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A C-130 military cargo plane crashed Wednesday in Port Wentworth, Georgia, killing all five passengers on board.
A spokeswoman for the Port Wentworth Fire Department said a call came out and “everyone scrambled” to the scene. She could see black smoke “pouring” into the sky from her location, she said.
Continue reading “5 Dead After C-130 Military Cargo Plane Crashes In Georgia”
NEW YORK (AP) — The first death has been reported in a national food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce.
The death was reported in California, but state and federal health officials did not immediately provide any other details. Continue reading “1st death reported in romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak”
Residents in a central Florida neighborhood have been forced to evacuate due to massive sinkholes that have formed over the last week.
At least a dozen sinkholes have been reported in the Wynchase neighborhood of Ocala, Florida, about 80 miles northwest of Orlando, according to local media reports. The holes have been forming around a retention pond. Continue reading “Residents in Florida neighborhood evacuated due to massive sinkholes”
Las Vegas police have finally released partial footage from police body cameras that showed officers nearing the hotel room where gunman Stephen Paddock unleashed a hail of gunfire on concert-goers last October.
The video released on Wednesday comes from officers Sgt. Joshua Bitsko and David Newton, the Las Vegas Journal-Review reported. The first officer to enter the room, Levi Hancock, did not activate his body camera, for reasons that remain unknown to investigators. Continue reading “Police release body cam footage from Las Vegas Massacre”
North Korea has released three U.S. citizens from years-long detentions in a suspected labor camp, giving them medical treatment and “ideological education” at a hotel near Pyongyang, says human rights advocate Choi Sung-ryong, as reported by the Financial Times. Continue reading “North Korea Releases US Prisoners Ahead Of Historic Trump Summit”
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Archive: TWFTT 5-2-18
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Ft. Collins, CO — Last April, as TFTP reported, bystanders at a sports bar near Colorado State University watched in horror as a Ft. Collins cop proceeded to attack a young woman, sending her flying face first into the pavement. Now, one year later, police have finally released the body camera footage showing how entirely unnecessary and outright abusive this officer’s actions were that night.
The officer’s victim was a tiny Colorado State University student, Michaella Surat. As the body camera footage shows, the interaction, detainment, and subsequent use of force were all uncalled for. Continue reading “Disturbing Body Cam Video Shows Cop Smash Tiny Woman Face-First Into the Pavement”
The Boy Scouts of America will drop “boy” from the name of its signature program for older youths as it seeks to widen its appeal to girls, the 108-year-old organization said on Wednesday.
Starting in February 2019, the Boy Scouts program for boys 11 to 17 will be called Scouts BSA. The name of the overall organization will remain Boy Scouts of America. Continue reading “U.S. Boy Scouts to change name in appeal to girls”
Garden City, Georgia, law enforcement officials are sharing reports of a plane crash at Georgia Highway 21 before noon on Wednesday.
Chatham County EMS confirmed that the plane crashed at the intersection of the highway and Crossgate Road and that roads will be shut down.
Garden City Police Department said sections of Highway 21, Highway 25 and side roads in the area will be shut down. Drivers are asked to avoid the area. Continue reading “Military plane crashes in Savannah area”
Texas Tribune – by Emma Platoff
Following through on a months-old promise, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, leading a seven-state coalition against an Obama-era immigration measure that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants nationwide from deportation, including more than 120,000 in Texas.
Paxton first threatened in June 2017 to sue over the program if President Donald Trump’s administration had not ended it by September. After federal court rulings blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to end the program, Paxton wrote in January that he would consider filing suit if DACA still stood in June. Continue reading “Texas and 6 other states sue to end DACA”
Courthouse News – by Nick Cahill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – Driving into a dead end, a mentally disabled man opened his car door and raised his hands in surrender. He was met with a kick to the face and ferocious baton beating that culminated with two California highway patrolmen high-fiving in celebration, all captured on film.
The street-level punishment of a young man with schizophrenia by uniformed officers went unnoticed by news outlets, compared to the worldwide attention given to the similar beating in similar circumstances of Rodney King in Los Angeles X years ago and the recent killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento more recently. Continue reading “California Police Beating Ducks Attention With Settlement Just Shy of $1 Million”
Mint Press News – by Whitney Webb
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — The state of South Carolina will become the first state in the nation to legislate a definition of anti-Semitism that considers certain criticisms of the Israeli government to be hate speech. The language, which was inserted into the state’s recently passed $8 billion budget, offers a much more vague definition of anti-Semitism that some suggest specifically targets the presence of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions, or BDS, movement on state college campuses. The law requires that all state institutions, including state universities, apply the revised definition when deciding whether an act violates anti-discrimination policies. Continue reading “South Carolina’s New Hate Speech Law Outlaws Criticism of the Israeli Occupation”
Reason – by Christian Britschgi
The insanely broad “assault weapons” definition used by the small town of Deerfield, Illinois, to prohibit common peashooters has now migrated to the entire state of Oregon.
This week activists in support of Initiative 43 received a draft ballot title from the state’s attorney general, which describes the initiative as criminalizing the “possession or transfer of ‘assault weapons’ (defined) or ‘large capacity magazines’ (defined), with exceptions.” Continue reading “Insanely Broad Definition of ‘Assault Weapon’ Moves From Illinois Village to Oregon Ballot Initiative”
ARVADA, Colo. — An Arvada woman said she’s facing a $500 fine from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after she saved a free apple she received from an airline on her way home from Paris.
Crystal Tadlock said toward the end of her flight, attendants passed out apples in plastic bags. Continue reading “Arvada woman trying to stomach $500 fine for free airline snack, files complaint with customs”
Fewer than 10 percent of Norwegians are still using paper currency or coins, which could completely disappear in a decade, according to the local authorities.
Jon Nicolaisen, the deputy governor of Norway’s central bank, has said Norwegian society has become cashless, and that this is very much a present reality rather than a future dream. Continue reading “Scandinavians are done with cash”