Author: Angel - NYC

New Port Richey Patch – by Sherri Lonon

When a church janitor in Kissimmee learned his employment had come to an end Tuesday morning, he pulled out a gun and began firing shots at the pastor who had just let him go.

Living Water Fellowship Pastor Terry Howell, however, was packing his own gun, which he pulled out and used to return fire. Unlike the ex-employee, Howell’s bullets struck, leaving the man in critical condition, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.   Continue reading “Pistol Packing Pastor Returns Fire on Ex-Employee”

BBC News – by Michelle Roberts

The Ebola victim who is believed to have triggered the current outbreak – a two-year-old boy called Emile Ouamouno from Guinea – may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats, say scientists.

They made the connection on an expedition to the boy’s village, Meliandou.   Continue reading “First Ebola boy likely infected by playing in bat tree”

DNA Info – by Irene Plagianos

SOHO — Three SoHo fur vendors were arrested for tossing bleach and ammonia at protesting animal rights activists last week, hitting several passersby, including an infant, police said.

The men climbed to the roof of six-story 520 Broadway near Spring Street and threw a mixture of bleach and ammonia to the street below, where a group of about 15 activists were protesting the vendors’ outdoor racks of fur coats, police said.   Continue reading “Fur Vendors Throw Bleach on Protesters and Splash Child, Police Say”

Father: How did your baseball game go today, son?

Son: I hadda run home.

Father: No, no, son. You mean to say that you had a home run.

Son: Nope. With my first swing, I sent a foul tip over the backstop. It broke the windshield of a police car. So I hadda run home.

The Telegraph – by Simon Johnson

Continue reading “Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow”

Oregon Live – by Aimee Green

In the often cold and unforgiving world of Multnomah County Circuit Court, a Portland civil attorney last week did something rather extraordinary:

He offered to loan a complete stranger $983 of his own money to keep the man — a 27-year-old dad — from having a felony conviction on his record.

Call it an act of faith in humankind — or perhaps a foolhardy move — depending on your perspective.   Continue reading “Stranger in Portland courtroom shows defendant mercy — forks over $983 so he won’t become felon”

Daily News – by CORKY SIEMASZKO

Cops are looking for a predator in purple sneakers who allegedly groped a defenseless 81-year-old Bronx woman.

The female suspect knocked on the victim’s door Friday and announced that she was from the hospital, police said.

The elderly woman, believing the imposter was there to see her husband, let her inside, cops said.   Continue reading “Purple-shoed female predator groped woman, 81, in the Bronx, cops say”

Huffington Post – by Ben Walsh

At least six people have been jailed in Texas over the past two years for owing money on payday loans, according to a damning new analysis of public court records.

The economic advocacy group Texas Appleseed found that more than 1,500 debtors have been hit with criminal charges in the state — even though Texas enacted a law in 2012 explicitly prohibiting lenders from using criminal charges to collect debts.   Continue reading “Texas Is Throwing People In Jail For Failing To Pay Back Predatory Loans”

Reuters

Mauritania on Thursday condemned a man to death for “insulting the prophet”, a human rights group said, a day after the country opened the trial of an anti-slavery activist.

Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, 28, was arrested a year ago for writing an article about the Prophet Mohammad and the caste system, an extremely sensitive subject in a West African country with deep social and racial divisions.   Continue reading “Mauritania condemns man to death for ‘insulting the prophet’”

Fox News

Hundreds of police officers outside the Queens, N.Y. church Saturday where the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos was being held turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio as he eulogized the fallen officer who was ambushed last week along with his partner.

De Blasio’s remarks were being shown on large TV monitors outside the Christ Tabernacle Church. Police union officials have accused the mayor of fostering a climate of mistrust that contributed to the killings of Officer Ramos and his partner.   Continue reading “Police turn their backs on Mayor de Blasio during funeral for fallen NYPD cop”

Gazette Online – by Scott Kline

Steve Ross says what happened to his 75-year-old mother could have been a tragedy. Instead, it may be a blessing.

After Charlene Ross was taken to the hospital Sunday from being struck in the neck with a “birdshot” pellet from a shotgun fired accidentally by her 77-year-old husband, Boyd, doctors found she had a previously undiscovered heart problem — an arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat.   Continue reading “Man may have saved his wife by shooting her”

AOL – by Leanne Italie

NEW YORK (AP) — Lori Osterberg and her husband are lifelong Denver folk, but they got restless and intended to relocate for adventure’s sake once their only child left home for college.

Well, long story short, they did that. Sort of.

Rather than following the sun down to Mexico, they followed their daughter to Portland, Oregon, where she is a sophomore. While still taking long weekends and other trips to Canada and California, the couple bought an apartment near campus that all three share.   Continue reading “Helicoptering? Parents Go With Kids to College”

KFOR 4 News – by K. QUERRY AND ED DONEY

OKLAHOMA CITY– A woman was arrested at the Oklahoma County Court Clerk’s office after yelling at employees, struggling with deputies, and telling her two-year-old son to “kill the police,” according to court records.

Last Tuesday, 26-year-old, Tia Ann Ooten was at Tim Rhodes’ office to access adoption records, which are confidential by law, according to Rhodes.

When told she needed a court order, she made the kind of threat that officers do not take lightly – especially these days.   Continue reading “Woman arrested after allegedly causing a scene, telling toddler to “kill the police””

PaleoFuture – by Matt Novak

You’ve probably heard the story by now: On Christmas Eve 1955, a young boy in Colorado Springs dialed a Sears-sponsored hotline that let kids talk with Santa Claus. But instead of reaching Santa, he was connected to the red phone at CONAD, the military command center charged with patrolling the skies for any nuclear missiles coming from the Soviet Union. The local newspaper had mistakenly printed the wrong number.   Continue reading “How the U.S. Military Turned Santa Claus Into a Cold War Icon”

AOL – by Tom Hays

NEW YORK (AP) — The gunman who fatally ambushed two police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record, a hatred for police and the government and an apparent history of mental instability that included an attempt to hang himself a year ago, authorities said Sunday.

Moments before opening fire, Ismaaiyl Brinsley approached people on the street and asked them to follow him on Instagram, then told them, “Watch what I’m going to do,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.   Continue reading “Killer of 2 NYC officers had long criminal history”

New York Daily News – by TINA MOORE, ALFRED NG, OREN YANIV, BILL HUTCHINSON

Seconds before a cop-hating maniac ambushed and gunned down two NYPD officers in cold blood, he boasted, “Watch what I’m going to do!”

Ismaaiyl Brinsley’s twisted advertisment of his execution-style assassinations of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu was revealed Sunday as detectives probed the motive for Saturday’s shocking slayings in Brooklyn.   Continue reading “Cop shooter bragged to Brooklyn bystanders just before fatally shooting NYPD Officers”

SI Live – by Zak Koeske

HARLEM, N.Y. – Rev. Al Sharpton said Sunday that he’s received multiple threatening calls since the execution-style killing of two NYPD cops in what the 28-year-old gunman apparently considered vengeance for the police-involved deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

Sharpton, who said he would be turning over the threats he’s received to the FBI, played one of the calls at a press conference he held Sunday at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem.   Continue reading “Rev. Al Sharpton says he’s received threats since police slayings; pleas for non-violent protests”