Police say suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing wasn't a client of the insurerFacebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NORTH WILDWOOD — A settlement proposal could resolve a complicated tangle of disputes between the city and the state Department of Environmental Protection and spell the end of the Lou Booth Amphitheater on Second Avenue. The tiny outdoor theater, the site of summer concerts and church services, would be removed and the spot made to match the dunes that surround it, under the proposed agreement. It also could cost the city $1.7 million. City Council members expect to vote on the agreement in December. “It’s essentially ready to go,” said Mayor Patrick Rosenello, who supports the wide-reaching settlement. In an interview Monday, he said the deal would resolve a multimillion-dollar series of fines levied by the DEP against North Wildwood, and a $20 million lawsuit filed by the city against the state. 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Iconic Avalon properties on the market for $7.4 million South Jersey first grader assaulted by teacher during bus trip, lawsuit alleges South Jersey student talks about her yearlong suspension as others adjust to school elsewhere: 'It was a hard lesson' The areas that the settlement proposal does not specifically resolve, he said, it lays out a pathway toward progress. Rosenello said the agreement could make his city much safer for future storms. “It creates a clearer path to generational shore protection,” Rosenello said. “At the end of the day, that really is the top priority for the city and, I think, for the governor.” Gov. Phil Murphy was in North Wildwood in late spring and helped push through an emergency beach replenishment, funded through the Department of Transportation’s division of Maritime Resources rather than the DEP as is more typical for beach projects. North Wildwood has allowed cabanas and tents back on the beach after a ban was enacted earlier this year to conserve space on the beach during an emergency replenishment project. According to Rosenello, Murphy pushed hard at that time to resolve the ongoing dispute between the DEP and the city, but it took months to reach the current settlement agreement in a series of disputes that had appeared to be worsening each year. Rosenello described the multiple issues between the state and city, and over future beach projects, as a “many-headed beast,” but said he believes all parties want to ensure shore protection. Murphy is a Democrat. Rosenello is a Republican, in a town that has long had a Republican-majority government. A spokesperson for the DEP declined to comment, indicating there would likely be no comment until the proposal is approved. That was set to happen at a November meeting, but the vote was delayed. Rosenello expects it to pass next month without an issue. The resolution as posted to the city’s website cites the significant erosion of North Wildwood’s beaches over the past two decades, when the city went from having one of the healthiest beaches to one of the most endangered. Before the state project this year, the city was looking at a series of new rules to manage a dwindling beach. In some sections of the community, there was no beach at all during high tides, with water up to the seawall. Much of the dispute between North Wildwood and the DEP related to those beaches, and the lengths North Wildwood went to protect them. For years, the city would truck sand in from farther south on the island it shares with Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, until the beaches eroded to the point that the trucks could no longer pass. In some instances, the DEP alleged, seawalls were installed and other measures taken without needed state authorizations. Rosenello had consistently responded that he has a responsibility to protect residents and visitors and their property, including holding back storm surges. In North Wildwood, officials say they got everything they wanted from an emergency state project to rebuild badly eroded beaches before the July 4 holiday. Mayor Pat Rosenello said the work saved summer. In October 2022, the DEP sought an injunction in court to keep the city from any further work on shore protection. Help was on the horizon, in the form of an island-wide federal beach project similar to the dredging work that has taken place in other shore towns. But that horizon kept receding, with the project on the drawing board for a decade as the needed easements and permits were secured. Now, Rosenello hopes that work could take place in 2025, potentially solving his town’s erosion woes in the long term. It is primarily a federal project, but the settlement calls for $1 million contributed by the city, to join a state and federal share. Rosenello said the estimated total cost is close to $25 million just for the North Wildwood portion. The city also will have to contribute $700,000 to a state fund related to water pollution as part of the settlement, he said. Rosenello believes the city will get more than it gives, with an expected $7 million state grant and $10 million in federal money joining about $2 million in city funds to complete a seawall in compliance with state standards. Rosenello also celebrated a separate development: the approval to use sand from the shoals in Hereford Inlet for beach replenishment, which he believes will greatly simplify the replenishment process in the federal project. As the settlement has been discussed in the communities of the Wildwoods, many residents have focused on plans for the amphitheater, named for a well-known and well-loved figure in the community. Many commenters on social media blasted what they see as overreach by the state government and cited happy memories of events at the small theater. Rosenello said city officials are looking for other options to host the events that took place at the amphitheater, but so far nowhere is a perfect fit. But he added the amphitheater is in “very, very poor condition” and that there were significant challenges to repairing it, primarily with its location. Sand has started flowing onto the beaches of North Wildwood with the start this week of a state and city replenishment project aimed at rebuilding some of the most eroded beaches in New Jersey. The work would have required a permit under the state’s Coastal Area Facilities Review Act, and the site is within the setbacks for both dunes and wetlands. He added the city has not been able to find documentation of permits from when the theater was first constructed decades ago. “It was becoming very, very difficult, almost to the point of it not making sense anymore,” Rosenello said. While at times the rhetoric between the city and the DEP appeared heated, Rosenello believes the settlement will allow all parties to work together going forward. “I don’t have any hard feelings. I don’t think it’s personal on any level,” he said. “I think it was some very different perspectives on many issues." Rosenello Contact Bill Barlow: 609-272-7290 bbarlow@pressofac.com Twitter @jerseynews_bill Get Government & Politics updates in your inbox! Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter. 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VICTORIA — A Vancouver Island First Nation whose people were the first to greet European explorers in the region almost 250 years ago is taking British Columbia to court, seeking title to its traditional territories and financial compensation. The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation filed a claim Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court seeking a return of decision-making, resource and ecological stewardship, said Chief Mike Maquinna, a descendent of the former Chief Maquinna who met British explorer Capt. James Cook in 1776. Crown-authorized forest industry activities approved by the province without the consent of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation have resulted in cultural, economic and environmental impacts, he said at a news conference on Thursday. "Our people, the Mowachaht/Muchalaht, have endured many hardships since first meeting Capt. Cook, who was the explorer who first came into our territory," said Maquinna. "As a result of the explorations of our territory, the natural resources of our lands have been taken. We want to correct rights and wrongs here and hopefully as time goes on this will show that Mowachaht/Muchalaht has been infringed upon since time of contact." Capt. Cook and Chief Maquinna met in March 1776 at the traditional Mowachaht/Muchalaht whale-hunting village of Yuquot, later named Friendly Cove by Cook. The Parks Canada website says Yuquot was designated a national historic site in 1923 as the ancestral home of the First Nation, which was continuously occupied for more than 4,300 years and the centre of their social, political and economic world. The Parks Canada website says the village became the capital for all 17 tribes of the Nootka Sound region. Maquinna said the province has been acting as the sole decision-making authority in the Gold River-Tahsis areas of northern Vancouver Island, especially with regards to the forest resource, without the consent of his nation. Hereditary Chief Jerry Jack said the claim seeks title to about 430,000 hectares of land on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island and an amount of financial compensation to be determined by the court. "It is common knowledge we were here long before Capt. Cook and now we have to go to court and definitively prove that," he said. "I don't like that we have to prove that we owned it before he showed up to my territory, to my beach." The land title case does not make any claims against private land owners, homeowners or recreational hunting and fishing operators, said Jack. Premier David Eby said the B.C. government prefers negotiated land-claims settlements rather than become involved in lengthy, expensive court cases, but the Mowachaht/Muchalaht have the right to take that route. "We have no problem with them doing that," he said at an unrelated news conference in Langley. "We'd rather sit down and find a path forward." The 15-page notice of claim seeks declarations that the First Nation has Aboriginal title to its lands and that B.C.'s Forest Act and Land Act will no longer apply to Mowachaht/Muchalaht lands once title is declared. Jack said the nation decided against pursuing formal treaty talks with the federal and provincial government years ago and has been planning the land title court case "for many decades." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 12, 2024. Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press

Federal agents have accused 14 information technology (IT) workers this week of funding North Korean weapons programs. The FBI in St. Louis, Missouri, announced on Thursday that 14 North Korean nationals were indicted in a scheme that involved the funneling of their wages to finance the development of different weapons in North Korea. The Indictment The scheme involving thousands of IT workers brought in more than $88 million for the North Korean government, according to Ashley T. Johnson, special agent in charge of the FBI's St. Louis office. Speaking at a news conference, Johnson added that the workers not only funneled their earnings but also stole sensitive company information or leveraged it to demand extortion payments. The victims included companies and individuals across the U.S., including Missouri, who had their identities stolen, Johnson said. The indictments, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, charge all 14 defendants with wire fraud, money laundering, identity theft and related offenses. The majority of the accused are believed to be in North Korea, and Johnson admitted that bringing them to justice will be a challenge. To aid the effort, the U.S. State Department is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of any of the suspects. The Scheme Following the indictment, the federal agents outlined how the scheme was played out by the 14 individuals. North Korea sent thousands of IT workers to secure remote or freelance positions with U.S. companies, often using stolen identities to do so. In some cases, they paid Americans to allow access to their home Wi-Fi networks or to pose as the workers during on-camera job interviews. Johnson emphasized that the FBI is also targeting these "domestic enablers" involved in the scheme. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," Johnson said. "If your company has hired fully remote IT workers, more likely than not, you have hired or at least interviewed a North Korean national working on behalf of the North Korean government," Johnson said. Efforts Against North Korea In recent years, the Justice Department has worked to uncover and disrupt a range of criminal schemes designed to support the North Korean regime, including efforts to fund its nuclear weapons program. In 2021, the Justice Department charged three North Korean computer programmers, members of the country's military intelligence agency, in connection with a series of global cyberattacks allegedly conducted on behalf of the regime. At the time, law enforcement officials emphasized that North Korea's hacking operations were primarily profit-driven—a stark contrast to nations like Russia, China and Iran, which typically focus on espionage, intellectual property theft or undermining democratic systems. In May 2022, the State Department, Treasury Department and FBI issued a joint advisory that warned about North Koreans seeking employment while posing as foreign nationals. The advisory highlighted that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un 's regime "has placed increased focus on education and training" in IT-related fields. Johnson urged companies to carefully vet remote IT hires, especially when verifying their identities. "One of the ways to help minimize your risk is to insist current and future IT workers appear on camera as often as possible if they are fully remote," Johnson said. This article includes reporting from The Associated Press.

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NonePolice say suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing wasn't a client of the insurerEven before we knew the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, many leftists were justifying , celebrating and rationalizing the shooting. There’s a real debate going on in some quarters of the progressive Left over whether slaying CEOs is a bad thing. And it’s unsurprising. Of course, if any MAGA professors or journalists were online publicly defending the killing of perceived political enemies, thousands of wringing hands would be lamenting the menacing rhetoric of conservatism. And rightly so. But the unhinged demonization of the health-insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry and Big Oil are now the norm. A generation of college students has been indoctrinated into believing the profit motive is killing people when the opposite is true. Follow The Post’s live coverage for the latest on the UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer And there’s a clear ideological continuum between those who rationalize the shooting of a CEO and rationalize the murder and rape of Jews by Palestinian terrorists and rationalize the burning down of cities for “social justice.” One expects Mangione’s writing will be largely indistinguishable from what a person hears from elected progressives and pundits. Yet few will ponder why a seemingly rational Ivy League-educated engineer decided to become a hit man. Instead, the public is incessantly warned that white supremacists are gathering in the shadows, readying to spring their coup. So dangerous were these alleged impending “major civil disturbances” in 2023 that the Justice Department created a new category of extremists to “track and counter” the “anti-government or anti-authority violent extremism.” When BLM rioting enveloped the nation, causing billions in damage, destroying thousands of lives, one could barely get anyone in the media to admit it was even happening. To the left, parents who protest school boards over critical race theory and mask mandates are “domestic terrorists,” but people who burn down cities are “mostly peaceful.” The left has been prone to violence since Year Zero. Follow the latest on the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson : In the early 1900s, the United States was awash in communist and anarchist bombings, culminating in the deaths of 30 people on Wall Street in 1920. Most cultural depictions of the ’60s upheavals were of a genteel, peace-loving movement, but it was imbued with extremists, as well. By the 1970s, left-wing terrorist groups such as the Weather Underground were setting off bombs at the Capitol, police stations, the Pentagon and state attorneys general offices. An 18-month period in 1971-’72 saw an amazing 2,500 bombings in the United States by leftist groups. Worse, then as now, violence was often ignored or idealized by the “intellectual” left. When I was young, self-styled socialists would commemorate mass murderers such as Che Guevara or Mao Zedong on T-shirts. Today, feted contemporary public intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi Coates write bestselling books celebrating terrorism. The late Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground member who was involved in the Brinks truck robbery that killed two innocent people, operated Columbia University’s “Center for Justice” for decades. And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Angela Davis, widely considered a hero by younger progressives, who not only championed murders and terrorist regimes her entire career but bought two guns used in a courtroom kidnapping-shootout perpetrated by the Black Panthers in 1970, when three hostages and a superior court judge were killed in Marin County, Calif. There is simply no comparable mainstreaming of right-wing extremists. It was James Hodgkinson who walked onto an Alexandria, Va., baseball field in 2018 and opened fire at a Republican congressional delegation. He was a Bernie Sanders fan. Certainly, no reporter ran around the halls of Congress asking every elected Democrat if they were going to lower the rhetorical temperature. Nor did they do so when a left-wing assassin showed up at the house of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, promising to “stop roe v wade from being overturned” by “shooting for 3” justices. After years of hearing the demonizing of the Supreme Court, the man showed up with a Glock , zip ties, duct tape and various other tools. When Paul Pelosi was attacked by a deranged man, the entire media conversation revolved around conservative rhetoric. When we had two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, most of the Left could barely stop calling him Hitler . None of this is to maintain there isn’t right-wing violence. Of course there is. It’s simply to say that we should acknowledge that a lot of our contemporary political violence emanates from the left. And a lot of it is girded by the hard-left progressive turn in mainstream America’s politics. David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Twitter @davidharsanyi

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Rangers 1-1 Tottenham: Spurs escape Ibrox cauldron with a point in Europa League Battle of BritainPolice say suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing wasn't a client of the insurerRangers 1-1 Tottenham: Spurs escape Ibrox cauldron with a point in Europa League Battle of Britain Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport By STEPHEN MCGOWAN Published: 23:32, 12 December 2024 | Updated: 23:51, 12 December 2024 e-mail View comments In days of old, they would bill these cross-border bunfights as a ‘Battle of Britain’. Since 2006, Scottish teams have turned up bearing a water pistol to a gun fight. They’ve been outspent, outgunned and outplayed. Celtic ’s win over Manchester United remains the last time a team from the SPFL claimed the upper hand. That was 18 years ago. How close Rangers came here to bucking that trend. Until the 75th minute, the ‘pub league’ led the ‘tourist league’ thanks to a clinical strike from the talismanic Hamza Igamane. When the Moroccan scored his fifth goal in five games, the Rangers support belted out a chorus of ‘sacked in the morning’ as their former Celtic bete noire Ange Postecoglou stood motionless, hands buried deep in his pockets. It wasn’t to be in the end. While a point propels Philippe Clement’s team one step closer to the knock-out stage of the Europa League , they deserved more. Hamza Igamane fires home the opening goal in Rangers' 1-1 draw with Tottenham at Ibrox Substitute Dejan Kulusevski's goal earned Spurs a Europa League point they barely merited Under-fire Ange Postecoglou found himself under more pressure when Spurs fell behind Igamane was a force of nature, Nico Raskin had his best game in a Rangers shirt, while Vaclav Cerny’s energy was relentless. For well over an hour, Postecoglou’s lacklustre team performed like day trippers on a stag do. Substitute Dejan Kulusevski earned a point they barely merited with a clinical finish past Jack Butland with 15 minutes to play and even then they clung on. In the final moments of a breathless game, the much-maligned Rangers substitute Cyriel Dessers could have won it twice, a late strike ruled out for offside. A month or so ago, the soundtrack to an Ibrox day out was boos at the final whistle. The applause which followed a performance of courage, intensity and endeavour from most of a 48,064 crowd reflected the rapidly changing mood around the club. After weeks of dreading a double-header against Spurs and Celtic, Sunday’s Premier Sports Cup final against their oldest rivals no longer provokes a sense of foreboding. What impact this gargantuan effort against English Premier League opponents has upon events at Hampden remains to be seen, an injury to central defender John Souttar a source of legitimate concern. They have significantly less time to rest and recuperate than their rivals, but if Rangers can find a way to replicate the energy and spirit they summoned here, Postecoglou’s former team — like his current one — will know they’re in a game. Over the last five years, Tottenham have been the fourth biggest net spenders in a league where money is no object. For all the brickbats coming his way — and there were more from his own supporters here — Daniel Levy has lavished £460million on players. Dominic Solanke, alone, cost £64m. You wouldn’t have known it for large chunks of a game when Rangers made their wealthier opponents look ordinary. Bluntly, they were the better team. Postecoglou will cite the biggest injury crisis of his 25 years in management. The loss of his first-choice goalkeeper teed former Celtic stopper Fraser Forster up for a night of relentless booing, exacerbated by his participation in a pre-match huddle reminiscent of the Parkhead trademark in front of the away support. The loss of central defenders Ben Davies, Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero added, meanwhile, to the air of vulnerability around a team with one win in their last eight games. Smelling blood, Rangers went for the kill, Forster the busier of the two keepers in a 90 minutes when they deserved the breakthrough before it came from the irrepressible Igamane, fast becoming a revelation. Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport Advertisement A sign of things to come arrived when Nedim Bajrami overlapped the lively, hungry Cerny and thumped a fizzing shot at goal. Forster did brilliantly to tip the ball over the bar and we were off and running. The gun had sounded. When Igamane’s first-time pass picked out the Czech winger on the right side of the area, Forster was forced down low to save. Moments later, Jefte rolled the most enticing ball along the face of goal and it was crying out for the boot of Bajrami to stretch out and prod Ibrox into orbit. Tottenham’s vulnerability was there for the world to see. Delighted by the opening half hour and the intensity of their team, the home support revelled in every raucous minute. The 2,500 Spurs supporters in a far corner of Ibrox stood in pensive silence. Mohamed Diomande’s needless yellow card for deliberate handball rules the midfielder out of the next game against Manchester United in January. Of more importance to Rangers was the sight of Souttar dropping to the turf with no one near him 10 minutes before the interval. When a player with Souttar’s injury record goes down, it’s rarely good news. The central defender limped gingerly from the fray after 35 minutes with what looked like a groin issue, Leon Balogun taking his place. With one eye on Sunday’s cup final the apprehensive hush belonged, this time, to the Rangers support. Their concern was misplaced. It took 39 minutes for a shapeless, dishevelled Spurs side to give Butland a save to make from James Maddison, before the offside flag was raised high in the air. Butland couldn’t have known that, of course. When Cerny forced Forster into a block with his legs before half-time, Spurs were lucky to get in at the break goalless. They’d barely been at the races. It was natural to expect a reaction of some kind. Postecoglou threw Kulusevski on for the lamentable Timo Werner. The change didn’t have quite the impact intended. Making his 53rd appearance in the Europa League, James Tavernier marked the occasion with the cross which almost took the roof off Ibrox two minutes into the second half. Bouncing all the way through to Igamane, the Moroccan slammed the ball past Forster and the reaction at Ibrox felt like the equivalent of a tremor at the earth’s core. For Spurs to find a way back in to the contest, they had to up their game. While Tottenham drew energy from the arrival of Solanke, Pape Sarr and Lucas Bergvall, Rangers began to tire. The intensity of the opening hour came at a price. Butland made a big save to deny Pedro Porro at the back post. When the team in white cut Rangers open with their most incisive move of the match, he could do nothing to prevent Kulusevski reversing a low shot into the net from 14 yards. Dazzling skill and a characteristically duff finish and then an offside flag denied Dessers the final say. Not for the first time on a torrid night, Tottenham had earned a let-off they barely merited. Share or comment on this article: Rangers 1-1 Tottenham: Spurs escape Ibrox cauldron with a point in Europa League Battle of Britain e-mail Add comment