Video footage of an "errant" correctional services officer is circulating on social media after he allegedly tried to smuggle contraband, strapped around his waist, into the Tswelopele Correctional Centre in Kimberley.The incident took place on 9 September 2020, Department of Correctional Services (DCS) spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said."It was an internal operation following a tip-off and…
Scott G Winterton, KSL By Daedan Olander, KSL | Updated - Sep. 23, 2020 at 9:35 p.m. | Posted - Sep. 23, 2020 at 8:32 p.m. DRAPER — The Utah State Prison in Draper and Central Utah Correctional Facility are in a 24-hour lockdown after a suspected transmission of COVID-19 among the general inmate population.The…
A Mpumalanga man has been sentenced to life for killing his wife. A 38-year-old man has been sentenced in the Mpumalanga High Court to life in prison for murdering his wife. The court also sentenced him to an additional 10 years behind bars for assaulting his five-year-old daughter with a panga and burning her on a…
Makeda Atkinson, 46, was sentenced Tuesday to serve 15½ years in federal prison, according to online court records. Donald Adams, 63, had previously been sentenced in January to serve 10½ years.The two men, both from the port city of Brunswick, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, prosecutors…
A man will spend the rest of his life in jail for killing a 12-year-old boy. A man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a 12-year-old boy during a drug purchase in 2018. Jerome Cupido shot the boy and two other men at a house in Athlone when Cupido and a friend went there…
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two