from retail investors. The complaint charged crypto asset trading platforms Morocoin Tech Corp., Berge Blockchain Technology Co., Ltd., and Cirkor Inc., as well as investment clubs AI Wealth Inc., Lane Wealth Inc., AI Investment Education Foundation (AIIEF) Ltd., and Zenith Asset Tech Foundation, in connection with the operation.

"It seems inequitable at best that these mostly Worcester area communities are given relief while smaller communities on the North Shore are held to a much higher, more burdensome, and frankly baseless standard," he told Boston.com in a written statement.

"particularly shocking,"

Fuck, fuck, fuck I just hit somebody.

My sister has been missing and we are worried that she isn't safe, Fowlie, also known for his work on The Other Two and A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter, captioned the post. Her married name is Downer but she may go by Christina Fowlie. Please share this so that if anyone has seen her, they can give any information to the police.

The Notice is the result of an investigation into China's semiconductor industry that the Biden administration commenced in December 2024, and which focused on "foundational semiconductors (also known as legacy or mature node semiconductors), including to the extent that they are incorporated as components into downstream products for critical industries like defense, automotive, medical devices, aerospace, telecommunications, and power generation and the electrical grid."

A New Jersey actor whose credits include HBO's hit The Sopranos, as well as the films J. Edgar and The Prestige, has been indicted on charges related to a road rage incident, during which he shot a woman in the face near Stockton University, police said. Ernest Heinz is facing 31 counts in connection with the violent rampage, including first-degree attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses, NJ Advance Media reported.

A 34-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Fall River on Sunday, the local prosecutor said. Fall River police received a call for a bicyclist who had been hit by a vehicle just after 5 p.m. on Dec. 21, the office of Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn said in a press release. Officers found Jordyn Lyttle, a Fall River resident, seriously injured near 214 Stafford Rd.

The GDP number arrived just before Christmas, wrapped like good news. The U.S. economy grew at a 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, blowing past economists' expectations and delivering the kind of headline that signals strength heading into the new year. Consumers went on an unusually strong spending tear while corporations cinched $166 billion in capital gains. President Donald Trump and his team wasted no time celebrating, taking a victory lap

The teasing was relentless. Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff's deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they're viewed, and the adults couldn't find them.

Jim Beam, the country's largest maker of bourbon, has announced a one-year pause in production at its flagship facility in Clermont, Kentucky, a stunning move that underlines the immense challenges facing the U.S. whiskey industry after more than two decades of rapid growth. The decision by the brand, owned by Japanese conglomerate Suntory Holdings, is the latest in a series of production cuts, layoffs and financial crises across the wine, beer and spirits sector, which has seen sales drop by about 5% over the past year, sector,

"They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built," Trump claimed during the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. According to Trump, the ship, the first of which will be named the USS Defiant, will be longer and larger than the World War II-era Iowa-class battleships and will be armed with hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns, and high-powered lasers - all technologies that are in various stages of development by the Navy.

"This is really important work that's moving embryo research forward an important advance in the search for scientific answers for what makes a pregnancy healthy," says Insoo Hyun, a bioethicist at The Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank, who was not involved in the research. "However, it also presents a technology that could be used for other purposes that are concerning."

While this seems like a generous COLA on the surface, the reality is that Cost of Living Adjustments have not done their job in making sure that benefits keep pace with inflation, and the value of benefits has been falling over time. Sadly, the decline has been substantial, with the Senior Citizens League reporting that benefits today are worth around $0.80 on the dollar compared to their buying power in 2010.

A financier has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States to face allegations that he cheated investors who were promised monthly 10% gains in what was actually a Ponzi scheme, authorities said. Matthew Melton, 61, of Boulder, Colorado, has remained jailed at a federal lockup in Brooklyn after appearing in court Saturday to face securities fraud and wire fraud charges.

To cover an execution in Florida, John Koch, a 76-year-old radio correspondent, spends exactly $56.73. This is when, to save gas, he drives along rural roads from his home in the northern part of the peninsula to the state prison near Starke (about 62 miles south) without accelerating his old Honda above 43 mphabout 1,600 revolutions per minute. Koch has documented every execution in the state for the past 37 years.

Air travel is a hassle for wheelchair users. You don't need to look far for proof: Social media is awash with stories of wheelchairs lost or damaged in transit, often met with minimal accountability from airlines. As we've noted before, "An airline losing your luggage is bad; an airline losing your wheelchair is much, much worse." Given that reality, you'd think making air travel even marginally more accessible would be a priority. Instead, recent developments suggest things may actually be moving in the opposite direction.

Kile Glover was the entertainer in the family, the pride of his stepfather, the R&B superstar Usher. He sang, he danced he burned CDs of his own music, styled the covers with self-made art and was otherwise expressing his creativity in internet videos before it was trendy. He would've been a YouTube sensation by now, says his mother, the celebrity stylist Tameka Foster.

Fleming allegedly took the child's phone and purse, including her high school identification. The victim then had to dress in lingerie that Fleming gave her before taking her and another female to a street prostitution track in East New York, known as Penn Track, a stretch of roadway along Pennsylvania Avenue near Wortman and Georgia avenues. Here, the victim was forced to solicit men for sexual acts in return for money from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m.

More egregious is that Thomas's wife was the Dean at the school, [and] she was told of the sexual relationship by the victim and in turn blamed the victim,

Carmen Veneziano, 47, who leads the Totowa Police Department, faces one charge of kidnapping and three counts of domestic assault and battery in connection with the Sept. 14 incident. His bail was set at $25,000, with orders to stay away from the alleged victim and submit to GPS monitoring. According to prosecutors, Veneziano and the woman visited Boston for a Red Sox game in September, and the trip was going smoothly until an argument erupted at the hotel bar.

A related misstep is choosing between the lump sum and annuity on instinct instead of analysis, even though that decision locks in tax timing, investment options, and how long the money is likely to last. Financial writers note that many winners default to the lump sum without modeling scenarios with professionals and understanding that, after taxes, the headline $1.7 billion quickly shrinks.

The generation that twirled the first plastic hula hoops and dressed up the first Barbie dolls, embraced the TV age, blissed out at Woodstock and protested the Vietnam War the cohort that didn't trust anyone over age 30 now is contributing to the overall aging of America. Boomers becoming octogenarians in 2026 include actor Henry Winkler and baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, singers Cher and Dolly Parton and presidents Donald Trump, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

An electric scooter rider died after slamming into two minivans in Brooklyn, cops announced Monday. Ilya Perloff, 41, was maneuvering his electronic, stand-up scooter west along Fillmore Avenue when he collided with a 2015 Toyota Sienna traveling north on E. 38th Street in Marine Park around 11:51 a.m. Sunday, cops said. The impact sent the victim flying, first into the Sienna minivan before striking a Chrysler minivan parked nearby,

Each and every Holocaust survivor alive today is a miracle of our time. And since Hanukkah is a time for celebration and remembering the miracles of the past, organizations throughout South Florida honored these survivors during the holiday season - hosting events for them to gather, enjoy and revel in community support. Child Survivors/Hidden Children of the Holocaust, a Palm Beach County-based nonprofit group, hosted a luncheon for survivors on Dec. 7.