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  • Houston DPS clerk charged with bribery She's accused of selling licenses to illegal drivers

    07/01/2010 6:52:49 AM PDT · by BradtotheBone · 33 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | July 1, 2010 | MIKE GLENN
    A Houston woman who works for the Texas Department of Public Safety used her ready access to state driver's licenses for cash, authorities said. Gracie Gutierrez, 27, remained in custody after she was charged on Tuesday with bribery. Gutierrez is accused of accepting bribes to issue driver's licenses to people who are undocumented and have not taken the written or driving exam, said Donna Hawkins with the Harris County District Attorney's office. Also charged with bribery is Saul Ramirez, 20. Officials said he does not work for DPS. Ramirez was arrested while trying to sell a Texas driver's license to...
  • Riley Fox Killer Left Signed Shoe at the Scene (Innocent Father Spent 8 Months in Jail)

    06/16/2010 11:28:06 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 53 replies · 1,089+ views
    NBC Chicago ^ | Wed, Jun 16, 2010 | NATALIE MARTINEZ
    The man accused of killing 3-year-old Riley Fox, Scott Eby, left a big clue at the scene of the crime six years ago. Eby, who was living about a mile from the Foxes in 2004, left a pair of mud-covered shoes at Forked Creek, where he allegedly raped and killed Fox. The shoes had his name written on them. Police collected the shoes and put them into evidence but never followed up. They focused their case instead on the girl’s father, Kevin Fox who confessed to her murder. Charges were later dropped thanks to DNA evidence that excluded him. “Sheriff’s...
  • A rough road for bus safety - Records show (METRO) drivers had 1,029 wrecks last year (in Houston)

    06/07/2010 11:20:57 AM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 17 replies · 25+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | June 7, 2010, 5:55AM | YANG WANG
    ...On average, that's nearly three accidents or fender benders each day. Two accidents this year involved buses and Metro's light rail — both the result of bus drivers running red lights... The Chronicle's review of accidents, citations and breakdowns involving the Metropolitan Transit Authority's 1,210 buses documented a total of 1,029 wrecks last year. Metro Police classified 338 of them as “preventable,” meaning the bus drivers involved could have taken measures to prevent the accidents; 220 caused at least $1,000 in damages or resulted in people ending up at hospitals. Altogether, at least 334 people were injured in bus or...
  • All charges dropped against cop in fatal crash (Chicago cop, drunk killed two)

    06/04/2010 11:44:43 AM PDT · by Second Amendment First · 111 replies · 2,866+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | June 4, 2010 | Matt Walberg
    <p>With a judge's earlier ruling that Chicago Police Officer John Ardelean had been arrested and detained without probable cause, Cook County prosecutors today dropped all charges against him in a crash that killed two people.</p> <p>The 36-year-old officer was charged with drunken driving and reckless homicide after his SUV broadsided a car on Thanksgiving 2007.</p>
  • Prison Sex Party Leads To Calls For Resignation (Hookers for Juvenile felons)

    05/27/2010 8:15:03 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 29 replies · 1,469+ views
    State Senator Mike Nozzolio is calling for the immediate resignation of New York State Office of Children and Family Services Commissioner Gladys Carrion for sanctioning an inappropriate and illegal taxpayer-funded sex party at a juvenile prison in which at least one underage girl and a suspected prostitute were brought in to perform inappropriate sexual acts on inmates. “There must be zero tolerance for this shocking and outrageous incident being allowed to occur,” said Senator Nozzolio. “During these difficult economic times, while our hardworking taxpayers are struggling to make ends meet, it is simply unconscionable that taxpayer dollars are being wasted...
  • Officers Caught in Nasty Dog-Licking Scandal

    04/29/2010 5:09:55 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 38 replies · 886+ views
    NBC Miami ^ | Thu, Apr 29, 2010 | TODD WRIGHT
    Dog ate out of peanut butter jar, which was then put back on the shelf for unsuspecting officers If a Fort Lauderdale police officer offers you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, run away. Several high-ranking officers are under investigation and could face criminal charges for letting a dog eat out of a peanut butter jar and then placing it back on the shelf for other unsuspecting officers to use, according to the South Florida Times. It's unclear how many officers ate the contaminated peanut butter, but the prank wasn't discovered until after a detective realized he had caught several...
  • Fort Worth Officer Accused Of Smoking Pot On Duty

    04/28/2010 1:08:46 PM PDT · by Texican72 · 27 replies · 658+ views
    CBS 11 / TXA21 ^ | April 28, 2010 | Sana Syed
    FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― Fort Worth police Officer Wesley Lamb is accused of smoking marijuana while on duty and in uniform. Chief Jeff Halstead announced the arrest at a news conference Wednesday morning. 34-year-old Wesley Lamb was arrested Wednesday morning following a tip from a Fort Worth resident. He's accused of using and possessing marijuana while on duty. Halstead announced the arrest to a group of new police recruits Wednesday morning. He made it clear that this behavior will not be tolerated. Halstead also told the rookies that he has created a special team of investigators...
  • Texas has worst record of prison sex abuse - 5 of the 10 U.S. facilities w/ highest sexual assault

    04/05/2010 11:23:38 AM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 72 replies · 2,185+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | April 5, 2010, 10:05AM | MEREDITH SIMONS and ROBERT GAVIN
    ...Sexual abuse is a problem in prisons from Rikers Island to Albany.... Texas still stands out as the state where sexual assault in prison is most prevalent. Five of the 10 prisons with the highest rates of sexual abuse in the country are in Texas. That includes the top two, Estelle Unit and Clements Unit. Garrett Cunningham was an inmate at the Luther Unit in Navasota in 2000, when he says a corrections officer twice his size accosted him on his way to the shower, handcuffed him, raped him and then forced him into the shower. Cunningham said the officer...
  • Prosecutors drop charge against FBI guard accused of dressing room spying at W.Va. mall

    03/10/2010 8:04:28 AM PST · by cajuncow · 10 replies · 585+ views
    cox news ^ | 3-10-10 | Associated Press
    FAIRMONT, W.Va. (Associated Press) -- Prosecutors in West Virginia have dropped a misdemeanor charge that accused an FBI security guard of spying on girls as they tried on prom gowns at a Fairmont mall. A Marion County magistrate convicted Charles Brian Hommema of invasion of privacy in December.
  • VIDEO: Three Providence, RI Cops Busted In Drug Sting

    03/05/2010 8:15:44 AM PST · by AtlasStalled · 6 replies · 381+ views
    Friends of Ours ^ | 03/05/10 | Friends of Ours
    In Providence, RI three cops are among those arrested after a four-month investigation into an alleged drug trafficking ring, and one of the cops -- Sgt. Stephen T. Gonsalves -- is "a former driver for Mayor David N. Cicilline and husband of the mayor's executive assistant" Xiomara Gonsalves as reported by Thomas J. Morgan and Richard C. Dujardin for The Providence Journal. The other two cops are Detective Sgt. Joseph A. Colanduano, "a narcotics detective assigned to the Narcotics and Organized Crime Bureau" who has been "charged with conspiracy to deliver cocaine and compounding and concealing a felony, and larceny...
  • ACORN Cleared by Brooklyn DA in Big "Pimp/Prostitute" Probe [ACORN-front WFP endorsed DA in 2009!]

    03/02/2010 12:32:36 PM PST · by ETL · 16 replies · 665+ views
    Gothamist ^ | March 2, 2010 | John Del Signore
    Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes has concluded his investigation into possible criminality on the part of three ACORN employees caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and companion. (Though the right-wing gadflies who made the hidden camera video edited it to suggest that James O'Keefe was posing as the woman's pimp, the couple actually told ACORN employees he was trying to protect her from the pimp [PDF].) Yesterday Hynes cleared ACORN of any criminality, while perpetuating the misconception that O'Keefe had posed as a pimp and worn a cliche pimp costume during the meeting...
  • Get this! TSA agent plants bag of white powder as a joke!

    01/21/2010 1:36:31 PM PST · by freemike · 11 replies · 629+ views
    libertas ^ | 1/21/10 | freemike
    Here's the story!"In the tense new world of air travel, we're stripped of shoes, told not to take too much shampoo on board, frowned on if we crack a smile. The last thing we expect is a joke from a Transportation Security Administration screener - particularly one this stupid."
  • Gay Adoptive Father Faces Arraignment in Abuse Case

    12/09/2009 3:50:00 PM PST · by jonatron · 46 replies · 1,991+ views
    Edge (gay pride mag from Boston) ^ | Tuesday Dec 1, 2009 | Kilian Melloy
    A former Duke University employee and adoptive gay father charged with molesting his five-year-old son--and offering the boy as a sex object to pedophiles online--is expected to make a plea bargain, according to a Dec. 1 article in local newspaper the Durham Herald Sun. Frank Lombard faces charges stemming from alleged instances in which he molested his young adopted son and chatted about the deeds online even as he carried them out. It’s thought that the U.S, Attorney’s Office is positioning the case for a plea arrangement because the Office is set to file an "information," which allows the prosecution...
  • Copenhagen 'Circus' Turning Into Feel-Good Jamboree, Critics Say

    12/08/2009 10:58:50 AM PST · by AngelesCrestHighway · 17 replies · 599+ views
    FoxNews ^ | 12/08/09 | Joseph Abrams
    As activists from groups as wide-ranging as the Girl Scouts and the World Council on Churches converge on the climate change conference in Copenhagen, some critics say it's turning into a "circus" sideshow, with 20,000 attendees creating an international echo chamber of climate piety. Apart from the main proceedings, there are 254 side events, 231 exhibits and more than 200 press conferences already on the schedule — meaning there are about 700 extra events keyed up for the 12-day conference. "These circuses get bigger and bigger," said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise...
  • Coke sends mixed holiday message[Feliz Navidad??]

    12/03/2009 9:57:40 AM PST · by BGHater · 73 replies · 2,719+ views
    Carroll County Times ^ | 30 Nov 2009 | Hugh M. McLaurin
    Now that the holidays are upon us, it’s time to get annoyed with the consumerism, secularism and political correctness that continue to whittle away at the meaning of the holiday season. The secular and consumption-driven nature of the season has become so routine that one has to work hard to remember to take time for the traditions and religious observances that once defined the season. I thought I had seen every example of how religious meaning has been stripped out of Christmas until a friend showed me the label on a festive seasonal bottle of Coca Cola the other day....
  • Professor in climate change scandal helps police...while researchers call for him to be banned

    12/02/2009 12:48:25 PM PST · by Eurotwit · 15 replies · 1,220+ views
    The Daily Mail ^ | 02nd December 2009 | Fiona Macrae
    He said: 'I can confirm what has been written in other places: research in some areas of climate science has been and is full of machination, conspiracies and collusion, as any reader can interpret from the CRU files. 'The scientific debate has been in many instances hijacked to advance other agendas.' The researcher added although he does not believe that manmade climate is a hoax, he and other researchers have been ‘bullied and subtly blackmailed’ to fit in the scientific mainstream. 'In this atmosphere, PhD students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the "politically correct...
  • In Denial

    12/02/2009 10:38:24 AM PST · by Pharmer · 12 replies · 1,165+ views
    my comon sense mind | 12/2/09 | me
    What is the phrase? Oh yea: “Denial isn’t a river in Egypt” They say it to alcoholics in an intervention and to abducted kids suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Its cliché, but now is a point of massive irony. To start, allow me to recall the tale of the esteemed immunologist, David Baltimore. Dr. Baltimore is a Nobel laureate, chairman of the board of director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and holds a professorship at CalTech. However in spite of his current position his reputation has been permanently scared by a scandal in the early 1990’s at...
  • Climategate Update: CRU emails were leaked before they were hacked

    11/30/2009 1:36:17 AM PST · by The Raven · 27 replies · 1,760+ views
    American Thinker ^ | Nov 30, 2009 | Thomas Lifson
    The BBC received copies of some of the CRU emails more than a month ago, but did nothing about them, sitting on explosive evidence of fraud. The UK Daily Mail reports: .. The sequence of events strongly suggests that an insider leaked some emails to the BBC (and for all we know, others), hoping that they would be incriminating enough to intrigue anyone. When faced with a media stonewall, the insider then chose to post the complete files where they could not quickly be extinguished.
  • Inhofe Says He Will Call for Investigation on "Climategate" (UN IPCC included!!)

    11/23/2009 10:22:42 AM PST · by milwguy · 122 replies · 6,180+ views
    senate.gov ^ | 11/23/2009 | senate.gov
    Senator Inhofe: Well, on this thing, it is pretty serious. And since, you know, Barabara Boxer is the Chairman and I’m the Ranking Member on Environment and Public Works, if nothing happens in the next seven days when we go back into session a week from today that would change this situation, I will call for an investigation. ‘Cause this thing is serious, you think about the literally millions of dollars that have been thrown away on some of this stuff that they came out with. Melanie Morgan: So what will you be calling for an investigation of? Senator Inhofe:...
  • Schools let students seek secret abortions

    11/19/2009 6:57:51 AM PST · by honestabe010 · 33 replies · 1,060+ views
    WND via The Woodward Report ^ | November 18, 2009 | Chelsea Schilling
    A 12-year-old girl is prohibited from bringing aspirin to California public schools without a note from her mother or father – but in many California districts she may sign herself out of classes, leave her junior-high campus without parental permission, secretly have an abortion and return to school before the end of the day – and her own family may be none the wiser. Parents and educators across the state have been in heated debate over school policies allowing children to be excused during class time without parental notification for "confidential medical services" such as abortions, birth control, and drug...