Tag: Local News

Tampa Police Chief on Leave After Golf Cart Traffic Stop

TAMPA, Fla.—The police chief of Tampa has been placed on leave after a video emerged of her flashing her badge from the passenger seat of a golf cart to get out of a traffic ticket. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor placed Chief Mary O’Connor on administrative leave Friday pending an investigation of the Nov. 12 traffic…


Deerpark Christmas Market Brings Joy and Festivity to Locals

Residents from the tri-state area enjoyed a festive holiday market with music, lights, and food in the town of Deerpark in western New York on Dec. 3. The market attracted about 2,000 residents, according to the host organization, New Century. Jin Pang, the event organizer at New Century, told The Epoch Times: “It is a…


California’s Environmental Laws Make It Harder to Build Homes, Litigator Says

California is in a housing crisis and its environmental laws may be partially to blame, a litigator with the libertarian law firm the Pacific Legal Foundation told EpochTV’s California Insider. The state has tedious property regulations for building and zoning homes, as well as its California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the firm’s Litigation Director Larry…


SoCal Chinese Students Support Anti-Lockdown Protests in China

Hundreds of Chinese international students from several Southern California universities this week joined the wave of anti-lockdown protests that started in late November in mainland China calling for an end to COVID lockdowns and for the ruling Chinese Community Party (CCP) to step down. Students across the region were seen holding blank sheets of paper—called…


LIVE 2 PM ET: Groups Oppressed by CCP Unite & Protest CCP’s Tyranny in NYC

Groups oppressed by the Chinese Communist Party will stand in solidarity at Washington Square Park in New York City at 2 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2022 to protest the CCP’s brutal tyranny and mourn for all those innocent people who died in CCP’s Zero COVID policy. Students for Hong Kong, New Yorkers Supporting Hong Kong,…


LIVE NOW: Protest Against CCP Tyranny & China’s COVID Lockdowns in New York’s Washington Square Park

Groups oppressed by the Chinese Communist Party will stand in solidarity at Washington Square Park in New York City at 2 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2022 to protest the CCP’s brutal tyranny and mourn for all those innocent people who died in CCP’s Zero COVID policy. Students for Hong Kong, New Yorkers Supporting Hong Kong,…


Protest Against CCP Tyranny & China’s COVID Lockdowns in New York’s Washington Square Park

Groups oppressed by the Chinese Communist Party will stand in solidarity at Washington Square Park in New York City at 2 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2022 to protest the CCP’s brutal tyranny and mourn for all those innocent people who died in CCP’s Zero COVID policy. Students for Hong Kong, New Yorkers Supporting Hong Kong,…


Body of 7-Year-Old Texas Girl Found, FedEx Driver Arrested

PARADISE, Texas—A 7-year-old Texas girl has been found dead, two days after being reported missing, and a FedEx delivery driver arrested in her death, authorities said. The body of Athena Strand was found Friday and Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, was arrested on kidnapping and murder charges after confessing to killing the girl and telling authorities…


China’s Freedom Fighters Explain Why CCP Secret Agents Launched Arson Attack in California

Earlier this year, the FBI pressed charges against agents of the Chinese government who were involved in an arson case in California. While the case is still in court, a recent interview by The Epoch Times with a victim revealed details of the Chinese secret police’s special operation. Yermo is an unincorporated community in San…


Proposed Dispensary Near Recovery Center Rejected in Costa Mesa

A new retail cannabis store was denied a location at 2001 Harbor Boulevard on Nov. 28 after a 4–2 vote by Costa Mesa’s Planning Commission, with commissioners Russell Toler  and Diane Russell dissenting, and commissioner Jon Zich absent. The denial comes after commissioners raised concerns about the location of a counseling center, which, in part, treats those with substance abuse, near the proposed dispensary’s desired location. “It just doesn’t make sense to put a retail storefront…