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USNI News Navy Releases Latest Round of USS Thresher Documents February 4, 2021 10:39 AM • Updated: February 4, 2021 1:12 PM This week, the Navy released the fifth set of documents related to the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher (SSN-593) and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England. A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis. The followin...

A mix of classics and newcomers makes up the bestseller lists from December in China, with the approach of the Lunar New Year in February starting to lift sales of ‘Our New Year.’ On Shanghai’s Yingao West Road in the city’s Baoshan district, January 31. Image – iStockphoto: Scqbj-Jz A Presidential Release and Traditional Favorites In the last month of 2020, China’s bestseller lists were reflecting that duality of interest familiar to Publishing Perspectives readers—a kind of tens...

Loanshark Runner Arrested The Police have arrested a 44-year-old man for his suspected involvement in loansharking activities. On 30 January 2021 at about 10.30pm, officers from Central Police Division conducted checks along Middle Road where a man was allegedly found to be in possession of several bank cards that do not belonged to him and $800 cash. He was arrested by the officers. The man is believed to be a loanshark runner who assisted the loansharks in their business by carrying out trans...

The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Ikoi Ikpi Itam before Justice S. M. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, on a four-count charge bordering on impersonation, forgery and criminal conversion of property worth N12 million. One Iniobong Udoh had alleged in a petition, that the defendant fraudulently sold a property at Plot/Parcel J. 1st Avenue, Lugbe Estate, Abuja belonging to his (the defendant’s) la...

Duo Arrested For Assisting In The Business Of Unlicensed Moneylending

Duo Arrested For Series Of Loanshark Harassment

Stop drugs, ensure order, security in jails: HC Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent The High Court has issued eight directives for authorities concerned of the government to ensure security, peace and decorum in and outside the jails and to prevent the supply of narcotics in prisons across the country. It also said forgery in the submission of power of attorney before a court must stop. "The jail authorities should be alert and vigilant at all tim...

Read Article Submitted photo DAMARISCOTTA — The book world rarely sees a new book with such an unusual history as “Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith.” New work by a famous, long-deceased writer is big news. But two such writers in the same book? This book comprises correspondence between White and Smith during the 1950s and 1960s, when they both had residences in their beloved Maine. The letters lay forgotten in a bank vault in...