Month: July 2014

New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , LARRY MCSHANE

The Staten Island district attorney is investigating the shocking death of a 400-pound asthmatic dad after a city cop placed him in a chokehold.

Eric Garner, 43, died Thursday after a sidewalk takedown by five NYPD officers making an arrest outside a Tompkinsville beauty parlor.

“My office is working along with the NYPD to do a complete and thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr. Garner’s death,” said District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan Jr. in a Friday statement.    Continue reading “Staten Island DA looking into death of dad of six after NYPD cop put him in chokehold during sidewalk takedown”

AmmoLand

New York, N.Y. –-(Ammoland.com)-The Arbalest Quarrel weblog and Seneca Sporting Range are pleased to announce a pro-gun rally the two groups are co-sponsoring.

PLACE: Seneca Sporting Range, 1716 Weirfield Street, Ridgewood/Queens, N.Y. 11385

TIME: Saturday, August 16, 2014 (1:00 P.M. to 2:00 PM)   Continue reading “NY’s Arbalest Quarrel & Seneca Sporting Range To Hold August Pro-Gun Rally”

Birmingham Patch – by Beth Dalbey

Fire officials in the northern Michigan community of Mackinaw City have apologized for a faux pas that may end them all: They billed a man killed in a car accident $500 for the removal of his own body from a crash scene.

“I’m dumbfounded, frankly, with the whole thing,” Rebecca Beck, the stepdaughter of the deceased man, told  WPBN-WTO. “They billed my dad knowing that he was dead, because they removed his corpse … And, frankly, I just couldn’t believe it.”   Continue reading “Dead Man Billed $500 for Removal of His Corpse”

Huffington Post – by Samantha Lachman

U.S. Capitol Police arrested Rep. Tom Marino’s (R-Pa.) press secretary on Friday after he allegedly attempted to bring a handgun and magazine into a House office building.

Roll Call first reported that Ryan Schucard was arrested after the police found a Smith & Wesson 9mm and magazine during the routine search required for entry into the Cannon House Office Building, according to Capitol Police spokeswoman Lt. Kimberly Schneider.   Continue reading “Tom Marino Staffer Arrested For Bringing Gun Into House Office Building”

Daily Mail – by Matthew Blake

As the world continued to search for answers over the downing of Flight MH17, the internet came alive with conspiracy theories today.

The Web has long been a haven for numerologists and conspiracy crackpots peddling their alternative analyses of events that shake the world.

And today was no different as web sleuths across the globe rushed online in a bid to hypothesize over what really happened to the doomed Malaysian Airlines passenger plane.   Continue reading “From CIA assassination cock-up to nefarious Illuminati involvement: The MH17 conspiracy theories doing the internet rounds”

Shooting Sports Retailer – by Christian Lowe

Major U.S. gun manufacturer Sig Sauer announced a major layoff today, saying the overall slump in gun sales has forced it to cut nearly 10 percent of its staff from its Exeter, New Hampshire, and Newington, New Hampshire, manufacturing facilities.

The move comes as the firearms buying “bubble” has seemingly burst, with many major gun manufacturers reporting slower sales than previous years. Sig says it staffed up to meet the increasing demand for firearms over the last several years, but a return to “normal” sales made those employees no longer necessary. Continue reading “Sig Sauer announces major layoffs”

AM New York

George Brown, a homeless man in Washington, has a simple answer when asked how often he uses a public library.

“Always. I have nowhere else to go,” Brown, 65, said outside the U.S. capital’s modernist central library after a morning reading sociology books. “When it’s hot, you come here to stay out of the heat. When it’s cold, you come here to stay out of the cold.”   Continue reading “Libraries become frontline in fight against homelessness”

The Raw Story – by Tom Boggioni

A London-based reporter for Russia Today resigned Friday in protest over the network’s coverage of the recent Malaysia Airlines plane crash.

Sara Firth, who has worked for RT since 2009, announced her resignation via Twitter, writing: “I resigned today from RT. I have huge respect for many in the team, but I’m for the truth.”

Firth told Buzzfeed that she resigned because she the felt the Kremlin-funded news channel was trying to pin the blame for the apparent shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on the Ukrainian government.   Continue reading “RT reporter quits over MH17 coverage: ‘We’re lying and finding sexier ways to do it’”

CBS SF Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — About 100 of the passengers on the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down over the Ukraine on Thursday were reportedly AIDS scientists and researchers heading to Australia for a conference.

World Health Organization spokesperson Glenn Thomas was also among the victims.

The International AIDS Conference is taking place in Melbourne this weekend, organized by the International AIDS Society, who released a statement following the crash.   Continue reading “Around 100 Attendees Heading To Australia AIDS Conference Among Victims Of Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight”

BuzzFeed – by John Stanton

WASHINGTON — On the morning of April 25, Jose Moreno Serrano pulled his Dodge SUV into a border checkpoint in Arizona, ostensibly on his way to work at the Mexican Consulate in nearby Yuma.

Using his consulate VISA and SENTRI pass — essentially a “fast pass” for frequent border crossers — Moreno quickly moved through security and into the United States at 7:42 a.m.

Less than an hour later, Moreno was arrested by federal officials for transporting 100 pounds of cocaine, hidden in a secret compartment in his SUV.   Continue reading “Mexican Consulate Employee Busted Hauling 100 Pounds Of Cocaine Into United States”

RT

CNN has pulled correspondent Diana Magnay out of her post covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the reporter tweeted that Israelis cheering bombs hitting Gaza, and who had allegedly threatened her, were “scum.”

Magnay was “threatened and harassed” before and during her report, a CNN spokeswoman told The Huffington Post, leading to the reporter’s reaction on Twitter.   Continue reading “CNN boots reporter from Israel-Gaza conflict after ‘scum’ tweet”

RT

Shipping giant Federal Express has been indicted for drug trafficking for illegal online pharmacies and conspiracy to traffic controlled substances by the US Department of Justice.

“FedEx knew that it was delivering drugs to dealers and addicts,” said the press release from the US Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of California released on Thursday.   Continue reading “FedEx faces trial for drug trafficking”

RT

A disease transmitted by mosquitos has appeared in the US from the Caribbean, with health officials expressing frustration over their inability to control the spread of such pathogens.

American mosquitoes for the first time are spreading the chikungunya (chik-en-GUN-ye) virus that was once confined to the Caribbean and tropical Americas. There is presently no cure for the infection, which causes symptoms similar to dengue fever, including severe joint pain and swelling, muscle aches, headaches and fever.   Continue reading “Exotic mosquito-borne virus makes US premiere, infects 2 in Florida”

Mail.com

DETROIT (AP) — A young man who participated in a mob attack on a Detroit-area motorist needed a father to “beat the hell” out of him as a kid to discourage him from committing such a crime, a judge said Thursday.

The stunning remarks by Wayne County Judge James Callahan came as he sentenced Latrez Cummings to six months in jail. In response to the judge’s question, Cummings, 19, said his father wasn’t around when he was growing up.   Continue reading “Judge says young Detroit man needed a beating”

What an amazing coincidence!  I guess “crisis acting” is a family act.

Mail.com

SYDNEY (AP) — In an almost incomprehensible twist of fate, an Australian woman who lost her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 learned on Friday that her stepdaughter was on the plane shot down over Ukraine.

Kaylene Mann’s brother Rod Burrows and sister-in-law Mary Burrows were on board Flight 370 when it vanished in March. On Friday, Mann found out that her stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was killed along with 297 others on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which U.S. intelligence authorities believe was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.   Continue reading “Woman loses relatives in 2 Malaysia air disasters”