Author: Angel - NYC

sUAS News – by Jim Hoffer, WABC News

NEW YORK (WABC) – He’s a musician from Brooklyn but he has struck a wrong note with the NYPD who tracked him down after our story aired and charged the inexperienced, drone operator with reckless endangerment.

It’s his own video that helped the NYPD nail David Zablidowsky . The 34-year-old musician from Brooklyn is clearly seen at the controls of the drone.

The video recovered by a financial analyst who handed it over to Eyewitness News, after he nearly took a direct hit when the small helicopter drone similar to this one, crashed at his feet while walking near Grand Central.   Continue reading “Brooklyn man arrested for flying drone over Manhattan”

My San Antonio – by JASON BUCH, KOLTEN PARKER

SAN ANTONIO — Gun enthusiasts gathered at the Alamo Saturday to rally for the right to openly carry firearms, without state and local restrictions that are now in place.

Demonstrators, many carrying rifles, shotguns or 19th-century pistols, cheered speakers who urged them to hold tight to their firearms, as their protected Constitutional right.   Continue reading “Armed protest at Alamo ends quietly”

The Scoop Dallas News – by Matthew Watkins

About a dozen people carrying rifles protested in Dallas Saturday morning at the sight of one of the most infamous gun crimes in United States history.

The crowd carried AR-15s, old military rifles and one Texas flag with the “Don’t tread on me” slogan at Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago . They said they were there to peacefully show that carrying firearms is legal in Texas and that the people who do it aren’t dangerous.   Continue reading “Gun rights advocates march with rifles at Dealey Plaza”

Beaumont Enterprise

BELTON, Texas (AP) — A mistrial was declared Friday in a Texas case against a soldier carrying his assault rifle on a hike, in a proceeding that was being closely watched by gun-rights advocates.

The six-person jury in Belton was deadlocked after two days of deliberations Thursday and Friday.   Continue reading “Mistrial in trial watched by gun-rights advocates”

Gothamist

A few years ago, there were several reports around the tri-state area of people either finding or receiving mysterious packages of weed. We logically credited these allegedly undesired pot deliveries to a mystical Marijuana Fairy, even though we know she is just a children’s tale. But Gawker noticed that a real person has actually taken on the mantle of The Weed Fairy, and has been taping up posters around Brooklyn with a nug of weed attached. Is it too dank to be true?   Continue reading “Is There A Weed Fairy Roaming Through Brooklyn?”

AOL – by Dan Fastenberg 

You just never know when you are going to stumble onto a situation that requires you to step in and help a person in need. So if you are on a break from work, and see a man beating up a woman in your company parking lot, the noble thing to do is stand up for her. It’s the choice 30-year-old Kristopher Oswald made earlier this week during his overnight shift stocking pet food at a Walmart store in the southern Michigan town of Hartland. After seeing a man ambush a woman, Oswald intervened and diverted the man’s attention until the police arrived.   Continue reading “Walmart Worker Fired After Helping Woman Under Attack In Parking Lot”

CBS New York

MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Nassau County police have launched an investigation, after a series of threatening tweets targeting Officer Nikolas Budimlic – the officer who accidentally shot and killed a Hosftra University student while she was being held hostage last May.

The tweets appeared on Tuesday, sent by a “Johnny Smith” using Twitter handle @JohnnySmith2.   Continue reading “Nassau County Police Probe Inflammatory Tweets About Officer”

lohud.com – by Steve Lieberman

GOSHEN — The lawyer for a Sparrowbush man charged in the murder of a Rockland rape fugitive said his client tried twice to help local police capture the suspect, but that cops bungled both attempts.

David Carlson later shot and killed New Hempstead resident Norris Acosta-Sanchez with a 12-gauge shotgun when he showed up on Carlson’s property Oct. 11. Carlson, charged with second-degree murder, was released from jail Friday afternoon after his bail was set at $50,000 cash or $100,000 bond in Orange County Court.   Continue reading “Man who shot Rockland rape suspect left in lurch by cops, lawyer says”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  In a bid to fight against criminal and gang possession of firearms on the street, Illinois state rep. Mike Zalewski (D-21st Dist.) is set to propose legislation that essentially labels all firearm possession outside the home illegal.

This measure—HB 2265—does not differentiate between possession by law-abiding citizens and possession by criminals or gang members. And the NRA warns that this creates a situation where a law-abiding citizen who has a gun in his or her car for self-defense—but no concealed carry permit or Firearm Owner Identification Card (FOID)—could “face serious penalties for an innocuous mistake.”   Continue reading “Illinois Law Would Heavily Restrict Possession of Firearms Outside Home”

Care 2 – by Judy Molland

When Massachusetts high school senior Erin Cox went to pick up a drunk classmate from a party, she thought she was doing the right thing. However, administrators at North Andover High School seem to disagree. They are punishing her for her action, citing the school’s zero tolerance policy on drugs and alcohol.

We teach our kids to be responsible and to help others in need. That’s exactly what the 17-year-old was doing when she showed up to help her friend, but her school decided to punish her even though she was doing what any good parent or teacher would encourage her to do.   Continue reading “Meet the Honor Student Who Was Punished for Giving a Drunk Friend a Ride”

Care 2 – by Alicia Graef

Care 2 – by s.e. smith

North Carolina made headlines this year with its commitment, after ten years of discussion and deliberation, to compensate the victims of forced sterilization in the 20th century. The state’s decision could have major repercussions, as contrary to what one might expect from the parity of coverage in the news, North Carolina wasn’t the biggest offender in the era of widespread forced sterilizations: that honor goes to California, which performed 1/3 (20,000) of the estimated 60,000 forced sterilizations between the early 1900s and the 1960s. (Virginia came in second, with a little over 8,000 sterilizations.) Those states could be held equally accountable in coming years, requiring a substantial cash payout.   Continue reading “Is Cash Alone Enough for Forced Sterilization Victims?”

Care 2 –  by Beth Buczynski

Just when you think there’s no winning against the biotech industry, news out of Mexico City shows that all is not lost. After years of deliberation, a Mexico judge has placed an indefinite ban on genetically-engineered corn. Effective immediately, companies like Monsanto and DuPont/Pioneer will no longer be allowed to plant or sell their corn within the country’s borders.   Continue reading “Mexico Bans GMO Corn, Effective Immediately”

Fuel Fix – by James MacPherson

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota officials are trying to determine if Tesoro Corp. knew about potential problems — including one deemed “serious” in documents obtained by The Associated Press — with a pipeline that leaked more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil in a wheat field in the northwestern part of the state.

Dave Glatt, chief of the state Department of Health’s environmental health section, said Wednesday that regulators want to know more about inspections conducted before the spill reported by a farmer harvesting wheat on his farm near Tioga on Sept. 29.   Continue reading “N.D. officials want answers on ruptured oil pipeline inspections after Tesoro leak”

AmmoLand

Wisconsin –-(Ammoland.com)- Assembly Bill 9 would give law enforcement officers special privileges not granted to the lowly citizens whom they serve – including the ability to carry on private property where CCW is prohibited!

Republican State Rep. Joel Kleefish is ramming a bill through the legislature that will grant police officers — active duty, off-duty and retired — an exemption to access private property prohibiting concealed carry while they are armed.   Continue reading “Wisconsin Republicans Sneaking In Cops-Only Firearms Carry Bill”

Huffington Post – by JAMES MacPHERSON

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Scientists who helped calculate oil spilled from a broken BP well into the Gulf of Mexico are questioning the methodology used to estimate the amount of crude that recently leaked from a ruptured pipeline into a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota.

Tesoro Corp. said it came up with its more than 20,000-barrel spill estimate using ground analysis. But oil spill experts say a more accurate assessment likely would come from calculating how much crude went into the pipeline versus what was supposed to come out at its terminus.   Continue reading “North Dakota Pipeline Spill Estimates ‘A Guess’ At Best After 20,000 Barrels Spill Into Field”

NOLA – by Paul Purpura

Louisiana Supreme Court justices are considering the residual and likely unintended effects of the constitutional amendment that voters overwhelmingly approved last year to make gun ownership a “fundamental” right. The question is whether the amended Constitution now lets convicted felons possess firearms, an act that is forbidden by the state criminal code.

Just how far Louisiana’s new gun right, one of the strongest in the country, should extend was a central theme of argument that lawyers gave Monday, on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s law against felons possessing firearms. As Associate Justice John Weimer of Thibodaux framed it, in weighing a public safety policy against the constitutional demands, should the state let people on probation — even people still in prison — have guns?   Continue reading “Louisiana’s new gun rights law considered by state Supreme Court”

My SA – by SCOTT HUDDLESTON

SAN ANTONIO – Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a gun-toting Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is to headline a gun-rights rally Saturday on the state-owned Alamo grounds, where demonstrations historically have been banned — until Patterson’s office took over the shrine.

The rally, billed as “Come and Take It San Antonio!” will be held on the 4.2-acre Alamo complex, which has been under the custodianship of the Texas General Land Office since 2011.   Continue reading “Gun rally on Alamo grounds triggers debate”