Author: Angel - NYC

New York Post – by Selim Algar, Larry Celona, Jamie Schram and Antonio Antenucci

An NYPD detective and two US Marshals were shot in a wild firefight with a fugitive child molester inside a smoke shop in the heart of Greenwich Village on Monday afternoon, authorities said.

Suspect Charles Mozdir was killed during the shootout, while the officers received non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

The officers were trying to nab Mozdir — a 32-year-old wedding photographer sought since 2012 for molesting a kid in California — when bullets started flying around 1:10 p.m. in the Smoking Culture NYC shop at 177 W. 4th St.   Continue reading “Fugitive dead after shooting 2 US Marshals, cop in West Village”

They are searching my neighborhood right now. We were wondering what all the sirens and copter cover were. It is directly overhead.  

News 4 stated they were 2 US Marshals. That is all I know, other than it is very loud and I do not plan on stepping outside.

DNA Info by Danielle Tcholakian, Murray Weiss and Aidan Gardiner

WEST VILLAGE — Two law enforcement officers and a fugitive were wounded during a shootout in the West Village Monday afternoon, sources said.   Continue reading “U.S. Marshal and NYPD Detective Wounded in Village Shootout”

New York Daily News – by Dan Friedman

Victims of the 9/11 attacks and their families are entitled to big tax breaks, but many are missing out because the IRS isn’t telling them about the benefit.

Under a law passed months after the attacks, disability income resulting from terrorism is not taxable.

That means thousands of cops, firefighters and other first responders sickened after working at the site, and the families of those who’ve died, can claim $10,000, or the last three years of taxes the victim paid, whichever amount is larger.   Continue reading “IRS fails to inform 9/11 victims of tax breaks, leaving many first responders without refunds”

Indian Country

After a lull of a few months, meteor madness is set to descend once again, starting with the Delta Aquarids, which peak before dawn on Tuesday July 29.

They are best viewed starting at about 2 a.m. Daylight Saving Time, until dawn arrives. The farther south you are, the better the shower will be, though it will permeate all but the northernmost skies.   Continue reading “Delta Aquarid Shooting Stars Make Skies Sparkle”

AmmoLand – by Rob Morse

Southern California –(Ammoland.com) San Diego looks like paradise.  San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore said he will protect us and we have no need to protect ourselves.

Somehow Sheriff Gore overlooked the thousand of crime victims in June.   As usual, most of the victims are unarmed and defenseless.  It wasn’t paradise for these folks.   Continue reading “More Defenseless Victims in San Diego County – July 2014 Edition”

Wall Street Journal –  by Mike Morales

A week after a Staten Island man’s death following an alleged chokehold by a New York City police officer, another man whose violent run-in with police was also caught on video briefly spoke about his experience Saturday.

Jahmil-El Cuffee, 32 years old, and his family joined the Rev. Al Sharpton  at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, alongside family members of Eric Garner, who died last week after a confrontation with officers.   Continue reading “Victim of Alleged NYPD Stomping Appears with Eric Garner’s Family”

AOL.com – by JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) – One of Liberia’s most high-profile doctors has died of Ebola, a government official said Sunday, highlighting the risks facing health workers trying to combat the deadly disease.

Dr. Samuel Brisbane is the first Liberian doctor to die in an outbreak the World Health Organization says has killed 129 people in the West African nation. A Ugandan doctor working in the country died earlier this month.

The WHO says the outbreak, the largest ever recorded, has also killed 319 people in Guinea and 224 in Sierra Leone.    Continue reading “Official: Ebola kills senior doctor in Liberia”

AOL – by Kristen Wyatt

DENVER (AP) – Pot may be legal in some states – but the neighbors don’t have to like it.

Marijuana and hemp have joined wacky paint colors and unsightly fences as common neighborhood disputes facing homeowners’ associations. Though a few HOAs have willingly changed their rules to accommodate for legal marijuana use or home-growing, many more are banning home pot smoking.   Continue reading “Pot may be legal, but homeowner agreements can ban”

Huffington Post – by Lynne Peeples

Public health advocates are fuming over a new court ruling that they say could hasten the coming of the next pandemic.

In a 2-1 decision released Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration need not consider banning the use of antibiotics in healthy food-producing animals.

“We believe that this decision allows dangerous practices known to threaten human health to continue,” said Avinash Kar, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Adding antibiotics to farm animals’ feed, day after day, is not what we should be doing. It’s not what the doctor ordered and it should not be allowed.”   Continue reading “Feds Failing To Act On Antibiotic Resistance Despite Grave Threat, Health Advocates Warn”

NY Post – by Jamie Schram, Kevin Fasick and Natasha Velez

Police detained two men at a Midtown hotel late Friday after a doorman reported they possessed a pair of pressure cookers like those used to make the Boston Marathon bombs.

But the men say it was a misunderstanding: They plan to use the pressure cookers back home to prepare rice, chicken and meat.

Mohammad Alotaibi, 20, and Ayoub Alawadhi, 21, pulled up to the InterContinental Hotel on East 48th Street on Friday evening with the pressure cookers in their car trunk, said law enforcement sources.   Continue reading “NYPD detained men who had pressure cookers to ‘prepare rice’”

Fox News – by Todd Starnes

A Boy Scout troop from the nation’s heartland is demanding answers and a U.S. senator is expressing outrage after a group of scouts was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, with one child allegedly held at gunpoint.

Jim Fox, the leader of the Mid-Iowa Boy Scout Troop 111, said the incident occurred earlier this month at a checkpoint along the Alaska – Canada border. The scouts and their leaders were on a 21-day trek from Iowa to Alaska – a trip that had been three years in the planning.   Continue reading “Troop leader: Customs and Border agent held Boy Scout at gunpoint”

Gothamist- by Lauren Evans

It’s summer, and you know what that means: Short-shorts, bare midriffs, unseemly amounts of wicked skin positively everywhere. Well, some residents of Crown Heights are so scandalized by your vile body they’ve gone ahead and printed some signs, demanding “residents, guests and visitors” cover up. Or else?

The backdrop of the sign depicts what appears to be a lovely spring day—the grass looks inviting and soft, the sky is blue and filled with fluffy clouds. Somewhere out of frame, Thong Guy is surely gearing up for a relaxing afternoon. And that’s exactly what the sign’s creators don’t want.   Continue reading “Pushy Crown Heights Sign Urges You To “Please Dress Modestly””

AOL

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) – Prosecutors in Northern California said Thursday that they have obtained an arrest warrant for a tuberculosis patient who has refused treatment and may be contagious, putting those around him at risk.

Eduardo Rosas Cruz, a 25-year-old transient, went to the San Joaquin General Hospital’s emergency room in March, complaining of a severe cough. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, medical staff told him to stay in a Stockton motel room, where a health worker would deliver his medication and watch him take it. But officials say he took off.   Continue reading “Police seek man who refused tuberculosis treatment”

Indian Country – by Mark Rogers

This is the working mantra of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). After reading the latest report from the Office of the Inspector General, this is made blatantly clear. The mantra has long been rumor among veterans but, with all of the information coming from the series of joint committee hearings, it has proven to be a concrete truth. The report is titled “Veterans Benefits Administration: Review of the Special Initiative To Process Rating Claims Pending Over 2 Years” and is available here.   Continue reading “Lie, Delay and Deny Until They Die: How Veterans Are Treated by the VBA”

Indian Country – by Tish Leizens

When historians look back to this decade and the collective efforts of two tribes to save corn seeds from extinction, they will piece together stories of passionate gardeners who made it their mission to preserve their heritage while advocating healthy eating habits.

Corn has always been part of the heritage of the tribes in Oklahoma—the Ponca Tribe and Pawnee Nation. Over the course of time, however, it was almost a forgotten seed until in recent years when talk of preservation has finally gained ground.   Continue reading “The Ponca and Pawnee Nations’ Drive to Preserve Ancestral Corn”

NBC News – by Brian Brown

Huffington Post – by Ryan Grenoble

If you’re an animal that enjoys eating mayflies, and you live in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, this is your time to chow down. If (as is likely the case) you are human, you’re out of luck.

The annual mayfly hatch along the Mississippi River is in full swing, and on Sunday evening the event was large enough to appear on radar in the western Wisconsin area. According to the National Weather Service, parts of the swarm flew as high as 2,500 feet above the ground in the La Crosse, Wisconsin, area:   Continue reading “This Year’s Mayfly Hatch Was So Big It Showed Up On Radar And Caused A Car Wreck”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- On July 21 2014 Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts tweeted that Virginia’s congressional candidate Mike Dickinson is her group’s “next target.”

This was in response to a July 20 tweet in which Dickinson, a self-described “left wing liberal,” wrote: “People generally don’t want to die. I own a gun and if I’m touched I’m shooting.”   Continue reading “Founder of Anti-Gun Group Names Virginia Democrat as ‘Next Target’”

Huffington Post – by Alex Lazar

Capitol Police on Wednesday caught a man bringing a firearm into the U.S. Capitol, according to Roll Call.

The man, who Roll Call reports is not a Capitol Hill employee, tried to enter the Cannon House Office Building when a screener detected the weapon on him, prompting Capitol Police to handcuff him and put him in a police van.   Continue reading “Man Caught Attempting To Bring Gun Inside U.S. Capitol”