Federal government proceeds with execution of Corey Johnson

Corey Johnson, 52, was federally executed by lethal injection on Thursday  The death sentence of convicted murderer Corey Johnson has been carried out, in what is set to the penultimate federal execution of President Donald Trump’s term.  Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead at 11.34pm on Thursday following lethal injection with pentobarbital at the U.S. Department of … Read more

Woman who took up TOMBSTONE cleaning to help her ‘heal’ from her divorce goes viral

A Virginia woman who struggled through a difficult divorce says she found ‘a therapeutic outlet’ in cleaning old tombstones — and now she’s found millions of fans on TikTok for her graveside scrubbing videos. Virginia resident Alicia has amassed a million followers on TikTok, where she has uploaded dozens of videos of tombstones being cleaned. … Read more

Woman who took up TOMBSTONE cleaning to help her ‘heal’ from her divorce goes viral

A Virginia woman who struggled through a difficult divorce says she found ‘a therapeutic outlet’ in cleaning old tombstones — and now she’s found millions of fans on TikTok for her graveside scrubbing videos. Virginia resident Alicia has amassed a million followers on TikTok, where she has uploaded dozens of videos of tombstones being cleaned. … Read more

DAN HODGES sees alarming echoes of Trump’s America in Britain today

Back in 2018, I stood in a draughty aircraft hangar in Huntingdon, West Virginia, watching Donald Trump address his devoted supporters. It was the final week of the mid-term elections, and he was upbeat. His speech began as a standard brew of US new-dawn optimism, mixed with casual slaps at his Democratic opponents. Then it … Read more

The US Army collection of Nazi art has been locked away in Fort Belvoir since 1945

In northern Virginia, a secretive Army storage facility that holds hundreds of seized Nazi artworks has drawn comparisons to the warehouse from the Indiana Jones film Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Since the end of World War Two, 456 pieces of Nazi art and propaganda have remained under lock and key at the Army’s Museum … Read more

Former Miss Virginia, 82, who was declared dead from COVID-19 reportedly comes ‘back to life’

Former Miss Virginia, 82, ‘comes back to life’ minutes after doctors told her distraught family she had died of Covid Barbara Guthrie Lay, 82, who was crowned in 1958, was rushed to hospital on December 20 after having trouble breathing at her home in Rosewell, Georgia  Two days later her husband of six years, Tony … Read more

Student says he has no regrets about sharing video of white high school classmate using racial slur

A Virginia student says he has no regrets about sharing a video online of a white high school classmate using a racial slur that forced her to withdraw from her dream college.  Jimmy Galligan, of Leesburg, revealed to the New York Times how he had been in history class at Heritage High School last year … Read more

Surrey borough with fastest rising coronavirus rate escapes county-wide Tier Three

The only borough of Surrey where coronavirus infections fell last week will be forced into a Tier Three local lockdown from Saturday despite the part of the county where cases are rising fastest escaping the tougher rules. Runnymede, the borough that contains commuter towns Chertsey and Virginia Water, saw its rate of coronavirus cases per … Read more

JoJo Siwa surprises five-year-old superfan with virtual hangout through Make-A-Wish Foundation

JoJo Siwa sweetly surprises five-year-old superfan with virtual hangout through Make-A-Wish Foundation By Sam Joseph Semon For Dailymail.com Published: 17:45 GMT, 14 December 2020 | Updated: 17:45 GMT, 14 December 2020 JoJo Siwa surprised one of her biggest fans in collaboration with the Make-A-Wish foundation. The 17-year-old YouTube personality was featured in a video posted … Read more

Myleene Klass stunned when daughter Hero, 9, quotes Virginia Woolf in discussion about growing up 

‘Hero stopped me in my tracks tonight’: Myleene Klass stunned when daughter, 9, quotes Virginia Woolf in discussion about growing up By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 09:23 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 09:23 GMT, 11 December 2020 She is proud mother to Ava, 13, Hero, nine, and son Apollo, 16 months.  And Myleene … Read more