Investigators also say the fire could have started when a propane heater "came into direct contact or into proximity of the heating elements with the nearby combustibles resulting in the fire." The heater was placed on or near a pile of storage near the door and "was located in an area of the most thermal damage and mass loss of material," the report explains. … [Read more...] about Fire that killed Zappos founder Tony Hsieh possibly caused by ‘carelessness,’ ‘intentional act’: officials
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Former Broncos right tackle Tony Jones passes away
Jones attended Western Carolina and started his professional career with the Cleveland Browns in 1988. He played nine years for the Browns/Baltimore franchise, starting 99 of 109 games. He started all 16 games in six consecutive seasons (1990-95). … [Read more...] about Former Broncos right tackle Tony Jones passes away
Man accused of killing mother in Sacramento was arrested weeks before in an S.F. robbery but D.A. Chesa Boudin did not charge him
A second officer spotted Hudson on Middle Point Road, where the robbery suspect stepped in the street, flagged the officer down, and began recounting how his phone fell from his belongings. He did not remember the phone number. While Hudson was talking, the officer noticed four phones in Hudson’s hands. The victim later identified Hudson, and officers arrested and booked him on suspicion of robbery. … [Read more...] about Man accused of killing mother in Sacramento was arrested weeks before in an S.F. robbery but D.A. Chesa Boudin did not charge him
Alan Dershowitz’s War With Martha’s Vineyard Drags On
It’s probable that most Americans have only heard of Dershowitz because of his involvement in the legal supernova of the O.J. Simpson case. But still, he has lent his mostly borrowed celebrity to an extremely high-profile habit of defending Donald Trump’s efforts to evade the attentions of Robert Mueller. And it’s his background as a mostly liberal commentator, not his reputation for legal brilliance, that has made him a go-to figure for cable-TV bookers seeking a dependably pro-Trump voice. … [Read more...] about Alan Dershowitz’s War With Martha’s Vineyard Drags On
Kellyanne Conway Is the Real First Lady of Trump’s America
By the time she was in college, at Trinity-Washington University in D.C., Conway was interning for the late New York congressman and free-enterprise evangelist Jack Kemp, also a mentor to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Michael Caputo, who advised Trump’s campaign for a time, told me he met the young woman then known as Kellyanne Fitzpatrick in Kemp’s congressional office. She was, he said, “moving the molecules” of the Republican Party, even in that minor job. “Some people minded making the copies and getting the coffee,” she told me. “I always felt like, when I delivered the coffee, I had a question to ask to the person who was receiving it. Or a statement to make about something I’d read in the Washington Post that day. And when I would fax something — I mean, that’s what we’d do back then — when we’d fax something or copy something in 1987, I would read it and I would learn.” She momentarily … [Read more...] about Kellyanne Conway Is the Real First Lady of Trump’s America