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BRADENTON, Fla. — A Minnesota woman recognized her dog that’s been missing for three years on a beer can from Motorworks Brewing in Manatee County.
Monica Mathis says she was scrolling through Facebook when she saw the viral story about adoptable dogs being put on beer cans at a Florida brewery. Continue reading “Minnesota woman recognizes dog missing for three years on Florida brewery beer can”
Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed in Denver and travel was hindered severely in other parts of the Rockies as a winter storm marched eastward.
More than 170 flights into and out of Denver International Airport were canceled Monday, totaling more than half of all domestic flight cancellations for the day, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware. More than 450 flight delays were also reported at the airport.
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host and political commentator, announced on air Monday that he’s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
“The Rush Limbaugh Show” host, 69, said he received the diagnosis on Jan. 20 and informed his staff earlier on Monday. Continue reading “Rush Limbaugh announces advanced lung cancer diagnosis”
COMMERCE, Texas — Updated at 4:23 p.m. with additional details about the incident.
Two adult woman were killed and a toddler has been taken to the hospital following a shooting at Texas A&M University-Commerce on Monday, according to university officials. Continue reading “2 women killed, toddler injured in shooting at Texas A&M University-Commerce residence hall”
A Connecticut woman chastised for dancing on her car at a Palm Beach hotel late Friday morning ended up driving away and crashing her vehicle through two security barricades outside Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club and home, drawing gunfire from law enforcement officers, before leading a police helicopter on a chase that ended in her arrest. Continue reading “Opera singer danced on an SUV, then crashed through Mar-a-Lago barricades. Cops opened fire”
NEW YORK CITY — Thousands of protesters flocked to Grand Central Terminal and flowed out into Midtown’s streets during rush hour Friday to protest increased policing and rising fares in New York City’s subways.
The Decolonize This Place organized action followed a day of vandalism and civil disobedience throughout the transit system. Continue reading “Subway Protest Takes Over Grand Central, Midtown Streets”
Amity Packing Co., a Chicago-based meat processor and supplier, is voluntary recalling one of its vacuum-sealed ground beef products for potential plastic contamination. The problem was discovered after two consumers reported finding clear plastic fragments in the product. Continue reading “More Than 2,000 Pounds of Ground Beef Recalled in 9 States”
Waukesha County, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) – It’s something you don’t see every day: The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile pulled over by authorities.
In a Facebook post, the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department said it gave the driver a verbal warning for failure to follow the state’s Move Over Law. Continue reading “Wienermobile runs afoul of the law in Wisconsin”
The city council of Austin, Texas, has passed a measure in an attempt to decriminalize low-level offenses of weed, but police are threatening to continue arrests.
The recreational use of marijuana is still very much illegal in Texas, but the state’s 2019 legalization of marijuana’s nonpsychoactive cousin, hemp, has left law enforcement with no simple way to distinguish the two substances. (In Texas, hemp is defined as having less than 0.3 percent THC.) Continue reading “The Austin City Council Voted for Marijuana Reform. Austin’s Police Chief Says He’ll Keep Arresting People.”
“I’ve never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled,” says Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old musician who took home five statues—including ones for album of the year, song of the year, and best new artist—at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Eilish told the music magazine Pitchfork last summer that she views traditional K-12 education as the equivalent of being forced to eat vegetables. Continue reading “Sibling Grammy Winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell Praise Homeschooling”
On a sweltering July day, I follow Annise Dobson down an overgrown path into the heart of Seton Falls Park. It’s a splotch of unruly forest, surrounded by the clamoring streets and cramped rowhouses of the Bronx. Broken glass, food wrappers, and condoms litter the ground. But Dobson, bounding ahead in khaki hiking pants with her blond ponytail swinging, appears unfazed. As I quickly learn, neither trash nor oppressive humidity nor ecological catastrophe can dampen her ample enthusiasm.
At the bottom of the hill, Dobson veers off the trail and stops in a shady clearing. This seems like a promising spot. She kicks away the dead oak leaves and tosses a square frame made of PVC pipe onto the damp earth. Then she unscrews a milk jug. It holds a pale yellow slurry of mustard powder and water that’s completely benign—unless you’re a worm. Continue reading “Cancel Earthworms”
New York Post – by Paula Froelich
You can usually smell the markets before you see them.
Especially if you’re downwind.
It’s a sickly, almost sweet and nauseating smell of death. Once inside, the fetid stench — made worse by blistering temperatures and zero refrigeration — is overwhelming, and it is places like this where the deadly coronavirus originated. Continue reading “Inside the horrific, inhumane animal markets behind pandemics like coronavirus”
The U.S. State Department is evacuating personnel from its consulate in Wuhan, China, as the deadly outbreak of coronavirus continues to spread.
The agency was in the process Saturday of chartering a plane to ferry out about three dozen diplomats and their families, CNN reported. The flight will be free for State Department employees, but would also be open to any other Americans who wish to pay.
(AP) – On Thursday, a Texas A&M student who had recently traveled to Wuhan, China was examined for a suspected case of coronavirus, The New York Times reported.
University officials said the immediate health risk to people on campus was low. The student is isolated at his home while additional testing is done to confirm the respiratory illness. Continue reading “Suspected coronavirus case in Texas; China expands lockdowns to 25M people”
Officials in Wuhan, China, are blocking residents from leaving the city, in an attempt to curb the coronavirus outbreak, which has rapidly spread to more than 500 people and killed at least 17, according to news reports.
The lockdown was reported Wednesday afternoon by People’s Daily China, the official newspaper of the Communist Party in China. Continue reading “Officials: No One Allowed to Leave Wuhan, China, in Wake of Coronavirus Outbreak”
New York Post – by Tina Moore and Kenneth Garger
A half-dressed female NYPD lieutenant was caught in a drunken, on-the-job sex romp with a male sergeant at a Manhattan police building Saturday night, sources said.
Lt. Brandi Sanchez, 39, and Sgt. Lambros Gavalas, 46, were stripped of their guns and badges for the alleged rendezvous in a department bathroom inside a building used by NYPD personnel at 90 Church Street, the sources said. Continue reading “NYPD officers disciplined for alleged on-the-job bathroom sex romp”
The National Weather Service in Miami issued an important cold-weather warning Tuesday: Watch for falling iguanas.
“This isn’t something we usually forecast, but don’t be surprised if you see Iguanas falling from the trees tonight as lows drop into the 30s and 40s,” the agency tweeted. “Brrrr!”
Continue reading “Beware of Falling Iguanas in South Florida, National Weather Service Warns”
KENSINGTON, N.H. (CBS) — With no work or school Monday, the O’Reilly’s brought their three kids to Jude’s Pond in Exeter for a family hike. It ended when Ian O’Reilly wound up in a life and death struggle with a coyote that was very likely rabid.
With coyote bites on his arm and chest, O’Reilly said he had no choice but to fight. Continue reading “NH Father Kills Coyote With Bare Hands After Attacks In 2 Towns”
An inmate in a central California prison bashed a convicted child molester over the head with a cane last week, inflicting an injury so severe that it later killed him – cutting the man’s life-sentence short, officials said Monday.
David Bobb, 48, was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran. He was convicted in San Diego County for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old. Continue reading “California inmate kills convicted child molester after beating him over the head with cane”
RICHMOND, Va. ─ Thousands of gun-rights activists, banned from carrying their weapons out of fear of violence, crammed into the Virginia Capitol on Monday to urge state lawmakers to reject sweeping measures to limit the spread of firearms.
The rally, planned for weeks as part of a citizen-lobbying tradition held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, has focused national attention on Virginia’s attempts to enact new gun regulations, pushed by Democrats who took control of the Statehouse for the first time in 26 years. Gun control supporters say they are acting on voters’ wishes, propelled by a May mass shooting in Virginia Beach.
Gun-rights proponents warn that the measures ─ including universal background checks, a ban on military-style rifles and a bill that would allow authorities to temporarily take guns from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others ─ will snowball into attempts to disarm the public.
“We will not comply,” activists chanted from both sides of a security fence ringing the Capitol grounds. The crowd was largely white and diverse in age, with most wearing orange stickers saying “Guns save lives.” Many rode chartered buses from all over the state, then waited hours in line to get into the Capitol grounds before passing through airport-style security. On the other side of the fence, many activists openly carried firearms, including long guns.
Many on both sides of the gun debate in Virginia, as well as Richmond residents and business owners, feared that the rally would be a repeat of the violent 2017 protest in Charlottesville that ended in a woman’s death. Gun safety groups canceled a Martin Luther King Day vigil at the Capitol that was supposed to begin after the gun rights rally.
There were no apparent signs of violence as of 11 a.m., when the rally officially began.
Nicholas Freitas, a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates, spoke to supporters outside the Capitol cordon, many of whom were armed. Freitas, who represents three counties in northern Virginia, said the threat of violence from outside groups was overblown, and that Northam had been wrong to issue the weapons ban. He said he felt safer there than “inside those cages” where the gun ban was being enforced.
“I’m not going to tell one of my constituents who is a law abiding gun owner who has never broken the law, I’m not going to tell them you have to chose between lobbying me or having the means to defend yourself,” Freitas told reporters. “That shouldn’t be an either-or proposition.”
Jay Lowe, who was in the crowd on the Capitol grounds, said gun-control supporters were wrong to think that people were safer where firearms were restricted. “So many people are misinformed and think you are safer because you take my guns away,” Lowe, who lives in Chesterfield County, south of Richmond, said. “My guns have never killed anybody. And I carry a lot.”
Lowe also said he was angry that the rally had been tainted by links to hate groups.
“They are not the right. Conservatives are the right. We are not like those people,” Lowe said. “If there are Nazis here, white supremacists, they are not welcome by me. I do not want them on my side ever.”
Last week, Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, declared of state of emergency that banned guns and other weapons from the Capitol grounds, citing “credible intelligence” from law enforcement that armed militias and hate groups were threatening violence. Gun-rights groups, led by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, which organized the rally, tried unsuccessfully to get a court to overturn the ban.
A day after Northam’s announcement, federal authorities said they had arrested of three members of a neo-Nazi group called The Base, whom law enforcement officials said had been planning to attend the rally. More alleged members of the group were arrested on Friday.
There were some signs of militia members in the crowd on Monday, but the rally seemed made up largely of ordinary gun-control supporters, including many sporting shirts and hats proclaiming their support of President Donald Trump. There were chants calling on Northam to resign and shouts calling journalists “fake news.”
On Sunday night, as activists prepared for the rally, there were tense exchanges around the Capitol. A group of men interrupted a television reporter who referred to “extremist groups from out of town,” saying they were “freedom lovers, patriots.” Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filmed a video at the top of the Capitol steps. A group of people identified themselves as members of the Proud Boys, a far-right organization designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center that has clashed with anti-fascist demonstrators in other parts of the country.
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