IRS warns people about an email tax scam
It's nowhere NEAR tax-time, but the IRS is warning people about a scam going around. The Detroit Free Press reports there's been a large number of reports of people getting unsolicited e-mails, pretending to be from the IRS. The subject line often includes the word 'reminder' and will say something like 'automatic income tax reminder' or 'electronic tax return reminder.' The scammers try to get you to download a file that appears to be your tax information but instead is malware they could use to access information on your computer. The IRS says the agency doesn't send out unsolicited emails. You can read more about the story here.
Tulsa police are still looking for the woman suspected of shooting another woman to death in July. Diamanta Tibbs is now on the Tulsa Police Department’s most wanted list. Police say Tibbs shot and killed Soconda Boyd in the throat outside a convenience store on Mohawk Boulevard just after midnight on July 23rd. Boyd died at the hospital. If you have information on the shooting, or know where Tibbs may be, call Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.
Trump Administration to allow in hurricane refugees from Bahamas
After some 'confusion' which prevented some people from leaving behind severe hurricane damage in the Bahamas, and traveling to the United States, the acting head of the Border Patrol told reporters at the White House on Monday that citizens of the Bahamas will need regular paperwork - but not special visas - to come to the U.S. while reconstruction work starts in heavily damaged areas of their country. 'We will accept anyone on humanitarian reason that needs to come here,' said Acting Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan, who promised expeditious processing. Asked by reporters about why people had been told to get off a ferry destined for Miami and other examples of citizens of the Bahamas not being allowed to travel to the U.S., Morgan said that was simply confusion over the situation in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian's devastation. 'There's going to be some confusion,' Morgan said, as he made clear that normal immigration checks will be made. 'That doesn't mean we do it with a blind eye,' Morgan said to reporters in the White House Briefing Room, as he said anyone with a criminal record from the Bahamas would be allowed in - but then would be detained by U.S. immigration authorities, and not simply released into the country. Two Republican Senators from Florida had quickly urged the White House to accept people from the Bahamas, as the scope of the devastation from Hurricane Dorian became more and more apparent over the weekend. “As Bahamians seek refuge or start to rebuild after #Dorian, we cannot have the kind of confusion that occurred last night in Freeport,” said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), referring to a situation where many people were asked to get off a ferry, because they did not have a special visa to enter the U.S. - something not normally needed. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said the issue may have been a lack of coordination with U.S. officials by the shipping company. 'Many Bahamian survivors have already entered the U.S. without a visa on ships that coordinated the process of checking passports & police records in advance,' Rubio said. A few hours later, President Trump struck a much tougher tone on the issue of allowing people from the Bahamas in to the U.S. “I don't want to allow people who weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States,” the President told reporters. “We have to be careful,” Mr. Trump told reporters outside the White House. “Everybody needs totally proper documentation.”
