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NEW YORK (AP) — A bisexual man charged with shooting a gay man he taunted on a street was found guilty Wednesday of murder as a hate crime despite his assertions that he couldn’t be a bigot because of his own sexual orientation.

A Manhattan jury deliberated over two days before finding Elliot Morales guilty in the May 2013 shooting of Mark Carson in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, a center of American gay life for decades.   Continue reading “Bisexual man is convicted of hate crime for killing gay man”

Mail.com

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution of a Texas inmate for a 1997 shooting rampage near Houston that left five people dead (all times local): 8:15 p.m. A man convicted of killing five people including his ex-wife in a 1997 shooting rampage near Houston has been put to death.

Coy Wesbrook on Wednesday became the eighth inmate executed this year in the U.S. and the fourth in Texas, the most active capital punishment state. The execution was delayed about 90 minutes. Prison officials had anticipated an additional appeal would be filed by a death penalty opponent.   Continue reading “Texas man executed for 1997 rampage that killed 5”

Mail.com

WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Five people have been killed in an ambush-style shooting during a backyard party in suburban Pittsburgh and at least two gunmen are at large, police said. Four women and a man were killed late Wednesday during the party in the Borough of Wilkinsburg. Allegheny County police said people scrambled toward the house as bullets began flying. Four of the victims were found dead on the back porch. The other one died at a hospital.   Continue reading “Police: 5 dead, 3 injured in Pennsylvania shooting”

Mail.com

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the death of Nancy Reagan (all times local): 10 p.m. A longtime Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested for allegedly refusing to cooperate with police while transmitting photographs of the funeral motorcade of Nancy Reagan.

Deputy Chief David Livingstone of the Simi Valley police says officers were responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle about three-quarters of a mile downhill from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where the public viewing for the former first lady was being held.   Continue reading “Photographer of Nancy Reagan motorcade arrested”

What is happening to America?

Valley Morning Star – by Raul Garcia

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Next time you look up in the sky at the beach it might not be a seagull that’s flying by.

Police have added two drones to the public safety department to help monitor the beach from the sky.   Continue reading “Drones on the Beach: SPI police to launch drone project during Spring Break”

The Next Web – by Bryan Clark

Speaking at Common Cause’s ‘Blueprint for Democracy’ conference today, Edward Snowden used his time to speak out about surveillance, personal liberties and of course, the San Bernadino iPhone.

“The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’ to unlock the phone,” Snowden said. “Respectfully, that’s bullshit.”   Continue reading “Snowden: FBI’s claim that it requires Apple’s help to unlock iPhone is ‘bullshit’”

Newsweek

(Reuters) – The robots sent in to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima’s nuclear reactors have “died”: a subterranean “ice wall” around the crippled plant meant to stop groundwater from becoming contaminated has yet to be finished. And authorities still don’t how to dispose of highly radioactive water stored in an ever mounting number of tanks around the site.   Continue reading “The Robots Sent into Fukushima have “Died””

AJC – by Carrie Teegardin

A private probation company used a “March Madness” bonus program to encourage employees to meet goals for collecting cash from probationers, according to a document revealed in an Augusta court case.

Sentinel Offender Services offered a chance at a cash bonus of up to $1,000 for probation employees who met the program’s “Slam Dunk” requirements. The program also offered the top performers a chance to win a free trip to Hilton Head Island.   Continue reading “March Madness bounty put squeeze on Sentinel probationers”

Oregon Live – by Maxine Bernstein, March 8, 2016

It’s drummed into every police officer and federal agent during training: They must report every time they discharge their gun on duty and justify each shot.

So Tuesday’s announcement that a member of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team allegedly failed to disclose two gunshots fired at Robert “LaVoy” Finicum seemed inconceivable to former FBI agents and criminal justice experts.   Continue reading “Investigation of FBI agents involved in LaVoy Finicum shooting shocks justice community”

PNN/Jerusalem

During a joint press conference held in Jerusalem on Wednesday, the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden condemned what he called “those in the international community who failed to condemn Palestinian terror attacks against Israel.”

Biden, who is in a five-day-trip to the Middle East,  said to the press that his wife and his grandchildren, who have joined him on this trip, were having dinner on the beach nearby where a Palestinian man killed an American citizen and wounded 12 others – and was further killed in cold blood by the IOF.   Continue reading “Biden condemns “Palestinian attacks” despite the Israeli killing of 7”

Maine Republic Email Alert – by Hebiam

If you consider licensed gun hunters in America you can easily see that America has 9 of the top 10 armies in the world. And over 2,000,000 of them have scoped sniper rifles and most have military experience. The pentagon and the military will not enforce disarming Americans so all of this gun control hype is nonsense percolating out of Washington D.C.

Let’s hope the arrests begin soon. The light is shining and it is chasing away the darkness revealing all. The light never fails.   Continue reading “Gun control in America is not an option. Check out America’s owners.”

The Blaze – by Jon Street

Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified Wednesday that the Justice Department has “discussed” taking civil legal action against the fossil fuel industry for “denying” the “threat of carbon emissions” when it comes to climate change.

During Lynch’s testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said that he believes there are similarities between the tobacco industry denying scientific studies showing the dangers of using tobacco and companies within the fossil fuel industry denying studies allegedly showing the threat of carbon emissions.   Continue reading “AG Lynch Testifies: Justice Dept. Has ‘Discussed’ Civil Legal Action Against Climate Change Deniers”

New York Post – by Shawn Cohen

A Queens man was found with a cache of weapons that included an AK-47 assault rifle and 17,000 rounds of ammunition after police learned he ordered a fake NYPD police ID online, police said.

Lee Bergman, 43, was arrested Tuesday morning when police discovered the arsenal in a safe in his home at 81-00 Shore Front Parkway in Far Rockaway.   Continue reading “Queens man found with AK-47 assault rifle, 17,000 rounds of ammunition”

St Louis Tribune

Hundreds of supporters of the Malheur refuge occupation and the Bundy family converged at the Utah Capitol on Saturday to honor a “fallen hero” and the “patriots” imprisoned in the fight for freedom for which the armed encampment claimed to stand.

LaVoy Finicum loved his country and its founding principle of freedom, which he believed is God given, according to Jeanette Finicum, the widow of the Arizona rancher killed by police Jan. 26.

Continue reading “LaVoy Finicum’s widow tells Utah rally her husband was murdered during Oregon standoff”

Top Secret Writers – by Sally Painter

The non-profit public interest research center, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), obtained documents that reveal the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intentionally misled the public about the safety of full body scanners (1).

EPIC settled an appeal for their FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) case against DHS and finally obtained body scanner radiation fact sheets. Prior to this appeal, EPIC states that the DHS’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) “withheld test results, fact sheets, and estimates regarding the radiation risks of body scanners used to screen passengers at airports.”    Continue reading “Documents Show TSA Cover-Up of Body Scanner Cancer Risk”