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MERLIN, Ore. — A man is in custody after a standoff lasting more than five hours in Merlin.
SWAT team members are still out searching the property after arresting 70-year-old Mike Dills.
Oregon State Police troopers arrested him for possession and delivery of meth. Continue reading “Update: Man Arrested After 5-Hour Standoff in Merlin, Oregon”
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay-motivated bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 120 others.[1]
Described by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a terrorist,[2] he spent five years on theFBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list until he was caught in 2003. In 2005, as part of a plea bargain, Rudolph pleaded guilty to numerous federal and state homicide charges and accepted four consecutive life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial and a potential death sentence. He remains incarcerated at the ADX Florence Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
Sources within the Santa Monica police department claim that James Wesley Howell, an Indiana man who was caught with explosives and weapons on Sunday Morning, told the Santa Monica police that as many as five people were involved in planned attacks on gay communities in both Florida and California.
According to the LA Times, Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks initially said on Twitter that the 20-year-old Indiana man (James Howell) told one of her officers after he was arrested that he wanted “to harm the Gay Pride event.”
Continue reading “Howell and Four Other Suspects Involved in Planned Sunday Massacres”
MERLIN — State police urged people to stay away from a location in downtown Merlin shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday because of an armed standoff.
An OSP spokesman said that they attempted to serve a search warrant at 126 Galice Road and the person barricaded himself inside the residence. More details were not available. Continue reading “Armed standoff in Merlin, OR continues”
The New Jersey E-ZPass Group has awarded Xerox an eight-year contract to enhance its E-ZPass® System customer support. Xerox will provide a state-of-the-art customer service center, violations processing, and financial back-office services for the New Jersey E-ZPass System.
Once fully operational, drivers will be able to contact support representatives through phone, e-mail, fax, a mobile application, web and online chat functions. Additionally, all customer correspondence will be presented in a single, dynamic dashboard, allowing agents to view past customer information and tailor the support as needed. Continue reading “Xerox to Help New Jersey E-ZPass Enhance Customer Experience, Simplify Operations”
Paul Elam of ‘An Ear for Men’ has a very interesting video analysis of the San Diego, CA District Attorney’s recent video targeting domestic violence victims.
During the video, he points out an undeniable bias against men, as well as a very interesting study which notes “286 scholarly investigations, 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600. [- Martin S. Fiebert, Department of Psychology, Cal State University, Long Beach.] Continue reading “Advocate Warns: “Male Domestic Violence Victims Should Not Seek Help in San Diego or Anywhere Else””
House Democrats led by Civil Rights veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, are in the midst of a sit-in on the chamber floor to try and force a vote on gun control.
“Now is the time for us to find a way to dramatize it, to make it real,” Lewis said. “We have to occupy the floor of the House until there is action.”
Then Lewis and House Democrats sat. Continue reading “House Democrats Hold Sit-In on Gun Control”
This is a list of LGBT rights organizations around the world. For social and support groups or organizations affiliated with mainstream religious organizations, please see List of LGBT-related organizations and conferences. For organizations affiliated with political parties, please see List of LGBT organizations that affiliate with political parties.
See the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_rights_organizations
WASHINGTON (CN) – New gun-control legislation unveiled Tuesday by a bipartisan Senate group echoes proposals to close the so-called “terror loophole” rejected just a day earlier.
Demands for gun control have reached a fever pitch in the week since a gay nightclub in Orlando became the site of the deadliest shooting in the country. Continue reading “New Guns Bill Has Support Across the Aisle”
Courthouse News – by Adam Klasfeld
MANHATTAN (CN) — Newly free from a Supreme Court challenge, New York’s attorney general deployed the state’s tough gun laws for the first time against three federally licensed dealers accused of selling more than 100 assault weapons.
New York’s case against the owner and employees of Jackson Guns and Ammo in Henrietta, N.Y. marks the first prosecution under the Safe Act, which the state passed shortly after the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
“The SAFE Act stops criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from buying a gun by requiring universal background checks on gun purchases, increases penalties for people who use illegal guns, mandates life in prison without parole for anyone who murders a first responder, and imposes the toughest assault weapons ban in the country,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo says on a government website for the law. “For hunters, sportsmen, and law abiding gun owners, this new law preserves and protects your right to buy, sell, keep or use your guns.” Continue reading “First Weapons Bust Under Tough N.Y. Gun Law”
Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner
It’s the stuff of libertarian dreams. The IRS admits that it wrongfully took money from innocent citizens, and it gives the money back.
This is actually happening to victims of a little-known form of civil asset forfeiture carried out by the IRS on the premise of “structuring” violations. In case you didn’t know, depositing or withdrawing just under $10,000 from your bank account multiple times is viewed as suspicious and possibly criminal activity. Continue reading “IRS Just Admitted it Stole Millions From Innocent People — Here’s the Catch — They’re Giving it Back”
Under the guise of “reform,” President Obama is dismantling Medicare — dooming seniors to needless pain and disability and shortening their lives.
The stakes are high, because Medicare and the access it gives patients to medical innovations have transformed aging. Before Medicare, older folks languished in nursing homes or wheelchairs with crippling illnesses. Now, seniors dodge that fate, thanks to hip and knee replacements, cataract operations and heart procedures — all paid for by Medicare. Continue reading “Obama Is Gutting Medicare”
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s trash day for the International Space Station.
A large Cygnus cargo ship filled with Space Station trash that was released from the station last week is set to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand about 9:20 eastern time Wednesday morning and disintegrate. Continue reading “Capsule full of Space Station junk set to burn up over Earth”