A federal jury Wednesday acquitted a Virginia hunting agent on charges stemming from a Siberian trip with Houston billionaire Dan Duncan.
Robert Kern and his company, The Hunting Consortium, were accused of breaking a federal law that prohibits importing wildlife knowingly taken in violation of another country’s laws.
Jurors had deliberated a combined seven hours since Tuesday, [...]
That Scott Schoeneweis was feeling better on Thursday afternoon was no minor relief. And he was indeed feeling better — at least to the extent that he could.
“A little better,” Schoeneweis joked. “Now I just feel regularly bad.”
Trust him — that’s more than fine. Schoeneweis experienced a scare early on Wednesday morning, when severe abdominal [...]
He says he followed his usual practice of turning up the light on the compass, ready to take over the wheel, and noticed the ship was already not steering well not unusual for a tail swell and square stern ship and the lack of visibility made it difficult to sight the buoy on [...]
