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Huffington Post – by Paul Alias
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy has died.
Alexander Shulgin died Monday at his Northern California home at the age of 88.
His wife, Ann, says liver cancer was the cause. She says he was diagnosed about a year ago. Continue reading “Alexander Shulgin Dead: Chemist Some Called ‘Godfather Of Ecstasy’ Dies At 88”
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three groups of migrants from Haiti and Cuba have been abandoned by smugglers in recent days on two barren islands off Puerto Rico, officials said Monday.
The migrants, 42 Haitians and five Cubans, were left on rugged Mona and Monita islands by smugglers transporting them from the Dominican Republic, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Jeffrey Quinones said. Continue reading “Haitians left on barren islands off Puerto Rico”
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) – Prosecutors say two 12-year-old southeastern Wisconsin girls stabbed their 12-year-old friend nearly to death in the wood to please a mythological creature they learned about online.
Both girls were charged as adults with first-degree attempted homicide Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court; they each face up to 60 years in prison if convicted. A court commissioner set bail at $500,000 cash per child. According to a criminal complaint, the girls had been planning to kill their friend for months and finally made the attempt in a park on Saturday morning, after a slumber party. Continue reading “12-year-old Wisconsin girls charged in stabbing”
Vietnam veterans in California are furious all over again with Jane Fonda, after the actress was chosen to speak this month at a UCLA graduation ceremony.
Fonda, who in 1972 traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, to meet with enemy soldiers and called American soldiers “war criminals,” has been picked to be the graduation speaker at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television’s commencement ceremony on June 13. Continue reading “Veterans see red as Jane Fonda tapped to speak to UCLA grads”
Huffington Post – by Paige Lavender
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only known American prisoner of war in Afghanistan, is finally coming back to the United States.
Bergdahl was handed over to U.S. special forces by the Taliban in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees who were being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. The negotiations were mediated by the government of Qatar.
For those who don’t know his story or the controversy surrounding his return to the U.S., here’s a little explainer. Continue reading “Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Bowe Bergdahl, The U.S. Captive Returning Home”
One of the most talked-about aspects of a wedding is the bride’s dress. You know, how beautiful she looked, how the groom’s eyes’ lit up when he saw her… but one bride’s dress has everybody talking.
“Baby on board! A bride in Tennessee under fire for walking down the aisle with her newborn daughter on the train of her wedding dress.
That’s right… Shona Carter-Brooks from Tennessee walked down the aisle with her 1-month-old daughter attached to the tulle of her wedding dress. And, of course, media outlets are having a heyday. Continue reading “Baby strapped to bride’s train”
Huffington Post – by Michael McLaughlin
A Mexican-born U.S. citizen living in rural Pennsylvania for two decades was arrested and accused of smuggling $60 million of cocaine into the U.S. over the last 20 years.
Salvador Lemus lived openly in Chester County as the owner of a landscaping company, but authorities contend it was a ruse to cover his illicit ties to the notorious La Familia cartel in Mexico, according to CBS Philly. Continue reading “Drug Kingpin Busted After Living Openly In Rural Pennsylvania For Decades”
BOONTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – A woman in Boonton, N.J. is suing her neighbors over their son’s drumming.
Danny Palazzo’s neighbor claims he’s ruining her quality of life by playing the drums at all hours.
An appellate court is letting her lawsuit move forward, but Palazzo’s parents claim he never played late into the night. Continue reading “Woman Sues Neighbors Over Their Son’s Drumming”
AUSTIN – In a surprise legal about-face, Attorney General Greg Abbott on Thursday ruled that state prison officials no longer have to tell the public where they obtain drugs used to execute condemned criminals.
Abbott’s decision falls in line with other states that have sought to keep secret the source of their lethal drugs, to keep death-penalty opponents from pressuring suppliers to quit selling to execution chambers. His decision reversed three rulings since 2010 that had mandated the information about the suppliers be made public. Continue reading “Abbott switches mind on death drug secrecy”
AmmoLand – by Mary “Dynk” McDonald
USA –-(Ammoland.com)- Returning to the justification for increased legislation based on comparing firearms to cars, the arguments stated are easily debunked.
Rationalizing the need to own a particular type or quantity of a firearm or ammunition is without merit, a prejudicial justification as a means of placing limits on ownership.
Each vehicle has a purpose, from a small electric car in a congested town to a large pickup used to move equipment on a job. The only limits involved in who may purchase one over the other, used or new, are financial in nature. A small caliber derringer is equivalent to the small electric car, a shotgun an equivalent to the pickup. Some vehicles will hold more people, some are better suited to driving in rough terrain, yet each has a need and purpose that is not questioned by the general public.
Continue reading “Limiting Firearms Ownership Is A Baseless Argument”
Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- No one hates guns more than California.
They came close to banning most semi-autos and do register all guns. They have moved to regulate ammunition. They have just established a $24 million program to send SWAT teams to people’s homes to confiscate their guns. They are using microstamping and pushing gun-insurance requirements as a mechanism for banning guns nationwide.
Continue reading “Obama-Bloomberg Minions Renew National Effort to Take Away Your Guns”
CNN – by Evan Perez, Hamdi Alkhshali and Salma Abdelaziz
Washington (CNN) — The truck was loaded with munitions, then driven up a hillside in northern Syria. Moments later, there was a massive blast followed by cries of “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic, and the rattling of gunfire.
The suicide attacker in the bombing depicted in this online video was an American jihadi, radical Islamists claiming responsibility for the blast have said. Continue reading “U.S.: Jihadi featured in suicide bombing video in Syria grew up in Florida”
Huffington Post – by Ron Dicker
A Fresno, California, Salvation Army volunteer in need of his own turn of fortune found $125,000 that fell from a Brinks truck on Tuesday — and he gave it back.
Joe Cornell, who told outlets he’s in rehab and had just $1 for lunch that day, told the Fresno Bee he began to shake when he came upon the loot. Continue reading “So A Guy With Just $1 For Lunch Finds $125,000 That Fell From A Brinks Truck..”
KFSM 5 News – by Meredith Baldwin and Curt Lanning
A Fort Smith police officer was arrested and placed on administrative leave Tuesday after Sequoyah County deputies said he fired a gun inside his home and held a gun to a five-year-old child’s head.
Officer Naaman Adcock was placed on administrative leave with pay while authorities conduct an internal investigation. Sequoyah County authorities said they took nine guns from Adcock’s possession after he fired off several rounds into a wall inside his home after he got into a drunken dispute with his wife. Continue reading “Report: Officer Arrested After Holding Gun To 5 Year Old’s Head”
You would think a possum would, you know, ‘play possum’ when threatened — but this YouTube video shows that’s not what happened when one possum met an unsuspecting deer. Fox News says,
“The deer jumps about 5 feet into the air. You see that? The possum looked a little startled too, but that deer sure was scared.”
That jump might have looked impressive, but National Geographic reports mature White-Tailed deer can jump almost twice as high. Continue reading “Deer has unexpected encounter with possum, totally freaks out”
A Georgia man was in custody on Monday and authorities were searching for a second man after police said that both suspects opened fire, and shot several people at a Memorial Day rodeo.
According to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, deputies said that 25-year-old Celestino Moras showed up drunk at a rodeo in Bartow County on Sunday, and was asked to leave because he was not invited to the event. Continue reading “‘Cowboy’ lassoes drunk Georgia man after shooting rampage at Memorial Day rodeo”
What will it do to someone who hasn’t taken Heroin?
Following revelations that New York City has become one of the country’s largest heroin trade centers, the New York Police Department announced that nearly 20,000 officers will soon carry an anti-overdose drug in order to help save lives. Continue reading “NYPD stocking up heroin antidote”
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