Year: 2014

New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

The NYPD has another layer of accountability to deal with — the Legal Aid Society has created a database of cops who behave badly.

The group’s lawyers, who represent those who can’t afford to pay for an attorney, contend police do a poor job tracking cops who are accused of wrongdoing and repeatedly sued.

The Cop Accountability Program, or CAP, will collect information about cops accused of wrongdoing, then share it with Legal Aid lawyers and attorneys from outside firms.   Continue reading “NYPD cops accused of wrongdoing will have information collected into Legal Aid Society’s database”

New York Daily News

Staten Island cops stormed a barbershop and brutalized one of its owners during an undercover operation involving a stolen cellphone — and now the battered merchant is accusing the cops of iTrapment.

EZ Does It Barber Shop owner Michael Pacheco, 25, is still nursing the hemorrhaged eyeball he suffered when cops allegedly slammed a police radio into the side of his head as they piled on top of him during the Friday sting.   Continue reading “Staten Island barber says police roughed him up in botched iPhone sting”

Care 2 – by Susan Bird

Buddy is one determined dog. When his human was in trouble, he refused to be left behind — even though it meant riding on the outside of a speeding ambulance. His devotion has made him a viral sensation.

Buddy, a beagle-mix, bonded quickly and strongly with his adoptive guardian, 85-year-old Texas rancher J.R. Nickelson, who rescued Buddy from a shelter over the summer. When Nickelson began to feel dizzy recently, ranch hand Brian Wright called for an ambulance.   Continue reading “Rescued Beagle Clings to Outside of Ambulance to Stay with His Human”

KHOU 11 News – by Malini Basu

HOUSTON — A reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6 has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Kenneth Caplan was taken into custody Wednesday morning, authorities tell KHOU 11 News.

Caplan is accused of shooting a 20-year-old woman who was driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link about two weeks ago.   Continue reading “Reserve deputy arrested for 610 Loop road rage shooting”

New York Daily News – by Ben Kochman

They help keep the city warm, but these men are getting iced.

Nearly 50 deliverymen and mechanics at Bronx heating oil supplier Castle Oil Corp. will be out in the cold as a publicly traded giant takes over the company’s East River terminal, the Daily News has learned.

“We broke our backs all these years keeping New Yorkers warm, and now they are throwing us to the curb at the start of winter,” seethed driver Mark Wade, 49, who has delivered oil with the company for 25 years.   Continue reading “Bronx heating oil company’s drivers to be fired days before Christmas, as new owner Sprague Energy takes over”

Yahoo News

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Friday successfully tested its new submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental missile, designed to carry nuclear warheads, the defense ministry said in a statement.

It said the nuclear submarine Alexander Nevsky fired the missile from under water in the Barents Sea and it landed on a military training ground in Russia’s far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, as planned.   Continue reading “Russian submarine test-launches Bulava intercontinental missile”

The Anti-Media – by Carey Wedler

A recently published FBI report accidentally proves that while the police claim cops face growing threats from rowdy populations–like in Ferguson–the opposite is true. The report presents law enforcement deaths in 2013.

The report found that across the entire country, only 76 LEOs were killed in “line-of-duty” incidents. 27 died as a result of “felonious” acts and 49 officers died in accidents–namely, automobile (ironically, of the 23 killed in car accidents, 14 were not wearing seat belts–a violation for which cops routinely ticket drivers). More officers die from accidents than actual murders on the job. The report also outright admits that intentional murders of cops were down from 2004 and 2009.   Continue reading “FBI Report Accidentally Exposes the Severity of the Police State”

Metro – by Rob Waugh

A mob dished out some very sweaty justice to an alleged thief who was spotted attempting to rob a pensioner with a knife – he was stripped naked, then wrapped head to foot in clingfilm and tied to a lamppost.

People took photographs as 32-year-old Valentino Abeyta Barrera sweltered in Chilean capital Santiago’s 27-degree heat, with his underpants around his ankles.

He was left for 20 minutes before police arrived – and the alleged thief refused to explain why he was there, begging the police to free him.   Continue reading “Thief who ‘robbed pensioner with knife’ is stripped and clingfilmed to a lamppost”

KTLA 5 News

A man shot up a federal courthouse and a Mexican consulate — which he also seemingly tried to set ablaze — early Friday before being shot dead outside the Austin, Texas, police headquarters, that city’s police chief said.

The shooter fired “over 100 rounds” in a roughly 10-minute span, but he did not hit anyone even though the bullets ricocheted at a typically busy time in downtown Austin, when streets fill up with people after bars close for the night.   Continue reading “Gunman Fired ‘Over 100 Rounds’ at Austin, Texas Government Buildings Before Being Killed: Police”

Yahoo News – by Bob Christie

PHOENIX (AP) — If Christian Avila lived a few hundred miles to the west, he would have a driver’s license and qualify for in-state college tuition and a host of other opportunities available to young people granted legal status by President Barack Obama two years ago.

But Avila lives in Phoenix, and the 24-year-old immigrant who was brought here from Mexico by his parents at age 9 still has to navigate the sprawling city in fear as he drives to school or work.   Continue reading “Immigrants’ chances tied to their state’s policies”

The Organic Prepper

The day after Thanksgiving, most people’s refrigerators are so full with leftovers that getting to door shut requires the family engineer to play Tupperware Jenga with all of the containers of food. Inevitably, in many households, much of the leftovers go to waste after the 10th turkey sandwich in a row.  In this economy, none of us can afford to let anything go to waste, however. There’s a lot more you can do with those leftovers besides referring to your book of 101 Ways to Make a Turkey Sandwich. The preserving goes way past turkey – there are lots of tasty ways to preserve your other leftovers too.   Continue reading “Pad Your Pantry: How to Preserve Your Thanksgiving Leftovers”

RT

Russia’s Northern Fleet has been conducting naval training near Dover. Two battleships and two supply vessels worked on operations and communications in conditions of adverse weather and heavy marine traffic.

“Today a squadron of warships and support vessels of the Northern Fleet headed by a large anti-submarine ship, the Severomorsk, crossed the narrowest part of the English Channel and passed into the Bay of the Seine,” said Russia’s defense ministry.   Continue reading “Russian battleships in the English Channel, say they’re training”

RT

Muslim countries are able to solve their problems on their own, the Turkish president believes. He says far from offering help, the West is actually exploiting “conflicts in the Middle East” and only cares about the region’s riches.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged Islamic countries to unite in order to solve “the biggest humanitarian and political crisis in their history,” according to AFP, citing the Turkish president’s speech in Istanbul on Thursday.   Continue reading “Foreigners ‘like seeing our children die’, can’t help with Mid-East, says Erdogan”

Mail.com

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — On the first day new immigration rules took effect this month in the Bahamas, officers in green fatigues swept through poor sections of the capital filling two yellow school buses with dozens of people who couldn’t document their right to be in the island chain.

The government, amid fierce criticism of the raid, later insisted the timing of the operation was coincidence. Still, the message of the surprise morning raid, in which the officers were accompanied by local media, couldn’t be clearer: The Bahamas aims to become less hospitable to its swelling population of migrants lacking legal status.   Continue reading “Bahamas fends off critics over new migrant rules”

The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane

An 8 year-old Long Island girl has been kicked out of school, and the reason is outrageous.

Ceili McNicholas was told not to return to Long Island’s Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School after her mother Jamie refused to let her receive the T-Dap booster, which protects against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis.

The decision to skip the booster wasn’t solely Jamie’s idea – her daughter’s pediatrician won’t administer the shot because it is labeled for children ages 10 and over. Ceili is only 8.   Continue reading “School Expels Child Over Vaccine That Even the Doctor Refuses to Give”

The Hill – by Sarah Ferris

Advisers for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will meet next week to decide whether gay men should be allowed to donate blood, the agency’s biggest step yet toward changing the 30-year-old prohibition.

If the FDA accepts the recommendation from its advisory board, it would roll back a policy that has faced mounting criticism from LGBT advocates and some members of Congress for more than four years.   Continue reading “FDA weighs lifting ban on blood donations from gay men”