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The Oregonian – by Douglas Perry
There is no more terrifying bogeyman in all of Portland.
The beast steals our jobs and our self-respect. It keeps us from buying homes.
It is The Californian. Continue reading “‘Go back to California!’ graffiti on car, house stuns new arrivals, highlights old tensions in Portland”
The Oregonian – by Everton Bailey Jr. and Olivia Dimmer
As Christopher Neal watched planes fly in and out of the Hillsboro Airport with his wife and young son, a stranger in a gray hoodie caught their eye.
With his hood up and hands in his pockets, the man walked from across Northwest Cornell Road toward a barbed-wire fence leading to airport property, Neal said. The man briefly looked at the family, then back toward the fence. Continue reading “Police kill gunman who tried to hijack helicopter at Hillsboro Airport”
A Wallowa County cattle rancher shot and presumably seriously wounded or killed a wolf June 25 in the act of chasing livestock. It is the first incident of its kind in Wallowa County and the second in Oregon.
The rancher and his wife, who chose to remain anonymous, said they had suffered numerous instances of wolves harassing their cattle. The couple saw a wolf chasing a herd of cows on June 25 on a public land allotment in the Wallowa Mountains. Continue reading “Wallowa, Oregon rancher shoots wolf as it attacks cattle”
At least nine people have been injured – several seriously – after a car crashed into a crowd of people in East Boston, with the Boston Globe reporting that according to State Police a car has driven into a group of pedestrians in East Boston. Continue reading “Multiple Injuries Reported After Car Crashes Into Crowd In East Boston”
Concealed Nation – by Brandon Curtis
SPANAWAY, WASHINGTON — A convenience store owner was sentenced to 8 years in prison for shooting and killing a fleeing thief.
That man, Min Kim, told the judge that he accepted responsibility for what he did.
In March of 2016, suspect Jakeel Mason was shoplifting at Kim’s store and when he was trying to flee, he was shot in the back by Kim. Continue reading “Man Receives 8 Year Prison Sentence After Shooting And Killing Thief”
An aspiring YouTube star has killed her boyfriend after shooting him in a video blog gone wrong.
Monalisa Perez, a 19-year od aspiring YouTube star from Minnesota, has been arrested after shooting her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz III in a YouTube stunt gone wrong. In the planned stunt, Ruiz held a hardcover encyclopedia in front of his chest while Perez leveled a .50 caliber gold-plated Desert Eagle pistol at him and pulled the trigger, believing that the encyclopedia would stop the bullet. Of course, the hardcover book did not provide protection, and Ruiz was killed. Continue reading “YouTuber Shoots Boyfriend in Video Stunt Gone Wrong”
The Daily Caller – by Amber Randall
Chicago saw approximately 52 people shot over the Fourth of July weekend, a slight decrease from last year’s numbers.
Of the 52 people shot over Independence Day weekend, about six people died from their wounds, reports the Chicago Tribune. Continue reading “Chicago Ends July 4th Weekend With Over 50 People Shot”
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.
Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical edifice near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City. Continue reading “Tower of human skulls in Mexico casts new light on Aztecs”
ASBURY PARK, N.J. — The social media comments on Facebook and other sites were raw, hateful.
The outpouring of invectives was sparked by the arrest last week of 14 residents of Lakewood, N.J., including the rabbi of a congregation, on public assistance fraud charges. The early morning raids ignited a firestorm of anti-Semitism against a municipality of 100,000 that has a majority of Orthodox Jewish residents.
“The allegations and the charges levied against (the defendants) have nothing to do with their religion,” said Joshua Cohen, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, New Jersey Region. “That’s why we’re deeply concerned when we see comments online, whether it’s on newspaper websites or social media, that are anti-Semitic.” Continue reading “New Jersey welfare fraud arrests spark anti-Semitic sentiment”
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German discount grocery chain Aldi North is planning to spend more than 5 billion euros ($5.71 billion) to revamp its stores around the world, which would be its biggest investment project ever, German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported, citing company sources.
Aldi and its German discounter rival Lidl have become giants in European retail, upending Britain’s grocery retail market, and are challenging U.S. retailers as well. Continue reading “Germany’s Aldi to invest 5 billion euros in stores: Bild am Sonntag”
Chicago Sun Times – by Sam Charles
As the deadline to pass a budget before another credit downgrade approached, a federal judge ordered the State of Illinois to make more than $500 million each month in Medicaid payments.
U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow ordered the state to pay $586 million a month for Medicaid vouchers that come in after June 30. On top of that, Lefkow ordered the state to pay another $2 billion toward the more than $3 billion Illinois owes to managed care organizations, which process payments to Medicaid providers, according to court records. Continue reading “Federal judge orders state to pay $586 million per month for Medicaid”
The state of Illinois is in big trouble. In fact, they’re facing an economic collapse. Some pundits are calling them “The Venezuela of the United States.”
They owe $14,711,351,943.90 in overdue bills. This does not count their day-to-day operating expenses – this is money that should have already been paid out, but wasn’t. Nearly 15 BILLION DOLLARS. Continue reading “7 Fast Facts About the Economic Collapse of Illinois”
Is the health insurance business a racket? Yes, literally. And this is why the shameless pandering to robber baron corporations posing as “health providers” is such an egregious … and obvious … tactic to do nothing more than plump up insurance company profits.
And do you know who’s to blame? Believe it or not, the downfall of the American health insurance system falls squarely on the shoulders of former President Richard M. Nixon.
Continue reading “Did you know that before 1973 it was illegal in the US to profit off of health care. The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 passed by Nixon changed everything.”
Fellow Trenchers~Have a safe Independence Day.
Ours marks 15 years since our 34 year old son drowned in the Big Piney River here in Missouri on the 4th, 2002, after a family canoe float trip, just off the shore from where I’m standing.
His 2 sons, 6 and 4 at the time, were floating on their backs, with life jackets on, and got a little further out in the current, and couldn’t touch bottom when they stood up. They called for our son to come and get them, and as he ran along the shore, someone at the resort offered him a life jacket, which he refused saying he was a good swimmer. Had he taken that life jacket, we would not have gone through the past 15 years of grief, and his sons would have had their Dad to watch them grow up. Continue reading “Have a safe Independence Day”
The price of crude has edged up on Monday due to the first fall in US drilling activity since January.
Brent crude futures were trading at $48.97 per barrel, a rise of 0.4 percent, at 9:20 GMT following last week’s jump of 5.2 percent in their first weekly gain in six weeks.
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 0.52 percent to $46.21 per barrel, adding to last week’s seven percent gain. Continue reading “Oil price up on first US production decline in months”
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — With the fight for Mosul in its final stage Monday, Islamic State militants sent female suicide bombers hidden among fleeing civilians, while Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition unleashed punishing airstrikes and artillery fire that set dozens of buildings ablaze.
At least one Iraqi soldier was killed and five were wounded in the two separate suicide attacks, the military said. On Sunday, a bomber in women’s clothing killed 14 people at a camp for displaced residents in Anbar province, a provincial official said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Continue reading “With fight for Mosul in final stage, militants strike back”
PARIS (AP) — The Latest on Europe’s migration crisis (all times local): 8:10 p.m. Italy’s interior ministry says the number of migrant arrivals so far this year is nearly 20 percent higher than at the same time in 2016.
The interior ministry released figures showing that by Monday morning, 85,183 migrants had reached Italian shores after rescue in the central Mediterranean, compared with 71,279 at this time last year. Continue reading “The Latest: Italy says migrant arrivals up 20 pct this year”
ROME (AP) — Doctors and nurses at the Vatican’s showcase pediatric hospital were angry: Corners were being cut. Safety protocols were being ignored. And sick children were suffering. The Vatican’s response was swift. A secret three-month Vatican-authorized investigation in early 2014 gathered testimony and documentation from dozens of current and former staff members and confirmed that the mission of “the pope’s hospital” had been lost and was “today more aimed at profit than on caring for children.”
What happened next surprised many involved: The report was never made public. While some of the recommendations were carried out, others were not. And the Vatican commissioned a second inquiry in 2015 that — after a three-day hospital visit — concluded nothing was amiss after all. Continue reading “‘Pope’s hospital’ put children at risk as it chased profits”