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Self-proclaimed scavengers Lasse Melgaard and Elliot Martens went from raiding bins as students to opening a winery.Self-proclaimed scavengers Lasse Melgaard and Elliot Martens went from raiding bins as students to opening a winery. Two Raccoons: ‘Dumpster-diving’ friends make waste-cutting wine using surplus fruitMatthieu Gill Two Raccoons: Lasse Melgaard and Elliott Martens. Christina O'Neill Christina O'Neill 3 days ago Share via Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Copy link Page URL https://news.stv.tv/west-central/two-raccoons-dumpster-diving-friends-make-waste-cutting-wine-using-surplus-fruit Two “dumpster-diving” friends who began making wine using surplus fruit in their own flat during lockdown have received an innovation award. Lasse Melgaard, 26, and Elliott Martens, 28, “ate...

Former Tory MP Ross Thomson welcomes Donald Trump to Scotland 3 hrs ago DONALD TRUMP ROSS THOMSON SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVES POLITICS ABERDEEN SCOTLAND By Ross Hunter @_Ross_Hunter Multimedia Journalist Share 4 Comments Former Tory MP Ross Thomson (left) has welcomed Donald Trump back to Scotland (Image: UK Parliament/Trump International, Scotland) Former Tory MP Ross Thomson (left) has welcomed Donald Trump back to Scotland (Image: UK Parliament/Trump International, Scotland) A FORMER Tory MP has welcomed Donald Trump to Scotland and thanked him for signing his “Make America Great Again” hat. Ross Thomson, who served as the Conservative MP for Aberdeen South between...

Archaeologists have reconstructed the weathered face of a balding, middle-age man suffering from back trouble and severe dental disease. He died more than 600 years ago and was buried in Aberdeen, Scotland. Using facial reconstruction technology, researchers crafted a digital model that offered a glimpse of the man — known by researchers as "Skeleton 125," or "SK125" — showing what he may have looked like in life, Aberdeen City Council representatives said in a statement. The result reveals the 46-year-old man's face, with blue eyes that are set close together and a jaw that is missing many of its teeth....

Michael Gove stunned clubbers who spotted him raving in a suit on the dance floor of an Aberdeen nightspot. The Conservative Cabinet minister's arms flailed wildly along to heavy techno beats in the surprising clip filmed by a fellow clubber last night. It’s thought the 54-year-old Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who grew up in Aberdeen, was on a summer trip to see family when he turned up at O’Neill’s at 1.15am. After last orders were called, punters urged a suited, solo Gove to join them upstairs at nightclub Bohemia, where a fellow partier said he stayed until at...

John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice in jobs in either the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians. That was then. Now, a wind blade manufacturing plant located in Aberdeen, South Dakota has announced it is shutting its doors permanently in less than two months. The disappearance of Molded Fiber Glass will displace over three hundred workers and their families. It marks another major loss of energy jobs in the state following President Joe Biden's...

A judge has ordered a new runoff election for Ward 1 alderman in Aberdeen, Mississippi, after evidence of fraud and criminal activity. In a 64-page order, Judge Jeff Weill ruled that of the 84 mail-in absentee ballots cast in the June runoff election, 66 of them, or 78 percent, were not valid and should never have been counted, according to local CBS affiliate WCBI. The declared winner in that election won by a mere 37 votes. “An election in which 66 ballots have been handled erroneously and in which the winner led by only 37 votes is an election in...

Massive 78% Of Mail-In Ballots Proved Fraudulent, Judge Orders Election Do-Over.A Mississippi judge ruled in favor of a new election following overwhelming evidence of mail-in ballot fraud. “In the sixty-four-page order, Judge Jeff Weill not only calls for a new election but also finds evidence of fraud and criminal activity, in how absentee ballots were handled, how votes were counted, and the actions by some at the polling place,” local news reports. The race in question – a Democratic primary – occurred in Ward 1 or Aberdeen, Mississippi for the position of alderman between candidates Robert Devaull and Nicholas Holliday....

A contract employee for the U.S. Marshals Service has been suspended from work after posting a burning Black Lives Matter flag on his personal Facebook page. Jeff Carlson, a retired Aberdeen Police Department and school resource officer, was suspended from his contracted position as a security officer at the District of the South Dakota Federal Courthouse. Carlson is employed by Walden Security, a company that provides security services for commercial and government properties. He was suspended after the U.S. Marshals Service was made aware of the “racially-charged social media post,” according to the public affairs office for the federal law...

Rebecca Parker Mankey, the woman who confronted a 74-year-old man who was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat inside of a Palo Alto Starbucks, has been reported as missing by authorities. According to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, Mankey did not return to her Palo Alto home after a trip to Lake County, and is believed to be in Aberdeen, Washington. The Aberdeen Police Department is assisting the Lake County Sheriff's Office in attempting to locate Mankey, whose cell phone information activity placed her near Aberdeen around 9:00 a.m. on Friday. Melissa Demyan, a friend of Mankey's, wrote on...

Authorities in Harford County were still trying to determine late Thursday why Snochia Moseley opened fire at the Rite Aid warehouse where she had taken a temporary job, killing three employees and fatally wounding herself. Authorities have not identified the victims. [Snip] Authorities and court records identified Moseley as female, as did a Facebook profile in her name. But in Facebook messages Coley shared with The Baltimore Sun, Moseley described herself as transgender, although it was not clear whether Moseley preferred to be addressed using masculine or feminine pronouns. In messages that the friend said were sent in December 2016,...

FULL TITLE: Female shooter kills three and injures seven in morning shooting at Rite Aid warehouse in Maryland business park before being taken to hospital in critical condition Three people have died and eight others are injured after a shooting at a Rite Aid warehouse in Aberdeen, Maryland, after a woman opened fire this morning. The shooting took place in the Liberty Building on Thursday at 9.09am where around 30 people work. It is part of a larger center where around 1,000 are employed. WBAL-TV, a local network in Maryland, reports that the shooter is a woman who is now...

"Multiple victims" were being treated after a "horrific shooting" in Aberdeen, Maryland on Thursday, authorities said. The Harford County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the shooting near Spesutia and Perryman Roads in Aberdeen. The first shots were reported just after 9 a.m. There was no immediate word on any suspects and it wasn't known if officials had taken anyone into custody in connection with the incident. "We are closely monitoring the horrific shooting in Aberdeen. Our prayers are with all those impacted, including our first responders. The State stands ready to offer any support," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said. The conditions of...

Witch prison found in 15th century Scottish church: Medieval chapel was used to hold suspects before they were killed and burnedIn the years before the Reformation, a small chapel in a church on the outskirts of Aberdeen had provided a quiet place for Catholic women to pray in peace. But within 30 years of the switch from Catholicism to the Protestant faith, St Mary's Chapel at the Kirk of St Nicholas in Aberdeen took on a far darker and sinister role. Historians have uncovered evidence that the chapel, built during the 15th century, served as a prison for suspected witches...

A row over free speech has broken out at a north-east university, following a display of posters advertising an anti-abortion protest. The 40 days of Life event, featuring people holding signs and prayer vigils, has been taking place daily outside the city’s maternity hospital since March 1 and aims to cover the whole of Lent until April 13. But some student groups at Aberdeen University have expressed outrage at the Catholic chaplaincy on the campus displaying posters for the meeting and have signed a mass letter calling for their removal. The building is owned by the Catholic Church, who insist...

Army investigators on Friday blamed a one-star general who now works at Aberdeen Proving Ground and 11 other people for management failures they say contributed to the accidental shipment of live anthrax to labs around the globe over several years. Army investigators who reviewed Dugway Proving Ground in Utah wrote that Brig. Gen. William E. King IV perpetuated a "complacent atmosphere" when he commanded the lab at the installation. Workers at Dugway mistakenly shipped live anthrax to 194 other labs in the United States and overseas, including to Aberdeen Proving Ground and other sites in Maryland.

The FBI said Mondayn that it has arrested a Maryland man who received thousands of dollars from Islamic State terrorists to carry out an attack on U.S. soil. Mohamed Yousef Elshinawy, 30, of Edgewood was taken into custody Friday afternoon at his home. He was charged with providing material support to the Islamic State, lying to the FBI about money transfers and concealing evidence, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint outlined Elshinawy’s stream of communications with Islamic State operatives who sent him nearly $9,000.

The FBI has arrested an Edgewood, Maryland man suspected of providing material support to ISIS. Mohamad Elshinawy allegedly pledged his allegiance to ISIL and said his "soul was over there with the jihadists." The FBI said Elshinawy was instructed by ISIS to "cause destruction" or to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States. They say he received payments from a suspected ISIS operative through Western Union and PayPal by pretending to sell printers on eBay to mask the payments.

ABERDEEN, Wash. -- The mother of a 3-year-old boy is furious that a man wasn't arrested after he allegedly assaulted the child at an Aberdeen playground. The suspect is developmentally disabled, and prosecutors say that presents a challenging legal issue. Three-year-old Matthew Svoboda was playing at the park Tuesday when things got ugly. The boy's family claims a 27-year-old man started attacking the child without warning. "He pulled him off that with one arm and then he started hitting him, either with a closed fist or an open hand," said Matthew's brother, Toby Svoboda. The boy's mother, Isabel Svoboda, watched...

A high-tech U.S. military blimp designed to detect a missile attack came loose on Wednesday and wreaked havoc as it floated from Maryland into Pennsylvania while dragging more than a mile of cable and knocking out power to thousands.

ABERDEEN, Md - The Army will be demonstrating new "green" ammunition at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. The military began providing the lead-free round last June to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. It replaces ammunition used since the early 1980s. A live-fire demonstration will be held Wednesday morning at the post. Soldiers will fire the new and old rounds, as well as a third type, to compare the performance of all three on identical targets.