Todashev's killer, FBI Agent Aaron McFarlane, here as Oakland cop testifying at a corruption trial, his victim, IbrahThis Can’t Be Happening – by Dave Lindorff

Almost a year after an FBI agent shot and killed, under suspicious circumstances, a crucial witness in the Boston Marathon bombing case during a botched midnight interrogation in an Orlando apartment, serious questions are being raised about the FBI agent who fired seven shots into Chechen immigrant Ibragim Todashev last May 22.

Two investigations, one by the FBI itself and one by the Florida Attorney General’s office, exonerated the FBI in the shooting death, claiming the agent, never identified, had been acting in self-defense, when Todashev allegedly ran at him with a raised broom handle. Continue reading “Agent Who Killed Tsarnaev Pal During Grilling had Brutal, Corrupt History”

Courthouse News Service

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) A junior high school suspended a student and turned him over to police because of a “doodle” he drew showing a person being hanged, his father claims in court.

Robert Bernard Keller sued the Beaverton Police Department and Beaverton School District in Federal Court. Beaverton is a suburb of Portland.      Continue reading “Student Turned Over to Police for a Doodle”

cinnamon honey 263x165 Two Common Kitchen Items to Combine for Amazing Health BenefitsNatural Society – by Paul Fassa

According to a January 17, 1995 issue of Canadian magazine Weekly World News, honey and cinnamon’s combined effects are proven and recognized as valid for several health issues including cancer and arthritis. But this 1995 hard copy magazine’s news item about honey and cinnamon didn’t get picked up on the Internet until 2006.   Continue reading “Two Common Kitchen Items to Combine for Amazing Health Benefits”

NYPDHuffington Post – by Matt Sledge

NEW YORK — A civil liberties lawyer challenged members of a New York City Police Department oversight board on Wednesday over an apparent city investigation into a leaked stop and frisk memo.

At issue is a memo that allegedly hamstrings the ability of investigators on the Civil Complaint Review Board to investigate stop and frisks that occur when police are issuing summonses for minor violations, such as public consumption of alcohol.   Continue reading “NYPD Oversight Board Challenged Over Stop And Frisk Leak Investigation”

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A ruptured oil pipe near the city of Glendale, Los Angeles County, has caused a massive leak as 50,000 gallons of crude oil spilled onto streets, which is knee high in some places, the Los Angeles Fire Department reports.

The leak from a 20-inch pipe was first reported at around 12:15 am local time. The oil line was remotely shut off, the Los Angles Fire Department (LAFD) said in a press release. The oil spill has covered approximately a half-mile area, and is knee deep in some spots. The leak, which was sprung near 5175 W. San Fernando Rd., has spill has affected some commercial businesses.    Continue reading “‘Knee Deep’: 50,000 gallons of oil spills on LA streets”

Coronado HillsLA Times – by TONY PERRY, VERONICA ROCHA AND JILL COWAN

Brush fires broke out Wednesday in more than half a dozen spots in northern San Diego County and spread at a dangerous pace as hot, dry, erratic winds, backed by record temperatures, raked Southern California for a second day.

Elsewhere, crews battled flames in Lompoc, Santa Paula, North Hills, Long Beach and Anaheim.

Continue reading “Brush fires break out and spread in northern San Diego County”

Yahoo Shine – by Joanna Douglas

Now that Illinois has become the 50th state to legally allow some degree of concealed weapons, several Chicago designers are ready to cash in on the change, coming up with creative and stylish ways for interested parties to hide their firearms.

According to a Gallup poll released last year, 23 percent of gun owners are women — up 13 percent from 2005. A quick Web search turns up a large variety of handbags designed to conceal weapons, but the new trend adds fashionable apparel to the mix.   Continue reading “Fashion Designers Taking Advantage of Gun Laws”

After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a tirade, listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married.

On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an long laundry list of unmet needs she had endured.   Continue reading “A Visit to The Marriage Counselor”

Graphic video: Cat saves young boy from stray dog attackKMOV News 4

A video showing a household cat saving a young boy from a stray dog attack is gaining steam across the web after the child’s father posted a video of the incident to YouTube.

Roger Triantafilo says his son was riding his bike when a dog came out of nowhwere and attacked him. Within seconds the family’s cat jumped into action and ran the dog off before any more damage could be done.   Continue reading “Cat saves young boy from stray dog attack”

Every year the French have a 4 day celebration in Normandy complete with American uniforms, tanks, jeeps and guns.  They still honor the Americans who died there.

June 6, 2013, the 69th anniversary of “D-Day”, the largest invasion  ever attempted, where 200,000 Americans stormed the beaches at Normandy to begin the final push to defeat Nazi Germany in WWII. D-Day marked the turning point in WWII in Europe. Today, European heads of state make it a point to recall and honor the sacrifices of those who landed in Normandy , as do our Presidents….well, most of them….    Continue reading “God Help Us!”

Mail.com

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A young boy who survived an 11-story fall from a Minneapolis high-rise has been dubbed “the miracle baby” and was recovering in a hospital Wednesday.

Fifteen-month-old Musa Dayib suffered a broken spine and ribs as well as a concussion and a punctured lung. Musa’s relatives believe he slipped through the railing of his family’s apartment balcony Sunday evening.   Continue reading “Boy survives 11-story fall from Minnesota building”

A sign sits at the beginning of a road that goes into thousands of acres of Bureau of Land Management land that has been temporarily closed to round-up illegal cattle that are grazing south of Mesquite Nevada on April 11, 2014 in Mesquite, Nevada. (AFP Photo / Getty Images / George Frey)RT News

Federal officials have opened up an investigation into whether or not Cliven Bundy supporters damaged a protected archaeological site when they rode all-terrain vehicles through it during a weekend protest.

On Saturday, hundreds of protesters gathered near southern Utah’s Recapture Canyon, voicing their opposition to the fact that the area has been closed to recreational vehicles by the Bureau of Land Management since 2007. After the rally, dozens of people descended upon the canyon in ATVs, driving the vehicles through restricted areas.   Continue reading “Feds preparing to charge Bundy ranch supporters over Utah protest”

Joe-biden1Mashable – by Colin Daileda

Air Force Two was half an hour late getting to Miami for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s commencement speech at Miami Dade College on Saturday, but the former senator from Delaware managed to rile up the crowd, anyway.

His speech was part inspiration, part politics. Biden told the crowd that Americans must continue to innovate if the nation wants to retain its prominent place in the world, and that those graduating on Saturday were in a great position to drive change in a rapidly evolving world. He also called on the United States to provide citizenship to its 11 million “undocumented aliens,” saying part of what makes America great is immigrants willing to give up their lives to start fresh in the U.S.   Continue reading “Joe Biden on Undocumented Immigrants: ‘Take These People Out of the Shadows’”