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ROSEBURG, OR (KPTV) – A witness video in Douglas County captured the moment a suspect starts exchanging gunfire with police in Roseburg – all of this before the car bursts into flames.
At about 6 p.m. Saturday, deputies got a report of possible stolen car seen at a Love’s Travel Stop along Interstate 5 in Roseburg. The vehicle had been reported stolen to the Eugene Police Department on March 7. Continue reading “Witness video shows suspect exchanging gunfire with officers in Douglas Co.”
Campus Reform – by Ben McDonald
Gonzaga University has decided to crowdfund a scholarship for illegal immigrant students at the school.
Gonzaga initially proposed the scholarship during the 2016-2017 school year and involved a $2.50 tuition hike that all students would pay unless they chose to opt-out. Gonzaga promoted the scholarship in its morning newsletter. In April 2018, the funding for the scholarship shifted from a tuition hike to students trying to get private donations to fund the scholarship. Continue reading “Gonzaga finds a way to fund illegal immigrant scholarships”
As of March 7, US immigration officials have quarantined at least 2,287 migrants carrying everything from mumps to chickenpox, according to Reuters, citing an ICE official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
ICE health officials have been notified of 236 confirmed or probable cases of mumps among detainees in 51 facilities in the past 12 months, compared to no cases detected between January 2016 and February 2018. Last year, 423 detainees were determined to have influenza and 461 to have chicken pox. All three diseases are largely preventable by vaccine. –Reuters
Continue reading “US Quarantines Over 2,200 Migrants Amid “Unprecedented” Disease Outbreaks”
The suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy Thursday at a hotel in Rockford, Illinois, has now been taken into custody after barricading himself in his car following a high-speed chase, Illinois State Police confirmed to ABC News.
The suspect, identified as Floyd E. Brown, 39, lost control of his vehicle during the chase and careened off Interstate 55 between Bloomington and Springfield and crashed into a ravine, said Master Sgt. Sam Thomas of the Illinois State Police. He then barricaded himself in his car Thursday afternoon. Continue reading “Suspect in fatal shooting of deputy at hotel in Rockford, Illinois, now in custody: Officials”
A deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service was shot Thursday morning in a Rockford, Illinois, hotel by a man he was there to arrest and who is currently on the run, authorities said.
The suspect, Floyd E. Brown, 45, immediately fired on officers at the Extended Stay America hotel off N. Bell School Road. He fled the hotel and is on the run, said Andre Brass of the Rockford Police Department. Continue reading “Manhunt underway for gunman who shot U.S. Marshal at Rockford, Illinois, hotel”
President Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order revoking an Obama-era requirement to publicly report the number of U.S. drone strikes outside of war zones and the number of civilians killed by them.
The new policy does not cover Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, areas of conflict where the United States has troops currently deployed. It only applies to drone strikes carried out by intelligence operatives — i.e., the CIA. The military reports casualties separately in the theaters where it operates. Continue reading “Trump revokes Obama order on reporting civilian deaths in drone strikes”
GRANGER, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say an 11-year-old Indiana boy who shot and wounded his state-trooper father has been charged as a juvenile with attempted murder.
The South Bend Tribune reports that St. Joseph County prosecutors filed a petition alleging delinquency for attempted murder, the juvenile equivalent of a criminal charge. Continue reading “Boy, 11, charged after shooting dad, a state trooper”
CNN – by Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores
Washington (CNN)A surge of migrants along the US-Mexico border has US Customs and Border Protection at the “breaking point,” the Trump administration said Tuesday.
More than 76,000 people were apprehended crossing illegally or without proper papers in February, the highest number of “encounters” in any February in the last 12 years, according to CBP. Continue reading “CBP says system at breaking point with more than 76,000 migrants illegally crossing or inadmissible last month”
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — It’s March. It’s cold. That groundhog lied about spring coming soon.
Now, local authorities are looking for him to hold him accountable.
The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office posted a wanted poster for Punxsutawney Phil due to fraud. Continue reading “Groundhog wanted for fraud after predicting early spring”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a rural Nebraska county’s appeal of a $28 million court judgment aimed at compensating six people wrongfully convicted of a 1985 slaying.
The justices turned away Gage County’s last-ditch effort to avoid the hefty judgment, after a federal appeals court in St. Louis found the award was justified because of egregious law enforcement conduct. In August, the county raised its local property tax levy as high as state law allows to pay off the debt — a move that could become a major drag on the local economy. Continue reading “Justices: Nebraska county owes $28M for wrongful convictions”
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed its first significant public lands conservation bill in years, designating more than one million acres of wilderness for environmental protection and permanently reauthorizing a federal program to pay for conservation measures.
The House passage of the bill, on a vote of 363-62, sends the measure, which was passed by the Senate this month, to the desk of President Trump. The vote Tuesday offered a rare moment of bipartisanship in a divided chamber and a rare victory for environmentalists at a time when the Trump administration is working aggressively to strip away protections on public lands and open them to mining and drilling. Continue reading “In Show of Bipartisanship, House Approves a Sweeping Land Conservation Bill”
A generous Oregon couple stepped in to pay for 45 hotel rooms for the homeless on Tuesday night as snow coated the ground. Amberly Batten and her husband Ryan had come across Facebook posts from volunteers with the local nonprofit Compassion Highway Project and knew they needed to help.
“I had seen some posts about some people who were homeless that were contemplating suicide because they were cold and didn’t have anywhere to go, and that hit something in my core. I had to do something,” Amberly told local NBC affiliate KOBI-TV. Continue reading “Oregon couple pays for 45 hotel rooms to house homeless on snowy night”
San Francisco has become the latest city to push for old marijuana-related criminal offenses to be cleared, with the city’s district attorney announcing that thousands of people will have their cases dismissed and sealed.
In all, 9,362 people will be eligible for dismissal, according to George Gascon, the San Francisco District Attorney. Each of them had received either a misdemeanor possession convictions or felony convictions for possession with intent to sell, sales or transportation of marijuana or the cultivation of more than six marijuana plants. Continue reading “More than 9,000 marijuana convictions dismissed in latest case of cities taking action”
Three months after Israeli police recommended that the country’s attorney general pursue charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his alleged involvement in “Bezeq Walla Affair”, it appears an indictment is finally being handed down on Thursday, much to the longtime leader’s chagrin. Continue reading “Israeli Attorney General Indicts Netanyahu On Charges Of Bribery, Fraud & Breach Of Trust”
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed legislation Wednesday to abolish his state’s concealed carry permit requirement.
Oklahoma joins Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Vermont as the 15th state to declare the Second Amendment as an individual’s carry permit. Continue reading “Oklahoma Governor Signs Bill Eliminating Concealed Permit Requirement”
OAKRIDGE, Ore. — With Highway 58 still largely impassible due to issues on the road, the town of Oakridge is cut off from help.
The town has no power, meaning gas stations and grocery stores are closed, and Lane Electric says power may not be restored for another week. Continue reading “Residents of Oakridge stranded with no access to water, food or power”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed gun confiscation into law for New York on Monday.
The law takes effect 180 days from the date of signing.
Buffalo News reports that the law allows that “family members, school administrators and law enforcement officials can seek to get guns confiscated from people deemed by courts to be an ‘extreme risk’ to themselves or others.” Continue reading “Andrew Cuomo Signs Gun Confiscation into Law in NY”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday takes up one of the biggest cases of its current term when it weighs whether a cross-shaped war memorial on public land in Maryland is an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion.
The so-called Peace Cross, a 40-foot-tall (12 meters) concrete memorial to 49 men from Maryland’s Prince George’s County killed in World War One, is situated on public land at a busy road intersection in Bladensburg just outside Washington. Continue reading “In major religion case, Supreme Court weighs Maryland cross dispute”
An Amtrak train with 183 passengers aboard was stranded in Oregon for over 24 hours.
The Coast Starlight Train 11, traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles, came to a standstill near the tiny town of Oakridge on Sunday evening after hitting a tree that had fallen on the snow-covered tracks, according to Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari. Continue reading “Rescue underway for 183 Amtrak passengers stranded in Oregon”