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  • Woman declines to sing national anthem at minor league game because she can't bring her gun

    04/13/2018 3:49:08 PM PDT · by BackRoads775 · 7 replies
    http://www.foxnews.com ^ | 04/13/2018 | By Elizabeth Zwirz
    After being offered an opportunity to sing the national anthem before a Nevada minor league baseball game, a woman has decided to turn it down after learning that she can’t bring her gun to the stadium. Alishia Wolcott was picked by the Reno Aces to sing after she submitted an audition tape in March, she told Fox News. But after she and her husband went to the stadium on Saturday to attend a game as spectators, they saw security included metal detector wands, which she claimed was a new measure this year. "Upon walking up to the stadium we saw...
  • Donkey running on Highway shot and killed (Party Symbol?)

    04/13/2018 12:51:12 PM PDT · by rey · 52 replies
    Press Democrat ^ | 13 April 2018
    (Full title: Donkey running on Highway 101 shot and killed by Mendocino County Animal Control officers) An aggressive 40-year-old donkey loose on Highway 101 in Hopland was shot and killed by Mendocino County Animal Control officers Wednesday at the request of the animal’s owner. The 500-pound donkey was reported running on the highway around 3:30 p.m. prompting a response from the CHP, Caltrans, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and animal control, authorities said. The donkey posed a threat to drivers coming around a blind corner on Highway 101, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. A driver was injured after...
  • Police Arrest Man For Killing Baby, Ex-Wife

    04/12/2018 9:07:49 PM PDT · by BBell · 16 replies
    A man from Niger stabbed to death his German ex-wife and their one-year-old daughter in a brutal attack in a busy train station Thursday, police said. The bloody knife killings took place mid-morning in the busiest subway station of Hamburg, Germany’s second-biggest city. “The crime was very, very terrible in its execution, very targeted and very, very extreme,” said police spokesman Timo Zill. “We currently assume it was a crime of passion.”
  • Renowned glassblowing artists will try to make 24-foot-high bong in Seattle

    04/12/2018 2:12:52 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 36 replies
    Seattle Times ^ | April 12, 2018 | By Christine Clarridge
    Dude, check it out. Jason Harris and a group of other renowned glassblowing artists will be meeting in Seattle over the “4/20” weekend to create the world’s largest bong. The final piece, which will be created in parts and then assembled at the Cannabition museum in the downtown Las Vegas Arts District, will tower 24-feet high and weigh 800 pounds when completed. The bong will feature hookah-like attachments and actually be smoke-able, according to Chris Davison, co-owner of Jerome Baker Designs. “I think everybody on the top floor (of the cannabis museum) could end up high,” Davis said, jokingly. “It’s...
  • Cause of death released for woman found near Bay Trail

    04/12/2018 12:58:29 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 30 replies
    Los Altos Town Crier ^ | April 9, 2018 | Grace Hase
    The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office recently ruled that the Mountain View woman whose body was found floating in the water along the Bay Trail in Sunnyvale last December died of drowning. According to an autopsy report medical examiner Dr. Joseph O’Hara signed off on March 28, Chuchu Ma had “multiple minor blunt force injuries and pulmonary edema consistent with drowning.” But while Ma’s cause of death may be known, the manner of her death remains undetermined, perhaps indefinitely. Monday morning, Capt. Shawn Ahearn of the Sunnyvale Department of Pubilc Safety said Ma’s case is now considered closed. The...
  • Whites (Colonizers) must Pay more at Wakandacon in Chicago

    04/12/2018 12:36:03 PM PDT · by Sneakyuser · 97 replies
    Colonizer Full Weekend Badge The same as the Full-Weekend badge, except it costs 3/5 more. Premium proceeds go to Flint, MI. $56.00 + $5.17 Ticketing Fee
  • Dog Leads Owner to Storm Drain, Finds Abandoned Newborn 6′ Deep

    04/12/2018 11:39:35 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 26 replies
    Liftable ^ | April 11, 2018 at 10:33am | Erin Coates
    It was a seemingly normal day as Charmaine Keevy walked her dog Georgie in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on April 3. The 63-year-old and her Dachshund mix usually take a different route, but for some reason, Keevy decided to walk elsewhere and their journey took them past a storm drain. All of a sudden, Georgie started barking as they walked by the drain. “I first thought it was a cat because he is scared of cats, but then when I heard the cries again, I realized it was a baby,” Keevy said. She quickly flagged down Cornie Viljoen’s car on...
  • More than 80 dead from drinking bootleg alcohol in Indonesia

    Police in Indonesia are promising to crack down on the distribution of bootleg alcohol as deaths this month from drinking illegally produced toxic liquor rose to at least 86... "In the past, bootleg alcohol was found to be a mixture of alcohol and energy drinks. Some are a mix of pure alcohol, carbonated drinks and an ingredient used in anti-mosquito repellent."... Alcohol is legal in Indonesia, but over 100 regional regulations are in place to control consumption. Across the country, the sale of alcoholic beverages containing less than 5% alcohol, such as beer, is no longer allowed in convenience stores...
  • NHS England suffers worst A&E waiting times on record

    04/12/2018 5:51:44 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 6 replies
    Sky News ^ | April 12, 2018 | By Bethan Staton,
    A&E performance fell to the lowest level on record in March as the NHS continues to face unprecedented pressure. Just 84.6% of accident and emergency patients in England were seen within four hours last month, dropping from 85% in February and compared to 90% in March 2017. And the number of people suffering waits of more than 12 hours more than tripled, compared to the same month the year before. Medics said the backlog created by the situation would leave some hospitals struggling to catch up. President of the Society for Acute Medicine Nick Scriven called the figures the "clearest...
  • 90 dead, toll rising in Indonesia moonshine crisis(mixed with mosquito repellent)

    04/11/2018 9:27:04 PM PDT · by Rebelbase · 23 replies
    Bangkok Post ^ | 4/11/18 | Staff
    {snip} On Tuesday, authorities said at least 90 people have died over the past two weeks in Jakarta, West Java province and easternmost Papua, while dozens more are in critical condition in hospital from drinking tainted booze. At least nine people have been arrested as of Tuesday, but authorities are still looking for major distributors of the bootleg booze which is usually sold under the table by street vendors, who sometimes make the toxic concoction themselves. One suspect admitted having mixed mosquito repellent, pure alcohol and cough medicine into his homemade brew, police said.
  • Democrat Candidate For Connecticut Governor Refused To Leave Forum Look What Happened

    04/11/2018 6:27:31 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 26 replies
    Democrat candidate for Connecticut Governor refused to leave forum Look what happenedhttps://twitter.com/MagaApplePie/status/983895467921690624  
  • Cleveland 'House of Horrors' victim, raped daily for 11 years, now happily married

    04/11/2018 12:32:01 PM PDT · by Bubba_Leroy · 14 replies
    FoxNews.com ^ | April 10, 2018 | Katherine Lam
    One of the three women kidnapped and held captive in a Cleveland “House of Horrors” -- where she was raped daily for more than a decade -- revealed in an episode of “Dr. Phil” she is happily married years after her harrowing escape. Michelle Knight, 36, who now goes by the name Lily Rose, announced the news in an episode set to air April 24, TMZ reported Monday. “I got really good news for you…Dr. Phil, I’m married!” Knight said as the audience cheered. Knight said she's been married since May 2015, two years after she was rescued from her...
  • Breaking: Protestors saying "no justice no peace"...

    04/11/2018 10:10:49 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 45 replies
    NBC MIAMI "reporter" ^ | 4/11/18 | Jamie Guirola
    Protestors saying “no justice , no peace” stop Brickell traffic between 7th and 8th on Biscayne Blvd.
  • 3 dead, more than 100 with severe bleeding from synthetic pot: Illinois health officials

    04/10/2018 9:32:27 PM PDT · by bitt · 93 replies
    abcnews.go.com ^ | 4/10/2018 | ANDREA MILLER
    A third person who experienced severe bleeding after using synthetic marijuana has died in Illinois, health officials confirmed. There are now 107 people in central Illinois and the Chicago area who experienced severe bleeding after using the synthetic pot, often called spice, K2 or fake weed, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. “Each day we’ve seen the number of cases rise,” said director of the IDPH Nirav D. Shah, M.D., J.D. "Synthetic cannabinoids are unsafe. They are not regulated and people don’t know what chemicals may be in them, like rat poison. While efforts are underway to get...
  • Entercom Terminates KFTK Morning Host Jaime Allman Following Social Media Threat To David Hogg

    04/10/2018 7:45:55 PM PDT · by raccoonradio · 21 replies
    Radio Insight ^ | 4/10/18 | Lance Venta
    After first taking Jaime Allman off the air indefinitely today, Entercom has parted ways with the morning host of “FM NewsTalk 97.1” KFTK-FM Florissant/St. Louis MO. Entercom VP/Corporate Communications Esther Mireya-Tejeda told Buzzfeed that “After looking into the matter we have decided that Allman will no longer be a member of KFTK-FM and his show has been canceled, effective immediately. We have parted ways.” We have confirmed with Ms. Mireya-Tejeda that Allman has been terminated from the company. Original Report 4/10: As Entercom deals with the fall-out created by a tweet by yet-to-debut “97.3 The Machine” KEGY San Diego morning...
  • Nun Carjacked at Gunpoint in Northeast, Police Say

    04/10/2018 3:33:37 PM PDT · by markomalley · 15 replies
    WRC-TV ^ | 4/10/18 | Shomari Stone and Sophia Barnes
    A nun who was fully dressed in her habit was carjacked at gunpoint in Northeast D.C., police say. The nun was walking on Quincy Street in Brookland around 7 p.m. Monday to her parked car. A man approached her, brandishing a gun and demanding her keys, police said. She complied, and the man drove off in her car, police said.
  • Miami students walk out to protest off-campus gun violence

    04/10/2018 11:11:46 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 36 replies
    Hundreds of students have walked out of their Miami high school to protest gun violence after four current or former classmates were shot off campus. The students chanted "no justice, no peace" Tuesday and carried "enough is enough" signs outside Northwestern Senior High School.... No arrests have been made.
  • Tennessee college senior defends posing for graduation picture with gun in her waistband

    04/10/2018 9:29:05 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 51 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10 Apr 2018 | Anon
    A Tennessee college senior is sticking to her guns after posting a graduation photo in which she stares wistfully off-camera while lifting her "Women for Trump" T-shirt to expose a handgun in her waistband. Despite receiving what she called a surprising "amount of hate" on social media, Brenna Spencer, 22, says she has no regrets. “I know the Tennessee state gun codes. ... I carry everywhere that I’m allowed to carry," the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga student said in an interview. On Twitter, where Spencer's profile states that "political correctness offends me," she posted the provocative photo with the caption...
  • Wisconsin Sen. Lena Taylor cited for disorderly conduct after incident with bank teller

    04/10/2018 8:06:54 AM PDT · by UB355 · 18 replies
    Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal ^ | 04/09/2018 | Jason Stein and Ashley Luthern
    Wisconsin Sen. Lena Taylor was cited for disorderly conduct for allegedly berating a bank teller, but an attorney for the Milwaukee Democrat is seeking to quash the citation. Vincent Bobot said Taylor was given a civil citation Friday by a Milwaukee police officer on the scene but was later told by an unnamed supervisor in the Police Department that the citation was being reviewed. A spokeswoman for Milwaukee police has made no comment on the incident.
  • PD: Lee Whitnum arrested, removed from Democratic gubernatorial forum

    04/10/2018 5:54:33 AM PDT · by Puppage · 27 replies
    WTNH.COM ^ | 04/10/2018 | Kent Pierce
    BROOKFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) - A Democratic candidate for governor had to be dragged off a stage by police Monday night in Brookfield. Police say 57-year-old Lee Whitnum was taken away and arrested under her legal name, Lisa Baker. The incident happened before a Democratic gubernatorial forum at Brookfield High School could even begin. Only some of the many people running for governor were invited to speak at the event. Lee Whitnum was not one of them, but she took the stage anyway. If you have not heard of Whitnum, she has run for officer before calling herself a progressive Democrat....