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DECATUR, Ga. — A former Georgia police officer convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison.

Robert “Chip” Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when he killed 26-year-old Anthony Hill, a black Air Force veteran who’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD. Continue reading “Ex-officer gets 12 years in naked man’s fatal shooting”

The Eagle

James Cromwell, who has been in more than 100 films and television shows, was arrested on Texas A&M’s campus Thursday after authorities said he disrupted a Board of Regents meeting.

According to Texas A&M University Police Department spokesman Lt. Bobby Richardson, Cromwell, 79, was taken into custody shortly after 1:30 p.m. The New York resident was escorted from the Memorial Student Center’s Bethancourt Ballroom, where a Texas A&M University System Board of Regents meeting had just started. Richardson said several people — including Cromwell — believed to have been affiliated with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, were at the meeting.

Continue reading “Actor James Cromwell arrested at Texas A&M regents protest”

New York Times

He came of age in Queens, built Trump Tower, starred in “The Apprentice,” bankrupted his businesses six times, and drew cheering crowds and angry protesters to Fifth Avenue after his election. Through it all, President Trump — rich, bombastic and to many Americans the epitome of a New Yorker — was intertwined with the city he called his lifelong home.

Continue reading “Trump, Lifelong New Yorker, Declares Himself a Resident of Florida”

New York Post – by Melissa Malamut

A procedure that was touted as the future of medicine left a patient dead last summer, and now doctors are bringing transparency to the still-new technology.

Doctors, books and blogs have been publicizing fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) — a procedure where stool from a donor is transplanted into the intestinal tract of a recipient in order to restore healthy bacteria to the gut — for years as a possible cure-all for a spate of illnesses including ulcers, leukemia and liver disease.  Continue reading “Fecal transplant doctors offer rebuttal after patient’s death”

New York Post – by Sara Dorn

New York City generously shares its homeless crisis with every corner of America.

From the tropical shores of Honolulu and Puerto Rico, to the badlands of Utah and backwaters of Louisiana, the Big Apple has sent local homeless families to 373 cities across the country with a full year of rent in their pockets as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Special One-Time Assistance Program.”  Usually, the receiving city knows nothing about it.  Continue reading “NYC secretly exports homeless to Hawaii and other states without telling receiving pols”

Billboard – by Chris Eggertsen

The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act passed 410-6 in the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday evening (Oct. 22). It now goes to the Senate for a vote before it can become law.

If successful, the CASE Act will create a copyright claims board within the U.S. Copyright Office to rule on small claims infringement cases where damages would be capped at $15,000 per claim and $30,000 total.  Continue reading “CASE Act Passes US House of Representatives”

Miami Herald

During a hearing Tuesday on last year’s deadly Florida International University pedestrian footbridge collapse, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the bridge’s “catastrophic failure” stemmed from a flawed design with “significant errors.”

All of the major parties involved in the project — from the university to the Florida Department of Transportation and the project’s engineers and contractors — came in for harsh criticism during the public hearing, something they have largely avoided as the NTSB conducted a closed-doors investigation over the past 19 months while victims and their families demanded answers.  Continue reading “‘Screaming something was wrong’: Feds fault FIU, state and contractors for deadly bridge collapse”

The Press Democrat

A 17-year-old boy suspected of shooting a 16-year-old twice during a confrontation outside their Santa Rosa continuation school Tuesday morning was in custody as authorities lifted a 2.5-hour lockdown, allowing classes to resume for thousands of high school and junior college students on three adjoining campuses.

It’s the first school shooting in Sonoma County history.  Continue reading “Ridgway High School student, 17, arrested in shooting near Santa Rosa campus”

New York Post – by Emily Saul and Ebony Bowden

Mexico’s botched mission to capture an alleged drug-peddling son of narcotics kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán started with an arrest warrant from a federal judge in Washington, DC, his lawyer told The Post on Friday.

Eight people were killed when Mexican agents stormed a home in the country’s drug-infested Sinaloa state Thursday with an arrest warrant for Ovidio Guzman Lopez but abandoned the job when they were outgunned by cartel gunmen.  Continue reading “Botched mission to capture El Chapo’s son sparked by DC judge”

AOL

Connor Bruce Croll was just a couple months into his freshman year at the University of Alabama, a floppy-haired 19-year-old from small-town Virginia who joined a fraternity to ease his transition.

Then at 9:31 p.m. Tuscaloosa time on Saturday, according to authorities, he decided to play what appears to be a joke. Croll told police that, “his friend was on the verge of losing a big bet,” in the Florida-LSU game that was being played at that time.  Continue reading “Alabama student faces 20 years for bomb threat”

New York Post

A chaotic Bronx car stop ended Thursday with the driver shot dead by an NYPD sergeant, according to cops, police sources and witnesses.

Cops spotted the man driving without a seatbelt near Bainbridge Avenue and East 211th Street around 3 p.m. and pulled him over, police and sources said.  Continue reading “NYPD sergeant fatally shoots man in the Bronx: cops”

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LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) – A revealing recording has caused some of the Texas House Speaker’s colleagues to call for him to step aside, including Republican Rep. Trent Ashby of Lufkin.

According to the Texas Tribune, a conversation that was recorded in Austin in June revealed that Republican House Speaker Dennis Bonnen urged hardline conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan to target members of their own party in the 2020 primaries. Bonnen was heard speaking disparagingly about a number of Democrats, calling one house member “vile” and suggesting that another’s wife “was gonna be really pissed when she learns he’s gay.” Continue reading “Rep. Ashby calls for Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen to step aside in wake of ‘offensive’ secret recording”

The Eagle

Last fall, employees in a Texas A&M University System office space were alerted that three parakeets had been placed in the building’s light-filled atrium, and that more were on the way.

They were to be greeted warmly: “The first word we would like to teach them is ‘HOWDY!’” an employee for Chancellor John Sharp wrote in an October 2018 email. “Please help them learn by addressing them this way when you see them.”

Continue reading “Texas A&M System employees were asked to teach office pet birds to say “howdy.” It didn’t go well.”

AOL

BEIJING (AP) — China said Thursday it detained two U.S. citizens on suspicion of organizing others to illegally cross the border, amid sharpening tensions between the sides over trade, technology and other sensitive issues.

Police in the eastern province of Jiangsu arrested Alyssa Petersen and Jacob Harlan on Sept. 27 and Sept. 29, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said.  Continue reading “China detains 2 U.S. citizens who ran teaching program”

Yahoo News

The G7 at Doral might be the only thing President Trump can look forward to right now.

After announcing that the Group of Seven summit would be held at Trump’s Miami resort next year, acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney took Trump’s impeachment inquiry to a place he certainly didn’t want it to go. Mulvaney essentially admitted to a quid pro quo agreement with Ukraine over security funding, and House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) says it has made things “much, much worse” for Trump and company. Continue reading “Mulvaney’s quid pro quo admission took things from ‘very, very bad to much, much worse,’ Schiff says”

NPR – by Jeff Brady

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry plans to leave his position at the end of the year, President Trump confirmed to reporters Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas. Trump praised Perry and said he already has a replacement in mind.

“Rick has done a fantastic job,” Trump said. ” But it was time.”  Continue reading “Energy Secretary Rick Perry To Resign”

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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (KABC) — An Orange County sheriff’s investigator has been placed on administrative leave after he allegedly pulled a gun on a group of teenagers at a San Clemente skate park over the weekend.

Video shows a confrontation between the teenagers and the sheriff’s investigator, who was off-duty at the time.  Continue reading “OC sheriff’s investigator allegedly pulls gun on teens at San Clemente skate park”

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COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX) – A new law in Texas now requires high schools to have “Stop the Bleed” training and kits in their classrooms before January 1, 2020.

Baylor Scott & White stopped by A&M Consolidated High School to teach students how to stop traumatic bleeding. Doctors and nurses provided training on how to apply direct pressure, pack wounds, and use tourniquets.  Continue reading “Baylor Scott & White conducts “Stop the Bleed” training at local high schools”

KBTX-TV 3

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A month after Tropical Storm Imelda, flood-damaged vehicles may be hitting the resale market, the Texas Department of Insurance warned Wednesday.

“Dishonest sellers will buy salvage cars at auction and resell them to unsuspecting buyers,” the department said in a press release Wednesday. Continue reading “Car buyers beware, state officials say”

AOL

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walked out of a meeting with Donald Trump about the crisis in Syria Wednesday after she said the president had had a “very serious meltdown” and insulted her in front of other congressional leaders.

“What’s really sad about it is that I pray for the president all the time and I tell him that, I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now we have to pray for his health, because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.  Continue reading “Pelosi describes Trump’s ‘very serious meltdown’ during White House meeting on Syria”