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Officials in Southampton on Long Island believe they’ve found a way to control invasive plants that doesn’t involve pesticides.
Newsday reports that the town board has voted to rent goats to eat the plants.
The Nubian dairy goats will be rented from farmers in upstate Rhinebeck. Continue reading “Southampton to rent goats to eat pesky weeds”
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- A small sign of renewed American freedom has been noticed in Spokane, Washington. Jitterz Java was robbed twice in February of this year. On March 16th, an armed robber was run off by an armed employee. As noted in the above image, at least one barista believes in the deterrent effect of open carry.
The owner, Sara Chapel has taken steps to reduce her losses. From spokesman.com: Continue reading “Coffee Shop Owner Encourages Armed Barristas”
North Jersey – by Chris Harris
There are coin collectors, and then there’s Thomas Rica.
While the true hobbyist seeks quality coinage, Rica was more interested in quantity — amassing 1.8 million individual quarters.
Unfortunately, he acquired them illegally. Continue reading “Ex-Ridgewood inspector admits to stealing $460,000 in quarters from village”
Huffington Post – by JAKE PEARSON
NEW YORK (AP) — Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he was arrested for trespassing.
A week later, the mentally ill homeless man was found dead in a Rikers Island jail cell that four city officials say had overheated to at least 100 degrees, apparently because of malfunctioning equipment. Continue reading “A New York Jail Let A Homeless Man ‘Bake To Death’”
Huffington Post – by David Wood
How do we begin to accept that Nick Rudolph, a thoughtful, sandy-haired Californian, was sent to war as a 22-year-old Marine and in a desperate gun battle outside Marjah, Afghanistan, found himself killing an Afghan boy? That when Nick came home, strangers thanked him for his service and politicians lauded him as a hero?
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Continue reading “Moral Injury: The Grunts – Damned If They Kill, Damned If They Don’t”
KMVT 14 News – by Brittany Cooper
Magic Valley, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KSVT-TV ) Wind gusts reached 66 miles per hour on the Hansen Bridge Monday, while the Perrine Bridge weather station reported gusts of 55 miles per hour.
In a span of just a few hours, four semi trucks rolled over on these structures, due to the high wind. The incidents forced the closure of these bridges for hours at a time. Continue reading “Semi Crash Caught On Tape”
Chicago Tribune – by Jason Meisner
When TV huckster Kevin Trudeau stood in a packed federal courtroom to make one final sales pitch Monday, he hardly resembled the tanned, dapper figure seen hawking miracle diets and natural cancer cures on so many late-night infomercials.
After spending four months in jail for contempt of court, Trudeau’s trademark jet black coif was thin and gray. His usual tailored suit was replaced by rumpled orange jail clothes. Even his typical air of defiance had turned to contrition, a change he said washed over him during his sleepless first night in custody. Continue reading “TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau sentenced to 10 years in prison”
LA Times – by Ari Bloomekatz, Rong-Gong Lin II and Matt Stevens
Seismologists say Monday’s magnitude 4.4 temblor near Westwood could mark the beginning of the end for L.A.’s years-long “earthquake drought.”
Typically, they would expect a 4.4-sized earthquake about once a year in the Los Angeles Basin, but that hasn’t happened for years. Continue reading “Is 4.4 jolt an end to Los Angeles’ ‘earthquake drought’?”
New York Daily News – by JOHN MARZULLI
Two Brooklyn men are suing the NYPD cops who took their freedom and allegedly tried to take their White Castle hamburgers.
It was Halloween 2012 in Coney Island, the neighborhood reeling from Hurricane Sandy, when Danny Maisonet and Kenneth Glover had a craving for sliders. Continue reading “Brooklyn men sue NYPD cops for trying to take their White Castle sliders and getting arrested when they refused”
MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) – Colleges are paying students to take a year off after high school to travel, volunteer or do internships so that students of all income brackets can benefit from “gap years.”
A new program at Tufts University and existing ones at a handful of other schools aim to remove the financial barriers that can keep cash-strapped students from exploring different communities and challenge their comfort zones before jumping right into college. Continue reading “Colleges offer to pay students to take year off”
Severe thunderstorms are expected to rumble from Texas on Saturday to Georgia by Sunday as a complex and multi-faceted storm takes shape.
Plenty of warm, moist air transported northward from the Gulf of Mexico will clash with colder air surging southward across the Plains. As a result, violent thunderstorms will erupt over eastern Texas, including Dallas and Houston. Continue reading “New Storm to Bring Severe Thunderstorms to South, Snow to East”
SHAH ALAM, March 15 — Police were seen arriving at the residence of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of the Flight MH370 at about 2.42pm today.
This followed Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s press conference on the development of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) aircraft.
A check by Bernama noted that three plain clothed police personnel introduced themselves as coming from Bukit Aman police headquarters to the security guard manning the Laman Seri residence at Section 13 here before obtaining a security pass to go in. Continue reading “Police search home of MH370 pilot”
Spam videos enticing people to click on fake news stories about the missing Malaysia Airlines jet have been spreading malware on Facebook.
The fake ‘breaking news’ clips, which falsely claim the missing plane has been found, have been cluttering users’ timelines the week.
One bogus video has the headline: ‘Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted Somewhere Near Bermuda Triangle. Shocking Videos Release Today.’ Continue reading “Spam ‘missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 jet spotted near Bermuda Triangle’ video spreads on Facebook”
New York Times – by KEITH BRADSHER and CHRIS BUCKLEY
SEPANG, Malaysia — Malaysia turned the search for Flight 370 into a criminal investigation on Saturday, after the prime minister declared that the plane had been deliberately diverted from its planned route a week ago from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane then flew as much as seven hours to an unknown destination. Continue reading “Search for Malaysian Jet Becomes Criminal Inquiry”
Below is the full text of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s full statement of the missing MAS MH370 flight.
Seven days ago Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared. We realise this is an excruciating time for the families of those on board. No words can describe the pain they must be going through. Our thoughts and our prayers are with them. Continue reading “PM’s statement on missing airliner”
Judge Henry J. Hall was blunt when he addressed Pinkberry co-founder Young Lee in court Friday, calling his 2011 attack on a homeless man both “horrendous” and “fairly merciless.”
Lee, 49, was convicted last year of beating Ronald Bolding with a tire iron while Bolding was panhandling along an East Hollywood street. Hall handed Lee the maximum sentence of seven years in prison Friday, despite his attorney’s request that he be evaluated for possible probation. Continue reading “Pinkberry co-founder ‘merciless’ in beating homeless man, judge says”
Reuters – by Nate Raymond and Aruna Viswanatha
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp sued 16 of the world’s largest banks on Friday, accusing them of cheating dozens of other now defunct banks by manipulating the Libor interest rate.
The global financial institutions broke certain swaps contracts they had entered into with the now-closed banks, by separately colluding to rig the Libor rate to which the contracts were tied, the FDIC said. Continue reading “U.S. regulator sues 16 banks for rigging Libor rate”
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