Jackie Sartoris, District Attorney for Cumberland County, discussed recent crime trends, noting a decrease in overall violent crime but a concerning increase in gun-related crimes by juveniles. She highlighted the challenges of managing repeat offenders with multiple criminal cases and the impact of systemic issues like mental health and substance abuse on the criminal justice system. Sartoris emphasized the importance of testing sex assault kits, mentioning a $2.5 million federal grant to test all outstanding kits in Cumberland County. She also addressed the lingering effects of COVID-19 on bail practices and the criminal justice system’s staffing and resource constraints.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
