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LANCASTER, N.H. (AP) — Officials say a young man and a girl were killed and at least 22 people were injured when a severe storm blew down a circus tent in northern New Hampshire.
State Fire Marshal William Degnan said late Monday night that the injured were taken to four regional hospitals. Continue reading “Report: 2 dead, 22 hurt in New Hampshire tent collapse”
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An ex-con accused of fatally shooting a police officer who interrupted a drug deal turned himself in Monday, ending an intensive two-day manhunt, a spokesman for a U.S. attorney said.
Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, was with his family when he arrived at a federal building in Memphis, said Louis Goggans, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. Continue reading “Ex-con accused of killing police officer turns self in”
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CBS Los Angeles – by Deborah Meron
HUNTINGTON PARK (CBSLA.com) — Huntington Park became the first city in California to appoint two undocumented immigrants as commissioners on city advisory boards, a lawmaker confirms.
City Councilman Jhonny Pineda has picked Francisco Medina to join the health and education commission and Julian Zatarain for the parks and recreation commission. Continue reading “Huntington Park Council Appoints 2 Illegals As Commissioners”
The history of the Jonathan Pollard spy case usually breaks down to the views of the person doing the analysis. If one holds favorable sentiments for Israel, sympathy towards Pollard usually surfaces. Contrary if one maintains an abiding loyalty towards the United States, the facts of the spying and treasonous betrayal are overwhelming. In the end, the final assessment proves that the notion of being a “Duel Loyalist” is preposterous. It is absurd that an authentic American can be a Zionist and provide actual national security secrets to an Israeli government that regularly operates in the most fundamental ways against our own country. Continue reading “Jonathan Pollard Traitor Release”
I have a hard time understanding why the wealthy in our country don’t see the need in their own country.
Huffington Post – by Nico Pitney
GiveDirectly has a straightforward approach to helping the world’s poorest people: just give them cash, no strings attached.
The New York-based nonprofit has distributed about $1,000—roughly a year’s income—to thousands of ultra-poor households in Kenya and Uganda. Recipients don’t need to pay back the money, and they can spend it however they wish. Continue reading “Facebook Co-Founder Giving Millions Directly To The Poor, No Strings Attached”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A “paramilitary response” by police in New Mexico unnecessarily escalated an encounter last year that ended when two officers unlawfully opened fire and killed a homeless man despite signs that he wanted to surrender, a special prosecutor said Monday.
The two Albuquerque officers charged with murder in the death of James Boyd came to the scene with the intent of attacking him, Special Prosecutor Randi McGinn asserted at a preliminary hearing to decide if the officers should stand trial. Continue reading “Prosecutor: Police officers unlawfully opened fire in death”
A Texas farmer finally received land back that was taken from him by a court and given to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) more than thirty years ago. The victory puts land back into his undisputed possession and control that has been in his family since 1904. It also brings hope and a pathway to victory for other farmers who stand to lose up to 90,000 acres of land to the BLM.
Tommy Henderson met with BLM officials on the steps of the Clay County Courthouse in Henrietta, Texas, where he was presented a patent from the U.S. government bestowing rights to ownership and use of the property, according to an article by Lynn Walker in theWichita Falls Times Record News. Henderson told the Times Record he hopes this will pave the way for dozens of other Red River land owners in Texas who are battling to keep their land from being taken by the BLM. Continue reading “Texas Farmer Wins 30 Year Battle with BLM – Gets Land Back”
CANTON, Miss. (AP) — A man got out of his pickup, walked up to the defendant in a drug-dealing case and fatally shot him in the chest, then set down his gun and surrendered as deputies confronted him outside a Mississippi courthouse Monday morning, law enforcement officials said.
Police and other officials said they weren’t sure why the suspect — 24-year-old William B. Wells, a former Canton firefighter with no history of trouble — would shoot Kendrick Armond Brown. But it came just days after Wells’ own mother was shot and wounded, a case that police are investigating. Continue reading “Man shot to death awaiting court appearance in Mississippi”
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BELMONT, NC (WBTV) – Three people have been charged with having materials for making bombs after an FBI investigation over the weekend involving a Belmont tattoo parlor and a Mount Holly home.
Federal agents descended on two Gaston County properties Saturday afternoon and a third location was reportedly searched on Sunday. Continue reading “Investigators: Trio charged after FBI raid, believed government wanted to impose martial law”
Bloomberg – by Matthew Philips
In its quest to spend more without raising taxes, Congress has found a new piggy bank. It’s buried deep underground, protected by armed guards, and filled with a valuable commodity worth billions of dollars. It’s not a gold vault—it’s the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the country’s emergency stockpile of crude oil. Created in 1975 after Arab oil producers cut off exports to the U.S., causing gasoline prices to spike, the SPR was designed to immunize the country against supply shocks. Today it stores about 695 million barrels of crude in salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana. Continue reading “Legislators propose tapping the government’s stockpile of crude.”
Bloomberg – by Laurel Brubaker Calkins
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson asked a judge not to find him and other Obama administration officials in contempt after his agency recovered work permits mistakenly issued after the court halted a controversial immigration initiative.
Johnson said the government reclaimed all but 22 of the 2,500 offending permits and corrected federal computer databases to invalidate the rest, according to a report filed late Friday in federal court in Brownsville, Texas. Administration lawyers said the effort should prove Johnson and other top immigration officials have been sufficiently compliant to head off a contempt hearing set for later this month. Continue reading “DHS Asks Judge to Drop Immigration Plan Contempt Hearing”
Bakersfield – by Lauren Foreman
Few signs of life exist in the area of Weldon between Kelso Creek and Kelso Valley roads, as it is.
But 15 miles to the south, the area’s patchy fields — dotted with the occasional cow or lonely church — give way to even more desolation. There’s little here but sagebrush and high-desert heat.
That’s where Kern County Sheriff’s deputies, police officers and rangers were scouring the land, east of Lake Isabella, for a suspect who wounded two deputies late Saturday night — a day after a retired Tehachapi dentist was fatally shot in an incident investigators believe may have involved the same man. Continue reading “Massive search for suspect in murder, shooting of deputy”
Windows 10’s pre-installed settings are privacy-intrusive by default, so changing those setting is just a matter of self-respect – and also a message to Microsoft.
Following the release of Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system, experts pointed out that it has little care for privacy, collecting on factory presets all available information about you, be it your location history, text messages and any information your share via them, personal contacts and calendar notes about your plans for exact dates, among other things. Continue reading “‘Don’t spy on me!’ How to opt out of Windows 10’s intrusive defaults”
“However, as a result the US warplanes may end up bombing government
troops under the command of a legitimate president, Assad, an act of
aggression against a sovereign country that only the UN Security Council
could authorize.” – In layman’s terms, this would be an act of war.
The US president has reportedly authorized the Air Force to protect Syrian rebels trained by Washington to fight against Islamic State by bombing any force attacking them, including Syrian regular troops. Continue reading “Taking sides in Syrian civil war? Obama authorizes airstrikes ‘to defend’ US-trained rebels”
After six-plus months of planning, officials kicked off the city’s municipal ID program at a ribbon-cutting Saturday.
In attendance were dozens of applicants, who gathered inside the lobby of the Mary Eliza Mahoney Health Center to begin the process of obtaining the photo identification card officials say will allow them to take advantage of a host of city services. Continue reading “Newark officials kick off municipal ID program”
PHOENIX (AP) — A man accused of decapitating his wife and their pet dogs before mutilating himself has gone from a hospital bed to a jail cell, authorities said Sunday.
Phoenix police identified Kenneth Dale Wakefield as the man who has spent nearly a week recovering from self-inflicted wounds. Wakefield, 43, remained in a county lockup on $2 million bail after being booked on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of animal cruelty. According to the jail, a public defender will be appointed to represent Wakefield. But it wasn’t immediately clear Sunday if he had an attorney who could comment on the case. Continue reading “Man accused of decapitating wife leaves hospital for jail”
Courthouse News – by Dan McCue
(CN) – A Florida law prohibiting doctors from asking their patients about gun ownership is not unconstitutionally vague and does not violate physicians free speech rights, a divided 11th Circuit ruled.
The decision, announced July 28, marks the second time the appeals court has upheld the law, which was challenged by more than a dozen doctors and twice as many medical associations. Continue reading “11th Circuit Upholds Law Banning Gun Inquiries”
Beneath the glitz and glamour of what is arguably the most expensive real estate in the world, beneath the playground of the high-rolling mega-rich gamblers who fly in for the weekend in their private jets, beneath the neon lights and polished marble of the casinos, beneath the city that never sleeps, is a world that is known to only the handful of America’s forgotten—its homeless. Continue reading “High rent is forcing Las Vegas families to take to the sewers”