Author: Angel - NYC

CBS New York

TEXARKANA, Texas (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Texas woman reportedly has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors on charges that she sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Shannon Guess Richardson, 35, was charged in June with two counts of mailing a threatening communication and one count of making a threat against the president of the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas said in a news release at the time.   Continue reading “Report: Plea Deal For Texas Woman Accused Of Sending Ricin-Tainted Letters”

Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

The Texas Board of Education has given preliminary approval to a plan that will eliminate algebra II as a high school graduation requirement for more students.

The Texas state legislature gave unanimous approval to the change back in May as part of a huge overhaul of the state’s graduation and high-stakes standardized testing regime, reports The Dallas Morning News.   Continue reading “Too hard: Texas drops algebra II as high school graduation requirement”

USA Today – by Robin Webb and Melanie Eversley

A car crash just outside Terminal 5 at Los Angeles International Airport and an anonymous call reporting a man with a gun in Terminal 4 incited panic Friday evening and triggered a large police response.

LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles said the vehicle crash outside Terminal 5 Friday night caused passengers to report gunfire.   Continue reading “Erroneous gun reports cause chaos at LAX”

RT News

A federal appeals court declined Friday to block the decision by a district court judge that the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional, marking an end to outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bid to reverse the ruling.

The three-judge US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided against vacating the August decision by US district court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who ruled the NYPD’s policing method was unconstitutional under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.    Continue reading “Appeals court upholds stop-and-frisk ruling, ending Bloomberg’s final attempt at reversal”

Seattle Times – by Mike Carter

The city will pay $15,000 to settle a civil-rights lawsuit that alleged one of the Seattle Police Department’s most decorated officers — the man who fatally shot cop-killer Maurice Clemmons — illegally searched a seven-time felon during an expletive-laced jaywalking incident in 2009.

Officer Benjamin Kelly found a cheap .22-caliber handgun tucked in Charles Shateek Smith’s coat that rainy January night. Under other circumstances, it would have been enough to send Smith to federal prison for at least 15 years as an armed career criminal and earn Kelly kudos for a good arrest.   Continue reading “City to pay jaywalker $15,000 in civil-rights suit against Seattle”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

About the same time yesterday that National Public Radio was publishing an interview with B. Todd Jones, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a federal grand jury in Seattle handed down a 38-page indictment against a former ATF supervisor at the agency’s field office here that contains serious allegations of embezzlement and making false statements.

In the NPR interview, reporter Carrie Johnson noted, “By all accounts…Jones has cleaned house at the ATF.”   Continue reading “Former ATF supervisor indicted; more on initiatives”

AmmoLand

Manasquan, NJ –-(Ammoland.com)- Mike Weisser, proprietor of the Ware Gun Shop in Ware, MA is a con-man, deadbeat and enemy of the Second Amendment!

How can we make such bold statement?

Because we know first hand, fact is he owes AmmoLand Shooting Sports News for advertising we ran for him, when he was doing business as “Grey Lock Holsters” in 2012.  On good faith we ran his ads, as we do with all our advertisers, and after making him loads of money he stiffed us for $1800.00, dodging all our phone calls and emails ever since.  Continue reading “Deadbeat Mike Weisser, Ware Gun Shop, Stiffs The Second Amendment”

Yahoo News – by Jim Litke, AP

CHICAGO (AP) — Dennis Rodman is preparing to thrill North Korean fans during an exhibition basketball tour there late next month.

Though he ducked questions in an interview with The Associated Press about whether his Christmas-time visit would be used for propaganda purposes by Kim Jong Un, the 29-year-old leader of one of the world’s most repressive regimes, Rodman said he’ll be accompanied on the trip by a dozen or so former NBA players. But he refused to name names.   Continue reading “Rodman ready to bring his game back to North Korea”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  A Vancouver, WA man facing charges for firing his shotgun into the air to scare off would-be intruders says he simply acted on Vice President Joe Biden’s advice.

According to the AP, Jeffrey C. Barton says “he will not admit any wrongdoing for the [July] incident…because he was protecting his family, within his Second Amendment right, and following the advice of the vice president.”   Continue reading “Man Facing Shooting Charges Sticks with ‘Joe Biden Defense’”

AmmoLand

Charlotte, NC –-(Ammoland.com)-  New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg has begun pushing his radical anti-gun agenda in cities throughout California.

His tactic is to use his financial and legal resources to support anti-gun voter initiatives and ballot measures in local elections.  Bloomberg’s social engineering agenda is now focused on Los Altos and Mountain View.   Continue reading “California: Bloomberg Bringing His Anti-Gun Agenda to Los Altos and Mountain View”

Reason – by J.D. Tuccille

I don’t know what holiday dinners are like at Michael Bloomberg’s house, but I suspect there’s an awful lot of picking at food while the windbag at the head of the table lectures the assembled guests about why he’s right and they’re all idiots. That’s the message I get from his pet Mayors Against Illegal Guns organization, which wants its loyal minions, if there are any, to sit down to their Thanksgiving feasts and immediately start fights with relatives they haven’t seen in a year about gun control. All you need is a handy list of tendentious talking points—and a shitload of patience from Cousin Bob, who rebuilds old pistols for fun and just wrapped himself around half a bottle of Jack Daniels.   Continue reading “Bloomberg Group Wants You To Start Fights About Gun Control at Thanksgiving”

The New York Observer – by Drew Grant

As someone in the office just put it: “You can die for your country, but you can’t smoke a cigarette.” That line, usually just applicable to drinking throughout the United States, will soon apply to anyone between the ages of 18 and 20 trying to buy tobacco productsin New York City.  Today, Mayor Bloomberg signed a new law (passed by City Council earlier this year) that means in 180 days it will no longer be legal for high school seniors to use time-honored traditions to look cool at parties where there are college kids.   Continue reading “Smoke ‘Em While You Got ‘Em: NYC Becomes First City/State to Raise Smoking Age to 21”

NBC Connecticut

A 32-year-old UConn student has been arrested, accused of making threats against President Barack Obama and his immediate family.

Joshua Phillip Klimas, 32, of Coventry, was arrested yesterday on a federal criminal complaint.

The U.S. Secret Service arrested Klimas at his residence.    Continue reading “UConn Student Accused of Threatening President Obama”

Daily Mail – by SADIE WHITELOCKS

A New York woman has told how she got a piece of platinum jewelry inserted in her eye to set herself apart from the crowd.

Lucy Luckayanko visited Dr Emil Chynn at Park Avenue Laser Vision to get a ‘cute’ heart-shaped sequin, measuring 3.5mm, placed on the white of her of right eye ball.   Continue reading “A permanent twinkle in the eye! Woman gets platinum jewelry implanted in her optic membrane for $3,000 to make herself ‘unique’”

Huffington Post

Well, this is one way to welcome Bill de Blasio to the New York City mayoral office.

The slightly terrifying street art homage to the newly elected mayor comes courtesy of Hanksy, the pun-happy graffitist who likes to combine wordplay with caricature portraits of celebrities, and artist Alex Pardee. This particular design riffs off the horror of Buffalo Bill (yup, of “Silence of the Lambs” fame) and is giving us all kinds of feelings.   Continue reading “You Know You’re The Mayor Of New York City When Street Artists Do This”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – More than a dozen people have been charged in connection with a food stamp fraud investigation, according to authorities.

Grocery stores in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan were raided Wednesday as part of a joint investigation between Homeland Security, the New York State Attorney General’s Office and the New York State Department of Health.   Continue reading “Authorities: 16 Charged In NYC Food Stamp Fraud Scheme”

Huffington Post

NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is awash in animal-related protests over its floats, with controversies involving the unlikely pairing of rocker Joan Jett and Shamu the killer whale.

Activists plan to line the route of next week’s parade to protest a SeaWorld float over accusations in a new documentary that the theme parks treat whales badly. And ranchers succeeded in getting Jett pulled off the South Dakota tourism float after they questioned why the vegetarian and animal-rights ally was representing their beef-loving state.   Continue reading “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Protested By Animal-Rights Activists”