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A couple was killed and numerous others injured just hours into the New Year when a car filled with explosives barreled into a crowd of people leaving a rock concert in upstate New York, police said. The fiery crash occurred at 12:50 a.m. outside the Kodak Center in Rochester, where roughly 1,000 people were filing out after a New Year’s Eve moe. show. Rochester officers were helping pedestrians cross the street when a Ford Expedition sped toward the mob, but smashed instead into an Uber that was pulling out of a nearby parking lot, law enforcement sources said. “The force...

Saw this series during the holidays, and am currently rewatching it. It is obviously one side of a story, and lacking the other narrative is incomplete. That said, I am somewhat, actually more than somewhat ,disturbed with the interrogations of young Mr. Dassey He has been under lock and key from the moment he was pulled from class in 2006. "What happened to her head Brendan?" Uh, he cut her hair?

An animal rights group and six members were convicted Thursday of inciting violence against a company that tests drugs and household products on animals. The group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, maintained its actions were protected under the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech. The government charged that SHAC waged a five-year campaign of threats, harassment and vandalism against Huntingdon Life Sciences and posted information on the SHAC Web site about the lab's employees and those who do business with Huntingdon. Many of those targeted saw their homes vandalized, and they and their families received threatening e-mails, faxes and phone...

SPECIAL REPORT: Slam-Dunking Animal RightsPosted On July 28, 2003It's no secret that Leslie and Nanci Alexander, co-owners of the NBA's Houston Rockets franchise, are among the global animal-rights movement's biggest financial backers. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals even acknowledged the couple in 1998 for making "one of the most generous gifts we have ever received." Nanci Alexander personally donated over $225,000 toward the passage of a constitutional amendment that gave legal protection to pigs in Florida. But recently released tax records indicate that the Alexanders have also funded the operations of "Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty" (SHAC), one of...

Editor’s Note: Details of the WFB’s Democracy Alliance exposé can be found here. A leading voice in the world of liberal foundations has a side project funding the left-wing billionaire’s club known as the Democracy Alliance, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Judith Avery, who serves as chair of the $24 million Durfee Fund and president of the $38 million Baytree Fund, is also a member of the secretive network of Democratic millionaires and billionaires. Avery’s father, R. Stanton Avery, invented stickers and turned the product into a multi-billion dollar industry. He founded the Durfee Foundation, named...

A Suffolk University law professor has issued a blistering e-mail calling plans to collect care packages for U.S. troops “shameful.” Professor Michael Avery also questioned the intent of an American flag hanging in the law school’s atrium (snip)“I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings,” Avery wrote in an e-mail to his colleagues. “The United States may well be the most war prone country in the history of civilization.”

RED LAKE, Minn. - Dozens of trained searchers were taking to woods, lakes and air Friday to hunt for two young brothers who disappeared from an American Indian reservation two days earlier. The FBI offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Tristan Anthony White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2. The boys were reported missing Wednesday from the Walking Shield area of the remote, heavily wooded Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, the FBI said. Their parents said they had been playing outside their home before they disappeared, Tribal Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain Jr. said....

THE ESSENTIAL NEED FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher March 3, 2006 WARNING: This DOUBLE-LENGTH article contains material that is brutally and even horrifically graphic. This is not recommended reading for children, those with weak stomachs, or those whose sensitivities may be destroyed by so doing. Neither this author nor The American Partisan will be considered liable for either the contents of this article or the reaction of its readers to viewing, reading or hearing it. Think it over VERY CAREFULLY before deciding to proceed past this point.If there was ever a case begging for capital punishment-despite...

Yes: Here are 10 good reasons why the global-warming issue can be put to rest Monday, December 19, 2005 DENNIS T. AVERY The Kyoto Protocol has died. None of its supporters has cut carbon-dioxide emissions, and their big Montreal meeting this month failed again to agree on future cuts. With apologies to David Letterman, the top 10 reasons to rejoice over the death of Kyoto are: (10) Wind farms are expensive and really ugly. They kill birds and bats. Nor do they produce much electricity when really needed, during daylight hours. Kyoto would have planted them over huge stretches (9)...

The Teresa Halbach murder has a state senator hoping to expand a proposal to reinstate Wisconsin's death penalty. < snip> Lasee says the Halbach case is so gruesome that he now wants to amend the referendum to apply to any vicious murder with DNA evidence. American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Peter Kellogg opposes the move, saying it would lead to a continued broadening of cases in which the death penalty could apply. Wisconsin lawmakers repealed capital punishment in 1853. It's one of 14 states without the death penalty.

...In the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's annual list of jurisdictions with the worst litigation environment, Illinois is home to three of the top 15 counties: Madison, Le Clair and Cook (Chicago). So it's nice to see that the Supreme Court of Illinois has decided to rein in a local judge.... In a welcome display of common sense, a 6-0 court last week reversed a $1.05 billion judgment against State Farm Insurance Co. The case-- Avery v. State Farm-- was ostensibly about the parts used to repair cars covered under State Farm policies. The policies specified the use of "non-original equipment,"...

Posted on Sun, Oct. 31, 2004 Bin Laden videotape sways some voters, but not others By Larry Eichel and Sandy Bauers Inquirer Staff Writers For Robert Blose, a retired steelworker who lives in Kutztown, seeing Osama bin Laden on TV yesterday was all it took to end his days as one of Pennsylvania's remaining undecided voters. "I'm going to vote for President Bush," said Blose, 61, "because I think he's the better person to protect us. I'm sure a lot of other people are going to feel the same way. It makes a difference." But in nearby Reading, another undecided...