Month: November 2015

Mail.com

MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — Two law-enforcement officers jailed on murder charges for a 6-year-old autistic boy’s fatal shooting in central Louisiana have been targets of previous complaints that they used excessive force or neglected their duties.

Residents have filed a string of civil lawsuits against Derrick Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, who have worked as police officers in Marksville but were moonlighting as city marshals when they allegedly opened fire on Chris Few and his son, Jeremy Mardis, inside a car on Nov. 3.   Continue reading “Marshals jailed for boy’s shooting death sued in other cases”

Mail.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland has been a magnet for young, creative adults for over a decade, beckoning droves with its quirkiness, liberal appeal and quality of life. But the city’s popularity has had another effect: Those who helped make it cool can’t afford to live here anymore.

A wave of evictions and skyrocketing rents are putting apartments out of reach of many, especially those working part-time, low wage or artistic jobs. It’s even harder to afford a house. Some Portlanders are now looking for better-paying work. Some are giving up and leaving.   Continue reading “With rents skyrocketing, Portland’s creatives pushed out”

Anti-Media – by Carey Wedler

Washington D.C. — On Monday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to exonerate a Texas state trooper who, against orders from his superior, lethally fired his gun at a driver involved in a high speed chase. Though the majority opinion argued the officer acted reasonably, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent against the decision.

The 2010 case involved Israel Leijas Jr., who had had been stopped by a Tulia, Texas, officer and informed he was wanted on a previously issued warrant. Leijas sped away, commencing a chase that reached speeds from 85 to over 100 miles per hour. As the chase began, the initial officer warned that Leijas might be intoxicated.   Continue reading “Supreme Court Justice Slams Police For “Shoot First, Think Later” Mentality”

Waco Tribune – by Tommy Witherspoon

A McLennan County grand jury, working a marathon nine-hour session to consider evidence in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout, returned 106 indictments Tuesday charging bikers allegedly involved in the melee with engaging in organized criminal activity.

McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna said the grand jury will return to consider charges against the other 80 bikers arrested on identical charges following the incident in which nine bikers were killed and 20 were wounded.   Continue reading “Grand jury indicts 106 bikers in connection with Twin Peaks shootout”

Natural News – by White Wolf Von Atzingen

The medical arena states that everyone should be immunized against Tetanus every 10 years. Thus the “Tetanus Shot” is indeed an immunization. Now all Tetanus shots I know of contain the Peruses vaccination as well. It is a combined vaccine. I might touch upon Peruses in another article but my main focus he is the reality of Tetanus, otherwise known as Lockjaw.   Continue reading “Tetanus Naturally”

Patch – by Marc Torrence

The Taurid meteor shower 2015 won’t look like your average meteor shower.

It lasts much longer than usual, though it peaks very soon. And instead of small, quick, streaking meteors, Taurids produce big, bright “fireballs” and “earthgrazers.”

And NASA says this year’s Taurids “may be more active than usual.”   Continue reading “Taurid Meteor Shower 2015 Peak: Perfect Conditions For ‘Fireballs,’ ‘Earthgrazers’”

The Detroit News – by James David Dickson

Macomb Township — A fight between two neighbors broke out Thursday after one of the men became irate over leaves blown onto his lawn from the other neighbor’s leaf blower, authorities say.

A 52-year-old man was using a leafblower at his mobile home on the 46000 block of Chatsworth, when his neighbor, Jerry Thomas Ficht, 57, approached him about 1:15 p.m., accusing him of blowing leaves onto Ficht’s yard.   Continue reading “Fight over leafblower broken up by gun-toting woman”

Huffington Post – by Caroline Bologna

Continue reading “Fourth Grader Shuts Down Math Problem By Invoking Girl Code”

Independent – by Adam Sherwin

When independent traders in a small Welsh town discovered the loopholes used by multinational giants to avoid paying UK tax, they didn’t just get mad.

Now local businesses in Crickhowell are turning the tables on the likes of Google and Starbucks by employing the same accountancy practices used by the world’s biggest companies, to move their entire town “offshore”.   Continue reading “Crickhowell: Welsh town moves ‘offshore’ to avoid tax on local business”

WFLA 8 News – by Mark Douglas

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Records just obtained by 8 On Your Side reveal a Pinellas County deputy who was disciplined last month for drunken misbehavior at a Mothers Against Drunk Driving conference in Fort Lauderdale showed up at that July statewide training event prepared to party.

“The plot thickens,” said former MADD director and anti-DUI attorney Tom Carey after hearing new details. “It seems to be a lot worse than originally presented.”   Continue reading “Pinellas Deputy drunk at anti-drunk driving event showed up ready to party, skipped training”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Angad Paul, chief executive of Caparo Holdings, had done a lot of things in his 45 years.

He created the world’s fastest road-legal car, for instance. The Caparo T1.   Continue reading “Son Of Billionaire Steel Magnate Plunges To His Death Amid Demise Of UK Industry”

RT

A small airplane crashed into a residential area of Akron, Ohio. Many local residents are without power, and the building is on fire. All nine people onboard the plane are dead, Ohio State highway Patrol officials announced.

No one was injured inside the apartment building, and all the residents are accounted for, local officials said, according to WEWS.   Continue reading “No survivors after plane crashes into Akron, Ohio apartment building – officials”

UPI – by Brook Hays

ATHENS, Ga., Nov. 10 (UPI) — New research suggests a chemical dispersant used in the wake of the BP oil spill failed to help, and may have actually hindered, the cleanup.

A study led by researchers at the University of Georgia showed a chemical concoction thought to encourage the oil’s breakdown, in fact, hampers the ability of microorganisms to naturally degrade the hydrocarbons.   Continue reading “Dispersants fail: Half the spilled BP oil may be on Gulf floor”

The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

By now you’ve probably heard all about the strange light that was seen across the Western United States and Mexico on Saturday night, as well as the Navy’s explanation for the anomaly. Apparently, the light was nothing more than a test of a Trident II missile (which is normally armed with a nuclear warhead) that was launched from a submarine in the Pacific. The only question that remains, is why did the Navy conduct their secret test at a time and place where so many people would be able to see it?   Continue reading “The Disturbing Reason For The Navy’s Trident Missile Test”

Sleuth Journal – by Sayer Ji

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) just released critically important information on Florida bill SB 646, which aggressively undermines health freedom by greatly restricting medical and religious vaccine exemptions, as well as expanding forced government tracking of private citizen’s confidential vaccination records.

Please share this news release with others and act now to send a clear message that we will not support unconstitutional restrictions against our health freedom.   Continue reading “Florida Health Freedom Under Attack: New Bill (SB 646) Threatens Vaccine Exemptions; Forces Gov. Tracking Of Records”

Mint Press News – by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post

Recent years have brought public scrutiny on a controversial law enforcement practice known as civil asset forfeiture, which lets police seize and keep cash and property from people who are never convicted — and in many cases, even charged — with wrongdoing. But despite a growing public outcry spurred in part by news investigations and congressional hearings, a new report Tuesday from the Institute for Justice, a non-profit civil liberties law firm, finds that the past decade has seen a “meteoric, exponential increase” in the use of the practice.   Continue reading “Report: Police Forfeiture Increases In Times Of Economic Hardship”