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CHICAGO — Gun violence in Chicago over the weekend has left more than a dozen people dead, including three children. From Friday evening through midnight Monday, 16 people were killed and 47 were injured. Now, a group of Chicago business owners are offering thousands of dollars to find the killers of these child victims. Just before 10 p.m. Saturday night, a stray bullet came through the window of an apartment on the 3500 block of Dickens Avenue in Logan Square and struck Lena Nunez in the head. Police believe two groups were firing at each other outside the apartment, when...

More than a million deceased people got government stimulus checks amounting to nearly $1.4 billion. This is less than 1 percent of the total stimulus payments that Congress shelled out as of April 30, says the Government Accountability Office. Still, you’ve got to admire how far Democratic bureaucrats in the Deep State will go to benefit one of their most reliable constituencies. Think of how many of those deliciously free dollars flowed to the cemeteries in Chicago alone. Another Democrat in good standing, Bill Clinton appointee U.S. District Judge Lynn S. Adelman, rushed to the ramparts to aid strip clubs...

GIDDINGS, Texas (KXAN) — The Texas Rangers are now involved in an investigation in Giddings after multiple stabbings, which then led to an officer-involved shooting. The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed four people were stabbed Monday morning, and the suspect was shot dead by a Giddings officer. Local and state law enforcement officials had three different areas blocked off with crime scene tapes — one at a pest control business on U.S. Highway 77, one at a gas station up the street and a third location around the corner from the gas station on Independence Street. “Stuff like this...

Two men were arrested, but it's unclear if they were involved in the shooting. Two people were killed, including a teenager, when gunfire erupted at a rural South Carolina block party that drew up to 1,000 revelers in spite of government warnings against large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said. The shooting broke out just before 8 p.m. on Saturday in an unincorporated area about nine miles outside Union, South Carolina, after the Union County Sheriff's Department responded to a complaint of vehicles blocking a roadway, Major Scott Coffer told ABC News on Sunday.

CHARLESTON CO., SC (WSPA) – A woman has died after an alligator encounter on a South Carolina island Friday afternoon. According to the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a pond off of Salt Cedar Lane on Kiawah Island around 5:00pm. The sheriff’s office said a deputy shot and killed the alligator which was then retrieved. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the Charleston County Coroner’s Office also responded. The case is still under investigation and the woman has not yet been identified.

Sixteen elk died sometime during the winter at an eastern Idaho wildlife management area when a stack of hay containing 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bales collapsed and fell, crushing some of the elk and causing others to be trampled to death. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game said Saturday that it appears the elk broke through a high fence and ate at the bottom of the haystack, causing it to collapse. The haystack is on the Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area about 15 miles east of Idaho Falls. Fish and Game officials investigated after receiving a report from a concerned citizen....

President Donald Trump has said he knows something of the North Korean leader’s condition – but he won’t disclose it. NORTH KOREA THIS WEEK provided halting signs that leader Kim Jong Un remains in power and control as sensational reports circulated unabated across the world claiming he is grievously ill or perhaps even dead. Though their significance is disputed, a series of dispatches were reportedly issued in Kim's name to Syria, Cuba and South Africa as well as a letter of praise for local workers. But, as is historically the case when issues arise about its leader's fitness, signals from...

Another Communist dear leader in Limboland! So where is he? I don't know but this is a good time to have a little bit of fun until we do! I'll warm it up a bit with these offerings:

from the comments: X-mayor Enrique Echeverría Chan was suffering from the effect of the mordida-virus. A virus prevalent in Mexico for several generations. This virus targets mainly politicians & other institutions responsible for safeguarding the public & Mexico oh good, the cenotevirus is next

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as “Lucille,” “Lady” and “Islands in the Stream” and embraced his persona as “The Gambler” on records and on TV, died Friday night. He was 81. He died at home in Sandy Springs, Georgia, representative Keith Hagan told The Associated Press. He was under hospice care and died of natural causes, Hagan said. …..

Kenny Rogers, whose legendary career spanned decades, passed away quietly at 81

The first COVID-19 death has been reported in Santa Clara County, California on Monday, according to the Santa Clara Public Health Department. A woman in her 60’s was in the hospital for several weeks, officials say. She was the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county who had not traveled internationally or had contact with an already infected patient, which suggests it was a ‘community spread’ case. The patient was also the third confirmed case reported in the county on Feb. 28. The woman passed away Monday morning at the El Camino Hospital. “This is a tragic development. The...

Robert Conrad, the athletic, two-fisted actor who starred as Secret Service agent James West and did his own spectacular stunts on the 1960s futuristic CBS Western The Wild Wild West, has died. He was 84. "He lived a wonderfully long life and while the family is saddened by his passing, he will live forever in their hearts," family spokesman Jeff Ballard told People magazine. No other details of his death were immediately available.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. at his direction has conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi, an al-Qaida leader who claimed responsibility for last year's deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where a Saudi aviation trainee killed three American sailors. Al-Rimi is a founder of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The affiliate has long been considered the global network’s most dangerous branch for its attempts to carry out attacks on the U.S. mainland. Trump said the U.S. and its allies are safer as a result of his death. “We will continue to protect...

A terrorist who attacked a police officer in Jerusalem's Old City has died of wounds suffered when he was neutralized by the officer. The officer has been sent to Shaare Zedek Hospital with light ...

Brian's Mom is dead

President Donald Trump mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday for her criticism of Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Everybody knows her campaign is dead and want her potential voters,” Trump wrote on Twitter, pointing to the story of Warren accusing Sanders’ team of unfairly attacking her. Politico reported on a memo the campaign released that instructed volunteers to describe Warren as a candidate supported by the elite.

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed during a Sunday campaign event that “we’re all dead” if fossil fuels continue to be used as one of the world’s primary energy sources. Biden made the apocalyptic pronouncement while discussing climate change before a crowd of supporters in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Shooting took place on base early Friday morning, sparking a lockdown Escambia County Sheriff's deputies responded to Naval Air Station and confronted the gunman, resulting in his death Sources identified the suspected gunman as Saudi Air Force aviation student Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani Rep Matt Gaetz, a Republican representing Pensacola, called the shooting 'an act of terrorism' President Trump tweeted that King Salman told him 'the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter...' Three other people were shot and killed during incident inside classroom building on base Nearby hospital received total of eight patients, one of...

You can’t stop the music, even when its creator has shuffled off this mortal coil. That’s evident in the makeup of our Halloween-spooky ranking of highest-paid dead celebrities, where nine musicians grace the list of 13, up from just six a year ago. Even as physical sales continue their long decline, those nine acts—including Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Nipsey Hussle—generated 15.2 billion streaming spins over the past year in the U.S., up 38.5% from the prior 12 months. That sort of consumption offers the departed a second career from beyond the grave.