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A presidential plane linked to Vladimir Putin flew north from Moscow towards Tver and switched off its transponder, according to multiple reports. Other business jets were seen making an exodus from the capital towards St Petersburg. Earlier there were reports from Ukrainian intelligence indicating Putin had left from Moscow by helicopter for his palace at Valdai, between Moscow and St Petersburg. It comes as a sinister message posted on the Wagner Telegram channel on Saturday said: 'Putin made the wrong choice. All the worse for him. 'Soon we will have a new president.' Sources close to Putin insisted he was...

A writer at Pacific Standard, Peter Moskowitz, assigned a measure of responsibility for a few of the latest mass public shootings ( Orlando Pulse Jihadi attack, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Fort Hood Jihadi attack, Navy Yard shooting, Aurora Theater shooting, and Charleston Church shooting) to John Lott. Why?It appears to be because John Lott conducts research that shows that more legally armed citizens reduce violent crime, and that gun free zones attract mass shootings. Moskowitz admits that he is ill prepared to judge Lott's work. From psmag.com: I will not be able to debunk Lott here and now. I am...

Atlanta’s deputy police chief says he’s concerned about an upward trend in murders across the city. So far this year, there have been six homicides in the city of Atlanta. That’s three times the amount the city had at this time last year. “We're concerned about the trend, anytime you have homicides, you’re concerned. But this time last year, we had two,” APD Deputy Chief Darryl Tolleson said. By the end of January 2016, there were just eight homicides in the city. Tolleson said four additional detective slots have just been added to the APD homicide unit. Last year, Atlanta...

Judicial Watch has been keeping tabs on the sanctuary city problem for a while now, with particular attention being paid to San Francisco. This week they released the results of an investigation into the crime rates in the City by the Bay over the period of time since the locals began offering safe harbor to illegal aliens and telling ICE to go pound sand if they want any criminal aliens held over. Through a series of FOIA requests they assembled the data from 2011 (when the unofficial policies were first going into effect) through the advent of “official” sanctuary...

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Earl Olander. The 90-year-old was found dead, bound and beaten inside his home on April 11. Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said Tuesday that deputies received a tip that property stolen from Olander's residence had been recovered. Recovery of the stolen property led to the arrest of two adult males

<p>The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-amnesty organization, will be holding a rally and vigil in Omaha, NE, for Louise Sollowin, the 93-year-old woman who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. Sergio Martinez-Perez, a 19-year-old illegal alien is on trial in Nebraska for allegedly murdering Sollowin on July 24th of this year. The rally and vigil will coincide with court proceedings in the case across the street.</p>

Richmond judge gives babysitter maximum term in abuse case Copyright..refer to link..............http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/crime/article_e9864e31-0d33-54ea-bdb3-eeeba4c11908.html

Scott wrote here about the appalling case of a 16-year-old St. Paul girl, Clarisse Grime, who was sitting in the grass at her high school, nowhere near the street, when she was struck and killed by a vehicle that careened out of control and bounced off a fire hydrant. The vehicle was driven by an illegal immigrant who has been in Minnesota for ten years without ever having a driver’s license. He was known to local authorities, having been convicted of drunk driving in 2001 and driving without a license just a few months ago. But the immigration laws are...

MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - An illegal immigrant from Honduras was being sought Wednesday for the murder of his estranged wife in Milwaukee. An arrest warrant was issued after prosecutors filed a homicide charge against 29-year-old Jose Luis Discua-Bados. His wife, Dayana Bados, was beaten and stabbed Tuesday morning outside the home of her grandmother. Authorities said Bados moved there because she was afraid of her estranged husband, once he returned to the U.S. after being deported to Honduras. Prosecutors said the grandmother, Pilar Hernandez, saw Discua-Bados beat his wife with a 2x4 -- and when Hernandez said she would call the...

WEST PALM BEACH -- A Florida teen is accused of posting a Facebook invite for a house party, killing his parents with a hammer and then hosting dozens of people while the adults' bludgeoned bodies were locked in the master bedroom.

KUNAR, Afghanistan (April 29, 2011) – Insurgents raided the home of a soldier from the Afghan National Army, beat and tied up two male relatives and murdered four female relatives in Barabat-Jaba village, Kunar province, April 25. Reports from the area state that the women, a wife, mother, sister and 4-year-old daughter of the ANA soldier, were shot to death in their home by the insurgents who were looking for the soldier because they believed he was passing information to Coalition Forces. Unable to locate the soldier, the insurgents killed the women in the house and tied up and beat...

A teenage illegal immigrant will serve no jail time for his role in the June stabbing death of a Waynesboro man. In a ruling handed down by Waynesboro General District Court Judge Kent Bowers on Friday, Abiel Javier Vazquez, 19, will remain at Middle River Regional Jail in Verona until federal authorities deport him back to Mexico. Vazquez pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge of accessory after the fact in the killing of Eduardo “Piku” Herrera, 39, of 260 N. Commerce Ave. The plea tied the loose ends of a case in which authorities earlier this week convicted David...

SOUTH BEND — The man accused of beating his roommate to death and throwing his body in the St. Joseph River in May appeared in court today, and a trial date has been set for April 25. Elex Baltazar's attorney requested a continuance for the trial, originally scheduled for Jan. 31. The attorney said he needed more time for DNA testing. Baltazar, an illegal immigrant, is being held at the St. Joseph County Jail, facing one count of murder. His roommate, Miguel Rivera, was found dead, floating in the St. Joseph River on May 27

NOGALES — A manhunt is under way for a suspect in last night’s deadly shooting of a Naco-based Border Patrol agent northwest of Nogales. Agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was waiting with three other agents in a remote area north of Nogales late Tuesday when a gunbattle with the bandits began, said National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner. No other agents were injured, but one of the suspects was wounded in the shoot-out. Terry had served in the military and was a Border Patrol agent for about three years. While he agent was working in the Nogales area, he...

Days ago she was on the verge of death after losing half the blood in her body during a furious shootout with the Fort Hood gunman. But as she sits smiling in her hospital bed, Sergeant Kimberley Munley looks as if she has made a miraculous recovery. The slightly built policewoman was the first on the scene after army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on a murderous rampage, killing 13 of his fellow soldiers. Fort Hood Hasan was finally brought down by four shots, fired by Sgt Munley despite being wounded in both legs. One of the shots cut...

PEORIA — Authorities say a 20-year-old woman from Iraq whose father allegedly hit her with his car in the west Phoenix suburb of Peoria has died from her injuries.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - If Jennifer Hyatte stopped during her flight to Ohio this week to read a paper or watch the news, she would have seen her face on front pages and television screens. Authorities had accused her of murder. With a nationwide manhunt for her and her husband, she must have known she was in a world of trouble. She switched cars, dyed her hair and lied to a cabbie about her travels. Still, when Common Pleas Court Judge Jennifer Brunner told her on Friday she could get the death penalty if convicted in Tennessee, she slumped back in...

ATLANTA (AP) - Two pictures have emerged of the man police say went on a bloody rampage through Atlanta - allegedly killing a judge and as many as three others before his arrest Saturday in an upscale town house. Family members describe Brian Nichols as a "good person" who came from a stable home and avoided the temptations of the street. Former classmates and coaches, on the other hand, recall him as a physically intimidating martial arts expert with a knack for trouble. Police say Nichols, a former computer technician who was on trial for rape, overpowered a female sheriff's...

Soon after Eugene Mallove of Pembroke was found murdered in Connecticut, outside his childhood home, the local police said they had talked to a couple of suspects and expected to have fingerprint and DNA evidence within a month. That was eight months ago, and the police said last week that they are no closer to solving the case. Some of that DNA evidence - the best hope of tying someone to the scene - still hasn't come back from Connecticut's state lab. The police haven't recovered any of the items taken from Mallove, a watch, cell phone and credit cards,...

Lessons Unlearned By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | May 17, 2004 Although al-Qaeda mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for beheading 26-year-old Nick Berg in Iraq, Berg’s father blames another perpetrator: the United States of America. “My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this,” Michael S. Berg recently told Philadelphia radio station KYW-AM. The elder Berg, a staunch leftist, lashed out at the Bush administration for its Iraq policy both before and after his son’s gruesome dismemberment. Michael Berg was a signatory to International ANSWER’s March 20th “Call to Action.” (“End colonial...