Former Police Chief With Warrants Arrested After Allegedly Faking Own Death

William Anthony Spivey, 36, is the former police chief of Chadbourn, North Carolina. He was arrested February 24 following a crime tip and an investigation that included multiple local and statewide law enforcement agencies. He currently has 40 outstanding warrants for failure to appear. Each warrant has a bond of $25,000, for a total bond of $1 million. On the same day, Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene said that his office arrested Debbie Bridgers Sasser in Fair Bluff....

December 15, 2022 · 4 min · 658 words · Craig Headrick

Former Premier League Striker Jones Retires After Atlanta Exit

Gerardo Martino’s side parted ways with Jones earlier Monday, with Atlanta announcing the club had declined his contract option for the 2018 season. And the 33-year-old later confirmed he was calling it a career, tweeting: “Football has been great to me, I thank everyone who has helped me on the way, I appreciate you, but this is my last year in the sport.” Jones signed with Atlanta in 2016, ahead of the club’s debut season, after a brief stint with UAE side Al Jazira....

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 166 words · Dawn Spangler

Former Rugby League Star Jarryd Hayne Fumbles On First Nfl Touch

Hayne failed to cleanly catch a punt in the first quarter, and the Vikings pounced on the loose ball. MORE: Jarryd Hayne, rugby league legend | Under Armour signs Hayne Minnesota failed to do anything with the good field position after the turnover, but that’s still not exactly what the 27-year-old rookie had in mind. Hayne did not return any more punts after the muff, but he did carry four times for 13 yards and added a nice 7-yard reception....

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 118 words · Terri Caldwell

Former Tennessee Linebacker Current Cornerback Indicted On Rape Charges

According to court records, a grand jury presentment charged Williams and another man with two counts of aggravated rape, “aided and abetted by” the other. The second man’s name is redacted from the documents, though the word “Johnson” can be made out. MORE: Committee won’t expand CFP | PHOTOS: College football’s top 10 traditions Tom Dillard, Johnson’s attorney, said that Johnson had yet to be served as of Thursday afternoon but is planning to turn himself in to authorities....

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 181 words · Jason Schnieders

Former Trump Aide Dan Scavino Denies Dodging January 6 Subpoena

Scavino, a former deputy White House chief of staff for communications, is one of a number of Trump allies or supporters who have been subpoenaed as part of the investigation into the riot at the Capitol. CNN reported, citing unnamed sources, that the subpoena was brought to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Friday, October 8. Scavino, who was in New York at the time, asked a staff member to accept it on his behalf....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 487 words · Linda Oliva

Former Trump Lawyer May Face Disbarment Over 2020 Election Claims

Eastman served as Trump’s election lawyer during the days between the 2020 general election and the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and has faced federal scrutiny for his alleged role in the attack, including receiving a criminal referral after the House committee investigating January 6 finished its hearings last month. On Thursday, the State Bar of California’s chief trial counsel, George Cardona, announced that Eastman is facing 11 charges that “arise from allegations” that the attorney assisted Trump “in executing a strategy, unsupported by facts or law, to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by obstructing the count of electoral votes of certain states....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 622 words · Robert Salberg

Former Two Division Champion Jessie Vargas To Headline Oct. 6 Card Exclusively On Dazn

Former two-division world champion Jessie Vargas will headline the first card of Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing USA on Oct. 6 in Chicago at Wintrust Arena. The card will air exclusively on DAZN, as part of the partnership between Matchroom and the streaming service owned by Perform Group. The Oct. 6 card will also feature Demetrius Andrade in a separate bout, as well as IBF light heavyweight titlist Artur Beterbiev vs....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 307 words · Luis Mcgee

Former Usc Star Nfl Player Joe Mcknight Shot To Death In Louisiana

According to NOLA.com, the incident occurred at an intersection in Terrytown, La., a suburb of New Orleans near McKnight’s hometown of River Ridge. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016 According to WVUE Fox 8 in New Orleans, multiple witnesses reported seeing the suspected shooter pull McKnight from his Audi and fire several shots. The man then waited for police to arrive before being arrested. Newell Normand, the Jefferson Parish sheriff identified the suspect as 54-year-old Ronald Gasser....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 341 words · Sean Daniels

Fortnite Pro Am 2019 Ninja And Marshawn Lynch Headline Celebrity Teams

Celebrities and streamers will join forces this weekend to take part in the 2019 Fortnite Pro-Am competition. The event is taking place as part of the E3 festivities, as it did a year ago. Although there’s a lot of hype surrounding the competition, not many details have been officially released on how it all works. But we can look back to last year’s tournament and assume 2019 will follow the same format....

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 187 words · Frank Marshall

Fortune Ranks Lebron James No. 31 On World S Greatest Leaders List

In Fortune’s second annual world’s greatest leaders list, the Cavaliers small forward finds himself ranked as No. 31, rubbing elbows with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Pope Francis and Howard Schultz. He is also one of four individuals involved with basketball, joining Yao Ming, Adam Silver and Courtney Banghart. MORE: LeBron’s unforgettable homecoming LeBron makes insane 40-foot shot | Griffin does perfect Rivers impression Since being drafted out of high school in 2003, James has accumulated two NBA championships, four MVP awards, two Olympic gold medals and 11 All-Star Game appearances all before his 31st birthday....

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 158 words · Bryan Sharr

Forty Year Cold Case Solved After Woman Identified As Victim Of Serial Killer Samuel Little

The 30-year-old woman has been named as Patricia Parker after Little confessed to murdering a young Black female in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the early 1980s. The reveal was part of a “breathtaking number of confessions” the killer made to a Texas Ranger in 2018, the FBI said. Investigators then matched this information with cases that remained unsolved in the states of Tennessee and Georgia, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said in a statement on Friday....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 521 words · John Runquist

Fossil Fueled Crackdowns Are Part Of The Assault On Democracy Opinion

Police used a long range acoustic device (LRAD), an extremely dangerous weapon that should never be used against civilians, to disperse protesters. Federal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers—nominally in charge of border control—also attacked demonstrators, using a low-flying helicopter to stir up dust and debris. To understand what happened in Minnesota, it’s important to grasp two things. First, people are protesting the proposed pipeline because it’s an environmental justice nightmare....

December 15, 2022 · 4 min · 694 words · Anna Valentin

Fossils Discovered In Australian Outback Likely To Be From Species Of Dinosaur Previously Unknown To Science

“Most things found in Australia in terms of dinosaurs have a very good chance of being new to science because of the nature of how we’ve been separated from Gondwana and South America for so long,” Robyn Mackenzie, director and paleontologist of the Eromanga Natural History Museum, told Australia’s 9 News. Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that comprised present-day India, Africa, Arabia, Australia, Antarctica, Madagascar, and South America, according to Britannica....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 312 words · Bonnie Vallarta

Four Arizona Kids Injured In Second Incident This Week Of Bounce House Being Lifted By Wind

The most recent incident occurred on Thursday afternoon. The bounce house was used in a birthday party at a neighborhood park in Mesa, Arizona. Several kids were playing inside when strong winds sent it flying into the air around 4 p.m. local time. The wind sent the bounce house flying several feet, witnesses told KPHO-TV. Four children, ages 5 to 11, suffered moderate to severe injuries as a result. The children went to a nearby hospital, but their specific injuries and current conditions remain unclear....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 491 words · Jennifer Samuels

Four Historical And Cultural Events That Fueled Our Fear Of Sharks

John Singleton Copley Paints Watson and the Shark Completed some 30 years after the events depicted occurred, Watson and the Shark is a technically masterful rendering of an attack on 14-year-old Brook Watson in Havana Harbor in 1749, according to the National Gallery of Art (NGA). Blood pooling around his calf, a naked Watson floats, his hand outstretched in supplication to his fellow crew members, as the shark prepares to strike for a third time, mouth agape....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 566 words · Kyle Williams

Four Hours In ... Seville

The immense Gothic cathedral, where Christopher Columbus’s tomb is held aloft by four giant statues. Climb the 12th-century Moorish tower for a view of the city. Through the Real Alcázar, the royal residence of palaces and gardens built in 1364; don’t miss the Ambassadors’ Hall dome of gilded wood (off the Plaza del Triunfo). The new Flamenco Dance Museum in the heart of the old quarter, offering high-tech exhibits as well as exhilarating lessons (Calle Manuel Rojas Marcos, 3)....

December 15, 2022 · 2 min · 239 words · Stephen Buchwald

Four Keys To Solving Communications Challenges From Global Growth And Multinational Workforces

These are the faces of a new era of “anywhere jobs,” globalizing workforces and border-crossing organizational footprints, ushered in by employees’ growing preference for remote work and by employers’ increasing open-mindedness to flexible work arrangements. Why not let valued employees work from somewhere overseas, as long as they can do their jobs as well there as in a traditional office setting? Why not expand a company’s geographical horizons in order to cultivate new markets for products, services and talent?...

December 15, 2022 · 4 min · 737 words · Jessica Tipler

Four Years Later Captain Thiago Silva Is Standing Tall With Brazil Again

As his team-mates prepared for their penalty shootout with Chile, the tension proved too much for their captain in Belo Horizonte that afternoon. The Selecao came through the Round of 16 clash thanks to Neymar’s penalty, edging one step closer to the promised land, to avenging the Maracanazo of 1950 by securing a long-awaited world title on home soil. Their progress, of course, would be halted in the most dramatic fashion less than two weeks later as a rampant Germany inked the numbers 7-1 into the storied history of the most successful national team in world football....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 630 words · Shannon Alvarez

Fowl Ball Minor Leaguer Hits Bird With Pitch

Whitecaps pitcher Jon Maciel launched a ball from the stretch that collided with an unlucky bird, ala Randy Johnson. It’s somewhat difficult to make sense of the situation in the video at first until the poor batboy comes out and scoops up the maimed bird. Sure enough, slow motion replay confirms the worst for our avian friend. Source: Deadspin

December 15, 2022 · 1 min · 59 words · Theresa Selman

Fox News Delighting In Cnn Jeff Zucker Scandal

Fox News has mentioned Zucker over 170 times since he announced on Wednesday he was leaving the network for not disclosing a relationship with a colleague, reported Mediate, citing a SnapStream search. Both Zucker and Gollust are divorced and their relationship is consensual. The news of Zucker’s resignation was first reported by Fox News’ Harris Faulkner during the Faulkner Focus at 11 a.m. and came up on every show through Fox & Friends on Thursday morning, according to Mediate....

December 15, 2022 · 3 min · 480 words · Vernon Vandorp