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New Britain Herald – by Lisa Backus
NEW BRITAIN – Amid the vibrant paintings of fresh fruit and tasteful displays of shelled nuts and grass in the café he’s about to open on West Main Street, Mark Schand explained that he isn’t angry that he spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
“It’s a wasted emotion for me,” the 53-year-old budding entrepreneur said. “I’m just happy to be home.” Continue reading “Man who spent 27 years wrongly imprisoned set to open cafe”
Maine Public – by Lori Valigra
The state agreed on a three-year, $150,000 contract Tuesday with a Florida-based technology company that will track and trace medical and adult use marijuana products once regulations are approved for them.
The Department of Administrative and Financial Services said it will use Franwell Inc.’s Metrc cloud-based software to track marijuana growth and distribution throughout Maine. Metrc uses radio-frequency identification tags. Continue reading “Maine Signs Deal For ‘Seed-To-Sale’ Marijuana Tracking System”
Bismark Tribune – by Jack Dura
By a slight margin, the North Dakota House voted down a so-called “stand your ground” bill that supporters said would “empower potential victims.”
House Bill 1497 failed by a vote of 41-49 on Wednesday. Rep. Jeff Magrum, R-Hazelton, introduced the bill to the House Judiciary Committee in January, which gave an 8-6 “do-pass” recommendation to the bill after amendments in committee work. Similar legislation failed in 2017.
Continue reading “‘Stand your ground’ bill fails in North Dakota House”
For decades, voters have been lied to by politicians promising to crack down on immigration. We vote and we vote and we vote, and nothing ever changes. Wage-lowering, culture-destroying policies manage to appear in every bill Congress passes.
We finally got sick of it and voted for Trump. He promised to build a wall, deport illegal aliens and end the anchor baby scam. No matter how much the establishment screamed at him, he never backed down. Continue reading “Trump’s Failing. Don’t Ask Me To Lie About It”
A Coast Guard lieutenant arrested earlier this week on drug and gun charges was planning to commit domestic terrorism, according to a court filing from the U.S. District Court in Maryland.
In a motion filed Tuesday, U.S. attorneys said Christopher Hasson, a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard who has served at the service’s headquarters in Washington since 2016, had a hit list of targets, a cache of guns and a series of communications with white supremacists. The first sentence in the motion imploring the court to detain Hasson pending trial: “The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country.” Continue reading “Coast Guard lieutenant accused of murder plot ‘on a scale rarely seen in this country’”
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The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a win Wednesday to a former heroin addict who argued that Indiana’s seizure of his $42,000 Land Rover amounted to an excessive fine for a drug conviction.
In a unanimous holding, the justices for the first time incorporated the 8th Amendment’s protection against excessive fines to the states. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who delivered the court’s opinion, wrote that the safeguard is “fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty.” Continue reading “Supreme Court says states can’t impose excessive fines”
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration says that if states don’t require more schoolchildren to get vaccinated, the federal government might have to step in.
Nearly all states allow children to attend school even if their parents opt out of vaccines. These vaccine exemptions are especially popular in Washington state, where a measles outbreak started last month that has now sickened at least 67 people in four states. And New York has been working to contain its largest outbreak in decades, which began in October and has sickened more than 200 people. Continue reading “FDA chief: Federal government might step in if states don’t change lax vaccine laws”
Oregon Live – by Douglas Perry
Children are our future — and a group of Oregon lawmakers wants the future to be now.
They’re pushing a bill that would amend Oregon’s constitution to lower the voting age in the state from 18 to 16. They hope to put it before voters in 2020. Continue reading “Oregon lawmakers seek to lower voting age in state to 16, so teens can ‘protect their future’”
The ugly Houston PD drug raid that resulted in four injured officers and two dead “suspects” just keeps getting uglier.
Officers swore a confidential informant purchased heroin from 59-year-old Dennis Tuttle in the house he shared with his wife of 21 years, Rhogena Nicholas. They swore the CI told them the house was filled with heroin packaged for purchase. Continue reading “Fatal Houston PD Drug Raid Apparently Predicated On Drugs A Cop Had Stashed In His Car”
Legendary cowboy actor and all-American tough guy John Wayne has posthumously infuriated social justice types, after a 1971 interview resurfaced in which the ‘True Grit’ actor criticized racial equality and homosexuality.
Speaking to Playboy magazine almost 50 years ago, Wayne unleashed a series of statements that would have him fired, sued, tarred and feathered if he uttered them in 2019. Wayne referred to “healthy, lusty sex” between a man and a woman as “wonderful,” but called homosexuality “perverted,” dismissing the Oscar-winning ‘Midnight Cowboy’ as “a love story about two f*gs.” Continue reading “John Wayne posthumously bashed for 1971 ‘white supremacist’, ‘homophobic’ Playboy interview”
Former first lady and former Vice President Joe Biden tied for the Democrats’ favorite 2020 presidential candidate in a poll released on Tuesday.
Twenty-five percent of Democrat voters said that they would either back Obama or Biden for the Democrat nomination, even though neither Democrat has declared their candidacy for president in 2020, according to a Hill-HarrisX poll released on Tuesday. Continue reading “Poll: Michelle Obama, Joe Biden Top Contenders for 2020 Democrat Nomination”
Hey, the good thing about getting into a shootout with a stormtrooper is you know they’ll miss.
The California Highway Patrol tried to pull over a Ford Mustang for speeding on Sunday night, but the driver sped off. He wound up pulling over on a side street and he and his passenger ran away on foot, but the cops quickly tracked them down. Continue reading “Police get into a Standoff with a Life-Size Stormtrooper Statue”
Just as more people fly during the holidays and drive during rush hour, the demand for electricity peaks at predictable times.
Flights and some toll roads cost the most when demand is highest. Now California wants residents to get used to the same dynamic when it comes to purchasing electricity. Continue reading “Crank Up the A/C, Crank Up the Cost: States Consider ‘Surge Pricing’ for Power”
Michael Flynn was among the White House officials who pushed a potentially unlawful project to share “highly sensitive” nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia despite the objections of ethics and national security officials, Trump administration whistleblowers claim in a new report.
Both Republicans and Democrats have expressed fears that Riyadh could develop nuclear weapons if the US know-how were transferred without legally-required safeguards. Continue reading “Trump administration ‘considering transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia’ despite national security officials’ fears”
It’s no secret that the media giant Google is the hegemon on the Internet nowadays. Millions of new users continue to register on corporation-controlled sites every day, leaving almost complete information not only about themselves, but about their friends and families. However, many users do not care about their data security. Should anyone be worried about this at all? Continue reading “Google is watching you”
Google has acknowledged that it made an error in not disclosing that one of its home alarm products contained a microphone.
Product specifications for the Nest Guard, available since 2017, had made no mention of the listening device. Continue reading “Google admits error over hidden microphone”