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Wilmington City Council has passed an ordinance that aims to limit children’s consumption of sugary beverages.
The new ordinance limits the default beverages served with children’s meals at restaurants in the city to water or flavored water with no added sweeteners, milk — including flavored milk— or fruit juice with no added sweeteners. Continue reading “Wilmington City Council approves sugary drink limits”
Fourteen-year-old Caydden Zimmerman’s school days start early and end late.
He has a 90-minute bus ride to get from the homeless shelter where he is staying in Boise, Idaho, to his middle school. He wakes up at 5:45 a.m., quickly brushes his teeth and smooths some gel in his hair, and then he dashes downstairs to catch his school bus. Continue reading “Trying Not To Break Down — A Homeless Teen Navigates Middle School”
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) Vermont game wardens are seeking public help in stopping poaching this hunting season.
Vermont Fish and Wildlife Col. Jason Batchelder says anyone witnessing poaching, or thinks they know of poaching, should call the nearest State Police barracks to report it. He says common infractions are baiting animals, or shooting animals at night. Batchelder says wardens can often make a strong case against a poacher if information is provided quickly. Baiting animals is illegal, even if you have no intention of shooting them. Continue reading “Vermont game wardens seek public’s help to stop poaching”
LifeSite News – by Calvin Freiburger
BERN, Switzerland, October 9, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – By an almost two-to-one vote met with ringing approval by pro-LGBT groups, the National Council of Switzerland voted this month on a measure to criminalize “homophobia” and “discrimination.”
The National Council, which is the lower house of the country’s bicameral legislature, voted 118-60 in favor of national councilor Mathias Reynard’s initiative, the Swiss newspaper Le Temps reports. Five members abstained from the vote. Continue reading “Switzerland votes overwhelmingly to jail citizens for ‘homophobia,’ ‘transphobia’”
Piece of Mindful – by Steve Kelly
I’m sure many of our “baby boomer” friends will remember the soap ads from the 1950s and 60s. Clean was big business then, clean was beautiful, and nobody wanted to stink. B.O. (body odor) was a hot topic thanks to decades of marketing.
Dial wasn’t the first “deodorant” soap, but it was the first one that didn’t smell like turpentine or paint thinner – oh, I’m talkin’ “Lifebuoy.” Lifebuoy, originally made by Lever Bros. (now Unilever) in England, has been around since 1895. The smell was phenol, a compound made with carbolic acid extracted from coal tar. To fight B.O. you could instead smell like an auto body repair shop. Continue reading “A Good Clean Kill, And Other Beauty Secrets”
The federal government has set goals for states and utilities to upgrade their electrical grids, and has awarded $4.5 billion in grants to encourage this. However, the federal government does not mandate the installation of smart meters, or even wireless smart meters. Continue reading “First and Foremost: Are Wireless Meters Mandatory?”
DENTS RUN, Pa. (AP) — Surrounded by dozens of stone-faced FBI agents on a frigid winter’s day, Dennis and Kem Parada stared down at the empty hole and knew something wasn’t right.
The father-son duo spent years combing this bit of Pennsylvania wilderness with high-end metal detectors, drills and other tools to prospect for a fabled cache of Civil War gold. They felt certain they’d discovered the hiding place of the long-lost booty, leading the FBI to the mountainous, heavily wooded area last March. Continue reading “Treasure hunters challenge FBI over dig for Civil War gold”
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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Bonifay, FL — Over the weekend, a person whose job description involves kidnapping and caging people for possessing or selling substances deemed illegal by the state—was found possessing and selling substances deemed illegal by the state. What’s more, he was doing it right outside of an assisted living facility while on the taxpayer’s dime.
The officer, Dwayne White, 48, with the Bonifay Police Department was in his patrol car, on duty, and in uniform selling opioids on Saturday when the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested him. Continue reading “On-Duty Cop Caught Selling OxyContin From Patrol Car Outside Assisted Living Facility”
Local charity groups in southern Arizona report that “huge groups” of migrants recently apprehended by Border Patrol agents are being released into their care.
Breitbart Texas reported that Tucson and Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials described the illegal crossing of massive numbers of families and unaccompanied minors as a “humanitarian crisis.” The number of these classifications of migrants doubled in recent months. It appears this is forcing another round of catch and release by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Continue reading “Trump Admin Releasing Hundreds of Central American Migrants into U.S.”
Multiple blasts and an ensuing fire at an ammunition depot in northern Ukraine has prompted the compulsory evacuation of nearly 10,000 people in the area.
The fiery incident occurred early Tuesday morning at a Ukrainian Defense Ministry depot near the city of Chernigov, about 180 kilometers east of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, officials said. Continue reading “Ukraine evacuating 10,000 after ammo depot blasts”
Update (11:00 am ET): During their joint press conference, Trump offered effusive praise of Haley, saying she earned the respect of foreign diplomats during her time as UN ambassador. He added that “maybe” she will be coming back at some point, and that she could have “her pick” of jobs in the administration.
When her turn came, Haley praised the administration’s “follow-through” on its foreign policy aims and her success in cutting $1.3 billion from the UN budget. Continue reading “Nikki Haley Resigns As UN Ambassador”
Judge Kavanaugh explains to Senator Feinstein that certain things, including concealed carry, fall outside the scope of the Second Amendment right.
Watch video here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4748320/concealed-carry-amendment
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is launching the first electronic device to bear its brand, a screen and camera-equipped gadget intended to make video calls easier and more intuitive.
But it’s unclear if people will open their homes to an internet-connected camera sold by a company with a questionable track record on protecting user privacy. Continue reading “Facebook wants people to invite its cameras into their homes”
In Virginia, the scariest thing about Halloween is how much legal trouble people can face for merely trying to enjoy the holiday.
The city of Chesapeake, for instance, prohibits anyone over the age of 12 from engaging in “the activity commonly known as ‘trick or treat.'” Those who break the law are guilty of a misdemeanor, and could face a fine of $25 or up to six months in jail. Continue reading “13-Year-Olds Who Trick or Treat in Chesapeake, Virginia, Face Fines, Possible Jail Time”
CR80 reports that Apple’s long-standing vision of tracking students has now become a reality.
Earlier this month Apple kicked off its mobile student ID program at three college campuses, much to the delight of university police. Continue reading “University police can use Blackboard Transact to track everything a student purchases and everywhere they go”
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump drew an enthusiastic response from a law-and-order crowd Monday, advocating the use of “stop and frisk” policing and saying he has directed the Justice Department to work with local officials in Chicago to stem violence in the nation’s third-largest city.
“The crime spree is a terrible blight on that city,” he said at a convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Continue reading “Trump calls on Chicago to embrace stop-and-frisk policing”
The Detroit News – by George Hunter
Two Detroit police officers assigned to a burglary task force have been charged with home invasion and misconduct in office after they allegedly kicked in the door of a house on the city’s west side without a search warrant and arrested the homeowner.
Officer Bradley Clark and Sgt. Paul Glaza were charged Friday in 36th District Court with second-degree home invasion, misconduct in office, malicious destruction of property under $200, and entering without a homeowner’s permission in connection with the alleged incident Jan. 22. Continue reading “2 Detroit cops charged with home invasion”