Author: Angel - NYC

New York Daily News

Staten Island cops stormed a barbershop and brutalized one of its owners during an undercover operation involving a stolen cellphone — and now the battered merchant is accusing the cops of iTrapment.

EZ Does It Barber Shop owner Michael Pacheco, 25, is still nursing the hemorrhaged eyeball he suffered when cops allegedly slammed a police radio into the side of his head as they piled on top of him during the Friday sting.   Continue reading “Staten Island barber says police roughed him up in botched iPhone sting”

Care 2 – by Susan Bird

Buddy is one determined dog. When his human was in trouble, he refused to be left behind — even though it meant riding on the outside of a speeding ambulance. His devotion has made him a viral sensation.

Buddy, a beagle-mix, bonded quickly and strongly with his adoptive guardian, 85-year-old Texas rancher J.R. Nickelson, who rescued Buddy from a shelter over the summer. When Nickelson began to feel dizzy recently, ranch hand Brian Wright called for an ambulance.   Continue reading “Rescued Beagle Clings to Outside of Ambulance to Stay with His Human”

KHOU 11 News – by Malini Basu

HOUSTON — A reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6 has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Kenneth Caplan was taken into custody Wednesday morning, authorities tell KHOU 11 News.

Caplan is accused of shooting a 20-year-old woman who was driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link about two weeks ago.   Continue reading “Reserve deputy arrested for 610 Loop road rage shooting”

New York Daily News – by Ben Kochman

They help keep the city warm, but these men are getting iced.

Nearly 50 deliverymen and mechanics at Bronx heating oil supplier Castle Oil Corp. will be out in the cold as a publicly traded giant takes over the company’s East River terminal, the Daily News has learned.

“We broke our backs all these years keeping New Yorkers warm, and now they are throwing us to the curb at the start of winter,” seethed driver Mark Wade, 49, who has delivered oil with the company for 25 years.   Continue reading “Bronx heating oil company’s drivers to be fired days before Christmas, as new owner Sprague Energy takes over”

KTLA 5 News

A man shot up a federal courthouse and a Mexican consulate — which he also seemingly tried to set ablaze — early Friday before being shot dead outside the Austin, Texas, police headquarters, that city’s police chief said.

The shooter fired “over 100 rounds” in a roughly 10-minute span, but he did not hit anyone even though the bullets ricocheted at a typically busy time in downtown Austin, when streets fill up with people after bars close for the night.   Continue reading “Gunman Fired ‘Over 100 Rounds’ at Austin, Texas Government Buildings Before Being Killed: Police”

Yahoo News – by Rick Klein, Richard Coolidge and Jordyn Phelps

Here’s a Thanksgiving pop quiz: Who was the nation’s first president?

If you answered George Washington, pass the gravy and get ready for a history lesson. It was actually John Hanson, a founding father whose name is largely forgotten in the pages of American history – until now.   Continue reading “The forgotten first president (Hint: It wasn’t George Washington)”

Alameda Patch – by Kate Bassford Baker

Dear Other Parents At The Park:

Please do not lift my daughters to the top of the ladder, especially after you’ve just heard me tell them I wasn’t going to do it for them and encourage them to try it themselves.

I am not sitting here, 15 whole feet away from my kids, because I am too lazy to get up. I am sitting here because I didn’t bring them to the park so they could learn how to manipulate others into doing the hard work for them. I brought them here so they could learn to do it themselves.   Continue reading “Mom’s Plea: Please Don’t Help My Kids”

New York Daily News – by TERENCE CULLEN , RICH SCHAPIRO

NYPD Officer Peter Liang is a wanted man.

A day after the rookie cop gunned down an unarmed man inside the Pink Houses, “Wanted” posters appeared in the Brooklyn housing project.

“This is the face of a killer,” one of the flyers reads.

The poster shows an image of an Asian officer — but it’s not Liang.   Continue reading “‘Wanted’ posters for NYPD cop who shot unarmed man appear in housing project”

NY Daily News – by ERIK BADIA , ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , LARRY MCSHANE

These Bronx prosecutors are going to be on Santa’s naughty list.

A group of assistant district attorneys landed in a holiday hullabaloo Thursday after a year-old photo surfaced with the gang of eight flashing hand signals from the Bloods, the Crips and the Trinitarios.

“We’re outraged because they think it’s a joke,” said one defense attorney after the photo, with a green and silver garland as its backdrop, reappeared this week. “You can’t have it both ways.”   Continue reading “Bronx prosecutors under fire for posing with gang signs in holiday photo”

The Huffington Post – by Tom Odula

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One gunman shot from the right, one from the left, each killing the non-Muslims lying in a line on the ground, growing closer and closer to Douglas Ochwodho, who was in the middle.

And then the shooting stopped. Apparently each gunman thought the other shot Ochwodho. He lay perfectly still until the 20 Islamic extremists left, and he appears to be the only survivor of those who had been selected for death.

Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, attacked a bus in northern Kenya at dawn Saturday, singling out and killing 28 passengers who could not recite an Islamic creed and were assumed to be non-Muslims, Kenyan police said.   Continue reading “Somalia’s Al-Shabab Says It Killed 28 In Kenya”

Is this a set-up for TPTB to force parents to drug & allow psychological brain-washing of their children, and also stop home schooling?

Syracuse

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new report asks whether the race and affluence of Adam Lanza’s family influenced decisions about how to care for his mental health problems in the years before he committed the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.   Continue reading “New report questions mental health history of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza”

Orlando Sentinel – by Mark Schlueb

Myron De’Shawn May’s life seemed to be the quintessential American story: He grew up poor, graduated from Florida State University with honors and worked his way through law school to build a career.

So how did a life with so much promise end with May striding onto the campus of FSU Thursday and shooting three people, only to be gunned down by police?   Continue reading “FSU shooter Myron May was ‘smiley, happy-go-lucky’ — and falling apart”

AOL

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ten years after banning the use of firing squads in state executions, Utah lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow the practice again to avoid problems with lethal-injection drugs.

The proposal from Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield would call for a firing squad if the state cannot obtain the lethal injection drugs 30 days before the scheduled execution.   Continue reading “Utah revives plan for executions by firing squad”

Fox News

Thousands have flocked to see a baby born with four arms and four legs in India, reported Central European News (CEN).

The baby, dubbed “God Boy” by his parents because they say he looks like an Indian God, was born in Baruipur, a city in India’s eastern West Bengal State.

“When he first came out we couldn’t believe it,” an unnamed relative told local TV. “The nurses said he was badly deformed, but I could see that this was a sign from God.”   Continue reading “Thousands flock to see baby born with 8 limbs in India”

Indian Country Today Media Network

Calling the U.S. House of Representatives’ November 14 vote for the Keystone XL pipeline an “act of war,” the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) has vowed to block the project from crossing its lands.

“The House has now signed our death warrants and the death warrants of our children and grandchildren. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe will not allow this pipeline through our lands,” said Rosebud Sioux President Cyril Scott in a statement. “We are outraged at the lack of intergovernmental cooperation. We are a sovereign nation, and we are not being treated as such. We will close our reservation borders to Keystone XL. Authorizing Keystone XL is an act of war against our people.”   Continue reading “Rosebud Sioux Tribe Calls House Keystone XL Passage an ‘Act of War,’ Vows Legal Action”

Fortune – by Tom Huddleston, Jr.

Privateer Holdings has a licensing agreement with the late reggae icon’s family.

Reggae legend Bob Marley was known to be a fan of marijuana. Now, a marijuana-focused venture capital firm is trying to bank on that tight relationship.

Privateer Holdings has reached an agreement with the family of the late musician to collaborate on what the Seattle-based firm is calling “the world’s first global cannabis brand.” Called Marley Natural, it will include “heirloom Jamaican cannabis strains inspired by those Bob Marley enjoyed” and be sold where regulations permit.   Continue reading “Bob Marley, the reggae king of cannabis, may soon have his own line of pot”

Yahoo News – by LINDA DEUTSCH and SCOTT SMITH

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — Mass murderer Charles Manson has gotten a license to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison.

The Kings County marriage license, viewed Monday by The Associated Press, was issued Nov. 7 for the 80-year-old Manson and Afton Elaine Burton, who left her Midwestern home nine years ago and moved to Corcoran, California — the site of the prison — to be near Manson. She maintains several websites advocating Manson’s innocence.   Continue reading “Charles Manson gets marriage license”