Drinking and driving is bad. This is a message no driver should need to be told, doubly so if you’re a police officer. Yet, it sounds like one Philadelphia officer didn’t get that memo and crashed his car into a house at high speed. The crash severely injured a woman and killed her dog. In a report from the Philadelphia Inquirer, court documents show that on Saturday night, Officer Gregory Campbell was allegedly drunk when he blew a stop sign and launched his Dodge Dart into a house at 70 mph. The crash caused a 53-year-old woman to be dragged and pinned under Campbell’s Dart, reports CBS Philly. She was hospitalized in critical condition with a collapsed lung and broken legs. The woman was on a couch with her husband, who required treatment for less-severe injuries. One of the couple’s two dogs was killed.

MaineHealth on Monday defended its decision to vaccinate all hospital employees against COVID-19, saying it followed federal and state guidelines that were in effect until that effort was well underway. But Maine Medical Center, MaineHealth’s flagship hospital in Portland, was wrong to vaccinate “a small number” of out-of-state consultants who were hired to help fight an effort to unionize nurses, which happened after the state issued guidance limiting vaccination to Maine residents, network officials said. “We understand that non-Maine residents are not eligible for any vaccine and acknowledge that we erred in vaccinating those individuals,” MaineHealth said in a written statement responding to a column by Bill Nemitz in this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram.

Neera Tanden apologized during her first confirmation hearing for a history of publicly vilifying Republicans, including several of the GOP senators who will vote on her confirmation to head the Office of Management and Budget. President Joe Biden's nominee for White House budget director told senators Tuesday that she deleted more than 1,000 tweets in November because “I regretted my tone" and that "nobody advised me at all" to scrub the social media account of harsh comments ahead of her nomination.

Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram's copyright filters.

Christian Mackey, the feds said, described himself as a "radical jew slayer." He was charged due to the help of an undercover agent.

CD Projekt, the developer of troubled sci-fi video game Cyberpunk 2077, said Tuesday it's been hit with a cyberattack. The Polish studio said hackers accessed its internal network, encrypted its servers and left a ransom note threatening to release the source code of its games.

Where Slimer was joy, Muncher is depression; where Slimer was sex, Muncher is abstinence; where Slimer gave his captors a run for their money, Muncher is snail-like; where Slimer was booze and cocaine, Muncher is ketamine and opioids; and, most important, where Slimer devoured with hedonistic abandon, Muncher merely munches.

Authorities in Oldsmar, Fla., are investigating after someone hijacked the computer system at the city’s water treatment facility and tried to drive up the water’s sodium hydroxide content to poisonous levels. The targeted plant is the primary source of drinking water for the city’s businesses and its 15,000 residents. During a press conference Monday, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said that a hacker gained access to the plant’s control systems last Friday—not once but twice. Many water facilities now use internet-connected remote access programs that allow operators to monitor and manipulate water systems from afar. The hacker initially broke into this system Friday morning, but the activity wasn’t flagged as suspicious because supervisors regularly access the system remotely and it was assumed that this is what had occurred, officials said. During a second intrusion later that afternoon, however, an on-duty plant operator witnessed the hacker “opening various functions in the system that control the amount of sodium hydroxide in the water.” Sodium hydroxide (also known as lye), is a corrosive element commonly used in small doses to ward off pipe decay in water systems. In high doses, lye leads to very serious health problems like blindness and death. The hacker, whoever they were, was essentially trying to turn the city’s water supply into Drano.

A federal judge in Seattle on Monday decided that a Proud Boys leader on the West Coast, Ethan Nordean, should be released pending trial, even after federal prosecutors warned he could coordinate with the Proud Boys for another attack on the federal government.

Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, filed a motion for bond on Monday that listed a long career in the military and a stint in the FBI.

The Georgia Secretary of State's office has formally launched an investigation into former President Donald Trump's phone calls to state election officials in which he sought help to overturn the results of the election after President Joe Biden's narrow victory was certified twice. The investigation, which follows a series of formal complaints filed by a law professor alleging that Trump violated the law during those calls, marks the first formal investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the election in the state. “The Secretary of State’s office investigates complaints it receives,” said Walter Jones, a spokesperson for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office. “The investigations are fact-finding and administrative in nature. Any further legal efforts will be left to the Attorney General.”

It was a tranquil winter morning in Raini village until the residents were jolted at around 10 am on Sunday by a loud sound and the sight of huge torrents of water and sludge in the Rishi Ganga river hurtling towards them. "Before we could make out what was happening, the raging muddy waters of Rishi Ganga had devastated the landscape," says 50-year-old Dharam Singh, a resident of the village. The scenes brought back to the people horrifying memories of the 2013 Kedarnath deluge that killed thousands. Many were feared swept away in the sudden floods on Sunday, including those who were working near the river.

“Dolly Parton’s America,” as conceived in the liberal imagination, is a fantasy.

Citing reporting failures by the police department, the volunteer board is asking the City Council to end use of the cameras.

Maryland residents who qualify for COVID-19 immunizations should register multiple times, and with multiple providers, for vaccination appointments while supply remains limited, the state’s acting health secretary said Monday. “We encourage people to get on waiting lists,” said Dennis R. Schrader, the acting secretary, during a virtual Maryland Senate committee meeting. Last week, Schrader said the Maryland Department of Health did not have a defined policy about registering for multiple appointments. His comments come Monday as appointments remain scarce and frustratingly difficult to come by, especially for older adults, those without computers and people lacking digital skills.

Actions taken by paramilitary groups in Michigan last year, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump, signaled a profound shift in Republican politics and a national crisis in the making.

Oakland police announced Monday that a suspect has been arrested and charged in a brazen, violent attack on a 91-year-old man caught on camera in Chinatown. Police say they believe the suspect in the incident also attacked a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman that same day.

According to Blockchair, a website with a running tracker of top cryptocurrency wallets, Dogecoin is held in overwhelming proportion by just one person. One solitary address has nearly 37 billion Dogecoin. That’s more than five times the next-largest owner, and amounts to almost 30 percent of the total supply of Doge, which counts 127 billion coins in circulation. Of course, a 50 percent spike on a holding that large is substantial. At 5 cents a coin, which the currency shot past late last week, that holding would have been worth $1.85 billion. In late January, before this flurry, it was worth less than 1 cent per coin.

Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions that vaccines cause autism or that it is safer for people to contract Covid-19 than to receive the vaccinations. The social network has increasingly changed its content policies over the past year as the coronavirus has surged. In October, the social network prohibited people and companies from purchasing advertising that included false or misleading information about vaccines. In December, Facebook said it would remove posts with claims that had been debunked by the World Health Organization or government agencies. Monday’s move goes further by targeting unpaid posts to the site and particularly Facebook pages and groups. Instead of targeting only misinformation around Covid vaccines, the update encompasses false claims around all vaccines. Facebook said it consulted with the World Health Organization and other leading health institutes to determine a list of false or misleading claims around Covid and vaccines in general. In the past, Facebook had said it would only “downrank,” or push lower down in people’s News Feeds, misleading or false claims about vaccines, making it more difficult to find such groups or posts. Now posts, pages and groups containing such falsehoods will be removed from the platform entirely.

A man alleged to be a serial harasser and conspiracy gadfly was arrested at a home in Quinte West late Wednesday.