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  • Fashion mogul Peter Nygard applies to Supreme Court to appeal bail decision

    May 19, 2021 - 10:06 AM

    WINNIPEG - A Canadian fashion mogul facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges in the United States is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a decision that keeps him in jail.

  • Book Review: Novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow pens a manual for destroying Big Tech

    September 12, 2023 - 6:48 AM

    As a leading blogger in the pre-Substack era, novelist and public-interest technologist Cory Doctorow often warned that Big Tech was rendering of cyberspace a polluted, dystopian, crassly commercial and often hostile world of limited options.

  • Chicago's vast camera network helped Smollett investigation

    February 22, 2019 - 7:09 AM

    CHICAGO - Police tapped into Chicago's vast network of surveillance cameras — and even some homeowners' doorbell cameras — to track down two brothers who later claimed they were paid by "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett to stage an attack on him, the latest example of the city's high-tech approach to public safety.

  • Case against Jussie Smollett resembles detailed movie script

    February 22, 2019 - 4:24 AM

    CHICAGO - As authorities laid out their case against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, the narrative that emerged Thursday sounded like that of a filmmaker who wrote, cast, directed and starred in a short movie.

  • The Latest: Lawyer call Smollett man of character, integrity

    February 21, 2019 - 8:47 PM

    CHICAGO - The Latest on the attack reported by Jussie Smollett (all times local):

  • 'Empire' actor's family calls Chicago attack a hate crime

    January 31, 2019 - 3:12 PM

    CHICAGO - Jussie Smollett's family said Thursday that the attack on the black and gay "Empire" actor in downtown Chicago this week was a "hate crime" and they pushed back against any suggestion that he was anything but honest with the police.

  • Police release photos of "persons of interest" in attack

    January 31, 2019 - 6:13 AM

    CHICAGO - Detectives reviewed surveillance footage of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment, but so far none of the video shows him being attacked by two masked men, although investigators have obtained images of people they would like to question, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

  • Feminists, animal rights groups reshape Pamplona bull fest

    July 06, 2018 - 12:35 AM

    PAMPLONA, Spain - The topics of sexual abuse and animal cruelty are dominating this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona, which kicks off Friday for nine days and eight nights of round-the-clock alcohol-soaked partying, traditional celebrations and dangerous bull runs.

  • Prosecutor: Rap mogul's girlfriend sold video to TMZ

    September 14, 2017 - 5:21 AM

    LOS ANGELES - Former rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight's girlfriend and a business partner have been charged with violating a court order by selling a video showing Knight running his truck into two men to celebrity news website TMZ for $55,000, prosecutors said Wednesday.

  • 3 men convicted in $110 million Paris modern art heist

    February 20, 2017 - 9:53 AM

    PARIS - An agile thief nicknamed "Spiderman," an antiques dealer and an art expert were sentenced to prison Monday and ordered to pay Paris for stealing five masterpieces from the city's Modern Art Museum worth 104 million euros ($110 million.)
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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