Month: March 2016

Mail.com

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas trooper indicted over his arrest of a black woman who was later found dead in jail has been formally fired, three months after his bosses first announced they would do so, state officials said Wednesday.

Former Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia can still appeal the decision to fire him, which came after a grand jury indicted him on a perjury charge in December. He is accused of lying about his July 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland and their confrontational traffic stop that was caught on dashcam video.   Continue reading “Texas trooper indicted over Sandra Bland stop formally fired”

Mail.com

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A hospital orderly pleaded guilty Wednesday to abducting and killing two Virginia college students, wrapping up a mystery that began in 2009 when one of the women disappeared from a Metallica concert. The other young woman, 18-year-old Hannah Graham, vanished five years later under similar circumstances, after a night of partying with friends.   Continue reading “Guilty plea ends case of 2 slain Virginia college students”

Mail.com

ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — A flight student from Egypt is facing deportation from the United States after being investigated by federal agents for posting on his Facebook page that he was willing to kill Donald Trump and the world would thank him.

While U.S. prosecutors have not charged 23-year-old Emadeldin Elsayed with a crime, immigration authorities arrested him last month at the Los Angeles-area flight school he attended and now are trying to deport him, attorney Hani Bushra said Wednesday.   Continue reading “Egyptian student may be deported after Trump threat”

RT

A nuclear power propulsion system could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just over a month, a huge step forward from the current 18 months required. Russia might test a nuclear engine as early as 2018, the head of the Rosatom nuclear corporation revealed.

Another advantage of a nuclear engine is that it enables a spacecraft to maneuver throughout the flight, whereas existing technology only makes a defined trajectory flight possible.   Continue reading “Zoom to Mars in 6 weeks with new Russian nuclear-fission engine”

Courthouse News Service – by Cameron Langford

HOUSTON (CN) – Houston cleared police officers of wrongdoing in 99 shootings between 2009 and 2012, and must now face claims it has an “unwritten policy” of protecting officers, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Audry Releford is the father of Kenny Releford, a schizophrenic Navy veteran who was shot dead by Houston police officer Jason Rosemon in October 2012.   Continue reading “Houston to Face Claims of Trigger-Happy Cops”

ABC News

A federal attorney argued Wednesday that officials in two Arizona and Utah cities routinely took orders from the leaders of a polygamous sect about who to appoint to government jobs in the communities where people were sometimes arrested on trumped-up charges after they left the church.

“How did we get to this in the United States of America?” Justice Department attorney Sean Keveney asked jurors during his closing argument at the civil rights trial involving Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah.   Continue reading “Jury Deliberations Start at Trial Against 2 Polygamous Towns”

Washington Post – by Adam Goldman

The Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.

The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009.   Continue reading “Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

The issue of natural born citizen is a hotly contested issue. However, it is one that is a national security issue an that has been demonstrated in the usurpation of the office of the president by Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah, a man with a fake birth certificate, a fake Social Security number, a fake selective service form and a variety of other false documents. Now, America is dealing with it on the Republican side of the aisle, and like the judges in the Obama eligibility case, none of them will actually hear the facts of the case and provide a ruling. They merely dismiss the evidence. Such is the case of an Illinois judge who dismissed the case against Senator Ted Cruz rather than render a decision based on the historical evidence.   Continue reading “Just like Judges in Obama Eligibility Case, Illinois Judge won’t Rule in Ted Cruz Eligibility Case”

Reuters

The Koch brothers, the most powerful conservative mega donors in the United States, will not use their $400 million political arsenal to try to block Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s path to the presidential nomination, a spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.

The decision by the billionaire industrialists is another setback to Republican establishment efforts to derail the New York real estate mogul’s bid for the White House, and follows speculation the Kochs would soon launch a “Trump Intervention.”   Continue reading “Koch brothers will not use funds to try to block Trump nomination”

Reuters

Idaho police arrested three teenagers on Wednesday and were seeking a fourth on suspicion the group set a fire that destroyed the home of a high school principal and could have killed the educator and his wife, authorities said.

The principal had suspended two of the students just days before the blaze in Payette, said the town’s police chief.   Continue reading “Idaho students arrested on suspicion of burning down principal’s home”

Oddity Central – by Sumitra

Worried American parents are resorting to extreme ways of finding out if their kids are into drugs – they’re actually hiring private K9 services to sniff out any narcotics that their kids might be hiding in their rooms, bathrooms or cars. These sniffer dogs are specially trained to find hidden narcotics such as meth, barbiturates, marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. Some of the searches turn up empty, but in most cases the parents’ suspicions are confirmed.   Continue reading “Concerned Parents Turn to Sniffer Dog Teams to Search Children’s Rooms for Drugs”

CBS News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A 16-year-old is accused of shooting three of his family members after police say they tried to wake him up Tuesday morning to go to school, reports CBS affiliate WTVF.

Officials say the incident was reported shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, when his 42-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother tried to wake him up, but he didn’t comply. He then became angry and allegedly began threatening his family, according to the station.
Continue reading “Cops: Teen shoots family after they wake him up for school”

BGR – by Brad Reed

NASA’s Hubble Telescope regularly blows my mind by taking some incredible photos of the universe that make me realize just how small our humble little planet is. After combing through the archive of some of the best Hubble space photos onNASA’s website, I’ve picked out 10 that I found to be particularly incredible. Let’s check them out below.   Continue reading “10 mind-blowing space photos captured by the Hubble Telescope”

Associated Press

WHITE, Ga. (AP) — A north Georgia police chief and an officer have been arrested and accused of arresting people on fake charges and then reducing the charges to collect fines, authorities said Wednesday.

Police chief David King, 58, and officer Blake Scheff, 26, of the White Police Department were charged Wednesday with false imprisonment, theft by extortion and violation of oath by a public officer, Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman Greg Ramsey said.   Continue reading “Police chief, officer arrested on false imprisonment charges”

UPI – by Elizabeth Shim

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 2 (UPI) — North Korea‘s foreign minister took center stage Tuesday to file a strong protest at the United Nations Human Rights Council, in response to U.N. resolutions that have condemned its rights record.

Ri Su Yong said Pyongyang will “never, ever be bound” by U.N. resolutions, describing such resolutions as “proof of partiality and double standards,” Voice of America reported.   Continue reading “North Korea envoy slams U.S. on gun control”

Gothamist – by Nathan Tempey

Vincent Harrison, the off-duty NYPD officer killed in a hit-and-run on the New Jersey Turnpike early on February 28th, was pointing his gun at a woman who he crashed into and threatening her when a second driver ran him down, investigators have determined.

State police and prosecutors said Harrison, 25 and in his second year on the force, was driving a Chevy sedan south on the turnpike near the Newark International Airport, when he rear-ended a Ford SUV driven by a 26-year-old woman. They both stopped, and he got out of his car, walked to the other vehicle, the woman and her 2-year-old son inside, and began arguing with the woman. Harrison allegedly drew his gun, and at some point, sources told ABC7, he yelled something like, “You don’t know who I am!” and “I can kill you right now!” over and over.   Continue reading “NYPD Cop Was Allegedly Pointing Gun At Driver When Killed In Hit-And-Run”

Yahoo News

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Aubrey McClendon, a brash risk-taker who led Chesapeake Energy Corp to become one of the world’s biggest natural gas producers, died in a single-car crash on Wednesday one day after being charged with breaking federal antitrust laws, police said. He was 56.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that McClendon had been indicted for allegedly colluding to rig bids for oil and gas acreage while he was at Chesapeake, a central player in the U.S. fracking revolution of the past decade. He denied the charges.   Continue reading “Energy CEO McClendon dies in Oklahoma car crash, a day after indictment”

I am 56 yrs old and for what its worth…NO I  DON’T VOTE…only did that once in my 20s  wised up after that.

Remember what Jesus said: ‘Goats on the left, sheep on the right’ (Matthew 25:33).

Jesus also told Peter that if he wanted to catch fish do it from the right side of the boat. They did and filled the boat with fish.   Continue reading “Something to Ponder”