Author: Ruth

WCAX 3

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) Vermont game wardens are seeking public help in stopping poaching this hunting season.

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Col. Jason Batchelder says anyone witnessing poaching, or thinks they know of poaching, should call the nearest State Police barracks to report it. He says common infractions are baiting animals, or shooting animals at night. Batchelder says wardens can often make a strong case against a poacher if information is provided quickly. Baiting animals is illegal, even if you have no intention of shooting them.   Continue reading “Vermont game wardens seek public’s help to stop poaching”

Delmarva Public Radio – by Don Rush

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Maryland authorities and mental health professionals already have been training to implement a new law that enables courts to temporarily restrict firearms access for people found to be a risk to themselves or others.

The new red flag law takes effect Monday on the one-year anniversary of the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in modern history in Las Vegas.   Continue reading “Training for Red Flag Gun Law in Maryland”

Fox 4 KC

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — FOX4 is launching a community initiative called “Working For Blue.” This effort will work to raise money to provide free ballistic vests for any law enforcement agencies across local communities that have a need.

FOX4 is partnering with SHIELD616, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which provides top-rated vests and ballistic helmet kits. This means your gifts are tax-deductible. FOX4 has already identified a need of more than 500 vests around the region.   Continue reading “Working for Blue: The need to protect police”

Daily Mail

Kanye West has once again kicked up controversy on Twitter with a string of bizarre tweets in which he called the 13th Amendment ‘slavery in disguise’.

Fresh off his appearance on Saturday Night Live, the rapper wrote midday Sunday: ‘the 13th Amendment is slavery in disguise meaning it never ended We are the solution that heals.’    Continue reading “Kanye West calls the 13th Amendment ‘slavery in disguise’”

Reading Eagle

SWANTON, Vt. (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents say they have apprehended 10 Romanian citizens trying the cross the U.S.-Canadian border illegally in northern Vermont and New York.

Authorities say they found two women and two children illegally crossing the border into the U.S. near Meridian Road in Champlain, New York, on Tuesday. Border Patrol agents say the women said they were from Romania and did not have any immigration documentation allowing them to remain the country.   Continue reading “Border Patrol: 10 Romanians tried to illegally cross border”

WCAX 3

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) A Hardwick man has been fined for heavy logging on his property without a permit.

Officials with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation fined Richard Riendeau $9,155 for cutting 44 acres of trees on his 46-acre property after an inspection in October of last year.   Continue reading “Hardwick man fined for logging violation on his property”

Delaware Public Media

Law enforcement agencies and others are receiving a bump in funding from federal homeland security grants.

FEMA is awarding Delaware nearly $8.8 million this year through post-911 security grant programs.   Continue reading “Millions in federal funds coming to First State for homeland security”

VPR

When people are crossing a U.S. border, they expect to be asked about their citizenship. But not when they’re driving up the East Coast.

U.S. Border Patrol agents are boarding buses from private lines like Greyhound and Concord Coach within 100 miles of a U.S. border, asking passengers if they’re American citizens. It turns out agents are empowered to do this through a little-known law called the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. There are more and more reports of officers stopping cars and buses.   Continue reading “Federal Agents Board Buses 100 Miles From Border To Ask, Are You A U.S. Citizen?”

VT Digger – by Alan J. Keays

A new law went into effect at the start of this month that allows police to seize firearms from suspected domestic abusers at the scene of an arrest.

“These are times that an abuser or a perpetrator is going to feel the most threatened, and it may be the time they are most likely to use a weapon at their disposal,” said Avaloy Lanning, executive director of NewStory Center, a domestic violence shelter in Rutland.  Continue reading “Law allowing seizure of firearms from suspected abusers takes effect”

NBC 5

JOHNSON, Vt. — Education professor Hannah Miller is starting a study very personal to her.

“My goal for the research is to make K-12 schools and a more inclusive and supportive space for queer and trans-identified teachers,” she said.    Continue reading “Vermont professor starts LGBTQ teacher study”

The Jamestown Sun

The newly minted junior at Liberty Preparatory School was perhaps still on summer break schedule during class last week. His teacher couldn’t wake him up. Even summoning the interim principal wasn’t enough to get the teenager to open his eyes.

So the Smithville, Ohio, educators called for the school resource officer, a part-time member of the local police named Maryssa Boskoski, whose idea of an impromptu alarm could cost her job and maybe even her freedom.   Continue reading “A sleeping student in Ohio wouldn’t wake up in class, so an officer pulled out her Taser”

The Jamestown Sun – by Jack Dura

Continue reading “Bismarck man may be charged in connection to squirrel’s death”

Appalachian Magazine

The American Civil War ended on a random battlefield in Central Virginia in April 1865.  The conflict which raged for half-a-decade had cost both sides far more than either could have imagined in the days leading up to the war and left deep and bitter wounds which are still visible today.

Interestingly, many of the young men who had fault alongside Generals Lee, Grant and Stonewall Jackson during this horrific conflict were only in their 50s when the first Model T Fords began driving off the assembly line.   Continue reading “US Route 11: The Road That Healed the Nation, America’s Main Street”

The Jamestown Sun

Jason Gaebel and Kwame Anderson don’t usually cross the bridge over Interstate 94 in St. Paul, Minn. But this Wednesday morning, for no reason in particular, the beer deliverymen decided to take a different route, they told local news stations.

After dropping off a shipment of beer at a sports bar nearby, Gaebel steered the truck onto the bridge, crossing over the busy highway below. Then, they spotted a man standing on the bridge’s ledge on the other side of the fence.   Continue reading “Beer deliverymen talk man out of jumping off Minnesota bridge by offering him a 12-pack of Coors Light”

LMT Online

It sounds like a flimsy excuse. But poppy seeds really can make you fail a drug test, both peer-reviewed scientific studies and unofficial experiments conducted by journalists have found. Because they’re derived from opium poppies, they sometimes contain traces of morphine ― not enough to get you high, obviously, but potentially enough to register on a highly sensitive drug test.

That’s what a Maryland mother says happened to her back in April when she went to the hospital to give birth.   Continue reading “Yes, you can fail a drug test by eating a poppy seed bagel, as a Maryland mother learned”

Epoch Times – by Martha Rosenberg

How did the once modest medical specialty of child psychiatry become the aggressive “pediatric psychopharmacology” we see today? Millions of children who were once just considered too active are now diagnosed with ADHD, conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, mixed manias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, pervasive development disorders, irritability, aggression and personality disorders and given drugs.

Children who were once considered shy or moody are now diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, mood disorders, social phobia, anxiety, borderline disorders, assorted “spectrum” disorders and even schizophrenia.   Continue reading “Psychiatric Drugs for Kids–– A Big (and Dangerous) Pharma Marketing Push”

WCAX 3

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Vermont and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services are teaming up again for the annual Rabies Bait Drop.

The week-long bait drop started Wednesday and is part of a nationally coordinated effort to stop the fatal disease.   Continue reading “Annual rabies bait drops underway”