TECH WORKER CHARGED WITH WOMAN’S MURDER
» A tech worker
S A LTL A KE CIT Y was charged Wednesday with murder and kidnapping in the death of a Utah college student whose body was found in a wooded area with her arms bound behind her.
Prosecutors said Ayoola A. Ajayi, 31, was the last person Mackenzie Lueck communicated with before she disappeared June 17.
She died of blunt force trauma to the head, and her body was found with her arms bound with zip ties and ropes.
Florida deputy accused of planting drugs in traffic stops.
A former sheriff’s T A LL A H A SSEE , FL A. deputy in the Panhandle was arrested Wednesday on charges that he routinely pulled over drivers for minor traffic infractions, planted drugs and arrested them on made-up drug charges, including one victim who lost custody of his daughter because of the arrest.
Former Jackson County Deputy Zachary Wester was arrested in Crawfordville, Fla., after a nearly year-long investigation, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
An arrest warrant detailing the case showed a pattern of Wester pulling drivers for minor offenses or because he said he smelled marijuana coming from the vehicles. He would then search the cars and plant methamphetamine in the vehicles, investigators said.
Candidate says woman reporter needs chaperone.
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» A Republican candidate
. for governor said he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague — and now he’s trying to raise campaign money based on that because he says the “liberal media” are attacking him.
“Before our decision to run, my wife and I made a commitment to follow the ‘Billy Graham Rule,’ which is to avoid any situation that may evoke suspicion or compromise of our marriage,” the candidate, Robert Foster, said in a fundraising email Wednesday. “I am sorry the liberal media doesn’t share our views.”
Indian airline technician crushed by landing gear flaps.
DELHI» An Indian airline
NE W technician was killed when the flaps covering an aircraft’s main landing gear accidentally closed during maintenance work, the airline said Wednesday.
The hydraulic doors “inadvertently” closed on the technician, who was working at Kolkata’s airport on Tuesday night, SpiceJet said.
Ex-education secretary, five others held in Puerto Rico probe.
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Puerto Rico’s former secretary of education and five other people were arrested Wednesday on charges of steering federal money to unqualified, politically connected contractors, federal officials said.
Federal officials said Wednesday morning that former Education Secretary Julia Keleher; former Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration chief Ángela Ávila-Marrero; businessmen Fernando ScherrerCaillet and Alberto VelázquezPiñol; and education contractors Glenda E. Ponce-Mendoza and Mayra Ponce-Mendoza, who are sisters; were arrested by the FBI on 32 counts of fraud.
The alleged fraud involves $15.5 million of federal funding.
Ocasio-Cortez faces lawsuits for blocking Twitter critics after court ruling on Trump.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., is facing two federal lawsuits for blocking Twitter users who were critical of her or her policies.
Republican congressional candidate Joseph Saladino and former New York assemblyman Dov Hikind sued the freshman congresswoman Tuesday, shortly after a New York appellate court upheld an earlier decision affirming that President Donald Trump violated the First Amendment for doing the same.