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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ford Fusions Built In Mexico Being Used To Smuggle Marijuana Into US
[NESN] There’s apparently a new model car, the Ford 420, we didn’t hear about, but it isn’t a tuned up version of the Mustang, like the Boss 302. Instead, it’s based on a Fusion, and definitely isn’t sanctioned by Ford.

The Dilworth Police Department in Minnesota was called to the Dilworth Auto Yard after BNSF Railway employees found narcotics inside new Ford Fusions built in Mexico, according to a press release. Police expanded their search and found 14 circular bricks of marijuana inside the spare wheel well of seven vehicles. In total, 217 pounds of marijuana were found, with an estimated value of $272,000.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 12:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thereby adding another dimension to the word "fusion."
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/30/2017 13:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Dilworth PD to be recognized by DEA with new award.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't I see this in that chi-che-chong movie?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/30/2017 13:59 Comments || Top||

#4  7 vehicles, so that's 1 railcar?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 14:49 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess you have to pay extra for that, right?
Posted by: Crusader || 04/30/2017 17:27 Comments || Top||


DELTA Air Lines Pilot Hits Noble Savage During 'Fight' at Atlanta Airport
[TMZ] A rep for Delta tells us ... "We became aware of this incident and a video last week and immediately removed the pilot from duty while we completed a thorough investigation. Local law enforcement was called to respond at the time of the incident. The pilot has since been returned to work as our investigation found that his actions deescalated an altercation between passengers on the jetway floor during deplaning."
He can always be fired later. The inevitable civil suit could be damaging to the airline. Appropriate corrective action must be taken to illustrate remedy should the issue end up in court.
We're told the women in the vid had gotten into a skirmish earlier, on the airplane, and they knew each other. They were eventually escorted away by a Delta employee, and as they were walking away, cops showed up. We're told neither of the women wanted to press charges against anyone.
I suppose charges of 'disturbing the peace' were never considered.
A Delta pilot smacked a passenger who was fighting with another passenger at the Atlanta airport ... and it was caught on video.

We're told the incident went down sometime on April 21. The plane had just landed and the passengers were leaving the jetway when 2 women started fighting.

The pilot appears and tries separating the women. He then grabs one of them by the arm and hits her. The pilot walks away as the women are still on the ground.
He's lucky they both didn't turn on him. Ignoring the melee and insuring police were called would have been a more prudent option. The entire event could have well been staged.
We're told a Delta employee gave a supervisor the video almost immediately after the incident. We're also told some Delta employees were upset because security wasn't called.

We reached out to Delta, and a rep tells us the airline is investigating and "taking this very seriously."
White male member of highly paid privileged class, of course there will be a full investigation. It is Atlanta, right ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 11:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...My feeling: If this had happened in flight, subdue the miscreants and hogtie them until they land, then turn them over to the tender mercies of the United States Government. But on the freaking jetway? No. Get the passengers clear, call security, and let them sort it out.

YMMV, of course.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/30/2017 12:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Linky's bad
Posted by: Frank G || 04/30/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Link fixed.
Posted by: badanov || 04/30/2017 12:44 Comments || Top||

#4  thx!
Posted by: Frank G || 04/30/2017 12:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I suppose charges of 'disturbing the peace' were never considered. Others to be considered are 'creating a public nuisance' and 'littering'.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/30/2017 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Passengers & Cargo - Unruly Passengers

"FAA Enforcement Actions
Violations of 14 CFR 91.11, 121.580, 135.120, 125.328, 49 USC 46318 & 46504
"Unruly Passengers"
Calendar Years 1995-2017"

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/30/2017 13:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Meanwhile, with neck braces in hand, legions of hungry Atlanta personal injury lawyers scurry to find combatants.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 13:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Anybody anywhere is free and recommended to interrupt an act of felonious assault.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 18:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Anybodyanywhere is free and recommended to interrupt an act of felonious assault.
Posted by Skidmark


Disrupting the process of natural selection should not be encouraged.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 18:59 Comments || Top||

#10  I have been a Delta fan.
Be that as it may, Americans should know fight club is at the gate. Not in the tin can.
They are sick of the hassle it takes to travel and sick of the airlines just plain messing with them (as they see it)

It is a two sided coin in some cases.

We need to make traveling more enticing for travelers and commuters. Pre-check helps very much. I love that.

But the airlines may run themselves out of business as far as I care. But then, I run out of professional providers.

Time for flying cars.
Posted by: newc || 04/30/2017 23:21 Comments || Top||

#11  The airlines can (and are) sink(ing) themselves. Something will rise from the ashes, the won't throw away the hardware (aircraft).

Thinking back, the airline that always treated me best was Air France (Tokyo to Paris flights). In retrospect, it's a surprise, given their public reputation.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/30/2017 23:58 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Swiss climber falls to death, preparing for Mount Everest ascent
[Reuters] An experienced Swiss climber died on Sunday after he fell in the Everest region of Nepal during preparations to climb the world's highest mountain, the first to perish in the current climbing season, officials said.

Ueli Steck, 40, died after falling to the foot of Mount Nuptse, a smaller peak in the area, said Mingma Sherpa of the Seven Summits Treks company that organized Steck's expedition.

Steck was in the area acclimatizing ahead of a bid to climb Everest through the less-climbed West Ridge route and traverse to Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak - at 8,516 meters (27,940 feet) in May.

"His body has been retrieved and is being brought to Kathmandu," Sherpa told Reuters.

Kamal Prasad Parajuli, an official with Nepal's Department of Tourism, confirmed Steck died while climbing Nuptse and that he had planned to attempt an Everest ascent.

He said Steck, who climbed Everest in 2012, "slipped and fell 1,000 meters" in the Western Cwm along the normal route to Everest.

The incident took place near the route's Camp Two, which is located at an altitude of 6,400 meters (21,000 feet), Parajuli said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 11:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gravity is a bitch.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/30/2017 14:15 Comments || Top||

#2  He said Steck, who climbed Everest in 2012, "slipped and fell 1,000 meters" in the Western Cwm along the normal route to Everest.

The original WTC, at over 100 stories, was 417m tall.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/30/2017 17:28 Comments || Top||

#3  He had time to think about his choices.
Posted by: Hupeart Thaitch2372 || 04/30/2017 19:25 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
ASIMIL8
[HeatStreet] Canada Man Ordered to Surrender ‘Offensive’ Star Trek License Plate
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 11:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This kind of stuff is funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious!
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 04/30/2017 16:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Except for Quebec, Canada used to be the sensible part of North America. Dunno what happened.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/30/2017 16:51 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
France, Japan, the UK and US Send China and NORKS a Tough MSG
No, not monosodium glutamate, dear Reader, though it would fit.
[BeastWatch] France’s Mistral amphibious assault carrier docked in Nagasaki, Japan on April 29 in advance of military exercises to be conducted with the U.K., U.S., and Japan. Nagasaki is the closest major Japanese port to South Korea, and coming at a time of tension on the peninsula, the French and U.K. naval presence sends a strong message to both China and North Korea. Japan’s increased naval activity is also welcome support for South Korea, and will decrease diplomatic tension between the two natural allies.

The U.K. and French presence shows that NATO, including the U.S., is strongly behind South Korea. The effect of these international allied naval forces is to pressure North Korea to abandon its self-destructive drive for ever more powerful nuclear weapons atop long-range missiles capable of reaching North America.

Link to original Forbes article.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Jame Retief was not available for comment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/30/2017 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2  And if this doesn't work, the UN has a viscous non-binding referendum that is slavering to deliver a stiffly worded communique to Kimmie.
(Note on the French prescence: somebody at Dassault said to the French navy to get over there and get tracking data and telemetry on the THAAD and SM6's when the squirting begins.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/30/2017 11:25 Comments || Top||

#3  The myopic Kim will be unable to read the message.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Thank you for adding the link to the original Forbes article, Besoeker. Beast Watch appears to have taken it down -- I get a 404 page not found message.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2017 15:57 Comments || Top||

#5  NATO may prove Trump wrong about their relevance.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/30/2017 23:53 Comments || Top||


US Governor Kasich Says Elimination of Leadership May Solve North Korean Problem
Did wonders for Libya. That Kasich, nothing escapes him, nothing.
Posted by: Flarong Grolusing5445 || 04/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Kasich, the left's new fool.
Posted by: jvalentour || 04/30/2017 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  they seriously thought this was gonna be their guy for a while!?
Posted by: 746 || 04/30/2017 0:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I can see this "man" flying to India and asking for a hamburger in a Hindu Restaurant.
Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 || 04/30/2017 1:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Kasich, the left's new fool.

But there are so many...
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 1:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Stopped clock?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/30/2017 6:50 Comments || Top||

#6  He reminded me of Greg Stillson during the campaign, and he's reminding me of him now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/30/2017 7:43 Comments || Top||

#7  About Libya, what happened to Gaddafi after he gave up his nuke program? Nice going there Obama. Teach the tyrants never ever to play that game.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/30/2017 8:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Gosh, did he think that up all by himself?
Posted by: Iblis || 04/30/2017 12:12 Comments || Top||

#9  I bet he thought that reabsorbing East Germany was a piece of cake. How bad can nork-land be?~
Posted by: Crimble Shusort5846 || 04/30/2017 12:55 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Indian groom rejects bride at meatless wedding
[DAWN] A groom in meat-strapped Uttar Pradesh walked out on the bride because her family had served only vegetarian food at the wedding, Outlook magazine reported on Friday.

Another man stepped in to accept the vegetarian repast and with it the bride, the magazine said. It did not describe the religion of the groom but it appeared to be a Moslem wedding as there was reference to the price of buffalo meat going through the roof, a factor in not serving meat.

"They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Sometimes the opposite is also true," Outlook said.

It quoted guests at the Muzaffarnagar as describing how they the groom refusing to solemnise his marriage "after seeing that only vegetarian dishes were being served at the wedding feast on Thursday."

With the ceremony on the verge of a breakdown, "a guest came to the rescue and proposed marriage to the bride-in- waiting who readily accepted", panchayat officials told the magazine.

Posted by: Fred || 04/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Smart man
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/30/2017 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Carpe Coitus
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  A man should always get his own meat. My favorite Indian restaurant back home is all vegetarian, and it's excellent...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/30/2017 7:42 Comments || Top||

#4  My favorite Indian restaurant back home is all vegetarian, and it's excellent...

Can't beat it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I say, "Let them eat cake".
Posted by: Crimble Shusort5846 || 04/30/2017 12:56 Comments || Top||

#6  She dodged a bullet if you ask me.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/30/2017 23:52 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Ramadan begins May 26, falls during Israeli matriculation exams
[Ynet] Moslem high-school students are frustrated that many of the important exams fall during the month when devout Moslems refrain from eating and drinking during daylight hours; the only concession is an additional 15 minutes per hour of test time.

Israel’s matriculation exams, the culmination of 12 years of education, are set to begin on May 4 and last until July 13. The country’s Moslem pupils are even more stressed than their Jewish peers, however, because this year, the month-long fast of Ramadan falls during the exam period.
Think of it as practice for the long years of adulthood, when no one will give you 25% more time to complete your tasks.
For Moslem Israeli students, the fast and matriculation exams have coincided for the past few years. This year, Ramadan begins on May 26, following the matriculation exams in mathematics and English, but most other subjects, including those largely studied by affected students (including Hebrew for Arabs, literature for Arabs, Islamic religion and Arabic history and language) will take place during the fast.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Think of it as practice for the long years of adulthood, when no one will give you 25% more time to complete your tasks.

Or care what your religion might be.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, let them have separate exam timing - it isn't like they've limited time due to IDF induction.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/30/2017 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm expecting a Ramadan lunch special at Chick-Fil-A.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/30/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Easing the childhood stress of living at home with free food and laundry, car and clothes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Fuck them.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/30/2017 21:37 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Researchers create a robot that can 3-D-print a building in hours
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/30/2017 08:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, if they can just create a robot to go through the permitting process, buy the land and materials, and give it to someone that needs a house, they will have accomplished a social step.
Why is it that the photos I've seen of this particular event created something that would generally be called "people's housing"?
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/30/2017 10:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Does it meet code? Don't see much in the way of doors or windows do such things weaken the frame?

/sarc
Posted by: AlanC || 04/30/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Doesn't even have a roof... That's not a building its a fence.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/30/2017 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  It's a hive.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#5  It's a tiny house -- one bedroom, I think. 38 m^2 is 409 square feet. It sounds like the building price at $10,134 is about $25/sq.ft., not including the land purchase and site preparation, utilities hook-up, permits, legal fees,and possibly not including plumbing and wiring -- that isn't clear to me from the video. Flat roofs need a lot more care and attention than pitched roofs to prevent leaking, I understand.

The price quoted is $275/m^2 compared to a standard construction cost of $223/m^2. Twenty-four hours is considerably better than the standard construction time of six weeks to six months, so there's a major cost saving there in being able to get in right away...

Still, that the method is proved workable is really, really cool.

AlanC, the living room has a row of four windows to one side of the front door.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Trump Invites Duterte to White House During 'Very Friendly' Chat
[PJ] WASHINGTON -- The White House said late Saturday night that President Trump had a "very friendly conversation" with the Philippines leader who is accused of extrajudicial killings in his country and said last fall he would "be happy to slaughter" millions of drug addicts in a comparison of Hitler slaughtering millions of Jews.

In December, President Rodrigo Duterte said he had personally killed people he suspected to be criminals while mayor of Davao. One of his ministers claimed he was exaggerating for effect, but in August he said in a message to suspected drug dealers, "My order is shoot to kill you. I don't care about human rights, you better believe me."

The White House said the two leaders "discussed the concerns of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regarding regional security, including the threat posed by North Korea."

"They also discussed the fact that the Philippine government is fighting very hard to rid its country of drugs, a scourge that affects many countries throughout the world," the readout of the call added. "President Trump enjoyed the conversation and said that he is looking forward to visiting the Philippines in November to participate in the East Asia Summit and the U.S.-ASEAN Summit."

Trump also invited Duterte to the White House "to discuss the importance of the the United States-Philippines alliance, which is now heading in a very positive direction."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 11:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So Xi using Trumo to pass the MSG?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 19:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Documents Tie Berkeley Riot Organizers To Pro-Pedophilia Group, NAMBLA
[Daily Caller] The left-wing activists behind the anti-conservative riots at Berkeley have ties to one of the nation’s most prominent pro-pedophilia organizations.

The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary -- more commonly referred to as By Any Means Necessary or BAMN -- is one of the militant leftist groups waging a campaign against conservatives and Trump supporters in Berkeley. The group’s planned aggressive demonstrations against conservative commentator Ann Coulter and the students coming to hear her talk led to the cancellation of Coulter’s speech this week due to safety concerns. (RELATED: ’INFERNO’ -- Milo Speech Cancelled After Rioters Set UC Berkeley Campus Ablaze)

BAMN’s parent organization worked directly with the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) in the years just before it founded BAMN, according to NAMBLA documents reviewed by The Daily Caller. In addition, a member of that parent organization said to have founded BAMN is an admitted member of NAMBLA, which she has described as the victim of a "witch-hunt."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2017 11:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I look forward to seeing this story splashed all over the MSM this evening.
Posted by: gorb || 04/30/2017 12:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I look forward to becoming the World's leading male model.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/30/2017 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Will Sessions look into this or is he too busy hurdurring about the wacky weed?
Posted by: charger || 04/30/2017 13:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Most everyone in the SanFran area has ties to NAMBLA, if only from county taxes taken up and used as grant money given out because the pedophiles have such good community outreach events in the schools and parks.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/30/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#5  So if a representative from NAMBLA showed up at Berkeley that would be OK and he would be allowed to speak?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/30/2017 15:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Abu, it would be an orgy at that point.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/30/2017 22:42 Comments || Top||


USDA to make school lunches edible again. Michelle Obama hardest hit.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/30/2017 08:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why? Michelle Obie never ate a school lunch.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/30/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Neither did their kids at Sidwell.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/30/2017 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Another shameful Obama legacy erased.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Not yet. Massachusetts is still bitterly clinging to their toast and tunafish.
Posted by: gorb || 04/30/2017 22:56 Comments || Top||


Armed Nazis Descend On Tiny Kentucky Town
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/30/2017 08:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Headline ought to be "Armed Nazi fascists battle other armed fascists." Why in Pikeville, KY? Nobody can figure that out.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/30/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Obviously popcorn time - but, what kind of flavoring?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/30/2017 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Chili powder.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/30/2017 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Pedestrian
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/30/2017 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Notice that there's no mention of where the counter protesters were from.
I refuse to use the term "antifa" because that implies anyone they are protesting is automatically fascist. That gives them authenticity which they have not earned.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/30/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#6  And socialist scribes write articles about what they want to believe in their daily hammer and sickle.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/30/2017 10:25 Comments || Top||

#7  AntiFA really means Anti First Admendment.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/30/2017 10:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Antifa was neutered by LE as they were in Berkeley just a couple of days ago. All that is required is the enforcement of the "no wearing of masks" rule. Do that, and Antifa will not show as they spend quite the effort with recruits on how to avoid "unmasking" It shows how little Berkeley PD had been doing in the 1st place. Thursday was a beautiful day in Berkeley. So many folks gathering had not seen each other since 2nd Battle of Berkeley. Some of it quite emotional. It speaks to those bonds that can form under such situations.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/30/2017 11:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Why Pikeville, KY?
Recruiting where the desperate edge of depressed urban society meets Appalachia.
See The Outsiders
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/30/2017 11:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Pedestrian

You'd think...
Posted by: Pappy || 04/30/2017 13:38 Comments || Top||


#12  From the article:

But most of the town’s actual residents want nothing to do with Nazis or their foes.

“We have no clue why they would even pick Pikeville,” said Elizabeth White, who is in her 50s and has lived in Pikeville her entire life. “Why don’t they go disrespect their own homes, their own people, their own families?”

She added, “We need Trump to tell them to go back to their own place.”


Just as well the police kept the visitors orderly. Next time they should charge each group a stiff per-head fee for providing security.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2017 17:30 Comments || Top||

#13  My observation: of the various groups that showed to provide security, some were able to work hand-in-glove with BPD to provide a secure perimeter around the event which then freed up PD assets to corral and separate Ralliers and any Antifa that showed up. That force multiplier was crucial to clamping down on any potential for violence that day. We're seeing LE adapt the position that the best way to defuse the situation is to demask Antifa. Concur.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/30/2017 18:36 Comments || Top||

#14  I've been through Pikeville several times. It is a town of about 7000. Pikeville has a connection to East Tennessee in that a family was murdered north of here off I-81 20 years ago. A description of the murders was as follows: The Lillelid murders refers to a criminal case in Greeneville, Tennessee, United States in 1997. A Norwegian-Honduran-American family of Jehovah's Witnesses were carjacked and then shot; three of the four were killed. Six young people were convicted and sentenced for the crime. Norwegian Vidar Lillelid (age 34), his American wife Delfina (28), their daughter Tabitha (6) and son Peter (2) were shot on a deserted road in Tennessee on 6 April 1997. Vidar and Delfina were found dead, while Tabitha died after being transported to the hospital. Peter, who was found lying in a ditch, was the only survivor. He had been shot once in the torso and once through the eye. As a result of the shooting, he was left blind in one eye and permanently disabled The father worked at a Holiday Inn in Knoxville a few miles away. The trial for the murderers was held in Greenville, TN. Feelings were heated in Greenville and there was talk of lynching in the newspaper which turned out to be just talk. The murderers were from the Pikeville, KY area, were into witchcraft, satanism and the occult and were described as Goths. They are still serving time in the Tennessee prison system.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/30/2017 22:36 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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Sun 2017-04-30
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Sat 2017-04-29
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Fri 2017-04-28
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Thu 2017-04-27
  Damascus airport rocked after 'Israel air strike' on arms depot
Wed 2017-04-26
  Abu Sayyaf beheads captive Philippine soldier
Tue 2017-04-25
  Sweden arrests second suspect over deadly truck attack
Mon 2017-04-24
  Drone strike kills 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Sun 2017-04-23
  5 terrorist suspects arrested in Brussels after arms, ammo & drugs seized in police raids
Sat 2017-04-22
  Dozens of About 140 Afghan troops dead in Taliban base attack
Fri 2017-04-21
  ISIS Media Chief dies in airstrike
Thu 2017-04-20
  Paris - cops shot, 1 killed. Suspect dead, Suspicious package left
Wed 2017-04-19
  US: Man screams 'Allahu akbar!' and kills three civilians
Tue 2017-04-18
  Pakistani Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan 'surrenders'
Mon 2017-04-17
  Pirates killed while trying to hijack ship near Somalia
Sun 2017-04-16
  At least 43 killed as car bomb hits Syria evacuees

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