Author: Admin

Boston Globe – by Laura Crimaldi

SALEM — The wooded spot overlooking Walgreens on Boston Street is unremarkable. The rocky ledge of knotted trees is surrounded by houses, and the path to the top is unpaved.

But the days of anonymity for the site known as Proctor’s Ledge are over. Researchers announced this week they have confirmed the plot is where 19 people accused of witchcraft were hanged in a wave of hysteria that swept this seaside city in 1692.   Continue reading “Researchers pinpoint site of Salem witch hangings”

Fox News

A wanted man who police in Ohio said sent them a selfie because he didn’t like the mugshot that had been made public was arrested in Florida Tuesday morning.

The Lima News reported that Donald “Chip” Pugh, 45, was arrested outside a public library in Century, Fla., just across the border from Alabama.   Continue reading “Fugitive who sent police selfie to replace ‘terrible’ mugshot arrested in Florida”

ABC News

Members of the Michigan National Guard are headed to Flint to help dole out bottled water, filters and other supplies to residents dealing with a drinking water crisis that began months ago.

Gov. Rick Snyder activated the National Guard late Tuesday, and some members were expected to arrive as soon as Wednesday to assist state authorities and volunteers in the distribution effort.   Continue reading “Michigan National Guard, FEMA Help Flint Amid Water Crisis”

NBC News

Ten U.S. sailors detained by Iran were released early Wednesday, officials said.

The sailors — nine men and one woman — were held overnight on Iran’s Farsi Island. They were taken into custody Tuesday when their two small U.S. navy riverine vessels drifted into Iranian-claimed waters during a training mission.   Continue reading “U.S. Sailors Detained by Iran Are ‘Safely Returned’”

KOMO News

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Seattle police raided a suspected burglar’s Bellevue home on Monday and found a cache of stolen guns, ammo and body armor.

Police originally responded to a commercial burglary on New Year’s Eve in the 500 block of Colorado Avenue South. The thief, who made off with dozens of guns and suppressors, was long gone by the time officers arrived, but detectives learned that the prime suspect was a white man driving a late 1990s Toyota Forerunner, according to the Seattle Police Department.   Continue reading “Police find cache of stolen guns, ammo in suspected burglar’s home”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

While Syria is torn apart by the warring of U.S. imperialists and Islamic fundamentalists—leaving its children to die of starvation—another country plans to take advantage of the chaos by stealing resources from Syria’s southern region. The theft will be carried out by the most notorious pushers of military hegemony, and they don’t care that it violates international law.   Continue reading “Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News’ Murdoch to Drill for Oil in Syria, Violating International Law”

Sent to us by the author.

The Great Recession – by David Haggith

An economic apocalypse upon us. My 2016 economic predictions provide the full explanation as to why 2016 will bethe year of the Epocalypse — a word that encompasses the roots “economic, epoch, collapse” and “apocalypse.” I needed a word big enough to describe all that is about to befall the world in 2016. When you see the towering forces that are prevailing against failing global economic architecture and the pit of debt beneath that structure, as laid out here, I think you’ll recognize that the Epocalypse is here, and it is everywhere. The Great Collapse has already begun.   Continue reading “2016 Economic Predictions: Year of the Epocalypse”

New York Daily News

An NYPD officer was shot in the right foot and was among seven people taken to a local hospital early Saturday after a shootout in the Bronx, police and witnesses said.

The shooting occurred on E. 137th St. and Lincoln Rd. in Mott Haven about 2:10 a.m., officials said. Police responded to a party where a fight broke out in which there were bats, knives and guns.   Continue reading “25-year-old NYPD police officer shot in leg, three in critical after shootout in Bronx”

CNN

Both men are Palestinians who were born in Iraq and came to the United States as refugees, according to the U.S. Justice Department. And both are accused of lying to immigration officials about their alleged ties to terrorist organizations. The two men were arrested Thursday.   Continue reading “Feds arrest 2 Middle East refugees on terror-link charges”

The Washington Post

MEXICO CITY— The world’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was recaptured in western Mexico on Friday after a fierce pre-dawn gunbattle that left five people dead, the stunning culmination of a furious manhunt that began when Guzman tunneled out of a maximum-security prison nearly six months ago, according to Mexican authorities.   Continue reading “Notorious drug lord ‘El Chapo’ recaptured by Mexican authorities nearly 6 months after brazen escape”

USA Today

The suspect in the wounding of a Philadelphia police officer in an execution-style ambush told officers he carried out the attack “in the name of Islam,” police said Friday.

Police Commissioner Richard Ross said the suspect, Edward Archer, 30, fired 13 shots from a semiautomatic pistol that hit Officer Jessie Hartnett, 33, and his car Thursday night. Hartnett returned fire, hitting the gunman at least three times. Archer was quickly taken into custody by other officers after fleeing the scene, police said.   Continue reading “Police: Suspect says he shot Philly cop ‘in the name of Islam’”

Reuters

Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, faces a lawsuit in Pennsylvania claiming store employees negligently allowed an underage, intoxicated customer to buy a box of bullets later used to commit three murders.

The lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia by families of the victims, seeks compensatory and punitive damages from Wal-Mart and several employees at its Easton, Pennsylvania, store, where the bullets were purchased by Robert Jourdain on July 5 at 2:56 a.m. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company operates stores under the Walmart name.   Continue reading “Wal-Mart sued over sale of bullets used in Pennsylvania murders”

Washington Post – by Mark Berman and Carissa Wolf

BURNS, Ore. — This small community has been the focus of national attention since an armed group arrived and occupied a nearby wildlife refuge, holding periodic news conferences to say they had no plans to leave and to insist that they were there to help residents. But the sheriff has his own message for the occupiers: Please go home.

“They’re welcome to leave, and I’ll escort them out of the county,” Harney County Sheriff David Ward said at a community meeting Wednesday evening.   Continue reading “Oregon sheriff meets with armed group occupying wildlife refuge and asks them to leave”

Bloomberg – by Rebecca Penty

TransCanada Corp. opened one of the largest trade appeals ever brought against the U.S., seeking to recoup $15 billion tied to the Obama Administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The Canadian company intends to start a claim for costs and damages under the North American Free Trade Agreement against the U.S. after President Barack Obama’s rejection of the $8 billion project in November, according to filings Wednesday. The pipeline builder also sued the U.S. government, arguing Obama didn’t have the constitutional power to decide on the cross-border line.   Continue reading “TransCanada Fights Keystone Denial With $15 Billion Trade Appeal”

Huffington Post – by Dominique Mosbergen

It was the selfie seen around the world; a toothy snap taken inadvertently by a grinning macaque monkey.

As the selfie went viral, a question arose: Just who owned the copyright to this extraordinary photograph — the monkey, the photographer whose camera was left unattended or the public?   Continue reading “Monkey Cannot Own Copyright To Viral Selfie, Says Federal Judge”