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SPRINGDALE, Wash. (AP) – Authorities say a log cabin that a family reported stolen off its foundation has been found in rural northeast Washington.
Stevens County Sheriff Kendle Allen says deputies following a tip found the cabin Thursday morning about 10 miles from its original location. He says the structure had been placed on stilts and was sitting at the end of a private road east of Springdale. Continue reading “Washington deputies find cabin that family reported stolen”
Cops are 25 times less likely to shoot unarmed blacks than whites or Hispanics, according to a little-known study which makes the South Carolina police shooting of an unarmed, fleeing black man even more egregious than before, if that’s even possible.
The study by Washington State University-Spokane, which barely received any news coverage, found that police were more likely to hesitate when shooting a black suspect due to “real-world concern over discipline, liability or public disapproval.” Continue reading “Cops 25X Less Likely To Shoot Unarmed Blacks Than Whites”
US Dept of Justice Press Release
A resident of Commerce Township, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison to be followed by one year of supervised release for criminal contempt, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
In July 2014, Doreen Hendrickson was convicted of criminal contempt following a federal jury trial in Detroit. Hendrickson violated an injunction involving federal tax obligations issued by U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds of the Eastern District of Michigan in May 2007. Today’s sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts. Continue reading “Michigan Resident Sentenced to Prison for Criminal Contempt Involving Federal Tax Obligations”
Business Insider – by Colin Campbell
Vice President Joe Biden seems to have taken a liking to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s grandson.
Bloomberg’s daughter, Georgina Bloomberg, posted a Facebook photo on Wednesday of Biden and a young child. In the photo, Biden appears to have a pacifier in his mouth.
“What’s a boy to do when the Vice President steals your pacifier?” Georgina Bloomberg wrote next to the photo. Continue reading “Joe Biden apparently put a baby’s pacifier in his mouth”
Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a Sign on itsaying: ‘Free to good home. You want it, you take it.
‘For three days the fridge sat there without anyone looking twice. He eventually decided that people were too mistrustful of this deal. So he changed the sign to read: ‘Fridge for sale $50.’ Continue reading “They walk among us…”
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A crowd of parents and children gathered at the California Capitol to speak out against a bill requiring school children to get vaccinated.
The bill comes after similar legislation failed to gain ground in both Oregon and Washington, but lawmakers aren’t worried about that happening in California.
Trisha and Jabari Wimbs say their son is not vaccinated, nor will their child be that’s on the way. Continue reading “Anti-Vaccine Crowd Protests California’s Mandatory Vaccination Bill At Capitol”
Huffington Post – by Nick Wing
You’re lying to me,” the man said. Carlos Toro took a gulp of wine and tried to maintain his composure. For years, he had dreaded hearing those words.
It was February 2011, and Toro, who was then 61, had come to this upscale steakhouse in Madrid expecting a casual meal between two friends with business to discuss. His companion was a South American diplomat and high-level cocaine trafficker eager to break into the European drug market, where a kilo purchased for less than $1,000 wholesale back home could sell for more than $40,000 on the street. Toro was a onetime top official in the Colombia-based Medellín cartel, which dominated the global cocaine market in the 1970s and ’80s. Continue reading “Devil’s Bargain: A Former Medellin Cartel Official Has Been A DEA Informant For 27 Years. Now He Wants Out.”
USA Today – by Kaja Whitehouse
Drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) announced plans to close about 200 U.S. stores as part of its first earnings report since it merged with European drug retailer Alliance Boots last year.
Walgreens, the largest U.S. drugstore chain, said it will close the stores amid plans to boost its previously announced cost-cutting initiative by $500 million. Continue reading “Walgreens to close 200 stores, boost cost cutting”
(SKY News) The estimated size of an oil find near Gatwick Airport has been upgraded to 100 billion barrels.
UK Oil & Gas Investments (UKOG) said the Horse Hill-1 well in the Weald Basin was now thought to hold 158 million barrels per square mile.
In May 2014, the British Geological Survey estimated the Weald Basin to hold around 4.4 billion barrels of shale oil. Continue reading “100 Billion Barrels Of Oil Have Been Found In England, Near Gatwick”
Common Dreams – by Jon Queally
Researchers in Pennsylvania have discovered that the prevalence of radon, a radioactive and carcinogenic gas, in people’s homes and commercial buildings that are nearer to fracking sites has increased dramatically in the state since the unconventional and controversial gas drilling practice began in the state just over a decade ago. Continue reading “Study: Fracking Boom Accompanied By Rise of Silent, Deadly Carcinogen In Homes”
Two Iranian vessels have arrived in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is on a bombing campaign against anti-government Houthi rebels.
The Alborz destroyer and Bushehr logistics vessel are on a patrol mission in the Gulf of Aden, south of Yemen, and the Red Sea, according to Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari. He says the ships will “provide [safety for] Iran’s shipping lines and protect the Islamic Republic of Iran’s interests in the high seas,” Press TV reports. Continue reading “Iran sends warships to monitor Yemen’s coast”
Free Beacon – by Daniel Bassali
The USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TRCSG) joined the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet area of operations, which includes the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and parts of the Indian Ocean, on Tuesday.
The strike group’s arrival comes at a critical time in the region as Saudi Arabia ramps up military operations in Yemen to fight the Houthi rebels backed by Iran. The rebels have toppled the Yemeni government and have forced the president to flea his country. Continue reading “U.S. Aircraft Carrier Enters Seas Near Yemen”
It appears that when the US inadvertantly “misplaced” $500 million of weapons in Yemen, the bulk of which fell right in Houthi rebel hands, it created a very credible adversary… for the US and its Saudi-backed coalition allies. Because despite the bombing campaign by the Saudi-headed coalition, AP reports that the rebels seized a key provincial capital in a heavily Sunni tribal area on Thursday as their patron Iran called the two-week air campaign a “crime” and appealed for peace talks. Continue reading “Despite Constant Saudi Bombing, Yemen Rebels Advance, Seize Key Town; Ayatollah Trolls US, Saudis on Twitter”
Marketplace – by Conrad Wilson
It’s a weekday morning and a tangle of trucks idles outside a container yard in Portland, Oregon.
The situation is a mess.
Inside a barbed-wire fence, large metal shipping containers are stacked three, even five high. Outside, trucks from around the state are jockeying to get in. Those that can’t are blocking the road. Continue reading “Shipping firms’ departures sink Port of Portland”
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT (WABC) — It was an NYPD raid to crack down on the illegal selling of untaxed cigarettes, but the manager of a Brooklyn deli says the day after police raided his store, he discovered that he had been robbed.
Now, he’s accusing one of the detectives, and he has surveillance video as proof: Continue reading “Brooklyn Deli Manager Says Surveillance Shows NYPD Detective Stealing Cash During Raid”
A multi-day severe weather outbreak, including tornadoesm will continue through Thursday in parts of the South and Midwest.
Some severe weather may continue into Friday along the East Coast and South. This is the most widespread severe weather event so far this spring. Continue reading “Severe Thunderstorms, Tornadoes Expected in Midwest, South Thursday”
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