Gothamist – by Nathan Tempey

Vincent Harrison, the off-duty NYPD officer killed in a hit-and-run on the New Jersey Turnpike early on February 28th, was pointing his gun at a woman who he crashed into and threatening her when a second driver ran him down, investigators have determined.

State police and prosecutors said Harrison, 25 and in his second year on the force, was driving a Chevy sedan south on the turnpike near the Newark International Airport, when he rear-ended a Ford SUV driven by a 26-year-old woman. They both stopped, and he got out of his car, walked to the other vehicle, the woman and her 2-year-old son inside, and began arguing with the woman. Harrison allegedly drew his gun, and at some point, sources told ABC7, he yelled something like, “You don’t know who I am!” and “I can kill you right now!” over and over.   Continue reading “NYPD Cop Was Allegedly Pointing Gun At Driver When Killed In Hit-And-Run”

New York Times – by Adam Liptak

WASHINGTON — Breaking a decade-long silence, Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday asked several questions from the Supreme Court bench. He spoke just weeks after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose empty seat next to Justice Thomas’s remains draped in black.

It was hard to escape the conclusion that the absence of the voluble Justice Scalia, who had dominated Supreme Court arguments for nearly 30 years on the bench, somehow liberated Justice Thomas and allowed him to resume participating in the court’s most public activity.   Continue reading “Clarence Thomas Breaks 10 Years of Silence at Supreme Court”

Washington Post

The Prince William County Police Department swore in Officer Ashley M. Guindon on Friday, tweeting a photo of her and another new recruit and including a message: “Be safe!”

Twenty-four hours later, on her first day on the street, Guindon, 28, was one of three officers called to respond to a domestic-violence incident in Woodbridge, Va.   Continue reading “Man charged in killing of Va. officer is Army staff sergeant at Pentagon”

Weather

Outdoor air pollution’s impact on public health is well-recorded while in the developed world, indoor air quality is often ignored. But the fact is, especially in the winter when we spend more time indoors, the health of the air inside our homes matters. (Winter is also when cases of carbon monoxide and radon poisoning inside homes spike.)

Indoor air quality is particularly important for people with indoor winter allergies, such as mold, dust and pet danger. These and other compounds in the air can make allergy symptoms worse while exacerbating other respiratory ailments, such as asthma.   Continue reading “15 Best Plants for Cleaner Indoor Air”

Paul Craig Roberts

Presstitute Media, such as the UK Telegraph, spend a lot of energy debunking exposes of government conspiracies. For example, the thousands of highrise architects, structural engineers, physicists, nano-chemists, demolition experts, first responders, military and civilian pilots, and former government officials who have provided vast evidence that the official story of 9/11 is a made-up fairy tale at odds with all evidence and the laws of physics are dismissed by presstitutes as “conspiracy theorists.”   Continue reading “President Kennedy and His Brother Robert Kennedy Were Murdered By The Military-Security Complex”

Politico

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate should not confirm a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia until after the 2016 election — an historic rebuke of President Obama’s authority and an extraordinary challenge to the practice of considering each nominee on his or her individual merits.

The swiftness of McConnell’s statement — coming about an hour after Scalia’s death in Texas had been confirmed — stunned White House officials who had expected the Kentucky Republican to block their nominee with every tool at his disposal, but didn’t imagine the combative GOP leader would issue an instant, categorical rejection of anyone Obama chose to nominate.   Continue reading “McConnell throws down the gauntlet: No Scalia replacement under Obama”

My SA – by Gary Martin

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said.

Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa.   Continue reading “Senior U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch”

Tulsa World – by Paighten Harkins

The third-largest earthquake in recorded state history rocked parts of western Oklahoma on Saturday morning near the site of other large, recent temblors.

The quake registered a 5.1 magnitude and was recorded northwest of Fairview at 11:07 a.m., according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Continue reading “Oklahoma rattled by state’s third-largest earthquake; 5.1 recorded near Fairview”

Weather

As a heavy band of snow hit northeast Ohio, crews in Lake County arrived on scene to respond to a multiple-vehicle crash on Interstate 90, according to FOX 8. Police are reporting fatalities, but there is no word on how many people were killed.

“Areas of heavy lake-effect snow have been pivoting across northeastern Ohio through the day on Wednesday,” said weather.com meteorologist Quincy Vagell. “This prompted the National Weather Service to issue a lake effect snow advisory for snow covered roads and low visibility, making traffic difficult, including I-90 in the vicinity.”   Continue reading “Multi-Vehicle Collision on Snowy I-90 in Lake County, Ohio: Fatalities, Injuries Reported”

AOL

LOS ANGELES, Feb 5 (Reuters) – A Southern California doctor was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Friday for over-prescribing drugs that caused the fatal overdose of three patients in a murder case capped by the first conviction of its kind in the United States.

The case against Dr. Hsiu Ying “Lisa” Tseng, 46, comes amid what public health officials describe as a national epidemic of drug abuse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said the trend is fueling nearly 17,000 overdose deaths annually, as well as a rise in heroin addiction.   Continue reading “California doctor gets 30 years to life in landmark overdose case”

New York Post – by Emily Saul

The partner of rookie cop Peter Liang told Brooklyn jurors Thursday that he himself was unqualified to resuscitate the man Liang accidently shot in a housing-project stairwell — because the Police Academy lets ­recruits cheat on their CPR- certification tests.

So he did nothing to help the dying victim.

“How much time [during training] did you spend on a mannequin?” the partner, Shaun Landau, was asked by Liang’s defense lawyer, ­Robert E. Brown.   Continue reading “Cop: I couldn’t save shooting victim because NYPD helped me cheat on CPR test”

Chron – by Craig Hlavaty

In a video released by Open Carry Texas last week, a man who was openly carrying a handgun at a Walmart in Devine, Texas, is asked by a store employee to present his handgun license and the man caught it all on his camera phone.

The man who is at the center of the video, Aaron Darby, and a Walmart employee argue for a few minutes in the clip before Darby leaves the store. He refuses to show the employee his handgun license.    Continue reading “Texas Open Carry gun advocate, Walmart worker clash over handgun in store”

Chron – by Markian Hawryluk

Dallas County Health and Human Services has confirmed a case of Zika infection through sexual transmission, the first confirmed case of locally acquired Zika in the current outbreak.

According to public health officials, the patient was infected after having sexual contact with an ill person who returned from a country where Zika is circulating.   Continue reading “Dallas County reports sexually transmitted Zika case in U.S.”

iMedia Ethics – by Sydney Smith

The Washington news director at Bloomberg Politics, Kathy Kiely, quit her job over the company’s policy about covering the possible presidential candidacy of founder Michael Bloomberg.

Kiely was apparently unhappy about Bloomberg Politics’s coverage of the possibility that Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, was considering running for president. The New York Times broke the story, and Bloomberg Politics reported on the Times’ coverage, CNN noted.   Continue reading “Top Bloomberg Editor Kathy Kiely quits over Policy on covering Michael Bloomberg”

New York Times

Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year’s presidential race. His advisers and associates said he was galled by Donald J. Trump’s dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton’s stumbles and the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side.

Mr. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has in the past contemplated running for the White House on a third-party ticket, but always concluded he could not win. A confluence of unlikely events in the 2016 election, however, has given new impetus to his presidential aspirations.   Continue reading “Bloomberg, Sensing an Opening, Revisits a Potential White House Run”

Billboard – by Jem Aswad

Glenn Frey, a founding member and guitarist of the Eagles, one of the most popular and commercially successful artists of the 1970s, has died. The band confirmed the news on Monday (Jan. 18) with a statement on its website.

“Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and Pneumonia,” read the statement. “Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community & millions of fans worldwide.”   Continue reading “Glenn Frey, Eagles Guitarist, Dies at 67”

Huffington Post – by Chloe Fox

HONOLULU — Hawaii and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials confirmed Friday that a mother and newborn baby on the island of Oahutested positive for a past Zika virus infection.

The baby was born with microcephaly, a serious birth defect in which a baby is born with an abnormally small head and possible developmental problems.   Continue reading “Hawaii Baby Contracts The First Case Of Zika Virus In The U.S.”