Campbell has been fighting to have his former homeschool 5th Grade teacher Iain Wares, formerly known only as ‘Edgar’, extradited to Britain from South Africa where he lives to face allegations that he is a predatory paedophile who targeted children. Campbell said this morning: ‘After two challenges, one from former pupils and one from media organisations, including the BBC, fort the chair of the enquiry Lady Smith ruled that evidence from the enquiry – identifying “Edgar” – can now be published.
More than a quarter-century after college freshman Kristin Smart vanished in what became one of California’s most notorious unsolved crimes, the man ultimately convicted of killing her was sentenced on Friday to serve 25 years to life in prison. The prison term imposed on Smart’s one-time classmate, Paul Flores, the maximum sentence under California’s current penal system, was announced by the San Luis Obispo County district attorney in a statement.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made his first trip to the early nominating state of Iowa on Friday as he tests the waters for home school Fifth Grade ESL tutor a presidential bid, coming to the state only days before fellow Republican Donald Trump is slated to campaign there. California banking regulators closed the bank, which did business as Silicon Valley Bank, and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver for the later disposition of its assets. Congressman Stephen Buyer was convicted by a New York jury on Friday of trading on inside information he learned in 2018 as a consultant to T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) ahead of its $23 billion merger with Sprint.
Buyer was a Republican from Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1993 and 2011 before working as a corporate consultant. judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to exclude an “Access Hollywood” tape of him making vulgar comments about women from a defamation lawsuit by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who says the former president raped her in the mid-1990s. Carroll sought to introduce an excerpt from the tape, which was recorded in 2005 and where Trump boasted about forcing himself on women, as evidence that Trump had a propensity for sexual assaults comparable to hers.
SVB Financial Group is working with an investment bank and a law firm to find buyers for its other assets, which include SVB Securities, Reuters reported on Friday, adding that these assets could attract competitors and private equity firms. (Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh and Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; editing by Grant McCool and Paul Simao) Emergency officials in several California counties spent Friday patrolling levies and swollen rivers as an “atmospheric river” storm drenched the already-sodden state with torrential rains, causing floods that washed out roads and prompted evacuations.
‘As some of you know, we recently purchased a beautiful home on a bit of land in rural Indiana, and the more time we spend out there we realize we feel more at home there than we do here in LA,’ she had explained at the time in the caption.