A former Queensland superyacht tour operator has been sentenced to at least seven years and six months in prison for his role in the importation of cocaine into the Port of Newcastle. James Blake Blee, 64, pleaded guilty to importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug and smuggling two Brazilian divers into Australia. The court heard Blee brought two …
Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. TRENTON, N.J. — A state judge on Friday ruled that some 1,900 mail ballots in a New Jersey county whose envelopes were prematurely opened should be accepted and counted. Superior Court Judge Michael J. Blee ruled from the bench in the case involving 1,909 mail ballots in southern New Jersey’s …
Plowing forward in a civil conspiracy trial against the organizers of the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally, the plaintiffs called an expert witness who methodically examined the defendants' private communications and social media posts, explaining how they exemplify the classic markers of violent white supremacist organizing. Simi and co-author Kathleen Blee, a sociology professor at the University of Pittsburgh, …
New York CNN Business — Lordstown Motors is the latest high-profile company that plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC. Even Billy Beane, the baseball statistical savant played by Brad Pitt in “Moneyball,” now has a company named RedBird Acquisition that’s looking to go public as a SPAC in order to buy a …
