It is be­ing de­scribed as one of the dark­est days in US his­to­ry af­ter hun­dreds of armed sup­port­ers of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump stormed the Capi­tol build­ing, killing at least four peo­ple and send­ing the Sen­ate scam­per­ing for safe­ty.

WASH­ING­TON — Three days be­fore sup­port­ers of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump ri­ot­ed at the Capi­tol, the Pen­ta­gon asked the US Capi­tol Po­lice if it need­ed Na­tion­al Guard man­pow­er. And as the mob de­scend­ed on the build­ing Wednes­day, Jus­tice De­part­ment lead­ers reached out to of­fer up FBI agents. The po­lice turned them down both times, ac­cord­ing to se­nior de­fense of­fi­cials and two peo­ple fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter.

Be­tween Christ­mas Day 2020 and New Year’s 2021, the Trinidad and To­ba­go So­ci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Cru­el­ty to An­i­mals (TTSP­CA) in Port-of-Spain res­cued eight dis­placed dogs from sev­er­al ar­eas across the coun­try.

Amid heat­ed cam­paign­ing for the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Jan­u­ary 25 elec­tions, an­oth­er sit­u­a­tion is gain­ing the at­ten­tion of To­bag­o­ni­ans­—a “mys­te­ri­ous” fire seems to be fol­low­ing the George fam­i­ly of Cas­tara. The fam­i­ly has been the vic­tim of five fires in five weeks, and the fam­i­ly’s sixth in months.

The 92-year-old woman res­cued by po­lice from what has been dubbed “A house of hor­ror” in El Do­ra­do has been pro­gress­ing well at a safe house.

Mi­nori­ties will bear the brunt of Wednes­day's breach of the Capi­tol Build­ing by Trump sup­port­ers.

Health of­fi­cials have dis­pelled ru­mours that the COVID-19 vac­cines con­tain mi­crochips dur­ing the Min­istry of Health vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence Wednes­day and coughed it up to noth­ing more than a “con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry.”

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 14 new COVID-19 in­fec­tions from sam­ples tak­en be­tween Jan­u­ary 4 and 6.

An ap­par­ent blun­der by a pros­e­cu­tor in the case of the bru­tal mur­der of Sean Luke may po­ten­tial­ly lead to one or two of the men ac­cused of the heinous crime walk­ing free with­out go­ing on tri­al.

Do­na­tions to the Go-Fund-Me cam­paign which be­gan three days ago to raise $40,000 to help re­tired Po­lice Con­sta­ble Carl Max­i­ma pur­chase a pros­thet­ic leg have been slow­ly com­ing in.

A loans of­fi­cer, who works at Re­pub­lic Bank, has been charged with the mur­der of teacher Suzette Sylvester, 48.

Gusty winds from an af­ter­noon thun­der­storm par­tial­ly ripped off the roof of a pen­sion­er’s home on Thurs­day.