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A former co-owner of a funeral home in Lawrence County is accused of photographing and videotaping partially nude women and girls without their knowledge, according to the county Prosecutor’s Office. Richard L. Slack, 68, of Chesapeake, Ohio, is named in a 21-count indictment. The indictment alleges that women and girls of various ages were “videotaped, filmed, photographed or otherwise recorded.” Lawrence County Prosecutor Brigham Anderson confirms the activity allegedly happened in 2019 at a funeral home in Lawrence County. Anderson said Slack was charged Wednesday. His arraignment is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. next Wednesday, Anderson says Wednesday’s indictments come following...

Women with blood pressure that increases or shows little or no decline during the first half of pregnancy are at substantially higher risk for developing a hypertensive disorder in the second half of pregnancy, according to a study published in the March issue of Hypertension. Erica P. Gunderson, from Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland, and colleagues assessed distinct blood pressure trajectories from 0 to 20 weeks of gestation and their relationship with subsequent pregnancy-related hypertension in a retrospective cohort of 174,925 women with no prior hypertension or history of preeclampsia, prenatal care entry ≤14 weeks, and a stillborn or...

In spring 2021 imports of Russian oil to the United States [reached] their highest level in a decade. .. [Russia] became the second-largest exporter of oil to the US later that year ...Across 2021 the US imported between 12 million as 26 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum from Russia every month. In November 2021, the most recent figures on record, the Energy Information Agency reports that the US took 17.8 million barrels... There will be a "major economic shock to the system" if oil prices continue to rise @AngusBlair1 tells CNBCs @_HadleyGamble

American presidents for the past several decades, since the end of the presidency of Ronald Reagan, have had a pretty abysmal record when it comes to the U.S. geopolitical relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin. -snip- In 2013, my father participated in freedom protests in Kiev alongside Democratic Senator Chris Murphy and spoke in front of thousands of protestors. He told them 'We support your just cause, the sovereign right of Ukraine to determine its own destiny freely and independently. And the destiny you seek lies in Europe.' In 2014, following the invasion and annexation of Crimea by Russia my...

Referring to the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Trump praised Putin as a “genius” and stated that “China is going to be next” under Biden’s watch. In a recent interview with the conservative talk radio program “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,” former U.S. President Donald Trump confidently stated that “China is going to be next” and would “absolutely” be going after Taiwan. He accused the Biden administration of being weak and assured the hosts that an invasion would “never have happened” under his own presidency. Trump also praised Putin as a “genius” for sending Russian troops into Ukraine under the guise...

A family who lost their 2-year-old son due to respiratory complications of the flu virus 11 years ago have shared that what God did for their lives, and in the lives of others through their son, has been nothing short of a miracle. A former atheist, dad Darin Hamm shares his story of how a glimpse of heaven transformed him and led him on a journey of faith, while his late toddler son, Griffin, was given only a few hours to live before he was taken off life support. A bright-eyed little boy with beautiful curly blonde locks of hair,...

BRENTWOOD, Calif. - WARNING: Viewer discretion advised. This story has disturbing visual elements. A woman had her scalp torn off by a Brentwood police dog after she shoplifted thousands of dollars from a nearby mall, video obtained by KTVU shows, raising serious questions about when and why K-9 units are deployed. Talmika Bates, then 24, is seen in the video provided by her lawyers screaming and wailing in pain. The skin on top of her head was ripped off exposing blood and bone. "Help me! The dog is biting me," she screams. "My whole brain is bleeding!" The police officer...

Mariposa Castro told the judge that “dark energy forces” had “sucked” her in during the riot.A Donald Trump supporter who entered the U.S. Capitol through a broken window and declared "this is war" on Jan. 6 was sentenced to 45 days behind bars on Wednesday. Mariposa Castro, of Gilroy, also known as Imelda Acosta, went live on Facebook on Jan. 6 when she was at the western front of the Capitol, where some of the most violent attacks on law enforcement during the Capitol siege took place. While atop the inauguration platform, she also entered the Capitol building. Advertisement |...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will end the use of the Emergencies Act after it was invoked just over a week ago in response to the ongoing trucker convoy blockades and protests. Trudeau made the announcement on Wednesday alongside Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Justice Minister David Lametti, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair.

The "Ross procedure" may be a more favorable option for aortic valve replacement among patients under 50 years old than more standard mechanical or biological replacements. The research is the first to compare the Ross procedure to the other options, and shows that it leads to improved survival and better outcomes in younger adults. "Not only was survival better than after biological or mechanical aortic valve replacement, it was also identical to the matched U.S. general population. To this day, this is the only operation that has ever been shown to restore survival after aortic valve replacement in young adults,"...

Liberal Catholic Priest James Martin Under Fire for Appearing to Defend Child Puberty BlockersLiberal Jesuit Catholic priest Father James Martin has come under fire for appearing to defend puberty blockers in children who identify as transgender.Martin, who serves as an editor-at-large for the Jesuit publication America Magazine and who also starred in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and boasts over 305,000 Twitter followers took criticism this week when he appeared to challenge Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s assertions that “sex-change operations and puberty blockers prescribed to kids is ‘child abuse’ under Texas law.”Father Martin, who has clashed with the Catholic Church’s...

Hollywood star and noted foreign policy expert Cher has offered her assessment of the Ukraine-Russia conflict in an effort to stoke American outrage about the brewing dispute, predicting dire consequences if Vladimir Putin’s aggression goes unchecked. Cher wargamed a scenario in which Putin will continue to “devour sovereign countries” after he invades the Ukraine, until “he resurrects the USSR.” She said this will leave Europe “small” and “unprotected” while Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia form an axis to bring the U.S. to “its knees.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars this spring, a move intended to reduce racial health disparities in tobacco-related diseases and death. But the proposal has divided racial justice advocates who debate whether the health benefits would come at the risk of further criminalizing Black communities. The FDA gave itself until April to draw up rules that limit the sale of menthol cigarettes, which are easier to smoke and harder to quit than unflavored products. The tobacco industry’s marketing of menthols included a targeted campaign...

Shortly after Christmas 1994, 11-year-old Amber Doggett and her little sister were brought to the police station in Wenatchee, Washington, to answer some questions. The girls were separated and, later, in an interrogation room, a detective asked Doggett if her parents had ever sexually abused her. They hadn’t, she said. Yes, they had, the detective insisted. He said he knew that because Doggett’s three older siblings had already said so, and had described the abuse in detail to police. He said it stood to reason that Doggett couldn’t see this clearly, as she’d been brainwashed. None of this was true....

Is the US trucker convoy going to be an excuse for Biden to destroy our civil liberties Ike Trudeau did in Canada? https://twitter.com/BrianJamesESQ/status/1496534708393590793

The trucks appeared on Capitol Hill early Saturday morning. Not 18-wheeler rigs, barreling down across the Canadian border from Ottawa. But perhaps in anticipation of those vehicles arriving. They were big trucks. Dump trucks. Garbage trucks. Snow plows with salt spreaders. Some emblazoned with the Architect of the Capitol stenciling on the side. The trucks blocked off portions of Pennsylvania and Maryland Avenues on the west end of the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Capitol Police then stationed some other cruisers with lights in other locations around the Capitol complex. "Due to the Truckers Convoy, the following road closures are in effect...

Klaus Schwab: "The young generation like prime minister Trudeau, half of his cabinet are actually young global leaders of the World Economic Forum {Elites behind the great reset}. We penetrate the cabinets. The change is not just happening. The change can be shaped by us. We have to prepare for a more angry world. How to prepare? To take the necessary actions to create a fairer world. {You'll own nothing and be happy} I see the need for a Great Reset. The people assume we are just going back to the good old world which we had, and everything will...

“‘Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth’” (Matthew 5:5). God rewards the gentle with His own joy and gladness. But more specifically, He allows such saints to “inherit the earth.” In the future the Father will completely reclaim earth, and believers will rule it with Him. Because only believers are truly gentle, Jesus could confidently proclaim “they shall inherit the earth.” “Inherit” denotes the receiving of one’s allotted portion and correlates perfectly with Psalm 37:11—“the humble will inherit the land.” We sometimes wonder why the godless seem to prosper while the godly suffer, but God assures us...

Contentment was a huge test in Paul’s life. After all, God said he would use him mightily: “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel” (Acts 9:15, NKJV). When Paul first received this commission, “Immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God” (Acts 9:20). Paul was in no hurry to see everything fulfilled in his lifetime. He knew he had an ironclad promise from God, and he clung to it. For the present moment, he was content to minister wherever...