Dallas Morning News

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been indicted on three charges in Collin County, according to KXAS-TV NBC 5, The Dallas Morning News’ media partner.

The grand jury’s indictments were issued on Tuesday, then immediately sealed. Paxton was indicted on two counts of first-degree securities fraud and one-count of third-degree failure to register. Sources tell KXAS’s Scott Gordon they will be unsealed Monday.

According to WFAA-TV, a Tarrant County judge has been appointed to the case.   Continue reading “Texas attorney general Ken Paxton indicted by grand jury in Collin County”

AOL

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Bullets whizzed past a woman’s head as she fled from an 18-year-old gunman who had posed as a stranded motorist to convince her family to help him on the roadside of a Montana Indian reservation, the woman recounted to relatives.

The man claimed he had run out of gas, then pulled a gun, demanded money and opened fire when Jorah Shane followed her mother’s order to run, Ada Shane said, relaying the story as told to her by her wounded niece.   Continue reading “FBI: Man killed parents because daughter laughed”

New York Times – by J. David Goodman

Fifty-four police officers wear body cameras while on patrol in New York City. Their ranks will swell to roughly a thousand as part of a pilot program overseen by a court-appointed federal monitor.

But before that expansion, some policy changes are in order, the inspector general for the New York Police Department said in a report released on Thursday.   Continue reading “New York Police Should Revise Body Camera Rules, Report Says”

The Guardian – by Ryan Felton and Oliver Laughland

Two police officers who corroborated a seemingly false account of the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati were previously implicated in the death of an unarmed, hospitalised and mentally ill black man who died after he was “rushed” by a group of seven University of Cincinnati police officers.

Kelly Brinson, a 45-year-old mental health patient at Cincinnati’s University hospital, suffered a psychotic episode on 20 January 2010 and was placed inside a seclusion room at the hospital by UC officers. He was then shocked with a Taser three times by an officer and placed in restraints. The father of one – son Kelly Jr – then suffered a respiratory cardiac arrest and died three days later.   Continue reading “Officers at Sam DuBose scene involved in death of another unarmed black man”

Huffington Post

BILLILNGS, Mont. (AP) — A man who was stopped along a road on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation gunned down a family who tried to help him Wednesday, killing the couple and wounding their daughter, a relative said.

The FBI confirmed that two people were killed and a third injured by gunfire in Pryor, a town of just over 600 people in southern Montana. A suspect was arrested hours later in Wyoming, FBI spokesman Todd Palmer said, later identified as Jesus Deniz.   Continue reading “Family Gunned Down By Stranded Driver They Were Trying To Help”

KGTV 10 News – by Michael Chen

LA JOLLA, Calif. – The pain of a man’s rattlesnake bite in San Diego is now being felt across the country, and it’s not the physical pain.

10News was the first to bring you the story of Todd Fassler, who was bitten by a rattlesnake at the Barona Speedway on July 4.   Continue reading “Man’s ordeal stirs debate on cost of treating rattlesnake bites”

New York Post – by Susan Edelman

An FDNY recruit is getting a third chance to pass the training academy after collecting top firefighter pay for a year in desk jobs, sources told The Post.

Choeurlyne Doirin-Holder, 39 — one of four women among 320 current probies in training — failed midway through a Fire Academy class in 2013, and returned to her former job as an EMT.   Continue reading “FDNY recruit failed her way into $81,000 desk job”

Ammoland – by Rob Morse

California – -(Ammoland.com)-  Some people still believe gun-prohibition works.  That fading idea is like a sick old man on life support.  It takes more and more effort simply to keep that fading fantasy alive.

They try.  These anti-rights lobbyists pump out a heartbeat of press releases paid for with a billionaire’s money.  Yes, I mean Bloomberg, as well as the Joyce, Tides and Heinz foundations.   Continue reading “It is Hard Work Keeping the Anti-Gun Dream Alive”

KTLA 5 – by ASHLEY SOLEY-CERRO, CHRIS WOLFE AND MARY BETH MCDADE

A 70-year-old retired Los Angeles Police Department detective was identified Thursday as the “Snowbird Bandit,” who robbed five Orange County banks between March and July, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

Randolph Bruce Adair, of Rancho Santa Margarita, was arrested Wednesday after several family members saw media reports about the “Snowbird Bandit” and contacted investigators, according to OCSD.   Continue reading “Retired LAPD Detective, 70, Suspected of Being ‘Snowbird Bandit,’ Robbing 5 Orange County Banks: OCSD”

Earth Justice – by Jan Hasselman

A new front has opened in the epic battle to block projects that threaten to turn the Pacific Northwest into a hub for fossil fuel exports. While citizens and regulators have been duking it out over environmental reviews and compliance with laws like the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, the Lummi Indian Nation has invoked a very different source of law—a 160-year-old treaty—to block a massive coal port near Bellingham.     Continue reading “A New Front In The Battle Against Coal Exports: Treaties”

The Villager – By LINCOLN ANDERSON AND GERARD FLYNN

On Tuesday, the police rolled one of their portable observation towers into Tompkins Square Park.

The immediate suspicion was that it was a response to the reported spike in homeless people lolling about in the park on cardboard boxes on the lawns and sleeping on benches during the daytime. According to police, the tower is there to keep watch on things like drug activity and public urination.   Continue reading “As police tower looms over Tompkins, petition calls for its removal”

New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , JOHN MARZULLI

The NYPD cops under investigation for allegedly beating a surrendering suspect were rookies with two days remaining in their probationary period at the time of the incident, the Daily News has learned.

Officers Pearce Martinez and Lenny Lutchman remained on full duty status Wednesday, but if Brooklyn prosecutors or Internal Affairs Bureau investigators determine the cops used excessive force against Thomas Jennings, they could be fired.   Continue reading “NYPD cops under investigation for allegedly beating a suspected pizza thief had two days left in probationary period”

Patch – by Marc Torrence

Fiat-Chrysler announced it is recalling 1.4 million vehicles over a software vulnerability that could allow hackers to remotely break into certain cars and control their steering wheels from afar.

The voluntary safety recall does not apply to specific car models, but rather cars containing Uconnect radio systems.   Continue reading “1.4M Vehicles Recalled; Hackers Could Take Over Steering Wheels”

Fox News

WASHINGTON –  A U.S. airstrike in Syria has killed a key figure in a dangerous al-Qaida offshoot, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Muhsin al-Fadhli was killed in a July 8 air attack while traveling in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in a statement. Davis did not further elaborate on the nature of the air strike, such as whether al-Fadhli was killed by a drone or a piloted aircraft.

Al-Fadhli was a leader of the Khorasan Group, a cadre of al-Qaida operatives who were sent from Pakistan to Syria to plot attacks on the West. Officials say the Khorasan Group is embedded in the al Nusra front, Syria’s al-Qaida affiliate.   Continue reading “Senior al Qaida figure, Muhsin al-Fadhli, killed in US airstrike in Syria, officials say”

Indian Country – by Gale Courey Toensing

Legislation to save an Apache sacred site from destruction by an international mining company got a helping hand recently when the National Trust for Historic Preservation included the land on its 2015 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Almost all of the places that make it onto the list are preserved.   Continue reading “Grijalva’s Save Oak Flat Bill Boosted by Historic Preservation Listing”

The Hill – by Stephen Boyd

The Apache are coming to Washington. They are coming to protect a public campground in Arizona known as Oak Flat, called in Apache, Chi’chil Bildagoteel. They come to repair the damage that was done back in December of the last Congress, when at the 11 ½ hour (literally, 11:30 at night before a vote the next day) a land exchange amendment was attached to a must pass National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which Congress enacted into law. This amendment (Section 3003 of the National Defense Authorization Act) would give Oak Flat to two huge multi-national mining companies (Rio Tinto of the UK and BHP Billiton of Australia). The law has devastating effects on the Apache and, by extension, on all other Native tribes and nations in the country.   Continue reading “The Apache are coming to DC”

Indian Country

Special trucks were hard at work vacuuming up an oil-emulsion spill the size of three football fields on July 19 as Nexen Energy apologized for the pipeline rupture that sent 1.3 million gallons of mixed sand, bitumen and water into the muskeg.

The spill, discovered on July 15 by a contractor, did not register on what the company had thought was a “fail-safe” high-tech detection system. Nor did the state-of-the-art construction—the brand-new pipeline was installed only last year—stand up to whatever caused it to burst and let loose the volume of two Olympic-sized swimming pools of muck.   Continue reading “‘Grossly Misinformed’: First Nations Want Answers to 1.3 Million Gallon Spill in Alberta”

Patch – by Sherri Lonon

A Florida gun shop owner’s reaction to the shootings in Chattanooga that left four Marines and one sailor dead is drawing both fire and praise.

Andy Hallinan, 28, has declared his store, Florida Gun Supply in Inverness, a “Muslim-free zone.” The Massachusetts native is also standing up for the Confederate flag, offering free concealed carry classes and free access to the shop’s firing range.   Continue reading “‘Muslim-Free Zone’ Declared by Gun Shop Owner”

Huffington Post

SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. (AP) — State police say a man escaped injury after being run over by a freight train while sleeping in the middle of railroad tracks in an upstate New York town.

Troopers say 38-year-old Aaron Collins of Stillwater was highly intoxicated when he went to sleep Wednesday night on tracks in the Rensselaer (rehn-suh-LEER’) County town of Schaghticoke (SKA’-tih-kohk), 20 miles north of Albany.   Continue reading “Drunk Man Gets Run Over By Train, Doesn’t Even Get Hurt”