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GLENDALE, Nev. (FOX5/Meredith) – A semi-truck carrying $800,000 in dimes crashed and spilled its load on Interstate 15 near Glendale, which is located northeast of Las Vegas, Tuesday.
According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, at about 3:30 a.m. the semi-truck was southbound on Interstate 15 near mile marker 101 when the driver lost control of the truck, struck a guardrail and rolled over onto the desert area. Continue reading “Semi-truck carrying $800K in dimes overturns in Nevada”
Authorities in Maine launched a dragnet Wednesday after a man shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy, stole his cruiser and then robbed a convenience store, officials said.
Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster said Corporal Eugene Cole was killed around 1:45 a.m. on U.S. Route 2 in Norridgewock, located about 30 miles north of the state capital of Augusta. Cole was one of two cops shot dead nationwide, with a Dallas police officer succumbing to his wounds Wednesday morning after being injured the day before. Continue reading “Maine officer shot and killed by suspect who stole his car, robbed store”
The Electronic Intifada – by Ali Abunimah
An Israeli general has confirmed that when snipers stationed along Israel’s boundary with Gaza shoot at children, they are doing so deliberately, under clear and specific orders.
In a radio interview, Brigadier-General (Reserve) Zvika Fogel describes how a sniper identifies the “small body” of a child and is given authorization to shoot. Continue reading “Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms”
Toronto police say they have arrested a driver after a white van struck a number of pedestrians in the Yonge Street and Finch Avenue area.
Eight to 10 people were hit, police said initially, though Toronto paramedics put the injured number at closer to five. Continue reading “Driver in custody after Toronto pedestrians hit by white van that fled scene”
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Days after Broward County Circuit Judge Merrilee Ehrlich told an inmate her request for medical care was irrelevant, the woman died at home, relatives said Friday.
Ehrlich resigned late Friday from her current position after some in the legal community criticized the judge for her behavior that day. Continue reading “Wheelchair user dies days after ‘tyrannical’ judge ignores request for breathing treatment”
A Palestinian professor and member of the Hamas militant organisation has been killed in a drive-by shooting on the streets of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The family of Fadi al-Batsh, 35, has accused Israel’s spy agency Mossad of being behind his killing on Saturday. Continue reading “Palestinian lecturer and Hamas member killed in Malaysia”
SAN ANTONIO — Caught on camera, what looks like a San Antonio Police officer dragging a 16-year-old girl along the counter in her school office.
Both the girl in the video and the San Antonio Police Department say this all started because of cussing. Continue reading “Teen says officer used excessive force while handcuffing her”
Police detectives in Pittsburgh have been instructed to start bringing their riot gear to work over fears that President Trump could soon fire special counsel Robert Mueller and set off widespread protests.
WTAE reporter Marcie Cipriani obtained emails sent to detectives in Pittsburgh warning them of a “potential large scale protest” in the city. Continue reading “Pittsburgh police told to prepare for protests over potential Mueller firing: report”
MARIETTA, Pa. — The theft of hundreds of pounds of explosives from a pipeline work site in Lancaster County is under investigation.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Gregory General Contracting Company reported that approximately 640 pounds of dynamite and 400 blasting caps were taken. Continue reading “640 pounds of explosives stolen in Lancaster County, ATF says”
The banks of the Shikma stream in the northwestern Negev is particularly beautiful in the short section that crosses the dunes. On the bank of the stream is a wall of golden wreath wattle, now blooming in intense yellow. Continue reading “Total Rubbish: Why Is Israel So Filthy?”
The life of undercover police is not an easy one, as officers have to give up their personal life during the time they are undercover and take on a very new lifestyle, in this case, the life of a drug dealer. Continue reading “Undercover police posing as drug buyers arrested by undercover police posing as drug dealer”
Florida deputies confiscated an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from an Army veteran on Thursday, and the seizure was the first of its kind under the state’s new gun control law enacted following the Parkland school shooting.
Jerron Smith, 31, of Deerfield Beach, is the first person to be arrested for running afoul of the new law since it went on the books March 9, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Continue reading “New Florida gun law leads to first seizure: AR-15 from Army vet charged with attempted murder”
Israel’s defence minister has said an Israeli sniper who shot a Palestinian across the border in Gaza in a controversial video “deserves a medal”.
Footage of the incident, in which a soldier expresses joy at having captured it on film, drew condemnation from politicians and rights groups. Continue reading “Israeli minister praises viral video sniper”
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police say they have arrested a 12-year-old boy who was walking down a street with a loaded AR-15 rifle.
Police said Monday that the arrest happened over the weekend. A 19-year-old who police say was carrying a handgun was also arrested. Continue reading “12-year-old with loaded AR-15 rifle arrested in Philadelphia”
Pitted against the glacial pace of the UN’s discussion process, activists hoping for an international ban on killer robots have repeatedly been left fuming and frustrated.
Pitted against each other in the battlefield, lethal autonomous weapons systems — or LAWS — could in short order cause “absolute devastation,” according to one of those activists. Continue reading “‘Very urgent’: Activists want global treaty to ban killer robots by 2019”
The decisions we make about certain issues are formed by scientific evidence, things we see and hear with our own eyes and ears, and years of life experience. Those things informed my decision, for example, to oppose the “gender neutralization” of bathrooms in all Target stores.
Of course, for voicing my opinion I was lambasted as “anti-LGBTQ” (which I am not). I countered that my concern centered mostly around my life experience-informed belief that someone would abuse the store’s progressive policy and harm or potentially harm an unsuspecting child. Continue reading “We were told this wouldn’t happen: Perv exposes himself to a little girl in a Target “gender neutral” bathroom”