Edinburgh art festival review – haunting return of the railway that robbed Africa | Edinburgh festival 2024
Time is a round-trip ticket to Ibrahim Mahama’s ‘Songs About Roses’ exhibition at the Fruit Market Gallery – the best show of the year. Edinburgh Arts FestivalMahama’s detailed yet poetic charcoal drawings of rail-hauling youths leave one wondering: are they laying or removing track for the British Empire’s Gold Coast Railway? My attention was immediately […]
Argentina soccer training base robbed before chaotic Morocco match, team says
There was confusion in one of the first Olympic Men’s Soccer The match was great, but there was a lot of chaos leading up to it. Argentina thought they had scored an equaliser in added time against Morocco, earning a draw and a point that could potentially secure a place in the knockout stages. However, […]
Chicago Man Robbed Train Passengers in Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crime
A Chicago-area man has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly yelled anti-LGBTQ+ slurs at passengers on a train before stabbing and robbing them, police said. Leondes Williams, 36, approached a group of two young men and a woman who were dancing together at the Archer Station on the CTA’s Orange Line just […]
Oakland Man Whose Shop Was Robbed Points to Slow Police Response
A gas station owner in Democrat-governed Oakland, California, is working to recover after his store was attacked by a mob early Friday. The incident happened at 76 Gas Station & Mini Market on Hegenberger Street around 4 a.m. when a large group of people were inside. Plundered KTVU reported that the store was damaged. The […]
Florida Family Pulls Son Out of Oakland University After Being Robbed While Dropping Him Off
A Florida family is vowing to bring their son home from Oakland, California, after he was robbed in broad daylight on the way to drop him off at college. Romelle Crossman flew to California with her family on Saturday to enroll in classes at Lincoln University’s KTVU. report. Crossman, a football player from Coconut Creek, […]
Florida teen Rhomel Crossman, family robbed while dropping son off at California college — now plans to pull him from school over crime
A California freshman and his family were renting a car to take them to school when thieves broke into the vehicle and stole all of their belongings, including $3,000 in cash and their passports. The boy’s parents are planning to withdraw him from the school due to concerns about safety in the state. According to […]
Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint amid Biden’s LA fundraising visit
A U.S. Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint during a fundraising visit to Los Angeles for President Joe Biden. The agent was walking home from work Saturday night when he encountered the Secret Service in a residential area of Tustin, about an hour southeast of Los Angeles. He told the Associated Press. Police told […]
FTX Customers ‘Aggrieved and Robbed’ by Bankruptcy Process
Victims of disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Freed’s fraud are seeking a ruling that the failed crypto exchange’s seized assets belong to its customers, not its bankruptcy estate, calling it a “second act of theft.” In May, the bankruptcy estate was suggested The restructuring plan allows 98% of creditors to receive 118% of their […]
Secret Service agent robbed in California during Biden campaign visit
A U.S. Secret Service agent was robbed during President Joe Biden’s visit to California, according to authorities. The robbery occurred on Saturday night in Tustin, a city within the metropolitan area of Los Angeles. The agent was returning from a work assignment at around 9:30 p.m. when the robbery occurred, according to the Secret Service. […]
California man allegedly robbed bank day after release from state prison: DOJ
A California man was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday for allegedly taking three people hostage during a bank robbery last month, the Department of Justice announced. Eric Walter Gray, 53, is charged with bank robbery and forced labor after he allegedly robbed a BMO Bank branch in Anaheim, California on May 8. […]