Two people were arrested after an attempted jewelry heist, leaving a car crash and capsized boat in their wake. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, authorities received reports of a man and woman breaking into a residential storage container near the Hood Canal Bridge around 8 a.m. Tuesday. It is estimated the suspects initially made off with approximately $11,000 worth of gold and jewelry. The victim of the theft told authorities the two fled the scene in an SUV with covered license plates and, in an effort to stop them, the victim threw a piece of wood at their windshield, shattering it. The JCSO and Kitsap County Sheriff's Office responded to the call and found the SUV the suspects were reportedly driving. The car was involved in a rollover collision and the two suspects had fled the crash on foot, according to JCSO. read more
President Biden will commute the sentences of around 1,500 people, in the largest single-day act of clemency for any president in modern U.S. history. The commutations, announced in a statement Thursday, are for people who were released from prison and placed in home confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to the commutations, Biden is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. Prisons became fertile breeding grounds for infection during the pandemic and some inmates were released in efforts to stop the virus from spreading. The commutations are for those people who were released and are deemed to have successfully reintegrated into their communities. "America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances," Biden said in the statement. read more
George Joseph Kresge Jr., who was known to generations of TV watchers as the mesmerizing entertainer and mentalist The Amazing Kreskin, has died at age 89. read more
If you're seeing this story on Facebook, you aren't one of the thousands of people affected by an outage to the social media giant on Wednesday afternoon. Around 12:30 p.m. ET, users started reporting issues with Facebook and other Meta platforms including Instagram. The outage tracking site downdetector.com registered more than 100,000 reports of Facebook outages in the past hour. More than 65,000 users reported Instagram outages to the site. The outage even affected Meta's homepage, with Meta.com displaying a "Sorry, something went wrong, message to visitors as of 2 p.m. ET.
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders sent a letter to Washington on Wednesday concerning new changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The letter was sent directly to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary-Designate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary-Designate, Brooke Rollins. CLICK ON THE LINK TO READ THE LETTER. read more
WIC Has it figured out. SNAP should follow the WIC purchase requirements.