Allan Stein

4 days ago | theepochtimes.com | Allan Stein

Is There a New England Serial Killer? Social Media Says Maybe, Police Say No.Online speculation is pressuring law enforcement to conduct a wider investigation. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock|June 01, 2025Updated:June 01, 2025NEW ENGLAND—On the eve of Easter Sunday, detectives in Narragansett, Rhode Island, were busy investigating crimes when messages began to pour in. “It came from everywhere,” Detective Sgt.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Allan Stein

Tom Pawlak and Robert Trae Zipperer live 2,200 miles apart, but they share a common belief: that unlike old soldiers, no gravestone or marker of a U.S. military member should ever fade. For Pawlak, 73, from Arizona, restoring the bronze plaques of veterans and those lost in combat to their original pristine condition has become his mission in life. Zipperer, 56, is a Navy veteran from Florida who is equally passionate about restoring gravestones.

2 weeks ago | theepochtimes.com | Allan Stein

Thrift stores and consignment shops are an alternative to buying new as import tariffs loom and price hikes look set to bite. 5/21/2025Updated: 5/21/2025PHOENIX—While many retailers have struggled, business has thrived since Estefania Gasca and her husband, Cristobal Zepeda, established Thrift It Forward consignment store in Phoenix nearly two years ago. Some days, the second-hand goods sell as quickly as they come in. Allan Stein is a national reporter for The Epoch Times based in Arizona.

2 weeks ago | theepochtimes.com | Allan Stein

North Carolina Communities Rising From the Ruins of Hurricane HeleneNonprofit volunteers are committed to rebuilding Chimney Rock and other communities devastated by the powerful storm in September 2024. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times|May 20, 2025Updated:May 20, 2025CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.—North Carolina officials estimate that it will take many years, many hands, and up to $60 billion to recover from the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in late September 2024.

3 weeks ago | theepochtimes.com | Allan Stein

As the snow and icy rain began to fall on that early winter morning in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, something big was going down. They didn’t know it, but Jan. 20, 2011, was the beginning of the end for the Mafia. On that day, the largest law enforcement operation against America’s most infamous crime organization commenced. Hundreds of FBI agents, equipped with criminal warrants, began arresting mob suspects across three states.