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A pregnant Florida woman charged with fatally shooting a mother of three in an Uber last year is arguing to be let out of jail because her unborn child hasn’t committed a crime. In an unusual legal argument, attorneys for Natalia Harrell, 24, filed a motion on behalf of her fetus, asserting that it shouldn’t be behind bars without being charged with an offense. “The State has placed the unborn child in such inherently dangerous environment by placing the unborn child in close proximity to violent criminal offenders,” the filing asserts. Harrell’s child, it argues, is receiving inadequate pre-natal care...

I was like, huh? FRE*H TROPICAL FRUIT

The large balloons sighted recently in the western hemisphere from South America, Canada, Alaska, and the continental United States, and the shooting down of the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of South Carolina has resulted in eyes being drawn to the skies looking for further developments in the appearance of unannounced aircraft. It has also come to light that massive balloons have been sighted before near the United States, but did not previously make the news headlines. The wreckage of the Chinese spy balloon shot down off South Carolina was quickly recovered by navy...

Summary: 1 Thess 5:19-21 -- Do not quench the Spirit, but test all things. Here are the eight questions: 1. Asbury has seen 8 revivals since 1890: Why is this college being picked by the Holy Spirit? 2. Asbury is part of the Wesleyan Holiness movement; they are orthodox believers but tend to deemphasize sin, judgment, wrath, and repentance: which are necessary for biblical revival. The Gospel has to be the centerpiece-- but its not apparent. 3. Who is endorsing this revival? Todd Bentley, Sean Feucht, Shane Claiborne. 4. Other Christian colleges are reporting similar revivals. Why not the secular...

A team used the drug fasudil to reverse two common symptoms associated with schizophrenia: reduced density of pyramidal neurons and cognitive dysfunction associated with methamphetamine treatment. Genetic vulnerability is generally accepted to be involved in the development of schizophrenia. One key genetic factor involved is copy-number variation, a genetic trait in which people have different numbers of a particular gene. In particular, variations in the copy number of the ARHGAP10 gene are associated with symptoms of schizophrenia. ARHGAP10 encodes a protein that is involved in regulation of the Rho GTPase family of enzymes. Among these Rho GTPase family members, a...

A California city council member was arrested for allegedly committing election fraud. Lodi City Council member Shakir Khan, a Democrat, was arrested on Thursday for multiple election fraud charges, including allegedly stashing 41 mail-in ballots at his home, falsifying voter registration documents, and pressuring residents to vote for him. Investigators claim, based partially on body cam footage of police interviews, that Khan registered 23 people to vote at his home address and used his phone number to register 47 people to vote. And another Democrat, Lodi City Council member Democrat Shakir Khan arrested on voter fraud charges related to 2020...

WEST WARWICK, R.I. — Monday [Today] marks the 20th anniversary of The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island, that killed 100 people. It is the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in American history. Among the mourners who gathered Monday at Station Fire Memorial Park, which honors all of those lost in the disaster, was Stephen Sweet, a firefighter in Quincy, Massachusetts. His cousin, Shawn Sweet, died in the disaster. "I come down every year and play the (bagpipes)," he said. "The message is, 'Don't forget.' Never forget these people or forget what happened." The fire, which broke out on Feb....

The true horror of what just happened in East Palestine, Ohio is starting to become clear, but federal, state and local officials continue to insist that everything is just fine. So even though local residents have been puking up blood and developing weird rashes on their skin, everyone is being told that it is perfectly safe to return to their homes and that it is perfectly safe to drink the water. This should make all of us extremely angry, because so many of these people are going to get sick and so many of them are going to die. The...

A Florida man is under arrest after police say he stole from a gas station and left his debit card with his name on it at the scene of the crime. Deputies with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office responded to an alarm at a gas station early Sunday morning in Palm Coast, Florida, and found the front door of the business unlocked, Fox 35 Orlando reported. After searching the gas station, deputies found a debit card with the name Lantz Kurtz sitting on the counter near a register. Security camera footage showed a man entering the store from the back...

"Precious Love" (Bob Welch) "Hot Love, Cold World" (John Henning, Welch) – 02:49 "Big Towne, 2061 / Black Book" (Welch) – 08:40 "Hypnotized" (Welch) – 08:40 "Sentimental Lady" (Welch) – 18:50 "It's What Ya Don't Say" (Steve Diamond) – 23:05 "Bend Me, Shape Me" (Scott English, Larry Weiss) – 26:39 "Gold Dust Woman" (Stevie Nicks) – 40:44 "Ebony Eyes" (Welch) – 49:00 "Remember Me" (Christine McVie) – 1:05:35 "Rattlesnake Shake" (Peter Green) – 1:09:10

At the February 7 Pontotoc Aldermen meeting Pontotoc Police Chief Randy Tutor addressed concerns and assured a small group of residents that the police department’s soon to be installed Flock Safety cameras would be used solely to fight crime and bolster safety and not invade or spy on the privacy of Pontotoc residents. At the January 17 board meeting Pontotoc Aldermen voted unanimously to approve a two year subscription contract with Flock Safety Inc. for operation of eight of their license plate reader cameras in the city of Pontotoc. Pontotoc County resident Adam Miller and Pontotoc resident Kyle Eubank addressed...

*Dozens* showed up today to support Ron DeSantis at his first 2024 campaign stop/Wall St. funded Book Tour.How will @realDonaldTrump and MAGA stop this enthusiasm/momentum? 😂😂Video: @GavinWax pic.twitter.com/XkzwFxln7A— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) February 20, 2023

The first song Greg Allman wrote. He wrote it about his brother Duane Allman who was killed in a motorcycle accident "the crossroads" and how he was buried with his favorite guitar "Melissa" that he played when they were not touring. He would not leave without Melissa.

Big Food is making its move into the “digital health space” as grocery chain giant Albertsons announced the roll-out of its “Sincerely Health” platform along with a new app where customers “can connect data from wearables, integrate prescriptions, design their diet and make telehealth or vaccination appointments.” Albertsons, which includes other mega grocery chains such as Safeway, Vons, Shaw’s, Jewel-Osco, Acme and Tom Thumb, among others, is currently in talks to merger with Kroger, another mega grocery chain, which would give them 36% control over the grocery supermarket business in the United States. Walmart, the largest grocery chain in the...

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Monday on “Deadline” that she believed former President Donald Trump was “afraid” to go to Afghanistan while discussing President Joe Biden’s trip to Ukraine today. McCaskill said, “It’s very important because in the back of everyone’s mind, there’s always a contrast, there’s always a comparison. This kind of dovetails with what you talked about earlier, that when the President runs for re-election, it is not a referendum on him. It is a choice. And if you compare and contrast Donald Trump, Donald Trump was afraid to go to Afghanistan.”

As aggressive excavation and submarine construction of over 1,500 offshore wind-farm turbines continues along the east coast of the United States, whales are likewise stranding, beaching and dying at an alarming and perplexing rate. Almost 200 whales have been found dead since 2016, when the wind-turbine rush began, representing a fourfold annual increase over past years. Seven dead whales have been discovered in New Jersey and New York in the past two months. In southeastern Virginia, in one recent week alone, three whales were found dead, just miles from two operational wind farms. Dying species include humpback whales and the...

KYIV -- The average lifespan on the frontline of the fierce fighting in the city of Bakhmut is "four hours," according to an American fighting side by side with the Ukrainian army against Russian forces in the Donbas. Former U.S. Marine Troy Offenbecker, of Michigan, told ABC News that the situation in the city, which has seen some of the deadliest fighting since Russia's full-scale invasion, is "chaotic" and has been dubbed "the meat grinder." "It's been pretty bad on the ground," he told ABC News. "A lot of casualties. The life expectancy is around four hours on the frontline."

Insiders claim Meghan Markle has been left 'upset and overwhelmed' for the past few days at how she and Prince Harry are depicted in an episode of South Park. The episode, titled 'World Privacy Tour' pokes fun at the couple's grievances, while Meghan is introduced cuttingly as a 'sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim,' by another character. The satirical series ridiculed the couple's demands for privacy while on a publicity blitz for the prince's autobiography 'Waaaah' - a dig at Harry's recent memoir Spare - in last week's brutal episode. According to a source in California, Meghan spent the last few...

Explanation: There is nothing like this ball of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. This is surprising because, at first glance, this featured image by the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that star cluster NGC 1850's size and shape are reminiscent of the many ancient globular star clusters which roam our own Milky Way Galaxy's halo. But NGC 1850's stars are all too young, making it a type of star cluster with no known counterpart in the Milky Way. Moreover, NGC 1850 is also a double star cluster, with a second, compact cluster of stars visible here just to the right...

A new Chinese spying device has the capabilities of both flying through the air, and swimming under the water. The TJ-FlyingFish, developed by scientists from China’s Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems may have invented something much harder to see than a three school bus long balloon in the sky. This small drone weighs only 3.6 pounds, and runs completely based on artificial intelligence, making a human operator unnecessary. When underwater, where it will primarily operate, the TJ-FlyingFish can swim at 6.5 feet per second, likely able to film and record everything it comes in contact with along the...