Tucson.com – by Carmen Duarte

A Sierra Vista man who worked as a civilian for the Army was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday for child pornography and other sex crimes.

Ian Joseph Ritzer, 34, also will face a lifetime of supervised release once out of prison.

Ritzer previously pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of production of child pornography, extortion, and attempted enticement of a minor. Ritzer was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez, according to a news release.   Continue reading “Sierra Vista man sentenced to 25 years in prison for child sex crimes”

Tucson.com – by Nick Meyers

Riding in an ambulance can be life-saving, but for a woman rescued Friday in Nogales, being trapped inside a sweltering ambulance compartment almost killed her.

Authorities rescued a 26-year-old Mexican woman identified only as Angeles, who Nogales police said had been locked inside an out-of-service ambulance for nearly two days during an illegal border-crossing attempt.
Continue reading “Nogales police: Migrant survived 40 hours trapped in ambulance compartment”

NBC 4i – by Rick Reitzel

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Heavily armed men and women, many in full combat gear, marched through downtown Columbus Friday morning.

They said their purpose is to let people know they are here to protect freedom for all.

More than 100 militia members from around the country marched from COSI to the Statehouse to talk about freedom and rights, but when they got there, they were met with jeers from about a dozen protesters.   Continue reading “Militia members march on Ohio Statehouse”

The Washington Examiner – by Kelly Cohen

Data released by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol shows arrests at the United States-Mexico border have been on a steady decline since the beginning of the year.

Roughly 14,500 people were apprehended on the southwest border in May, CBP data published on Thursday shows. Despite an uptick from April, when there were roughly 11,000 arrests, the numbers are still historically low.   Continue reading “Border patrol data: Arrests at US-Mexico border on steady decline”

Yahoo News

Beijing (AFP) – China treated a US governor to a red carpet reception this week, while President Donald Trump’s energy chief received a low-key greeting, a signal that Beijing is ready to go around the White House in the battle against climate change.

Since Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate deal, China has repeatedly vowed to uphold the accord and work with American states that share its determination.   Continue reading “China rolls out green carpet for California on climate”

Business Insider – by Jacqui Frank, Kara Chin

Legendary investor Jim Rogers sat down with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget on this week’s episode of “The Bottom Line.” Rogers predicts a market crash in the next few years, one that he says will rival anything he has seen in his lifetime. Continue reading “Jim Rogers: The worst crash in our lifetime is coming”

ABC 7 News

WASHINGTON (KGO) — Two police officers are among those who have been taken to a hospital after being struck by a pickup truck at a busy Washington DC intersection.

The officers were on bicycles when the truck swerved around a bus, striking them at 9 p.m. local time.

A traffic aide and two pedestrians were also hit — for a total of five victims.   Continue reading “DC police: We have to look at terrorism ‘very closely’ in truck crash that injured 5”

Antiquated lunacy, one must be a moron, a Jew or a benefactor of sorts to be buying this economic Super Friends council BS

New York Times – by Jack Ewing

FRANKFURT — Forward guidance might sound like something to mount on the dashboard of a car. But in the world of monetary policy it is a crucial concept, one that will be the focus of the European Central Bank’s meeting on Thursday.

Continue reading “European Central Bank Meeting Focuses on ‘Forward Guidance’”

AJC – by Christopher Ingraham

Students at Worth County High School in Sylvester, Georgia, have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against their country sheriff after he ordered what the complaint describes as a schoolwide drug sweep involving pat-down searches of hundreds of teenagers.

On April 14, Sheriff Jeff Hobby and dozens of deputies came to Worth County High School searching for students in possession of illicit substances. According to the students’ legal complaint, they proceeded to go to every classroom and physically search nearly every student present for drugs. The deputies, the lawsuit alleges, used “pat down” searches, with some deputies touching female students’ breasts and male students’ genitalia.

Continue reading “The Worth County sheriff ordered pat-down searches for every student at a public high school. Now they’re suing.”

NPR – by Dan Charles

Neil Shook was relaxing at home in Woodworth, N.D., on a Saturday afternoon just over a week ago.

“My wife was outside and she yelled at me to come outside and take a look at this,” he recalls.

A massive brown cloud covered the horizon to the west. It was a dust storm — although Shook, who’s a scientist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, doesn’t like to call it dust. “I like to refer to it as soil, because that’s basically what it is,” he says. “We saw this huge soil cloud moving from west to east across the landscape.”   Continue reading “U.S. Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It’s Blowing Away”

The New York Times – by Natasha Singer

In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats.

In Maryland, Texas, Virginia and other states, Netflix’s chief, Reed Hastings, is championing a popular math-teaching program where Netflix-like algorithms determine which lessons students see.   Continue reading “The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools”