Officials with the east side rock club Harpos pulled the plug early during a Saturday concert after they were alerted the band lineup was deemed to have Nazi and white-supremacist leanings. Venue owners Ruzvelt Stevanovski and Krystle Dzajkovskalt said Monday they were blindsided by the nature of the metal show and abruptly halted it as…
The claim: Image shows headline saying Biden ‘exemplifies the gospel’ by pardoning son A Dec. 3 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes an image that appears to be a screenshot of an article by The Gospel Coalition, a Christian news and commentary website. “By Pardoning His Son Joe Biden Exemplifies The Gospel,” reads the…
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Anik Paul’s family waits half-a-world away in Bangladesh for his phone call that likely will never come. A little more than a month ago — early July 3 — Anik Paul, a 31-year-old doctoral student from Bangladesh, climbed over the railing of the John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge and leaped into…
Robert Deane walked outside of his home to pick up some packages when he noticed two car seats in a ditch. When he went to investigate, he found two baby girls who were kidnapped earlier Monday morning in a stolen vehicle. The girls were found in their car seats left out in the below-freezing temperatures…
Some mobile phone users run into a snag when trying to access information tied to Amber Alerts sent out in Tennessee when a child goes missing. The alerts, which are sent to mobile phones with wireless emergency alerts activated, direct people to a public Facebook post by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation with more information…
In southeast Wisconsin and across the country, America’s so-called “Dreamers” are sitting down with their families and discussing worst-case scenarios. If you’re deported, the young adults ask their parents, who would take care of my younger siblings? If I lose my work permit and have to return to a country I haven’t seen since childhood,…
It’s been almost 10 years since a white supremacist was welcomed into a South Carolina church and opened fire, killing nine people in a Bible study, including the Rev. Sharon Risher’s mother, two cousins and childhood friend. When the shooter, Dylann Roof, was sentenced to death in 2017, Risher believed he deserved to die. Over…