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When Ingrid Brown started driving a truck in 1979, it was rare for her to see another woman on the road. Back then, the owner-operator knew of six other female drivers who ran a regular route from North Carolina to California, and they would leave handwritten notes for each other at truck stops.
“We didn’t have cell phones, but we kept in touch with each other. There was a bond,” said Brown, who drives for Rabbit River, based in Holland, MI. Continue reading “Women in trucking”
A woman in a blonde wig is suspected of carrying out a hit on two alleged Israeli underworld figures in a busy restaurant in Mexico City.
Alon Azulay, 41, and Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi, 44, were shot dead on Wednesday as fellow diners looked on. Continue reading “Israeli ‘underworld’ figures shot dead in Mexico City ‘hit’”
American Mirror – by Kyle Olson
When did Customs and Border Protection become the welcoming committee to America?
Video published by KOLD shows Border agents standing at the top of a hill, waiting for a group of illegal aliens to approach.
The agent crosses past the end of the border wall and extends his hand to assist a woman scaling the hill to enter the country illegally in El Paso, Texas. Continue reading “Border agents give illegals hand up hill, AROUND wall — INTO America!”
News Bulletin – by Julia M. Dendinger
A former municipal deputy court clerk for the town of Peralta pleaded no contest earlier this month to embezzlement of more than $20,000 from the town.
Tanya Jaramillo, 43, of Los Lunas, received a suspended sentence on July 11 after being indicted in May 2018 on one count of embezzlement, a second-degree felony.
Continue reading “Former Peralta court clerk sentenced for embezzlement”
Prominent thinkers in the fields of artificial intelligence say that predictive policing tools are not only ‘useless,’ but may be helping to drive mass incarceration.
In a letter published earlier this month the experts, from MIT, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, UC Berkeley and Columbia spoke out on the topic in an unprecedented showing of skepticism toward the technology. Continue reading “A.I. Predictive Policing Could Lead to Mass Incarceration”
Common Dreams – by Jon Queally
Explaining that “firing at the lower half of the body above the knee led to the deaths of many people,” a senior officer in the Israeli military has said snipers operating along the border of the occupied Gaza Strip are now being trained to shoot at the ankles of protesting Palestinians as opposed to above-the-knee targeting that led to thousands of people being gunned down—hundreds killed and others maimed—over recent years. Continue reading “‘Sniping Innocent Protesters, However, Still Fine’: Israeli Snipers Now Being Trained to Shoot Palestinians in the Ankles”
HARRISBURG — People convicted of theft for such minor issues as overdue library books or plumbing bills may not realize they have a record because a district judge in northwestern Pennsylvania misclassified civil claims against them, a state official said Thursday.
Former District Judge Brenda Williams Nichols misclassified more than 800 civil claims as theft of services violations while serving in office from 2014 through 2017, Democratic Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said. Continue reading “Hundreds in Pa. wrongly got criminal record for unpaid bills: audit”
DC Clothesline – by Dean Garrison
On July 18, 2019, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S. 1273, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (CASE Act), legislation that will provide U.S. creators with a viable means for defending their copyrighted works through the creation of a small claims tribunal within the U.S. Copyright Office. Continue reading “Media BLACKOUT: If Senate Bill 1273 Passes You Could Be Fined $15,000 for Sharing Memes on Social Media”
Urban explorer and abandoned sites photographer Liz Roll has compiled a collection of decommissioned U.S. forts throughout the East Coast.
While some are now public parks, like Maryland’s Fort Washington and New Jersey’s Fort Hancock, others are left abandoned and barely noticed like Topsail Island’s towers in North Carolina. Continue reading “Abandoned U.S. Forts Throughout the East Coast”
Washington (AFP) – The US military said on Thursday it had arrested 16 Marines on human trafficking and drug-related charges.
The group was taken into custody during a battalion formation at Camp Pendleton, a major Marine base in California about 65 miles (90 kilometers) north of the Mexican border. Continue reading “Sixteen US Marines arrested on human trafficking, drugs charges”
JTA — More than 1,400 Jewish clergy from across the United States have signed a letter that calls on government officials to protect the legal right to seek asylum in the United States.
HIAS, an immigrant advocacy and aid group formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, organized the petition. It calls on elected officials to “act immediately to provide a just and humane asylum process for those seeking safety in our country, wherever they come from and however they arrive.” Continue reading “Over 1,400 US Jewish clergy sign letter supporting asylum seekers”
Six Iranians fighting for the Syrian regime were among those killed in reported Israeli missile strikes in southern Syria this week, a war monitor said Thursday.
Israeli missiles targeted “military positions and intelligence facilities belonging to Iran and [pro-Iranian] militias” in the southern provinces of Daraa and Quneitra early on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Continue reading “6 Iranians among 9 dead in Israeli strike on Syria, monitor says”
The American Trucking Associations on Wednesday asserted that the gap between the number of available, qualified drivers and the number of drivers needed by fleets is widening. The ATA report forecasts what it considers a “driver shortage” will reach 160,000 by 2028, if current trends continue.
ATA estimates there will be a driver shortfall of 59,500 this year, down slightly from its estimate of 60,800 for 2018, but well above the 2017 estimate of 50,700. Continue reading “ATA casts ‘driver shortage’ as worsening”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that all standing agreements with the state of Israel will be suspended indefinitely, following the bulldozing of homes in the occupied West Bank.
President Abbas announced the decision on Thursday afternoon, and said it would take effect by Friday. The move comes in response to the Israeli government’s demolition of homes in Wadi Hummus, a Palestinian community in southeast Jerusalem. Continue reading “Palestine’s Abbas suspends ALL agreements with Israel”
A couple in California taking out the trash over the weekend ended up victims of a “very brutal” attack that was caught on camera, according to officials.
The Stockton Police Department said on Facebook the incident happened Sunday around 11:30 p.m. when the group of unknown assailants attacked the couple in the 900 block of Henry Long Drive in the Weston Ranch area of the city. Continue reading “California couple hurt in ‘very brutal’ attack by group of teenagers outside their home”
CBR – by LD Nolan, June 23, 2019
Former Walt Disney Company executive Michael Laney has been sentenced to 81 months in prison for four counts of first-degree sexual abuse involving a 7-year-old girl.
According to WTKR, Laney, who is 73-years-old, “will have to register as a sex offender and pay a $4,000 fine.” Continue reading “Former Walt Disney VP Sentenced to Prison in Child Sex Abuse Investigation”