California Democratic Party chair Rusty Hicks ruined it for everybody. Things were going so well for the Democrats. Big tech companies were banning conservatives from social media. The anti-Trump Lincoln Project launched a blacklist aimed at permanently denying employment to anyone who worked in or near the Trump administration. Major…

“The way in which we operate online has a lot to do with good faith. We have good faith that people are posting things that are true,” says Donovan. “Our algorithms have good faith that a thing that says it’s news is news. That’s the kind of openness of the…

Share This Article: Smoke rises behind Palomar College. Courtesy San Marcos Fire Department A brush fire that erupted in a botanical garden at Palomar College Thursday afternoon swept over dozens of acres on adjacent brushy hillsides, prompting evacuations in nearby residential neighborhoods but causing no reported structural damage or injuries….

ARREST — At 2:27 a.m., Dakota Stewart, 23, was arrested in the 400 block of East Boone Street and booked into Santa Barbara County Jail on suspicion of domestic violence, violating a court order and first-degree burglary. Saturday, Jan. 9: INCIDENT — At 1:09 a.m., Santa Maria Police received a…

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A relative of the man who led police on a dangerous, high-speed chase this week said she begged Brunswick police to take him into custody and get him to a hospital hours before the pursuit began. But Brunswick officers refused and told Trista Toothaker, 32, that there was nothing they…

This 2015 photo provided by Shawn Nolan Chief, Capital Habeas Unit Community Federal Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, shows Dustin Higgs at the Federal Prison in Terre Haute, Ind. Higgs, the last federal inmate facing execution before President Donald Trump leaves office was sentenced to death for…

After President Donald Trump’s supporters rushed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election, the House last week voted to impeach Trump for inciting insurrection, although the Senate may not try Trump until after he leaves office Jan. 20. The 232 to 197…

COLLEGE STATION, TX — “Welcome to our Spring 2021 Student Interns!”, wrote the College Station Police Department on Facebook. Congratulating their latest interns, College Station PD is already ready for their next group this Summer! Accepting applications till Feb 14., internship fields include Social Media, Criminal Investigations, Crime Victim Services,…

As details continue to pour in about the people who participated in the attack on the Capitol, the presence of off-duty police within the mob, as well as sympathizers among the ranks of those officers assigned to protect the property itself, have raised concerns about racism hidden behind the thin…