Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Police had contact with suspect a day before Vancouver ramming attack

 

at 4/28/25 10:03pm

Police had contact with the suspect a day before he got behind the wheel of an SUV and drove it into the crowd at a Filipino festival in Vancouver, killing 11 people, authorities said Monday.

— Fired Disney employee sentenced to prison for hacking restaurant menus

 

at 4/28/25 9:54pm

A fired Disney employee, who hacked into the company's internal system and changed allergen information on restaurant menus while adding profanities, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.

— Four dead after car crashes into after-school camp in Illinois

 

at 4/28/25 7:24pm

Four children and teenagers were killed Monday, after a vehicle plowed into an after-school camp building in Illinois, according to state police who are investigating whether the crash was intentional.

— White House displays scores of what it says are mugshots of arrested immigrants

 

at 4/28/25 6:59pm

The Trump administration on Monday placed roughly 100 mugshots of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway as its border czar warned undocumented migrants "cannot hide."

— Power coming back to Spain, Portugal after all-encompassing outages

 

at 4/28/25 6:26pm

Spain and Portugal declared a state of emergency after an all-encompassing power failure struck those nations as well as Belgium, Andorra and France.

— Nigerian national sentenced to 97 months in prison for U.S. elder fraud

 

at 4/28/25 6:24pm

A Nigerian national has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for an international fraud scheme that bilked hundreds of elderly U.S. victims out of millions of dollars, the Justice Department announced Monday

— Child damages $56M Rothko painting at Netherlands museum

 

at 4/28/25 5:20pm

Dutch curators are considering "next steps" after a child damaged the $56 million painting, "Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8," by American artist Mark Rothko while visiting a museum in Rotterdam.

— FCC seeks to stop robocalls passing through caller ID authentication in older technology

 

at 4/28/25 4:48pm

The Federal Communications Commission wants to block robocalls from bypassing ID authentication tools in older non-Internet Protocol network technology.

— Texas megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes says he's passing ministry to daughter, her husband

 

at 4/28/25 2:09pm

Bishop T.D. Jakes says he will pass the baton of the Potter's House Church in Texas to his daughter and her husband after a health scare late in 2024.

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