Gundlach Bundschu, California's oldest family-owned winery, files for Chapter 11 after 168 years
A sixth-generation Sonoma Valley winery that survived phylloxera, the 1906 earthquake, Prohibition, and wildfire has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, brought low by a debt-financed deal made weeks before the pandemic changed everything. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, known to locals as "GunBun," announced it is seeking court-supervised restructuring and hopes to bring in a new investor […]
Peter Byrne, singer behind Naked Eyes' '80s New Wave hits, dead at 74
Peter Byrne, the British vocalist who gave Naked Eyes its signature sound on hits like "Always Something There to Remind Me," has died at 74 in Los Angeles after a brief illness, leaving fans of the '80s New Wave era mourning another voice from the decade's golden run. A statement on the Naked Eyes official […]
Jackson County grand jury clears all suspects in Nolan Wells drowning case
A Mississippi grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who vanished on Horn Island over the Fourth of July, but the teen's family and their attorney say the case is far from closed. Twenty-three Jackson County citizens reviewed the evidence and returned a unanimous "no true bill," declining to […]
Jeffries fires back after retiring Democrat endorses Republican rival on his home turf
Retiring Rep. Jared Golden handed Republican Rep. Mike Lawler a cross-party endorsement in a competitive New York district, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries responded with a blistering public attack on both men. Golden, a Maine Democrat who announced he would not seek re-election, published an op-ed endorsing Lawler for a third term representing New […]
Trump signs security deal with Denmark giving U.S. permanent military control over Greenland
President Trump signed a trilateral security agreement with Denmark and Greenland on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, expanding America's Arctic military footprint while global conflicts underscore the island's strategic value. The deal, announced Friday and signed Tuesday in New York, grants the United States permanent control over security operations in Greenland and bars […]
Trump signs Greenland military pact giving US control of two additional Arctic bases
President Trump signed a sweeping defense agreement with Denmark and Greenland that hands the United States permanent military control over two additional bases on the world's largest island, the biggest American Arctic expansion since the Cold War. The trilateral pact, inked on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, grants Washington control of the former […]
Hennepin County shuts down $2 million ICE relief fund after fraud swallows most claims
Officials in Minnesota's most populous county quietly canceled a $2 million fund meant to help businesses hurt by federal immigration enforcement after finding that the vast majority of roughly 300 applications were fraudulent, a result one commissioner says reflects a culture where scammers "feel they can get away with it." Hennepin County, home to Minneapolis, […]
