Northwest Herald – by Kevin P Craver

FOX LAKE – Police investigating the shooting death of Fox Lake Police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz are hopeful that a private resident’s video gives them the break they need to help identify the three suspects still at large.

Investigators have turned the video over to the Department of Homeland Security because it has the equipment necessary to retrieve and view it, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko said at a Thursday afternoon news conference.

Continue reading “Fox Lake manhunt: Slain police officer’s gun found; video being analyzed”

Counter Current News

A high school quarterback is being charged with having “naked pictures of a minor” on his cell phone. But that minor is himself. That’s right, 17-year-old Cormega Copening, and his girlfriend are facing “sexting” charges, but he is actually being charged with having illicit photos of himself.

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said the charges stem from an incident last October. This led to charges against the couple last February.   Continue reading “Teen Boy Charged As Adult For Having ‘Naked Pictures of a Minor’ Even Though Images Were of Himself”

ABC News

ASHLAND, KY — A federal judge has ordered a defiant Kentucky clerk to jail after she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.

U.S. District Judge David Bunning told Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis she would be jailed until she complied with his order to issue the licenses. Davis said “thank you” before she was led out of the courtroom by a U.S. marshal. She was not in handcuffs.   Continue reading “Judge Orders Defiant Kentucky Clerk to Jail”

Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

U.S. intelligence ships, aircraft, and satellites are closely watching a Russian military vessel in the Atlantic that has been sailing near a U.S. nuclear missile submarine base and underwater transit routes, according to Pentagon officials.

The Russian research ship Yantar has been tracked from the northern Atlantic near Canada since late August as it makes its way south toward Cuba.   Continue reading “U.S. Shadowing Russian Ship in Atlantic Near Nuclear Submarine Areas”

RT

Russian President Vladimir Putin has drafted a bill that aims to eliminate the US dollar and the euro from trade between CIS countries.

This means the creation of a single financial market between Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries of the former Soviet Union.   Continue reading “Putin says dump the dollar”

ABC 13

HOUSTON (KTRK) – Houston police say they have a suspect in custody in southwest Houston after saying they believed an armed suspect was inside an apartment with other multiple people. It’s unclear if they other people were hostages.

The SWAT scene ended at 10:20am in the 7000 block of Bellerive, police say.

Eyewitness News is told Houston police may have been trying to serve a warrant.   Continue reading “SWAT Standoff Over, Suspect in Custody in Southwest Houston”

Unheard Voices

Tragedy has struck in Long Branch, NJ. A fire that killed a family of four might be a murder-suicide, and not accidental as originally suspected.

All four family members — the father, Lyndon Beharry, 35; mother, Amanda Morris, 29, and their two children — Brandon Beharry, 7, and 4-year-old Brian –have all died, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.   Continue reading “Murder-Suicide Suspected After Family Pulled From Burning Home In New Jersey”

Reuters – by Nathan Layne

Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) said it would reopen in late October to early November five U.S. stores whose closure had prompted a union to file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, claiming the retailer was retaliating against workers for organizing.

Wal-Mart will start hiring for the stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and California, and will encourage previous employees and those that transferred to other stores to apply, company spokesman Lorenzo Lopez said on Wednesday.   Continue reading “Wal-Mart to reopen five U.S. stores at center of union complaint”

Campus Reform – by Peter Hasson

Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal alien,” “male,” and “female,” or if they fail to “defer” to non-white students.

According to the syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class, students risk a failing grade if they use any common descriptors that Breikss considers “oppressive and hateful language.”   Continue reading “Professors threaten bad grades for saying ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ ‘female’”

ABC News – by ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer

An international body that monitors fisheries in most of the Pacific Ocean ended a meeting in Japan on Thursday without agreement on fresh measures to protect the dwindling bluefin tuna.

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission was unable to get a consensus on either short-term or long-term measures to help restore the bluefin population, whose numbers are estimated to have fallen 96 percent from unfished levels.   Continue reading “Pacific Bluefin Tuna Group Puts off New Moves to Save Fish”

The Daily Beast – by Justin Glawe

A detective who worked narcotics with an undercover officer walked up to a car, shot his fellow officer twice, and then seven more times against the victim’s pleas.

The number of signs that Albuquerque Police Lieutenant Greg Brachle ignored or didn’t see before putting nine .45-caliber bullets into his fellow officer’s body are simply staggering. Continue reading “Trigger-Happy Cop Shot One of His Own and Kept Blasting Away”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former State Department employee who helped Hillary Rodham Clinton set up her private email server said he will assert his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before the House committee on Benghazi.

Attorneys for Brian Pagliano sent the committee a letter Monday saying their client would not testify at a hearing planned for next week. The panel subpoenaed Pagliano last month.   Continue reading “Worker who helped Clinton set up email server takes Fifth”

Mail.com

BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of billboards with Muslim themes are sprouting nationwide, proclaiming what organizers say is the true message of Islam and its prophet, Muhammad: peace and justice, not extremism and violent jihad.

The New York-based Islamic Circle of North America has erected 100 billboards over the summer that feature statements such as: “Muhammad believed in peace, social justice, women’s rights” and “Muhammad always taught love, not hate; peace, not violence.” Also listed are a website and a phone number people can call for more information.   Continue reading “US Muslims hope new billboards reclaim Islam’s message”

Bankrate – by Chris Kahn

Kristen Heinzinger’s future brightened as soon as she moved into her parents’ basement.

A bed next to the family laundry machine wasn’t exactly what she’d envisioned a few years after college, especially with her publishing career gaining momentum in Manhattan. But at 26, with $150,000 in student loan debt, this was the only sensible choice, Heinzinger says. By cutting rent out of the equation, her life was finally starting to pencil out.   Continue reading “Are millennials smiling all the way to the poorhouse?”

Mail.com

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has resigned in the face of a corruption scandal that has brought his government to the brink, a spokesman said early Thursday.

Spokesman Jorge Ortega said Perez Molina submitted his resignation at midnight Wednesday local time after a judge issued an order to detain him in the customs fraud case, which already has led to the jailing of his vice president, and the resignation of several cabinet ministers who withdrew their support for the president.   Continue reading “Guatemala president resigns amid corruption probe”

The Free Thought Project – by Mike Sawyer

Indianapolis, IN — On Wednesday, the Indiana State Police announced that they have raided 146 marijuana grow plots throughout the southern region of the state.

In an unprecedented show of force, officers from the Indiana State Police, the Indiana National Guard Counter Drug Task Force, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Forest Service, Civil Air Patrol, Indiana Department of Natural Resources and local agencies, authorities seized thousands of marijuana plants.   Continue reading “Indiana Police Call in the US Military and Raid 146 “Dangerous” Marijuana Plots”