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The husband of a housekeeper for the Catholic bishop found shot to death over the weekend in his Hacienda Heights home was arrested for the slaying on Monday, Feb. 20, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said. A tipster had told authorities that the suspect, Carlos Medina, who had also previously worked for Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell in some capacity, had been behaving oddly and claimed the bishop owed him money, the sheriff said.

auren Pozen reports from Hacienda Heights, where authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of David O'Connell, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

James Gordon Meek is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who worked as a correspondent and producer for ABC News. He is articulate, focused, and relentless in his work as an investigative journalist, and exposed the coverup behind the death of four U.S. Special Forces soldiers in Niger, Africa in 2017. This is not Meek’s first time calling out the United States Military and their lack of accountability, along with the lack of leadership existent in our current brass. Over the last year, Meek has been promoting his Hulu documentary, 3212 Un-Redacted, where he documents this Niger expose and its fallout.In discussing...

US bishops’ conference denies any wrongdoing in ongoing Peter’s Pence lawsuit, blames parishionersWASHINGTON, April 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In an ongoing case regarding the use of Peter’s Pence donations, lawyers for the U.S. bishops have asserted that parishioners were aware (or at least ought to have been) that their money could be used by the Holy See for any purpose, despite their own advertisement to the contrary.The Peter’s Pence lawsuit was originally filed in January 2020 against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) by the Stanley Law Group based in Dallas, Texas, representing a Class Action brought by...

After months of weak fundraising, the Democratic National Committee’s CEO will reportedly leave the job after less than a year.According to NBC News, Jess O’Connell will leave her job next month as the DNC’s top day-to-day official, overseeing the party headquarters during a chairman’s usual absences on high-profile tasks.DNC fundraising also has stabilized, though it hasn’t recovered completely, NBC News reported.

The CEO of the Democratic National Committee is leaving after less than a year on the job, NBC News has learned. Veteran Democrat operative Jess O’Connell took the helm of the DNC last May with a mandate to help newly installed Chairman Tom Perez turn around a troubled party organization that was struggling after years of neglect and a brutal 2016 that included accusations of favoritism in the primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the hacking of internal emails, and the loss to President Donald Trump. O’Connell will leave the party stabilized, if not yet fully recovered, after wins...

The CEO of the Democratic National Committee is leaving after less than a year on the job, NBC News has learned. Veteran Democrat operative Jess O’Connell took the helm of the DNC last May with a mandate to help newly installed Chairman Tom Perez turn around a troubled party organization that was struggling after years of neglect and a brutal 2016 that included accusations of favoritism in the primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the hacking of internal emails, and the loss to President Donald Trump. O’Connell will leave the party stabilized, if not yet fully recovered, after wins...

The campaign against John R. Bolton’s nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is about far more than his reputedly abrasive personality – behind the smears lies a pro-Castro agenda. The criticism of Bolton by Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd and his aide Janice O’Connell is "based on taking issue with his accusations that Castro is building a biological warfare capability," writes columnist Robert D. Novak. And the effectiveness of O’Connell - the veteran Democratic staff expert on Western Hemisphere affairs – in making life difficult for enemies of Fidel Castro is "legendary,” according to Novak. "She was...

Does it seem plausible that the true spark of the American Revolution was the religion of peace—Christianity? In fact, how could it be any other way in a country expressly founded to establish Christian religious liberty? Colonial America was one of the most intensely evangelized and churched societies in history. For example, according to Harry Stout in The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England, the typical colonists probably listened to 7,000 hours of sermons in their lifetime. For many colonists, their instruction in religion, science, history, politics and most other subjects were delivered only by...

The Founding Fathers were in favor of the right to revolt against tyranny. This is obvious despite widespread current attempts by progressives to suggest armed revolt and the 2nd Amendment would be opposed by the Founders today. But how logical would be the notion that Americans could own guns, but not use them to defend themselves? Or that Americans could arm to defend their lives and liberties, but only against invaders—not against tyrants? Of course, such a position is transparent nonsense. In fact, the American Revolution itself is the most eloquent testimony illustrating the right to bear arms against government...

TAUNTON — State Rep. Shaunna O’Connell said she meant no offense when she posted a photograph on Facebook showing a snowman decorated with a Confederate flag bikini top. “It was just kids having innocent fun,” O’Connell said. “Nothing should be read into that at all.” O’Connell, R-Taunton, posted the image to Facebook on Sunday, along with photographs of her children playing in the snow and a U.S. flag against a snowy backdrop. The Confederate flag, regardless of the intent behind its display, can be a racially charged image for many Americans, said Michael Curry, president of the NAACP’s Boston chapter.

Rove and Steele use the word "tea party" like it was trailer trash reference. Maybe you have both forgotten what it's like to be an ordinary mortgage holding, tax paying, hard working American. Heck, maybe you never knew. But I can tell you that with or without you, the tea party is here to stay. And, you men who can't stand to see a woman with power are going to have to get therapy. Think you can bad mouth and smirk women into their "rightful place"? No, you cannot. The tea party has taken on a life of its own.

Pundits, polls and Republican strategists all give conservative upstart Christine O'Donnell little chance of winning a Senate seat in liberal-leaning Delaware. But others argue it's far too early to write off the newest tea-party favorite, who stunned the political world Tuesday by toppling Republican fixture and nine-term congressman Mike Castle in the party's Delaware Senate primary.

SACRAMENTO -- Raising questions about racial bias in California's public schools, state schools superintendent Jack O'Connell on Tuesday said low expectations for black and Hispanic students contribute to their persistent achievement gap with whites and Asians. O'Connell said teachers and administrators need "a renewed sense of urgency" to close that gap and must evaluate whether they hold all students to the same standards. "Let's approach the job as if our own child were attending a low-performing school," O'Connell said in his annual state of education address. "We wouldn't be patient with our own children lagging behind. We must not be...

Welcome to the live thread for the California Primary Election. Polls are open until 8pm tonight. If you are a registered voter, it is your duty to vote and defend your rights and civil liberties, protect your pocketbook, and vote the bums out where applicable. Feel free to discuss issues key to your local area that others may be interested in. Post your polling place experiences if you like. And post numbers as they come in later tonight.

On August 9 the California Teachers Association and its most famous employee, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, announced that they were suing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for $3.1 billion in money they think the public schools are owed under Proposition 98. The fees for the lawyers for both sides of this dispute will be paid for by the taxpayers, using money that could have been used to fix stopped-up toilets in our schools or buy textbooks for the kids. Prop. 98 was passed by telling the voters it set a minimum level of funding for K-12 public schools of...

MassMutual Financial Group disclosed that the reason for the sudden ouster of its top executive involved his conduct, but the insurer did not offer further details about Robert J. O'Connell's abrupt firing. The mutually owned insurer did, however, confirm that O'Connell was not the only member of MassMutual's management to lose his job late last week. In response to inquiries from The Republican, a MassMutual spokesman confirmed Friday that two others were no longer with the company, the Springfield newspaper said. They are Susan A. Alfano, who left Thursday as executive vice president for enterprise systems and services, and Ann...

The difference between K-12 and P-16 is more than a shuffling of letters and numbers in the proposal outlined Monday by Jack O'Connell, the state's superintendent of public instruction. California's philosophical approach to education would gain five years and a broader scope under goals O'Connell set for the state's children in his annual address on the condition of public schooling. O'Connell advocated state-sponsored preschool available free to all 4-year-olds whose parents want them to attend. Instead of a system that begins with kindergarten and ends with the senior year of high school, he said California should approach education as a...

SACRAMENTO – Saying funding for public education is "bottoming out," Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said Monday he will focus on increasing state money for schools and will campaign to reduce the threshold necessary to pass local parcel taxes. In his State of Education speech to education advocates, O'Connell criticized Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's spending plan, saying it was wrong to frame the budget woes as a choice between cutting health care for the elderly or public education. "It is a choice between tax relief for the wealthiest Californians – those who have benefited most from federal tax policies –...

Stepping up his attack on the state bureaucracy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he wants to use his budget plan to "starve the public sector" without raising taxes "because we don't want to feed the monster." In an hourlong interview with The Bee editorial board, Schwarzenegger also called a trio of Democratic constitutional officers "the Three Stooges" for criticizing his budget approach, and said legislative Democrats are focused on the "wrong things." The spending controls he has proposed and his aversion to new taxes, he added, are "not locked into eternity." "Right now, we need drastic measures," Schwarzenegger said. "We...