Month: February 2015

Homewood-Flossmoor Patch – by Dennis Robaugh

A pickup truck speeding on I-94 at 3 a.m. Thursday drove right onto an empty car-carrying truck as both vehicles motored down the highway. The driver of the car carrier felt the jostle and pulled over near Sibley Boulevard, thinking he’d blown a tire. Much to his surprise, he found a black pickup truck on top of his rig. State Police are investigating. The pickup driver was taken to an Indiana hospital.   Continue reading “Bizarre Crash on I-94 as Pickup Truck Mounts Another Truck”

Annapolis Patch – by Deb Belt

A teenage girl who called 911 for help after her father and his fiancée were hit by a car was told by the dispatcher to “stop whining” because it wasn’t helpful.

Rick Warrick, 38, and his fiancée were changing a flat tire Sunday on the BW Parkway when they were hit by a vehicle that didn’t stop, and didn’t call for help. Warrick died from his injuries.   Continue reading “‘Stop Whining’ 911 Dispatcher Tells Girl After Fatal Accident”

Brandon Patch – by Sherri Lonon

A Casselberry woman got quite a shock recently while surfing Facebook posts.

It seems her 18-year-old son was rather recognizable in a particular post that caught her attention. Two photos of the teen were displayed inside a wanted poster added to the Casselberry Police Department’s page.

The poster was created in an attempt to solve a Jan. 31 shoplifting incident at the Casselberry Target. The person pictured, the wanted poster stated, was accused of swiping seven PlayStation 4 controllers and two Xbox One controllers valued at $670.   Continue reading “Facebook Post Prompts Mom to Turn in Son, Cops Say”

Prevent Disease – by Marco Torres

As a child who grew up in the seventies, I’m flabbergasted at the degree of generational differences in health, medicine, food, safety, and general well-being of children. Don’t get me wrong, I love technology and all the advancements we’ve made in several areas, but at the same time when you break it down to the simplest ways of managing human lives, we’ve taken one step forward and three steps back. The level of fear we currently exhibit as parents and as a society towards children is at an unprecedented level. When comparing the two time periods, an element of certainty exists where we have now immersed our most precious assets into an toxic, overly hygienic, medicalized, obsessive compulsive, paranoid, anxious and at the very least, a “cowardice culture” where children are being trained and almost indoctrinated into a world where “the norm” is to fear everything and everyone.   Continue reading “10 Differences Between A Child Who Grew Up In The 70s Compared To Today”

Natural News – by Jonathan Benson

While the media continues to spew emotionally charged tirades about how the anti-vaccination “movement” allegedly triggered the recent measles outbreak that health authorities believe started at Disneyland, actual science suggests that the most likely cause of this insanely overblown outbreak was a person who was recently vaccinated.

Numerous published studies reveal how live-virus vaccines like MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) actually shed these diseases for many weeks or even months following vaccination, potentially infecting others, both vaccinated and unvaccinated. This means that any child who was recently given an MMR vaccine is a walking disease-spreader, a truth that the media is refusing to report as even just a possibility in this case.   Continue reading “Measles outbreak likely caused by vaccinated children, science shows”

Philly – by Joseph N. DiStefano

UPDATE: The American Postal Workers Union says it “will vigorously oppose” the “monopolistic and unlawful” Staples-Office Depot merger before the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.  The union says in a statement that the U.S. Postal Service “plans to transfer USPS work to Staples in order to reduce employment and hours of service to the public in neighborhood post offices.” Staples and Office Depot pay lower wages and less benefits than the Postal Service.

EARLIER: In a move expected to accelerate the shutdown of office-supply stores across the U.S., Staples Inc. has agreed to pay stock worth $6.3 billion to acquire rival Office Depot, which last year absorbed the former Office Max chain. The price works out to $11 per Office Depot share, up from $7.60 on Monday (Office Depot shares started rising Tuesday as deal rumors were reported in the financial news).   Continue reading “1,000 stores likely to close, as Staples buys Office Depot”

RT

The NATO Response Force in Europe might increase to 30,000 troops from the current 13,000, said the alliance’s secretary general ahead of a defense ministers meeting in Brussels. Most of the RDF troops are set to be stationed near to Russia’s borders.

“I expect that the ministers will agree on several important elements of a package that increases our collective defense,” said Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on the eve of a meeting of the alliance’s 28 defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels.   Continue reading “30,000 troops, 6 rapid units: NATO increases military power in Eastern Europe”

The Cannabist – by Carla K. Johnson

CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner awarded licenses Monday to dozens of medical marijuana businesses across the state after conducting an internal review that found flaws in the never-completed license award process under former Gov. Pat Quinn.

Letters to 18 winning cultivation centers and 52 retail shops were sent out Monday afternoon, Rauner spokesman Lance Trover told The Associated Press. In eight districts, Rauner delayed the licenses for further review, leaving those jurisdictions awaiting word on which companies will be able to join what could be a $36 million industry in 2016.   Continue reading “Illinois medical marijuana licenses awarded by Gov. Rauner”

Mail.com

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in northwestern Arizona say a man wanted in the killings of an elderly Ohio couple and armed robberies in three states tried to flee in a vehicle and on foot but was found and arrested.

The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that one of 29-year-old Robert Clark’s two companions, who are suspects in the robberies, is still on the loose. Authorities say deputies tried to stop the fugitives’ vehicle on Interstate 40 near Kingman, 91 miles southeast of Las Vegas.   Continue reading “Man wanted in elderly Ohio pair’s slayings nabbed in Arizona”

Mail.com

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — The suspects in a shooting that wounded two students outside a high school basketball game in Maryland were still at large Thursday morning, and police said they haven’t ruled out any motives.

Police said they’re investigating a range of possibilities in the Wednesday night shooting at Frederick High School, including reports from students that it could be gang-related or stem from a rivalry between the two schools playing in the game.   Continue reading “2 students hurt in shooting outside Maryland high school”

Mail.com

DALLAS (AP) — With a trial set to begin next week for the man accused in the fatal shootings of famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and a friend of Kyle’s, court officials in Texas are set to begin the process of screening potential jurors.

Candidates are to begin reporting Thursday to district court in the small town of Stephenville, about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth. They’ll be deciding the case of former Marine Eddie Ray Routh, 27, who’s charged with capital murder in the killings two years ago at a gun range outside of Stephenville.   Continue reading “Screening for jurors in Chris Kyle slaying trial to start”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge is hearing arguments by lawyers who want him to disclose what happened in secret proceedings before a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police chokehold death of an unarmed man.

Judge William Garnett on Thursday asked lawyers to describe why he should open records in the Eric Garner case. The 43-year-old black Staten Island man died last summer after he was put in a chokehold by a white police officer. A grand jury decided not to indict the officer.   Continue reading “New York court asked to release chokehold death details”

Crack Two

Movato Real Estate has compiled some interesting data that compared gun ownership in the 50 states with gun ownership in other countries using the methodology outlined below:

We started with a research group in Switzerland called Small Arms Survey and its report “Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.” Among other things, it estimated gun-ownership numbers for 178 countries, including the United States (which it estimates has about 270 million guns).

Continue reading “Chart Shows How All 50 States Rank on Gun Ownership Compared To Nations Around the World”

The Daily Sheeple

A new petition up on White House.gov is asking the Obama Administration to “Stop NSA/Air Force/Navy/DOD/CIA/US DOJ Signals Intelligence from broadcasting radar signals into people.”   Continue reading “New White House Petition Asks Military-Industrial Complex to Stop “Broadcasting Radar Signals into People””

Washington Post – by Terrence McCoy

“What did I do wrong?”

That was the question a 9-year-old, Sinai Miller, asked after she was shot on Tuesday in Indianapolis while selling Girl Scout cookies.

She had only just left her apartment with her sisters around 4 p.m. to knock on neighbors’ doors when a blue Ford Expedition drove past on the street out front. An arm stuck out. It held a gun.   Continue reading “9-year-old girl shot while selling Girl Scout cookies”

Fox News

ST. LOUIS –  As police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson seek alternatives to the sort of lethal force that led to Michael Brown’s death, they’re testing a new device that attaches to a handgun barrel and is designed to turn a bullet into a projectile intended to stun but not kill.

Mayor James Knowles III said Wednesday that a few Ferguson officers will test the device, known as the Alternative, at a shooting range Thursday. But Knowles said the department is early in the evaluation stage and the city has not decided whether to purchase the device.   Continue reading “Ferguson police testing new device aimed at reducing fatal police encounters”

NBC Bay Area – by Cheryl Hurd

Council members in San Leandro on Monday voted in favor of allowing the city to use a grant to purchase a controversial armored rescue vehicle.

The Medevac Armored vehicle is the only one of its kind in Northern California.

Residents packed a meeting Monday night to voice opposition against the armored rescue vehicle. But reaction in the room was mixed, with council members ultimately giving the go ahead for this controversial piece of equipment.   Continue reading “San Leandro Approves Purchase of Armored Rescue Vehicle”

New York Post – by Aaron Short, Lorena Mongelli, Larry Celona and Joe Tacopino

A chemist, an art expert and three Wall Street executives were the five men killed when their Metro-North train slammed into an SUV, friends said Wednesday.

Robert Dirks, a 36-year-old father of two, was remembered by his father for not only being a brilliant scientist, but a doting dad to his kids.   Continue reading “Investment banker, art curator among 6 killed in train crash”