Year: 2014

Courthouse News – by DESHAYLA STRACHAN

(CN) – The city of Waldo, Fla., wrongly fired four police officers after they objected to having to write 12 tickets per shift in connection with a scheme to increase city revenues, the officers claim in a lawsuit.

In a lawsuit filed in the Alachua County, Fla. circuit court, the officers – Brandon Roberts, Jeffrey Pedrick, Roy Steadman, and Brian Shoaf – claim establishing a ticket quota to meet a specified city revenue projection was only one of the misdeeds they witnessed on the job.   Continue reading “Fired for Whistle-Blowing, Cops Say”

IJ Review – by Joseph Perticone

Churches in a Maryland county are being offered tax breaks for incorporating environmentalism into their sermons.

In Prince George’s County, 30 pastors have started preaching ‘green’ ministries to avoid extra taxes, the Washington Post reports.  The taxes depend on the acreage for all property owners, including churches, as part of Maryland’s “storm water remediation fee.”   Continue reading “Maryland County Pushes Churches to Preach Environmentalism In Exchange for Tax Credits”

The Daily Caller – by Chuck Ross

A man who fatally stabbed a 20-year-old college football player in the chest at an Oregon convenience store over the weekend was likely an illegal immigrant, authorities say.

Juventino Bermudez-Arenas stabbed Parker Moore several times at a 7-11 in McMinnville on Saturday. Bermudez-Arenas returned to the scene after fleeing, and was shot and killed by police who say the 33-year-old refused to drop the knife he used to stab Moore.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrant Stabbed College Football Player To Death In Oregon”

Bloomberg – by Christopher Condon and Jeff Kearns

On the eve of a Senate hearing today into whether the Federal Reserve has been “captured” by the institutions it is supposed to regulate, the Fed announced a broad review of its supervision of the largest banks, and a top official acknowledged there’s a danger that examiners could be too easy on them.

“We understand the risks of doing our job poorly and of becoming too close” to banks, New York Fed President William C. Dudley said in testimony prepared for delivery before a Senate panel. “We cannot catch or correct every error by a financial institution, and we sometimes make mistakes.”   Continue reading “Fed Reviews Bank Supervision as Senate Committee Begins Hearings”

Washington Post – by Carol Leonnig

A Michigan woman was arrested by Secret Service officers after she was seen walking along the White House’s north fence with a handgun at about 8 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.

Secret Service plainclothes officers noticed a woman with a holster near Pennsylvania Avenue around the perimeter of the fence and notified uniform division officers, who then arrested her for having an unregistered 9 mm handgun in her holster, said Ed Donovan, the spokesman for the Secret Service.   Continue reading “Woman with gun outside White House is arrested by Secret Service officers”

PC World – by Ian Paul

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s game of whack-a-mole with Windows tech support scammers continues.

The FTC and the State of Florida recently announced the temporary shut down of several businesses in two new cases of Windows tech support scams. The two cases involved scams that bilked “tens of thousands” of Windows PC owners out of more than $120 million, the FTC says.

For at least four years now, scam artists have been trying to pull one over on gullible computer users with phony tech support calls. The FTC said its latest operation was the third such case since 2011. More are sure to come since putting together a scam like this is relatively cheap compared to the potential million dollar windfall.   Continue reading “How to protect yourself from PC tech support scams”

Orlando Sentinel – by Mark Schlueb

Myron De’Shawn May’s life seemed to be the quintessential American story: He grew up poor, graduated from Florida State University with honors and worked his way through law school to build a career.

So how did a life with so much promise end with May striding onto the campus of FSU Thursday and shooting three people, only to be gunned down by police?   Continue reading “FSU shooter Myron May was ‘smiley, happy-go-lucky’ — and falling apart”

SHTF plan.com – by Mac Slavo

We are likely just 24 hours away from a Grand Jury decision in the officer involved shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.

Scores of Department of Homeland Security vehicles have been spotted 25 minutes outside of town and the Governor of Missouri has already declared a state of emergency in anticipation of the fallout should officer Darren Wilson be exonerated.National Guard units have been called up and one law enforcement official has advised residents to be armed because the police department will not be able to protect the town’s citizens should violence erupt.   Continue reading “Rioters To Target Whites: “You Will Never Be Safe… Not You, Not Your Children””

I have had Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (enlarged prostate) for several years now, and six months ago I began having problems in this regard having to get up every hour to painfully relieve myself.

I found a protocol that has greatly improved my condition without having to take prescription drugs from a white coated drug dealer.   Continue reading “Protocal to improve Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy”

Anti-Media – by Justin King

One of the officers that killed James Boyd is retiring early with full benefits and gets to avoid the Internal Affairs investigation by doing so. The local media in Albuquerque is trying to downplay his retirement by running headlines that indicate the exact opposite of the truth.

Officer Keith Sandy is the officer that made headlines and sparked outrage by stating he was going to shoot Boyd two hours before he did. He told a state law enforcement officer:   Continue reading “Cop Who Killed Homeless Man Retiring Early with Full Benefits to Avoid Investigation”

Reuters – by STEVE HOLLAND AND ROBERTA RAMPTON

President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for about 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans.

In a White House speech, Obama rejected Republican critics who say his decision to bypass Congress and take executive action is tantamount to amnesty for illegal immigrants and urged them to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation that the Republican-controled House of Representatives has blocked.   Continue reading “Obama announces action on sweeping U.S. immigration reform”

ABC News

Police have identified the woman wounded in a shooting at a southern New Jersey home that left two of her children dead and a third injured.

State police say 44-year-old Jeaninne LePage is in critical condition at Cooper University Hospital in Camden. A boy injured in the shooting also is in critical condition.

State police said they received a call from another relative in the home in Tabernacle on Thursday reporting that the mother and children ? believed to be middle-school and high-school aged ? had been shot.   Continue reading “Police: Woman, 3 children shot in New Jersey”

Fox 6 Now – by Beverly Taylor

MILWAUKEE (WITI) — A communication gap leads to an Ebola scare. It started out as a normal, quiet morning on W. Windlake Avenue, near south 13th St. But then the emergency crews arrived, and Romana Rivas got nervous.

“When you see the red tape and you see everybody standing in the street looking at our house and you don’t know what to think. I thought maybe carbon monoxide, a virus — I even thought of Ebola,” said Rivas.   Continue reading “Emergency crews respond to Ebola scare stemming from language barrier”

The Hill – by Elise Viebeck

The Obama administration is granting temporary protected status to roughly 8,000 people living in the United States whose home countries are stricken with Ebola.

The move by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is intended to protect people from being deported back to places experiencing disaster conditions.

The government will allow people from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone to apply for protection from deportation and for work permits that last 18 months, officials told Reuters.   Continue reading “DHS says people from Ebola countries can stay”