From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
PHOENIX (KSAZ) – A busy downtown Phoenix intersection was closed for part of Friday morning.
The sound of traffic was replaced with patriotism and pride for the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
“This is an event that is important to everybody in this office and this organization annually just so we can honor those people and their family,” Deputy Lt. Cory Morrison said. Continue reading “Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office honors fallen officers in Downtown Phoenix”
TOMBSTONE – UPDATE: According to a statement released by Border Patrol, Border Patrol agents returned fire when a male driver shot at them after colliding with traffic barriers at the immigration checkpoint located at the intersection of State Route 80 and State Route 82 Wednesday afternoon.
The vehicle was driving northbound on SR 80 at approximately 3:45 p.m. when the incident happened, the statement said. The checkpoint was closed at the time due to “adverse wind conditions.” Continue reading “Man shot by Border Patrol agents near immigration checkpoint”
New York Post – by Larry Celona and Lorena Mongelli
He was out for blood — and looking for a suicide-by-cop.
The Bronx man who plowed his car into a Times Square crowd, killing a teen tourist and injuring 22 others, wanted to commit murder, and then wanted cops to kill him, police sources said. Continue reading “Times Square maniac was allegedly attempting suicide-by-cop”
(WTXF) – Roger Ailes, who built Fox News into a cable powerhouse before leaving the company last year, died at the age of 77.
The Ohio-born television pioneer was a confidante of presidents and an acknowledged master of communications. He founded Fox News in 1996 and built it into the nation’s long-running No. 1 cable news network Ailes resigned from Fox in July amid charges of sexual harassment. Ailes left Fox News under a cloud of controversy last August. The sequence of events that led to his departure began when Gretchen Carlson sued him fter her contract as a daytime Fox host was not renewed. Ailes strongly denied her allegations of sexual harassment and wrongful termination. Continue reading “Former FOX News Channel executive, founder Roger Ailes dies”
The longest-serving governor in the country is set to become the steward of one of the United States’ most delicate diplomatic relationships.
Later this week, the Senate will likely vote to confirm Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as ambassador to China. Although he’s not a member of the foreign policy establishment, Republicans and Democrats alike hope his long-standing relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping will ease tensions with a rising global power that’s also one of the United States’ biggest trading partners. Continue reading “Nation’s Longest-Serving Governor Set To Become Top Diplomat In Beijing”
FBI agents arrested an Arizona man last week for threatening to shoot Rep. Martha McSally, a Republican who represents the same Arizona district Gabrielle Giffords represented when she was shot in the head in 2011.
Steve Martan, 58, left three separate expletive-laden messages on McSally’s congressional office voicemail in early May, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in a U.S. District Court in Tuscon. In the first, he talked about wringing the congresswoman’s neck. Continue reading “Man Arrested For Threatening U.S. Rep., Telling Her ‘Your Days Are Numbered’”
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is asking the Justice Department to develop strategies to prevent and prosecute violent crimes against law enforcement.
Trump says in the Oval Office that police officers have “had it with what’s going on” and notes that 118 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2016. Continue reading “Trump: We will ‘take care of’ violent crimes against police”
A woman was handcuffed and detained by a man impersonating a police offer on Tucson’s east side Friday.
The woman was driving in a residential area near East Broadway and North Wilmot Road at about 8 a.m. when she was stopped by a man she believed to be a member of law enforcement, according to a news release from Tucson Police.
Continue reading “Tucson woman handcuffed, detained by police impersonator”
PHOENIX (KSAZ) – The federal government has narrowed down which companies will design President Trump’s border wall.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will notify the finalists over the next few days.
No word on how many companies were picked, but the feds have previously said they may select up to 20 companies. Continue reading “DarkPulse Technologies one of few companies left to snag President Trump’s border wall contract”
Tuscon.com – by Paul Davenport
An oldies country music radio station east of Tucson serving a rural Arizona area that aired a public service announcement for two years telling people how to hide potential evidence in child pornography cases has stopped doing so after advertisers received threats, the station’s owner said Wednesday
KAVV-FM owner Paul Lotsof said in an interview that he does not like child pornography but created the announcement because he thinks Arizona’s 10-year minimum sentence for each image of child porn is too harsh and costly for taxpayers.
Continue reading “Benson radio station removes child pornography announcement”
The article/video basically states the relationship and procedure has been in place since 1985, so…. this amounts to more reaching from the media in hopes to keep the Trumpets blowing their horns, I think we will see lots of news like this as time goes on.
Making sure criminal immigrants are not released back to the community has been a top priority for President Donald Trump, and in Arizona, the Department of Corrections takes part in a program that transfers undocumented prisoners who have served their time, directly into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Continue reading “Arizona Department of Corrections working with ICE to transfer undocumented prisoners”
To me this article reads, no border fence or policy change coming.
NACO, Ariz. (AP) – The final panel new border fencing has been installed along 7.5 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border near Naco in southeastern Arizona.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the new barrier replaces outdated fencing aimed at only blocking pedestrian access. Continue reading “Final panel of new section of border fencing installed in southeast Arizona”
