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TONKAWA, Okla. – Police in an Oklahoma town said they’ve stopped a teenage girl with a plan to kill and a hit list with her classmates’ names on it.
It happened in Tonkawa.
The details in the case are disturbing.
Police tell us the 13-year-old girl allegedly planned to open fire at her school with her family’s guns. Continue reading ““You don’t think something like that’s going to happen,” 13-year-old girl accused of plotting mass shooting at Tonkawa High School”
ARLINGTON (KDAF) — It’s pretty uncommon for Jolly old St. Nick to be put on the naughty list. But for Jerry Henderson, someone who looks remarkably like the real thing, it was all too real when he took a trip to Six Flags’ Holiday in The Park.
“I had five security guards around me and one of them comes up to me and asked me if I work for the park,” Henderson explained. “I told them ‘no’ and [the security] said ‘well we’ve got a problem’.” Continue reading “Man kicked out of Six Flags for looking like Santa”
Greg Lake, a singer and multi-instrumentalist who helped propel prog rock into the mainstream as a member of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and King Crimson, died Tuesday. His manager told the BBC he had recently had “a long and stubborn battle with cancer”; the news comes nine months after the death of his bandmate, Keith Emerson. He was 69.
“It is with great sadness that I must now say goodbye to my friend and fellow bandmate, Greg Lake,” Carl Palmer wrote in a statement. “Greg’s soaring voice and skill as a musician will be remembered by all who knew his music and recordings he made with ELP and King Crimson. I have fond memories of those great years we had in the 1970s and many memorable shows we performed together. Having lost Keith this year as well has made this particularly hard for all of us. As Greg sang at the end of Pictures at an Exhibition, ‘death is life.’ His music can now live forever in the hearts of all who loved him.” Continue reading “Greg Lake, Emerson, Lake & Palmer Co-Founder, Dead at 69”
OCETI SAKOWIN CAMP, N.D. — A day that began with prayers ended with victory dances Sunday as Native Americans and environmentalists here celebrated the news that President Obama’s administration would halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.
In the most substantial blow yet to the much-contested pipeline, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied an easement for the pipeline to cross Lake Oahe, a Corps reservoir on the Missouri River in North Dakota. That remained the only contested portion of the 1,172-mile pipeline, which is nearly completed. Continue reading “Protesters celebrate as Army halts Dakota Access pipeline work”
A former Army Special Forces officer is accusing retired Marine General James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick to be defense secretary, of “leaving my men to die” after they were hit by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2001.
Mattis has not commented publicly on the incident, which was chronicled in a 2011 New York Times bestselling book, “The Only Thing Worthy Dying For,” by Eric Blehm. The book portrays Mattis as stubbornly unwilling to help the Green Berets. Continue reading “Former Special Forces officer: Gen. ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis left ‘my men to die’”
A Republican elector from Texas says he is resigning his position instead of casting his vote for Donald Trump, calling the Electoral College “corrupted from its original intent” and saying voting for the president-elect would “bring dishonor to God.”
Art Sisneros was considering in August the possibility of becoming a so-called faithless elector, meaning he would refuse to vote for Trump if the GOP candidate won the Lone Star State and its 38 electoral votes in November. Continue reading “Texas elector to resign instead of voting for Donald Trump”
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has accepted Donald Trump‘s offer to be his ambassador to the United Nations, a source familiar with the president-elect’s transition process confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday.
Haley, 44, is a two-term governor. She initially backed Trump rivals Sen. Marco Rubio and then Sen. Ted Cruz during the GOP battle for a White House nominee. Continue reading “Gov. Nikki Haley accepts Trump offer to be ambassador to United Nations: Source”
Law enforcement officials deployed water hoses in freezing temperatures Sunday against hundreds of protesters decrying the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Video of the clash between police and unarmed protesters at Backwater Bridge, not far from the Standing Rock encampments, emerged on social media Sunday evening. Continue reading “Police deploy water hoses, tear gas against Standing Rock protesters”
Washington Post – by Helena Andrews-Dyer
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that future first lady Melania Trump and their 10-year-old son, Barron, will remain in New York after he becomes president, as first reported in the New York Post.
When asked about the family’s relocation plans post inauguration Trump, 70, told reporters that he would immediately settle into the executive mansion and that Mrs. Trump and his youngest son, a fourth grader at a Manhattan prep school, would move “Very soon. After he’s finished with school,” according to McClatchy White House Correspondent Anita Kumar. Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller confirmed that there was “obviously a sensitivity to pulling out a 10-year-old in the middle of the school year.” Continue reading “Donald Trump confirms that wife Melania and son Barron will stay in New York after the presidential inauguration”
New York Post – by Lia Eustachewich
A Staten Island pit bull who fatally mauled a Chihuahua in May has dodged doggy death row.
Caesar’s owners sued to stop the pooch from being euthanized after he killed Charlie the Chihuahua. In an agreement hammered out Wednesday with the city, Caesar will be allowed to live as long as he undergoes training to “modify his aggressive behavior.” He is currently being housed at a retraining facility in New Jersey. Continue reading “Pit bull dodges doggy death row for mauling Chihuahua”
Indian Country Today – by Mary Annette Pember
On Monday, November 14—the same day the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced it would not grant an easement to drill under the Missouri River pending further analysis—Energy Transfer Partners filed a lawsuit to push for completion of the pipeline without further interference from federal agencies and regulations.
Energy Transfer Partners, the company that owns the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), filed a lawsuit on November 14 in federal court seeking a decision that would allow them to finish construction of the controversial project. Continue reading “Amid Reports of Lake Oahe Drill in Place, Energy Transfer Files Suit Against Army Corps”
New York Times – by Kim Severson
CANNON BALL, N.D. — On any given night, supper lines here at the dusty prairie camps near the Missouri River where the last piece of a 1,170-mile pipeline is set to be placed might include young Navajo women from Arizona who have never camped in the cold, and older white women for whom chaining themselves to a fence for a cause is nothing new.
There are protest tourists in new boots, Lakota elders who spend hours in prayer, parents from the suburbs who have dragged the children away from their video games.
Continue reading “Squash, Rice and Roadkill: Feeding the Fighters of Standing Rock”
Sen. John McCain on Tuesday issued a strongly worded statement warning President-elect Donald Trump not to trust overtures of peace from the Kremlin and to be cautious of supposed attempts to strengthen U.S.-Russian ties.
“With the U.S. presidential transition underway, Vladimir Putin has said in recent days that he wants to improve relations with the United States,” McCain said. “We should place as much faith in such statements as any other made by a former KGB agent who has plunged his country into tyranny, murdered his political opponents, invaded his neighbors, threatened America’s allies, and attempted to undermine America’s elections.”
Continue reading “McCain to Trump: Stop Cozying Up to Russia”
KSL – by Pat Reavy and McKenzie Romero
OREM — Five students were stabbed at Mountain View High School on Tuesday morning in an apparent attack by a 16-year-old boy who then turned the knife on himself.
The stabbings happened just before 8 a.m. in the boys locker room in the gymnasium area, according to Orem Police Lt. Craig Martinez. All the victims were boys and were stabbed at least once, suffering wounds to their upper torso or neck, police said. Continue reading “5 students stabbed in Mountain View High School locker room”
After making it a key plank of the Trump/Pence campaign that the public needed to see what was in Hillary Clinton’s emails, it does seem somewhat ironic that VP Elect Mike Pence is now headed to court to protect what’s in some of his emails as governor of Indiana.
The administration is fighting to conceal the contents of an email sent to Gov. Mike Pence by a political ally. That email is being sought by a prominent Democratic labor lawyer who says he wants to expose waste in the Republican administration.
Continue reading “VP Elect Mike Pence Goes To Court To Keep His Emails Secret”
Rolling Stone – by Jon Freeman
Singer-songwriter Holly Dunn, who enjoyed a string of top 10 country hits such as “Daddy’s Hands” and “You Really Had Me Going” in the late Eighties and early Nineties, has died at 59 following a battle with ovarian cancer. Nashville’s WSMV reports that Dunn was in hospice care in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Holly Suzette Dunn was born August 22nd, 1957, in San Antonio and began performing in high school. Following college at Abilene Christian University, she moved to Nashville to pursue a career, supporting herself by singing demo recordings and joining her songwriter-producer brother Chris Waters (Tim McGraw’s “She Really Had Me Going,” Terri Clark’s “You’re Easy on the Eyes”) as a staff writer for CBS. After Dunn switched publishing companies to MTM, Louise Mandrell had a top 10 hit with Dunn’s song “I’m Not Through Loving You Yet.” Continue reading “‘Daddy’s Hands’ Singer Holly Dunn Dead at 59”
Leon Russell, who emerged in the 1970s as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most dynamic performers and songwriters after playing anonymously on dozens of pop hits as a much-in-demand studio pianist in the 1960s, died on Sunday at age 74.
Russell, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, died in his sleep in Nashville, Tennessee, his wife said in a statement on his website. Continue reading “Leon Russell, musician known for dynamic performances, dies at 74”
Sky gazers are about to be treated to a celestial event that hasn’t been observed in almost 70 years and won’t come again for many years to come.
The “record-breaking” supermoon slated for Nov. 14, known as the Beaver Moon or Frost Moon, will be exceptionally large and bring with it higher than normal tides.
Appearing up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than an average full moon, as noted by sciencealert.com, November’s supermoon could very well be a once-in-a-lifetime event for many. Continue reading “November’s ‘Beaver’ Supermoon Will Be the Biggest In Almost 70 Years”