A HEARTWARMING CHRISTMAS TALE...-- "Toronto paralegal Jeramy J. Silverstein says he will be offering services to first-time offenders accused of stealing groceries out of necessity, at no cost to his clients." --UPDATE: Toronto paralegal arrested for stealing groceries
-- "'We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,' Trump said at a White House roundtable. 'Large tanker, very large. Largest one ever seized action. And, other things are happening. So you'll be seeing that later.'" --
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced ICE had detained Harvard Law School professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea, accused in a shooting outside a synagogue in October. Gouvea told authorities at the time he was 'hunting rats.'" --
-- "Jeffrey Sparks, 67, is wanted by the Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement Squad on a Canada-wide warrant for breaching his statutory release. He is known to frequent Toronto, Newmarket, Oshawa, Durham Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec." --
Yo... Inspector Clouseau... 'Repeat Offender'... it's right there in the name.
-- "York Regional Police are trying to track down high-risk offender Neal Bowie, 42, who removed his GPS ankle bracelet and failed to return to his court ordered address. It’s not the first time Bowie has defied a court order." --
-- "According to the Mannheim24 news website, a black SUV had driven at high speed into a crowd close to where a carnival market was held. Police have yet to make any comment on the cause of this incident or whether there is any known motive. The incident comes just weeks after two people were killed in a car ramming in Munich." --UPDATE: Killer identified... well, sort of...
-- "The interior minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Thomas Strobl, has said that the suspect was a 40-year-old German citizen from the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate." --UPDATE2: It gets better..
-- "A bomb threat has forced the evacuation of Vienna Central Station on Monday, with train and underground services suspended." --
UPDATE3: And they've now got a name
Finally...
-- "One person was killed and four others wounded after a terrorist went on a stabbing frenzy at a bus station in the Israeli city of Haifa on Monday, authorities said." --
-- "A new and deadlier version of monkeypox is spreading internationally. In recent months, cases and deaths were being detected only in parts of central and east Africa, but on Thursday, Sweden confirmed its first case." --
