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Arizona man Timothy Sullivan, 61, was arrested on November 25 and charged with the death of Amy 'Ruby' Leagans, 49 An Arizona man has been charged with murder for allegedly killing a woman he was in a relationship with and dismembering her body before dumping parts of it in the desert, in a river and in trash cans around Phoenix. Timothy Sullivan, 61, was arrested on November 25 and charged with the death of Amy 'Ruby' Leagans, 49, who had moved from Illinois to Chandler, Arizona, just last April for a fresh start. Her family reported Leagans missing on October 27 when they had not heard from her in a week.  Cops launched an investigation and part of her body was found with 'obvious signs of foul play' near the bottom of Salt River close to central Phoenix on November 17.   Her death was immediately regarded as suspicious and cops identified Sullivan as a suspect. They called on the public for information before he was taken into custody late last month.  Once a

Airbnb is aiming for a valuation of up to $34.8 billion in its initial public offering, in what would cap a stunning recovery of fortunes after the business was heavily damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year. In a regulatory filing Tuesday, Airbnb set a target share price range of between $44 and $50 to sell 51.9 million shares, which would pull in up to $2.85 billion at the upper end of the range. At the top of Airbnb's target range, the IPO will give Airbnb a valuation of $34.8 billion, nearly double the $18 billion Airbnb was worth in an April private fundraising round and above the $31 billion in its last pre-COVID-19 private fundraising in 2017.  Investors have signaled that they expect vaccines to soon put an end to the pandemic, and anticipate a surge of travel as normal life resumes next year.  Of the shares being sold, Airbnb founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk will together sell nearly $100 million worth of shares in the IPO launch. Co-fou

Woolworths is offering up cash grants to struggling Australian dairy farmers hit hard by drought, bushfires and the Covid-19 downturn. The $5million scheme will enable farmers in the supermarket's supply chain to receive a handout of up to $100,000 to improve infrastructure and technology on dairy properties. Applications for the Woolworths Dairy Innovation Fund will open Wednesday, with the generous three-year scheme expected to help up to 60 businesses. The move comes after Australian supermarkets were blamed for decimating the dairy industry over the past decade by reducing farmer's profitability through a highly publicised $1 a litre milk price war. Woolworths is offering up cash grants to struggling Australian dairy farmers hit hard by drought, bushfires and the Covid-19 downturn (pictured, Woolworths Roselands) The $5million scheme will enable farmers in the supermarket's supply chain to receive a handout of up to $100,000 to improve infrastructure and technology on d

Four US citizens claim they are being held as 'hostages' in the British Virgin Islands after they accidentally sailed illegally into the territory's waters last month. John Hines, his partner Lynn Hines, and their friends Nicholas Cancro and Jeanne McKinnon were detained on November 19 by customs and immigration officers, according to a statement from the British Virgin Islands' Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.  US citizens are currently banned from entry due to coronavirus restrictions and the statement claimed that the four detainees had been placed into a mandatory 14-day quarantine in a local hotel, financed by the government. Yet, the Americans argue they've been held 'without cause' for 12 days and are being housed together in one bug-infested room where even the sink has fallen off the wall.  John Hines, partner Lynn Hines, and friends Nicholas Cancro and Jeanne McKinnon were detained on November 19 by customs and immigration officers in

Police shot and killed a gunman during a shootout early Tuesday who was suspected of fatally shooting a woman over a child-custody dispute and firing shots at a Detroit police station, authorities said. ­Members of the Detroit Police Department’s Special Response Team approached the 28-year-old man at about 7am as he sat holding an AR-15 rifle in an SUV in a parking lot on the city's east side, Chief James Craig said in a morning press conference. Craig said that as the officers asked the gunman to drop his weapon and raise his hands, the suspect shook his head to indicate no, prompting 'an exchange of gunfire between the subject and several SRT officers.’ No officers were injured in the shootout, but the man, who has not been named, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators believe the suspect, who has a history of domestic violence, had earlier killed the mother of his child and was planning to take the life of a police officer. The 28-year-old had also hours earlier re

San Diego had been in talks with a local defense contractor to potentially have a more than six-ton drone catch drivers who speed, records show.  This year, the city was to be the site of a major drone project that was to show residents the potential of having military-grade technology monitor San Diego's infrastructures and wildfires.  San Diego's Office of Homeland Security had been building a relationship with General Atomics, discussing ways in which police could utilize the tech in the sky, the Voice of San Diego reports.  General Atomic's MQ-9B SkyGuardian is massive, weighing more than 12,500lbs and having a wingspan of 79ft. The company marketed the drone as being a 'persistent eye in the sky,' which could be used by governments for public planning efforts and for emergency response.  San Diego's Office of Homeland Security was building a relationship with General Atomics, discussing ways to implement the SkyGuardian drone to monitor speeding drivers Fro

Almost six million Americans filed a 'continued claim' for state unemployment insurance in mid-November, almost exceeding pre-pandemic records.  The 5.9million who have collected and applied for unemployment benefits still exceed any historical precedent, showing the many workers are still struggling nine months after the country first went into lockdown for the pandemic.    'The numbers we're looking at now are far higher anything we've seen before,' Erica Groshen, former commissioner of the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, explained to CNBC. 'We've never seen a shock like this.'    The figure, provided by the Labor Department, comes from the week November 14 and is close to a prior peak of 6.5million set in March 2009 during the Great Recession.    5.9 million Americans filed 'continued claims' for unemployment benefits in the week of November 14, according to the Labor Department. Cars wait in line to receive free groceries for people

Australia has emerged from the coronavirus recession with the economy expanding by 3.3 per cent in the September quarter - the strongest three-month growth pace in 44 years. The surge in Australia's gross domestic product occurred even though Melbourne, Australia's second biggest city and a fifth of the national economy, was placed into a strict, Stage Four lockdown from August 2 until October 28. The coronavirus shutdowns and the summer bushfires had caused Australia to sink into recession for the first time since 1991. The seven per cent plunge during the June quarter was the worst in Australian Bureau of Statistics records going back to 1959, and followed a 0.3 per cent decline during the March quarter. The worst is now over, with the 3.3 per cent growth pace during the September quarter the strongest three-month expansion since the March quarter of 1976, when Malcolm Fraser was a new Liberal prime minister following the controversial November 1975 dismissal of his Labor pre

A court memo unsealed Tuesday night has revealed that the government is investigating an alleged scheme by two officials who sought to bribe the White House in exchange for a presidential pardon for an unidentified prisoner. The information was contained in a federal judge's memorandum opinion released Tuesday on the subject of sealing information relating to people who have not been charged by a grand jury. Although heavily-redacted, the memorandum mentions an alleged 'Bribery-for-pardon scheme' that went all the way to the White House. It also describes a 'secret lobbying scheme' in which unidentified people acted as lobbyists to 'senior White House officials' without complying with registration requirements. An unsealed court memorandum reveals an alleged 'bribery-for-pardon' scheme without disclosing who was involved It also describes a 'related bribery conspiracy' where a person 'would offer a substantial political contribution in ex

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. His comments come despite President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they´ve received, but the've uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election. 'To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,' Barr told the AP. 'To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,' U.S. Attorney General William Barr said The comments are especially direct coming from Barr, who has been one of the president's most ardent all