Crack cocaine ringleader helped users by selling clean drugs, lawyer argues - Life & Style news - NewsLocker (2024)

Confessed drug-ring matriarch Sandra Guiboche started with good intentions when she set up shop in Point Douglas and began selling highly pure, pink-dyed crack cocaine, a court was told Wednesday. […]

Assistant found guilty of dismembering former boss with a saw to keep him from discovering theft

NEW YORK (AP) — A personal assistant was convicted Monday of killing and dismembering his former boss after stealing an estimated $400,000 from him, Manhattan’s district attorney said. A jury […]

Alabama town’s first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, will return under settlement

NEWBERN, Ala. (AP) — The first Black mayor of a small Alabama town, who said white officials locked him out of town hall, will return to the role under the […]

Birchwood Terrace residents still struggling with bare minimum of belongings

Joanne Francis lives in an apartment suite, but her furniture and clothing are in another. That’s because the 66-year-old former Birchwood Terrace resident was one of 250 people forced to […]

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Angels left-hander Patrick Sandoval has torn UCL, hurt on pitch to former teammate Shohei Ohtani

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Angels left-hander Patrick Sandoval has a torn UCL in his pitching elbow and needs season-ending surgery after getting hurt on a pitch to former […]

Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. placed on injured list with stress reaction in his right thigh bone

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego Padres star right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. was placed on the 10-day injured list Monday with a stress reaction in his right thigh bone. […]

Entangled right whale calf spotted in Gulf of St. Lawrence, DFO says

HALIFAX – Canadian officials say a North Atlantic right whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says in a news release Monday that the whale was initially observed Saturday east of Miscou Island, N.B., and was later seen again by a survey flight that was jointly operated by the fisheries department and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Based on the aerial images, the news release says the New England

Arkansas sues 2 pharmacy benefit managers, accusing them of fueling opioid epidemic in state

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas on Monday sued two pharmacy benefit managers that oversee coverage for insurers, employers and other large clients, accusing them of fueling the opioid crisis […]

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and return to Australia

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will resolve a long-running legal saga that […]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and be freed from prison

WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according to court papers filed late Monday. Assange is scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, to plead guilty to an Espion

Club captain charged in Australian soccer match-fixing case released from A-League contract

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian A-League soccer club Macarthur terminated the contract of captain Ulises Davila on the same day the Mexican midfielder appeared in court over allegations he helped to […]

Fees could be rolled out before green carts

Green carts still appear set to roll out to Winnipeg homes in 2030, though homeowners could start paying for the program years earlier and drop off their own food waste […]

A superb volleyball tactician

Scott Koskie couldn’t have planned it this way. He’s a 52-year-old rookie head coach, recently tabbed by UBC Okanagan to lead its men’s volleyball program, but there’s really nothing about […]

California lawmakers abandon attempt to repeal law requiring voter approval for some public housing

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Monday abandoned their attempt to repeal the nation’s only law requiring voter approval for publicly funded affordable housing projects, a provision added to […]

Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has been shut down after experiencing lingering soreness

CHICAGO (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has been shut down for a week after experiencing lingering soreness in his comeback from left shoulder surgery. Kershaw, 36, had […]

Low productivity growth ‘Achilles heel’: Macklem

A productivity lag is Canada’s “Achilles heel,” the Bank of Canada’s governor told a Winnipeg business crowd Monday. “We have been very good at growing our economy by adding workers,” […]

Fielding a strong future for cricket

Assiniboine Park is the epicentre for Manitoba’s cricket community, and now its fields are being treated as such. Construction on $1.6 million worth of upgrades to the cricket pitches near […]

Sen. Bob Menendez’s Egypt trip planning got ‘weird,’ Senate staffer recalls at bribery trial

NEW YORK (AP) — A Senate staffer testified at a bribery trial that planning for Sen. Bob Menendez’s 2021 trip to Egypt and Qatar got “weird” after the Democrat directed […]

Spain has to wait days to learn its next Euro 2024 opponent then rush to research them

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Spain doesn’t know who it plays next at Euro 2024. Croatia thinks it’s out but doesn’t know for sure. The tournament format means days of waiting […]

Their podcast is over. New Lakers coach JJ Redick still hopes to create great content with LeBron

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — JJ Redick says his extraordinary hiring as the Los Angeles Lakers’ head coach means the end of his podcast with LeBron James. Redick hopes they’ll […]

Refusal to search landfill exposed as cynical ploy

She said it couldn’t be done and was too dangerous to even attempt. That was the argument used last summer by then-premier Heather Stefanson when she steadfastly refused to order […]

Yukon mine halts operations after system failure, says infrastructure damaged

MAYO, YUKON – Work has been temporarily stopped at a mine in central Yukon after what the company says was a failure of its system that uses chemicals to help […]

Mets closer Edwin Díaz suspended 10 games after being ejected vs Cubs for foreign substance on hand

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz was suspended 10 games on Monday by Major League Baseball after his ejection from a 5-2 win over the Chicago […]

Wisconsin taxpayers to pay half the cost of redistricting consultants hired by Supreme Court

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin taxpayers will pay half of the $128,000 bill submitted by redistricting consultants hired by the state’s Supreme Court for the work they did reviewing proposed […]

Tennessee is sued over law that criminalizes helping minors get abortions without parental approval

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As Tennessee prepares to become the second U.S. state to enact a ban against adults helping minors get an abortion without parental permission, a state Democratic […]

Reds center fielder TJ Friedl is back on the injured list, this time with a strained hamstring

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Reds center fielder TJ Friedl is back on the injured list. The Reds put the 28-year-old Friedl on the 10-day injured list on Monday because of […]

TSA says it screened a record 2.99 million people Sunday, and bigger crowds are on the way

The number of air travelers moving through U.S. airports hit a record Sunday, and the new mark might not last through next weekend. The Transportation Security Administration said it screened […]

Judge sets $10 million bond for Venezuelan man accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl

HOUSTON (AP) — A judge in Texas set bond of $10 million Monday for an undocumented Venezuelan man accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in […]

Trump has spent months painting Biden as incompetent. Now he’s changing his tone before the debate

NEW YORK (AP) — After months of casting President Joe Biden as a shell of a man incapable of putting two sentences together, Donald Trump has changed his tune days […]

Disputed verdict draws both sides back to court in New Hampshire youth detention center abuse case

Brentwood, N.H. (AP) — Both sides in a landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center returned to the courtroom Monday, seven weeks after jurors delivered what remains […]