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Fox News host Dana Perino announced Saturday that her dog Jasper, who she has often featured on television over the years, has passed away.

It is its deep sadness that I have to let you all know that Jasper passed away today. Full post here - thank you for loving him and his Twitter presence.

I watched the interview of my friend and former political opponent, Senator Mike Braun, Republican of Indiana, on the Tucker Carlson show recently regarding the topic of BLM and police reform. I know Senator Braun because we are both from Jasper, Indiana, a small town in south-central Indiana, population of 15,000. Braun is an immensely successful businessman whose company employs more than 600 individuals. I came to know Mike when we ran against one another for the state representative seat for Indiana’s 63rd district in 2014. We spoke before the same audiences and sat at the same tables. We discussed...

Chelsea Clinton left the hospital today with her new son Jasper in tow, moments after her mother Hillary Clinton arrived to help her home. Chelsea and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, 41, welcomed their third child on Monday morning, but the mother-of-three stayed at Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's Upper Easy Side for three days before returning to her Gramercy apartment on Thursday morning. The 39-year-old was photographed walking out of the hospital in a blue dress with white polka dots, beaming as she carried the swaddled newborn to the car. Chelsea appeared in great spirits as she headed outside on...

One of three men convicted in the 1998 dragging death of a Jasper man is set to be executed next spring. John William King's execution date is set for April 24, 2019 at 6 p.m., Newton County Sheriff Billy Rowles told 12News. Rowles was the sheriff in Jasper County when Byrd was tragically and brutally murdered over 20 years ago... Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, was executed in 2011 for the crime and Shawn Berry, 42, is serving life in prison. Byrd's death sparked legislation about hate crimes in the resulting public outcry throughout the last two decades. President Barack Obama...

'The Five' co-host opens up about her best friend in her new book titled 'Let Me Tell You about Jasper ...'

EDMONTON – Find it. Scoop it. Submit it. It’s just that easy. As part of a new pilot project aimed at learning more about the park’s bears, Jasper National Park is looking for dedicated volunteers to collect bear scat this summer. Hikers will first be trained to properly collect and handle the samples. After that, they will be asked to gather samples of bear droppings from along the park’s trails.

Fans of "The Five" know that co-host Dana Perino previously served as the White House press secretary under George W. Bush. And you're probably all well-acquainted with her four-legged friend — and America's dog — Jasper. But you may not know which fellow Fox News host led her to find Jasper or what happened to Dana in the infamous Iraq shoe-throw. Fox News Insider caught up with Dana, and here are five fun stories she shared with us. Dana's new book, "And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side," is available now. I Predicted I Would...

The FBI and Seattle authorities were investigating a Nevada man who was arrested after he was spotted on the University of Washington campus in a stolen truck carrying multiple explosive devices, stolen firearms and body armor, police said Thursday. The man was arrested a few blocks away after a police pursuit near Seattle Children's Hospital late Wednesday, said John Vinson, chief of the University of Washington police. He gave no further details of the pursuit, but he described the arrest as "high-risk." Justin Miles Jasper was arrested early Thursday and was being held without bail in the King County jail...

I have written numerous articles about how Jasper, TX Police Chief Rodney Pearson is not a good guy. I just wrote an article today about how this Jasper, TX Police Chief was finally fired. I am sure it will not be long before all the liberal media and civil rights groups come out of the woodworks to cry racism. They will pull the race card and say that Rodney Pearson was fired because he was black. They will ignore the facts that show that Rodney Pearson was fired because he was just not a good police chief who should not...

Weeks ago I wrote an article about how police Chief Rodney Pearson knew that he was going to be fired soon so he filed a last minute discrimination complaint to try to bully the Jasper, TX city council into being too scared to fire him even though the city has many very valid reasons to fire him. Pearson's Bully Tactics DID NOT work! The City FIRED him yesterday with a vote of 4-1 after a 2 hour long city council discussion over Pearson. Here are some of the things discussed in that meeting, according to the Beaumont Enterprise: Pearson was...

After the last article I wrote last week about racism in Jasper, TX, I have received calls from residents of Jasper who say that AOL/Huffington Post called them regarding allegations that the Police Chief, Rodney Pearson, was being discriminated against because he is black. Talk about Race Baiting! The media does not care about the several white people who have filed lawsuits because they were discriminated against by the Police Chief and the City. They don't care about that. As soon as they hear that the black police chief claims he is being discriminated against, that is when they care. Can anyone say liberal media...

I previously wrote an article about how the City Council of Jasper, TX (the majority of the council members are black) turned down several white candidates in order to hire a lesser qualified black candidate (with a criminal record) for Police Chief, Rodney Pearson. Several lawsuits were filed alleging racial discrimination. Jasper TX City Council Hires Black Police Chief based on Race, not Qualifications - White Officers Get Demoted - new Chief has Criminal Record - Several Lawsuits Filed Of course there were those who cried racism and said that the black city council members were being attacked because of...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas. Byrd, 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road in one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history. Brewer, 44, was asked if he had any final words, to which he replied: "No. I have no final statement." He glanced at his parents watching through a nearby window, took several deep breaths and...

We just had to put our old pal Jasper down. This is pretty much the first time for me and it’s the saddest thing ever. He was our watchdog when the kids were little. We live across from the county jail which has since moved but when we first got Jasper they used to take the prisoners to court in the morning and bring them back around 2:30 in the afternoon. The police often had rounded up a few more criminals and since the jail was already overcrowded they had to release a few around the same time that the...

In what is being projected as an economic boom for the East Texas region (if it comes to fruition), the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will soon begin work on a feasibility study for an East-West corridor. The announcement was made last week as the TxDOT Commission voted to move forward with the study that will cost an estimated $2 million. The corridor is the brainchild of the Gulf Coast Strategic Highway Coalition. "If we had a major four-lane, east-west highway through Jasper it would mean to us what I-10 means to Beaumont and I-20 means to Shreveport," said Jasper...

Brewer pushes for death date By JACQUELINE LANEThe Enterprise 04/15/2004 Lawrence Russell Brewer is one of three men convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. Brewer has been on death row since 1999. One of the men convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. wants his execution date set. Lawrence Russell Brewer has written to District 1-A Judge Monte D. Lawlis, making the request. Lawlis was the trial judge in Brewer's case, which was heard in Bryan. Brewer and John William King have been on death row since 1999 for the June 7, 1998, murder. A third man,...

The mother of a black man from Jasper who was dragged to death says she dreads the premiere of a documentary on the crime. Three white men were convicted in the 1998 death of James Byrd Junior. Two were sent to death row. The third man received life in prison. Stella Mae Byrd wrote a letter published in The Jasper Newsboy. She says her son has been dead for four years. She also says, quote: "What people said back then is their business and as for the family, we do not want to hear it!" The film "Two Towns of...

Documentary To Air On Jasper Murder Multi Ethnic Filmmakers Shoot Documentary Over Racist Murder, Town Posted: 12:27 p.m. EST January 17, 2003 Updated: 12:58 p.m. EST January 17, 2003 FORT WORTH, Texas -- Two segregated film crews, one black and one white, used the perspective of race to create a documentary centered on the brutal dragging death of a black man by three whites five years ago in Jasper, Texas. The New York filmmakers behind the "Two Towns of Jasper" found the differences in perspective before filming began and the divide only grew more distinct during the two-year project....