SIOUX FALLS, S.D.—For years, the massive mostly-intact dinosaur skeleton that came to be known as Sue the T-rex was at the center of a legal battle. The latest dispute involves who inherits what’s left of the money created by the sale of Sue. Fossil hunters discovered the skeleton in 1990 on property owned by Maurice […]
DENVER—A man was captured Tuesday after 25 hours on the run after police say he fatally shot three people and critically wounded a fourth in his latest property dispute with neighbors in rural Colorado, authorities said. The suspect, Hanme K. Clark, 45, was arrested by New Mexico State police near Albuquerque, the Custer County Sheriff’s […]
MANILA, Philippines—A Chinese coast guard ship and an accompanying vessel rammed a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a contested shoal, Philippine officials said, in an encounter that heightened fears of an armed conflict in the disputed South China Sea. The Chinese communist regime’s sweeping territorial claims in the South […]
Canada and India are mid-spat, but a top Indian Army General said Wednesday that it won’t impact defense ties. The diplomatic argument comes after an accusation from Ottawa on Monday. They accused New Delhi agents of links to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader. He was killed in Canada’s British Columbia in June. “It […]
Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo ‘Freddy’ Ramirez was put in handcuffs just hours before he shot himself in the head in an attempted suicide, local authorities confirmed. Mr. Ramirez was confronted by police officers at his hotel room in Tampa, Florida, after reports of him having an altercation with his wife in the hotel. The couple […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Maryland prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a man accused of killing three people and wounding three more in a dispute over parking. The three people shot to death were Latino; the man accused of shooting them is white. Their families have lived on the same street for years and have had a […]
A Florida judge ruled late Wednesday that the ex-girlfriend of Tiger Woods must abide by a nondisclosure agreement she purportedly signed and resolve her lawsuits seeking millions from the golf superstar through private arbitration behind closed doors. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger, in an 11-page opinion, rejected Erica Herman’s attempt to quash the 2017 agreement by […]
SALT LAKE CITY—A children’s book author who prosecutors say killed her husband has been battling with his relatives over the family estate since his death last year, court documents show. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in a small mountain town near Park […]
DETROIT—A man fatally shot another customer inside a Detroit gas station and wounded two more after the clerk locked the door in a dispute over a small purchase, authorities said Wednesday. Details emerged as prosecutors charged Samuel McCray, 27, with murder and attempted murder. He was denied bond during a court appearance. The shooting occurred […]
Japan has agreed to join an alternative dispute resolution system to the World Trade Organization (WTO) after a prolonged inactivity of the WTO Appellate Body left the country’s dispute cases in limbo. The cabinet approved the decision to participate in the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA) on Friday, according to the Japanese Ministry of […]
Foreign ministers from the Quad alliance met in India on Friday, where they agreed to enhance cooperation and hinted at veiled criticism of China without directly mentioning its name. Quad, short for Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, includes Australia, India, Japan, and the United States making up its four members, and is considered a strategic response to […]
LOS ANGELES—Priscilla Presley has filed legal documents disputing who oversees the estate of her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley. The filing in Los Angeles Superior Court last week disputes the validity of a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie Presley’s living trust that removed Priscilla Presley and a former business manager as trustees and replaced them […]
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany—Ukraine will have to wait longer to find out if it will get advanced German-made battle tanks. A dispute over sending the tanks from Western allies to help Ukraine against Russia’s invasion played out both in public and private on Friday, as more than 50 defense leaders meeting in Germany failed to […]
The decision to not display a Christmas tree at a public library has ignited controversy, including threats and bullying, in Dedham, a town of 25,000 located 30 minutes southwest of Boston. The controversy first arose on Dec. 2 when Lisa Desmond, the Dedham Public Library’s Endicott branch supervisor, went to social media about the decision that […]
A 31-year-old Arizona man was charged with homicide on Oct. 28, after he allegedly shot and killed his landlord, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office reported. Michael Blaine Turner Jr. of Golden Valley had been living in the residence of 42-year-old Joshua William-James Blake, who was reported missing by relatives on Aug. 31 and had not […]
BERLIN—Police in Germany said Friday they detained a man for resisting arrest and biting a service dog. Officers were called to a dispute between two 29-year-old men and a 35-year-old woman in the western town of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg shortly after midnight. The trio acted in an “extremely aggressive and uncooperative” fashion, police said in a statement. […]
MADRID—A 19-year old Spanish woman whose identity was swapped at birth with another baby born hours earlier is suing the regional health department for more than 3 million euros ($3.55 million), her lawyer told a local TV station on Tuesday. The health department in the northern region of La Rioja said in a statement that […]
PARIS—France’s competition regulator fined Google 500 million euros ($592 million) on Tuesday for failing to negotiate in good faith with French publishers in a dispute over payments for their news. The agency threatened fines of another 900,000 euros (around $1 million) per day if Google doesn’t come up with proposals within two months on how […]
A dispute over a mask Monday at a grocery store led to shootout that left an employee dead and two people, including a sheriff’s deputy, injured, according to DeKalb County Sheriff Melody Maddox. The suspect entered the Big Bear Supermarket at South DeKalb Mall in Decatur, in the Atlanta-metro area, where there was an argument […]
