St. Pete Police officers have arrested a woman for attempted
first-degree murder after she put her boyfriend in the hospital with
severe soup burns.
Just after midnight on July 31, Misty Childs and her boyfriend
Lavont Moss got into an argument. After the argument, Moss went to bed
and Childs continued cooking soup. She then took the hot soup and poured
it on Moss' face and torso as he was lying in bed.
He was taken to the hospital and is listed in critical condition. Cont.
You too can help get a "billionaire" elected, and it will only cost you money.
Donald Trump wants you to know that he isn't a typical politician. That's evident as soon as you visit his Facebook page.
Most politicians -- including rival Hillary Clinton
-- have a big button at the top of their Facebook page that says "Sign
Up." Clicking on it takes people to the campaign website so they can
enter their email and phone number to get involved.
But that's not what Trump's Facebook page emphasizes.
The big button on his page says: "Shop Now."
When you click on it, it takes you to his campaign store
(shop.donaldjtrump.com) where you can purchase "Make America Great
Again!" and "Trump Pence 2016" shirts, hats, stickers, buttons, etc.
Prices start at $5. Cont.
Republicans have had a long history showcasing their disdain for military soldiers and their families. Story out of Carson City, Nevada:
Mike Pence had only released a text statement in the more than 48 hours since Donald Trump questioned the mother and father of fallen U.S. soldier Humayun Khan.
He had avoided cameras and questions on Monday during his travels to Nevada after a weekend at home in Indianapolis.
But at a town hall in this Nevada town on Monday night, the Republican
vice presidential nominee got the question — from a mother of an active
Air Force staff sergeant:
"Time and time again Trump has disrespected our nation's armed forces
and veterans — and his disrespect for Mr. Khan and his family is just an
example of that," Catherine Byrne, the mother of Raymond Harmon, who is
currently deployed in the Persian Gulf, said to Pence. "Will there ever
be a point in time when you're able to look Trump in the eye and tell
him 'Enough is enough?' You have a son in the military. How do you
tolerate his disrespect?"
The crowd booed Byrne as she asked her question. Pence did attempt to
quiet the jeers after she spoke, saying, "folks that's what freedom
looks like and what freedom sounds like," to a smattering of applause.
"I felt disrespected," Byrne told NBC News after the event, regarding
the crowd's overwhelming reaction to her. "And that was what my question
was — disrespect toward the military. The crowd as a group booed me." Cont.
I'll vote against Trump and you can keep your top on.
Tramps Against Trump are offering explicit pictures as an incentive to
topple the billionaire businessman’s bid for the White House.
So long as a voter can prove they’ve voted against the Republican
nominee via photographic evidence, they’ll be sent a raunchy snap in
exchange.
Tramps Against Trump’s founder, who goes by the pseudonym Jessica Rabbit, told Dazed: ‘The sex positive activist community is uniting across borders to keep misogynistic men out of the government.’
Adding: ‘We hope this kind of campaign will continue to translate in other countries all over the world.’
She also revealed that a fair few Trump supporters had got in touch,
insisting that Tramps Against Trump had fun with their haters.
She said: ‘Trump supporters are so incredibly dumb – both politically
and socially – that we literally sit around and laugh at the angry
tweets. Cont.
Now who's going to find the Golem? Story out of Jerusalem, Israel:
The Israeli military is warning its soldiers about a new threat: the widely popular mobile phone game "Pokemon Go."
The army said Monday it has banned its forces from playing the game on
Israeli military bases due to security concerns. In a directive to
soldiers and officers, the army warned the game activates cellphone
cameras and location services, and could leak sensitive information like
army base locations and photographs of the bases.
The military is also concerned that soldiers could download a fake
application that impersonates "Pokemon Go" but could leak information
from soldiers' phones. Cont.
A woman who was recently released from prison in Oregon robbed a bank in
Wyoming only to throw the cash up in the air outside the building and
sit down to wait for police, authorities said Friday.
Investigators say 59-year-old Linda Patricia Thompson told them she wanted to go back to prison.
Thompson said she had suffered facial fractures after strangers beat her at a Cheyenne park last weekend.
She said she couldn't get a room at a homeless shelter and decided to
rob the bank Wednesday because she could no longer stay on the streets,
court records say.
FBI Special Agent Tory Smith said in court documents that Thompson entered a US Bank branch in Cheyenne and handed a teller a cardboard note that said, "I have a gun. Give me all your money."
The teller turned over thousands of dollars.
Outside, Thompson threw money into the air and even offered some to
people passing by, Smith stated. He added that Cheyenne police Lt.
Nathan Busek said he found Thompson with a large sum of money when he
arrived at the bank. Cont.
Seems like a good idea, get to them first before the Vileplume get to anyone else. Story out of Albany, New York:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed state authorities to prevent
nearly 3,000 registered sex offenders now on parole from playing
``Pokemon Go'' in an effort to safeguard children who play.
The state's Department of Corrections and Community Services is making
that a condition of supervised release from state prison for all sex
offenders.
The state says Monday that county probation offices should adopt the same policy.
"Protecting New York's children is priority number one and, as
technology evolves, we must ensure these advances don't become new
avenues for dangerous predators to prey on new victims," Governor Cuomo
said. "These actions will provide safeguards for the players of these
augmented reality games and help take one more tool away from those
seeking to do harm to our children." Cont.
In a column posted by right-wing theologian Wayne Grudem
denounced Christians who don’t plan to vote for Donald Trump in
November, even going so far as to suggest that refusal to back Trump is a
sin.
“This year we have an unusual opportunity to defeat Hillary Clinton and
the pro-abortion, pro-gender-confusion, anti-religious liberty,
tax-and-spend, big government liberalism that she champions,” he wrote.
“I believe that defeating that kind of liberalism would be a morally
right action. Therefore I feel the force of the words of James: ‘Whoever
knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin’
(James 4:17).”
Grudem said that as president, Trump would appoint justices to the bench
who would “likely overturn Roe v. Wade” and “return control of marriage
to the states.” Cont.
Former Fox News Miami correspondent Orlando Salinas is being held in a Virginia jail on suspicion of rape.
Salinas, who worked in Miami for most of the 2000s until he was hired by
a CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia, was arrested Tuesday and charged
with forcible sodomy and rape, Virginia media report. He was indicted by
a grand jury in connection with a Jan. 11 incident in Montgomery
County.
Salinas, a native of the Roanoke area, left South Florida in 2012 to take a job at WDBJ as a street reporter.
Salinas, however, was fired in April for insubordination, according to
published reports. Apparently, he didn’t want to abide by the station’s
dress code, which includes a suit and tie for male reporters.
He had since obtained a real estate license and was selling homes. Cont.
Police in Germany say the attempted abduction of a newborn child was foiled by the quick reaction of his 9-year-old brother.
Hamburg police say a 34-year-old German woman had taken the baby from a
hospital room Friday afternoon, while the mother was sleeping.
The brother followed the unnamed woman and talked to her, whereupon she
handed the day-old child back. She was arrested and taken to a
psychiatric clinic.
Police spokesman Ulf Wundrack said Monday that the boy's actions contributed "significantly" to the baby's return. Cont.
A FBI electronics technician pleaded guilty on Monday to having
illegally acted as an agent of China, admitting that he on several
occasions passed sensitive information to a Chinese official.
Kun Shan Chun, also known as Joey Chun, was employed by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation since 1997. He pleaded guilty in federal court
in Manhattan to one count of having illegally acted as an agent of a
foreign government.
Chun, who was arrested in March on a set of charges made public only on
Monday, admitted in court that from 2011 to 2016 he acted at the
direction of a Chinese official, to whom he passed the sensitive
information.
That information included the identity and travel plans of an FBI agent;
an internal organizational chart; and photos he took of documents in a
restricted area related to surveillance technology, said Assistant U.S.
Attorney Emil Bove. Cont.
The above video shows Trump responding to all his missteps.
Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't
make a military move into Ukraine -- even though Putin already has done
just that, seizing the country's Crimean Peninsula.
"He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not going
to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it
down. You can take it anywhere you want," Trump said in an interview on
Sunday with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
"Well, he's already there, isn't he?" Stephanopoulos responded, in a
reference to Crimea, which Putin took from Ukraine in early 2014.
Trump said: "OK -- well, he's there in a certain way. But I'm not there.
You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a
mess under Obama with all the strength that you're talking about and all
of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he's going away.
He takes Crimea."
Stephanopoulos asked about Trump's claims in recent years that he has a personal relationship with Putin.
"I have no relationship with Putin. I have no relationship with Putin," (I never repeat myself, I never repeat myself) Trump said.
The NFL is pushing back on Donald Trump's claim that he received a
letter from the football organization over the presidential debate
schedule, tweeting out a denial Saturday evening:
@mikesisak@alexweprin While we'd obviously wish the Debate Commission could find another night, we did not send a letter to Mr Trump. — Brian McCarthy (@NFLprguy) July 30, 2016
Trump, in an interview with ABC News earlier this week, complained about
the three presidential debates, two of which are scheduled for the same
night as NFL games.
"I'll tell you what I don't like," Trump said. "It's against two NFL
games. I got a letter from the NFL saying, 'This is ridiculous.'" Cont.
Don't you find it odd that a man with Neo-Nazi face tattoos could find himself in legal trouble? Also, with poorly applied makeup it's going to be hard for the jurors to nazi the tattoos. Story out of Los Vegas, Nevada:
A panel of potential jurors in a Las Vegas courtroom did not seem to
notice that the white supremacist tattoos on Bayzle Morgan’s face and
bald head were covered with makeup, as they will be for the rest
of his robbery trial.
But in the early afternoon, one of his lawyers, Dan Bunin, noticed that
some of the beige concealer over Morgan’s “Baby Nazi” neck tattoo had
started to wear off and bleed onto the collar of his white shirt.
District Judge Richard Scotti said he could not see the tattoos but
agreed to delay jury selection for about 30 minutes while a makeup
artist performed an impromptu touch-up.
The judge had ordered all of Morgan’s head, face and neck tattoos —
including an Iron Cross on the back of his head and a swastika within a
clover under his left eye — covered after members of a previous jury
panel said they would not be able to decide the case fairly because of
Morgan’s appearance.
Morgan is accused of stealing a man’s motorcycle at gunpoint in the
northwest valley in May 2013. He also faces the death penalty in a
separate murder case, which stems from the slaying of 75-year-old Jean
Main just days before the robbery. Cont.
A 17-year-old battling cancer was shot and killed days before receiving
his Make-A-Wish foundation gift – to see his grandfather’s pickup truck
restored.
Diego Rodriguez, from San Antonio, was trying to take a gun away from a
15-year-old boy when the firearm discharged, striking Rodriguez in the
chest, the boy’s father said.
Rodriguez was rushed to an area hospital where he died early Tuesday. Police have charged the juvenile suspect with murder in Diego’s death. Cont.
Bina Ramesh celebrated her 22nd birthday three weeks ago at Six Flags
Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ. She wore normal theme park attire for 95
degree temps: a V-neck tee and jean cut-offs (pictured here). But
apparently it was "inappropriate" and "against park rules," according to
a security guard who asked her to change.
"I was re-entering the park with my friends after I was already admitted
earlier that day," Bina told Seventeen.com. "I had forgotten something
in the car. Going back in, I had to go through the metal detecters
again, which had lights that picked up the neon light blue bralette I
was wearing under my T-shirt."
That's when she noticed a male security guard staring at her. He asked
her to stop and wait, and she assumed she had something metal on her
that was triggering an alarm. That's when she saw him go get a female
security guard, who came over to Bina and said her shirt was
"inappropriate" and "against park rules."
"I was so upset and angry," Bina told Seventeen.com. "My mother saw me
leave the house this morning and she didn't think it was inappropriate.
And how could I have been let in earlier that day by a female guard? Now
suddenly the rules have changed when there's a male guard paying closer attention to my cleavage?"
That's when Bina had a genius idea. She and her guy friend went into the
parking lot and switched shirts. They re-entered with the same male
security guard and no one was stopped.
Once they got in the park, they switched back shirts and spent the day
celebrating her birthday. But Bina was still upset and embarrassed about
what happened. She posted her story on Facebook and Twitter and
received hundreds of likes and comments and shares. Cont.
Then quit droppin' that torch. Story out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
If the nightmare of blocked toilets followed by a fire wasn't bad enough
for the Australian athletes in the Rio Olympic village, to add insult
to injury, they've also had property stolen during an evacuation of the
team's building.
Australian Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller, who has had to deal with her
team's discontent, said a laptop and Zika-protective team shirts had
been stolen by people who entered the building during the evacuation.
Approximately 100 athletes were evacuated Friday after a small fire
broke out in the basement car park of the Olympic Village apartments
housing the Australian team.
The Australian team were equally annoyed that the fire alarms had been
deactivated in their building, which meant veteran shooter Warren Potent
actually slept through the entire evacuation. Cont.
Giving students a choice between Jesus or Satan? It's like the Pepsi Challenge, except some people get to keep their dignity. Story out of Salem, Massachusetts:
It's a hot summer night, and leaders of the Satanic Temple have gathered
in the crimson-walled living room of a Victorian manse in this city
renowned for its witch trials in the 17th century. They're watching a
sepia-toned video, in which children dance around a maypole, a spider
crawls across a clown's face and eerie, ambient chanting gives way to a
backward, demonic voice-over. The group chuckles with approval.
They're here plotting to bring their wisdom to the nation's public
elementary school children. They point out that Christian evangelical
groups already have infiltrated the lives of America's children through
after-school religious programming in public schools, and they appear
determined to give young students a choice: Jesus or Satan.
"It's critical that children understand that there are multiple
perspectives on all issues, and that they have a choice in how they
think," said Doug Mesner, the Satanic Temple's co-founder.
On Monday, the group plans to introduce its After School Satan Club to
public elementary schools, including one in Prince George's County,
petitioning school officials to allow them to open immediately as the
academic year starts. Chapter heads from Utah, New York, Boston and
Arizona were in Salem on July 10 talking strategy, with others from
Minneapolis, Detroit, San Jose, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Florida
participating online. The promotional video, which feels like a mash-up
of a horror movie trailer and a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, will serve
to promote the new club along with its website — Afterschoolsatan.com. Cont.
A 12-year-old West Palm Beach boy charged with manslaughter in the death of an infant appeared before a judge Thursday.
According to investigators, the 12-year-old and someone else were left
with the four-month-old baby and two other children for more than six
hours in a home last December. When the mother returned, she found the
infant was not breathing.
West Palm Beach Fire Rescue were called to the home and found the unresponsive baby. They immediately rushed the
baby to St. Mary’s Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
West Palm Beach police got a lot more information about a week later.
That’s when they say the 12-year-old went to a school resource officer
saying, “I have something serious to tell you, but I have to write it
down,” the child said.
Police say the child wrote on a piece of paper, “I killed my nephew.”
The school resource officer said he went on to say, “his nephew wouldn’t
stop crying so he took a pillow and put the pillow over the baby’s face
to get him to stop crying.”
On Wednesday, a warrant was issued for his arrest on the charge of
manslaughter. He was picked up by U.S. Marshals and taken to the
Juvenile Assessment Center. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)
From a luxury hotel on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, some of the
nation’s most powerful Republican donors are rebelling against Donald
Trump.
Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, host of the exclusive weekend
retreat, did not mention Trump by name as warned that political leaders
are giving “frightening” answers to America’s challenges. One of his
chief lieutenants was more direct as he made clear that Koch’s expansive
political network would not use its tremendous resources to help Trump
win this fall.
“We’re focused on the Senate,” said Mark Holden, general counsel and senior vice president of Koch Industries.
He noted that none of the presidential candidates are aligned with the
Koch network “from a values, (values, my ass) and beliefs and policy perspective.”
Trump’s dire warnings of growing crime in America, Holden said, simply
aren’t accurate. Cont.
