Year: 2014

New York Daily News – by TINA MOORE , GINGER ADAMS OTIS

Two FDNY EMTs who had to intervene to stop four police officers beating a handcuffed patient on a stretcher have turned the cops in to authorities, the Daily News has learned.

The emotionally disturbed patient was punched multiple times in the face by the cops on July 20, according to FDNY documents obtained by The News. The cops only stopped when the EMTs bodily intervened, the report said.

The violence broke out when the patient spit at the Emergency Service Unit officers and swore at them. The officers responded by hitting him in the face, hauling him off the stretcher to the ground and then tossing him back on the stretcher, the EMTs said in written statements submitted to the FDNY.   Continue reading “EMTs who stopped NYPD cops from beating handcuffed, emotionally disturbed patient turn officers in”

Telegraph – by Colin Freeman, and Raziye Akkoc

Continue reading “Ebola outbreak: British Airways suspends flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia over virus”

Daily Mail – by DAVID MCCORMACK

Once upon a time an American family’s home was their castle and the bigger the better, but growing concerns about meeting mortgage payments and the environmental impact of large houses has helped fuel a new movement of people who are happy to live small.

The Tiny House Movement is a growing group of people who are happy to downsize the space that they live in and enjoy simplified lives as a result.   Continue reading “Inside the Tiny House Movement where more and more Americans have rejected tradition for a simpler – and cheaper – lifestyle”

LA Times – by Richard Simon

Virginia is more than 1,500 miles from the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, epicenter of the border crisis.

And it is the home state of Rep. Eric Cantor, who was defeated by a tea party novice who attacked the former House majority leader for being open to “amnesty” for at least some immigrants in the country illegally.

But Yesenia, 16, and her brother, Herson, 12, are here.   Continue reading “Amid border crisis debate, many new immigrants land in D.C. area”

Breitbart – by Joel B. Pollak

LOS ANGELES — A local pharmaceutical research company, MMRGlobal, plans to offer its antibody technology to universities conducting research on the Ebola virus without charging them royalties for licensing fees.

“In light of the humanitarian crisis from Ebola and other diseases, MMR plans on granting these licenses for research into the development of these and other biotech assets to create treatments for Ebola and other diseases,” said MMR CEO Robert K. Lorsch, in a statement to be released later Tuesday morning.   Continue reading “California Pharma Firm to Offer Royalty-Free Licenses for Ebola Research”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas — Soon, West Texas could be home to the nation’s largest shelter for unaccompanied minors who entered the U.S. illegally.

A proposed housing facility called the Abraham Lincoln Transitional Lodge would be able to accommodate 3,500 youths at once, according to KHOU. Its location would be just southeast of El Paso.    Continue reading “Nation’s Largest Immigration Detention Center Proposed for West Texas”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

Three in four illegal immigrant juveniles from Mexico who are apprehended at the border are repeat offenders.

According to a Pew Research Center report, which was based on “analysis of Mexican government data obtained from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” there have been over 11,000 illegal immigrant juveniles from Mexico who have been apprehended from October of last year to May 31. The report found that 76% of them were caught for at least the second time and a whopping 15% of the juveniles “had been apprehended at least six times” before trying to cross the border. About 97% of illegal immigrant juveniles “apprehended from Mexico this fiscal year were teenagers, compared with 80% from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.”   Continue reading “Pew Report: 75% of Illegals from Mexico Repeat Offenders; 97% Teenagers”

El Paso Times – by Luis Carlos Lopez

A convoy of anti-illegal immigration demonstrators was pulled over by El Paso police after receiving a call alleging that one of its members had threatened a pro-immigration activist who was following the convoy through the city on Sunday, officials said.

Police stopped the convoy of about 10 vehicles on Interstate 10 East between Lomaland Drive and Lee Trevino Drive early Sunday evening, backing up traffic to McRae Boulevard.   Continue reading “El Paso police stop anti-illegal immigration convoy after alleged gun threat”

RT

An Arizona neuroscientist arrested on July 25 for bringing a loaded assault rifle into the Phoenix airport said he only carried the firearm to make a political statement, not to harm anyone.

But authorities said Peter Nathan Steinmetz pointed the gun at a woman and her 17-year-old daughter while walking through the busiest terminal of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.   Continue reading “Arrested Arizonian claims bringing AR-15 into Phoenix airport was a political statement”

RT

A police officer in central Texas has been placed on paid administrative leave while investigators consider whether a recent Facebook posting by the cop in which he discussed massacring food stamp recipients violated departmental policy.

According to KWTX News, Marlin Police Sgt. Rob Douglas already admitted that he authored a rant on his public Facebook profile last week mocking “the useless turd bags” he encounters at the grocery store on the first of the month — the day that public assistance, like welfare checks and food stamps, are usually made available to the needy.   Continue reading “Texas cop placed on paid leave for supermarket shooting spree Facebook threat”

RT

Supporters for the labeling of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in Colorado delivered a petition on Monday with about twice the number of signatures required for a ballot initiative to appear before voters in November.

Right to Know Colorado, the group backing the labeling effort, collected more than 170,000 signatures on the petition, according to the KDVR. A petition in Colorado is required to have 86,105 valid signatures from registered state voters for ballot initiative approval.   Continue reading “GMO-labeling movement poised for ballot initiative in Colorado”

RT

UK Foreign Office minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has resigned from government, saying she can “no longer support” its policy on Gaza.

She told her Twitter followers that she was leaving with “deep regret”. She was previously chairman of the Conservative Party.

Lady Warsi became the first female Muslim cabinet minister when David Cameron took office in 2010. She was demoted from the cabinet to a middle-ranking FCO post in 2012 and became minister for faith and communities at the same time.   Continue reading “UK minister resigns over ‘morally indefensible’ Gaza policy”

Mail.com

Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified as a potential treatment earlier this year, thanks to a longstanding research program by the U.S. government and the military.

The workers, Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly, are improving, although it’s impossible to know whether the treatment is the reason or they are recovering on their own, as others who have survived Ebola have done. Brantly is being treated at a special isolation unit at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, and Writebol was expected to be flown there Tuesday in the same specially equipped plane that brought Brantly.   Continue reading “US gov’t had role in Ebola drug given aid workers”

Mail.com

YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — Almost a decade after Richard Nixon resigned, the disgraced former president sat down with his one-time aide and told the tale of his fall from grace in his own words.

For three decades, that version of one of the nation’s largest and most-dissected political scandals largely gathered dust — until this week. Starting Tuesday, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation, portions of the tapes will be published each day by the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum and the private Richard Nixon Foundation. The postings begin with Nixon recalling the day he decided to resign and end Saturday — his last day in office — with the 37th president discussing his final day at the White House, when he signed the resignation agreement, gave a short speech and boarded a helicopter for San Clemente, California.   Continue reading “Nixon tapes released on resignation’s anniversary”

Mail.com

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — The parents of a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her Washington home and wasn’t reported missing for a day have agreed to take lie detector tests and allow a search of the home, a sheriff’s spokesman said Monday.

Both the home search and lie detector tests were in progress late Monday, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said. He said he doubted he would be able to discuss results. State child welfare workers removed two other children, an 8-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl, from the home earlier Monday.   Continue reading “Missing girl’s parents agree to lie detector test”

Mail.com

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A child crying on the television show “Game of Thrones” jogged a foster parent’s memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, a police affidavit released Monday says.

Seth Jackson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 24 death in Wichita. No charges have been filed against his partner. Police say the girl was inside the car with the windows up for more than two hours. It was around 90 degrees outside. An autopsy showed she died of hyperthermia due to heat exposure.   Continue reading “Police: TV show reminded man that girl was in car”

WKRN 2 News – by Jason Mays

COLUMBUS, Ohio –A local woman is being tested for the Ebola virus after a recent trip to a foreign country. 

According to the Columbus Public Health Department, the 46-year-old woman is currently in isolation in a local hospital with a potential case of the Ebola virus. Continue reading “46-Year-Old Woman Hospitalized, Tested For Possible Ebola”