MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) - Myrtle Beach police arrested four men from Orangeburg County in connection with the shooting outside Ripley’s on Ocean Boulevard Thursday morning.
Captain Joey Crosby with the Myrtle Beach Police Department says officers responded to 9th Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard around 1 a.m. Thursday morning for a report of a shooting.
People were sitting on the steps of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, according to Captain Crosby, and started shooting at two vehicles driving down Ocean Blvd. Police say the vehicles fled the scene west on 9th Ave N. The vehicles are described as a red Jeep Cherokee and a black Lexus sedan.
Captain Crosby says four people have been arrested.
Sa'Quel Pepper, 18, Myleek Henderson and Anthony Robinson, both 19, all of Orangeburg, are each charged with with simple possession of marijuana, unlawful carry of a handgun, possession of a stolen firearm, and discharge a firearm within city limits.
Da'Jour Murphy, 19, of Santee, is charged with simple possession of marijuana, unlawful carry of a handgun, possession of a stolen firearm, discharge firearm within city limits, and possession of a firearm by person convicted of a violent felony.
[News 7 Miami] JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) ‐ Police say a man who tried to carjack two people was thwarted after the victims both pulled out guns to protect themselves.
According to Fox 30, Jacksonville police officers arrested 36-year-old Christopher Raymond Hill, charging him with strong-arm robbery, carjacking with firearm or deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and trespassing. Yes, I think you could easily say Chris has that predator look.
Detectives said the incident began when Hill robbed a Walmart liquor store, and attempted to flee in a silver Ford SUV. However, witnesses said the vehicle would not start, so he first tried to carjack Scott Reardean at knifepoint, cutting him on his arms and legs.
"I reached in between my glove box and my console, between my seats, reached down and got my weapon and brandished it for him," Reardean told WJXT. "He was like, ’Don’t shoot me.’ I was like, ’Then get out of here.’"
Hill then jumped into the passenger seat of a woman’s car in a Starbucks drive-thru. Police said the woman got out of her car and grabbed a pistol from her trunk, pointing it at Hill until he ran off.
Reardean said he was glad he had his gun with him for self-defense.
For some reason people don’t like their status as a product rubbed in their faces even as their posts are controlled for political correctness.
[DAWN] The use of social media networks such as Facebook to consume news has started to fall in the United States as many young people turn towards messaging apps such as Facebook-owned WhatsApp to discuss events, the Rooters Institute has found.
Usage of Facebook, the world’s largest social network, for news is down 9 percentage points from 2017 in the US and down 20 points for younger audiences, according to the Rooters Institute survey of 74,000 people in 37 markets.
"The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth," Nic Newman, research associate at the Rooters Institute for the Study of Journalism, said in the Digital News Report.
"We continue to see a rise in the use of messaging apps for news as consumers look for more private [and less confrontational] spaces to communicate," Newman said.
Facebook and Twitter are still used by many users to discover news but the discussion then takes place on messaging apps such as WhatsApp, often because people feel less vulnerable discussing events on such apps.
"Social media is like wearing a mask," an unidentified UK female respondent from the 30-45 age group was quoted as saying. "When I am in my messaging groups with my friends, the mask comes off and I feel like I can truly be myself."
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I never was on it. I really don't feel I missed anything at all.
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Facebook? Fok no! I'm a pretty common fellow, sort of private if you will, with average means and ambitions. You'd not be interested. Our time here is precious, so be a good neighbor and bugger off:
Codependency is a controversial and likely pseudoscientific concept that refers to a type of dysfunctional helping relationship where one person supports or enables another person's drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement.
[ONLINEATHENS] A rabid bobcat recently attacked a Hart County grandmother in her yard, spurring a furious battle that ended with the cat’s strangulation death.
"I thought, ’Not today.’ There was no way I was going to die," DeDe Phillips said Thursday as she recalled the attack that occurred June 7 at her home off Liberty Church Road.
Phillips has begun a round of rabies shots at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. She also has a broken finger, and numerous bite and claw wounds to her hands, arms, chest and legs.
"I’m very lucky," the 46-year-old woman said.
The unprovoked attack occurred about 6 p.m. She had been working on her truck that afternoon and posted a bumper sticker that read: "Women who behave rarely make history." She planned to photograph the sticker and send it to her husband.
She walked out of the house with her cell phone.
"My neighbor’s dog was barking and it drew my attention," she said. "I saw the cat and I took a picture. The cat took two steps and was on top of me. ... It came for my face."
Phillips grew up in the country, where her father-in-law was once a trapper of bobcats. As a result, she knew something about the animal’s behavior.
"They go for your jugular ... because when they can get the vein you’re dead in a couple of minutes," she said.
This bobcat did go for her upper body.
"It caught me slightly on my face, but I got him before he could do much damage there," she said. "I took it straight to the ground and started inching my hands up to its throat. I knew that was the only way I was getting out of this."
With both hands around the bobcat’s neck she began squeezing, but she never shouted for help because her 5-year-old granddaughter was in the house.
"I was scared if I screamed for help that my granddaughter would come out and I didn’t want that to happen," she said.
"Once I got him where he wasn’t moving I started screaming for my daughter-in-law to call 911," she said. Phillips’ son was also called after the 911 call and he showed up with a gun.
But Phillips would not release her grip on the crazed animal as she feared it might not truly be dead.
She didn’t want her son to fire the gun because she was so close, so he pulled a knife.
"My son stabbed it four or five times, but it never budged so I knew it was completely dead," she said.
After Hart County deputies and an ambulance arrived, Phillips drove herself to a hospital. She learned the next day the bobcat was rabid.
Phillips lives in a rural area near the Elbert County line and said she learned only recently a rabid skunk and rabid fox were found in the same area.
Phillips’ cousin Amy Leann Mize has set up an account in Fundly.com to raise money for Phillips medical expenses as the first round of rabies shots already have cost her $10,000. She also faces expenses for treatments to her wounds.
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"Toxic femininity?" No way. This is just an old-school grannie from the days when a woman was expected to be competent in caring for her family, capable of baking cornbread, making soap, and strangling the occasional bobcat.
Ramzan Kadyrov makes a cameo appearance at Putin's meeting with Mohammad bin Salman. Not surprising since Kadyrov was trying to invest in relations with Saudi crown prince over the last couple of years. pic.twitter.com/XyWm2Emx2G
[a French reporters tweet summarizing the RT article] The Russian space agency would like to deploy a laser in space to "incinerate space debris" -- the kind of dual system that would build an anti-satellite capability
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There isn’t any oxygen in space, so it won’t burn. Simply melting it would produce a more concentrated mass, that’s not helpful. So, “incinerate” would mean vaporize, which takes a whole lot of energy delivered precisely at great distance. That’s very difficult. (It’s not the same as the much easier task of disabling a satellite or weapon.)
But a space-based laser could vaporize part of an object such that the resulting vapor jet would de-orbit the object.
The grammar, composition, and style is charming, or maybe hilarious. But the fact that it is reported at all in the official news outlet I find encouraging. The conclusion, as a sample - it is copyrighted, after all - [Rodong] Chairman Kim Jong Un and President Trump expressed expectation and belief that the two countries which have lived in the quagmire of hostility, distrust and hatred would pass the unhappy past over and dynamically advance toward an excellent and proud future beneficial to each other and another new era, the era of the DPRK-U.S. cooperation would open up.
Kim Jong Un invited Trump to visit Pyongyang at a convenient time and Trump invited Kim Jong Un to visit the U.S.
The two top leaders gladly accepted each other's invitation, convinced that it would serve as another important occasion for improved DPRK-U.S. relations.
The DPRK-U.S. summit talks held in Singapore with success amid enthusiastic support and welcome of the whole world come to be a great event of weighty significance in further promoting the historic trend toward reconciliation and peace, stability and prosperity being created in the Korean Peninsula and the region and in making a radical switchover in the most hostile DPRK-U.S. relations, as required by the developing times.
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[Reuters] SHANGHAI - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn said it would establish its North American corporate headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following the purchase of a building in the city’s downtown area.
In a statement, Foxconn said more than 500 people would work at the seven-story building in downtown Milwaukee.
The announcement comes almost a year after the company disclosed plans to invest $10 billion over four years to build a 20 million-square-foot LCD panel plant in Wisconsin that could eventually employ up to 13,000 people.
Taiwan-based Foxconn, known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (2317.TW), is the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and employs more than a million people.
And I think they'd be doing that sort of thing even if it were a purple state with a Democrat governor. They are hostile in the extreme to the idea of manufacturing in the United States, and we're all hypocrites if we play the same mercantilistic games as the people who made their current laptops and cell phones.
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Spain's new socialist government promised on Friday it would restore free healthcare for undocumented migrants, a right removed by the former administration as part of cost-cutting.
The move is the latest migrant-friendly initiative by the government of Pedro Sanchez, who offered on Monday to take in a rescue ship [from Save the Children NGO] that was drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants on board. Italy and Malta had refused to let it dock. Word will get around, and Spain will soon be up to the gunnels in illegal migrants.
The government will draw up a draft law with the proposal, it said, which must be approved by parliament. Although the Socialists have a minority of 84 seats in the 350-member assembly, most parties back the proposal and it seemed certain to be approved.
"Healthcare is a right and the protection of health is essential," government spokeswoman Isabel Celaa told a news conference.
Spain offers universal healthcare to its citizens. The former center-right government of Mariano Rajoy withdrew the right to general healthcare for undocumented migrants in 2012 as part of a program of spending cuts.
The government later reinstated some rights like access to emergency healthcare in 2015, but fell short of returning full coverage to an estimated 800,000 people residing in Spain without papers.
Spain receives a tiny percentage of the total asylum claims in Europe, and of those received it accepts fewer than the EU average, according to the Spanish Commission for Refugees.
However, the EU border agency expects illegal migration will rise again in 2018, potentially turning migration into a more pressing issue for Sanchez. For more information on the Save the Children NGO, click HERE.
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[DAWN] TAXILA: The Hassanabdal police on Thursday booked a man along with his son on the charge of killing his wife.
Shamroz Khan reported to the police that the accused had contracted second marriage with his sister Salma Bibi nine years ago after the death of his first wife.
He said his sister was often tortured by her husband and stepson.
He said on Thursday the accused and his son shot her dead.
The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else after an autopsy on the body at the THQ hospital.
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[DAWN] Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... and Maryam Nawaz arrived in London on Thursday to see Kulsoom Nawaz, who is currently undergoing cancer treatment.
Sharif and Maryam boarded a foreign airline flight at the Allama Iqbal International Airport and arrived in London via Doha.
After boarding the plane Maryam tweeted: "Leaving for London. (We) will be back next week. I can’t wait to meet and hug Ami. I request you all for special dua for her health."
There are reports that the condition of Kulsoom ‐ who is in the advanced stages of lymphoma (throat) cancer ‐ has tanked and she has been shifted to hospital.
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[Wash Times] The U.S. Army recently put word out that it wanted submachine guns for conventional forces, and gun-makers were quick to respond.
Ten companies are currently vying to supply troops outside the special operations forces realm with subguns for the modern battlefield. Officials said they wanted a weapon with full/semi-automatic selectable variant and a Picatinny rail, among other features, and organizations from Sig Sauer, Inc. to Colt answered the call.
"For the first time in a long time, the Army is looking at a subgun for conventional forces," Todd South of Military Times reported Wednesday. "Special operations forces have carried these guns for a very long time, but your conventional soldiers and Marines don’t really have them in their arsenal until now."
The Army received the following submissions:
* Z-5RS, Z-5P and Z-5K Sub Compact Weapons; Zenith Firearms
* B&T MP9 Machine Guns; Trident Rifles, LLC
* MPX Sub Compact Weapon; Sig Sauer, Inc.
* 5.5 CLT and 5.5 QV5 Sub Compact Weapon; Quarter Circle 10 LLC
* PTR 9CS Sub Compact Weapon; PTR Industries, Inc.
* MARS-L9 Compact Suppressed Weapon; Lewis Machine & Tool Company
* CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1 Submachine gun; CZ-USA
* CMMG Ultra PDW; CMMG, Inc.
* Beretta PMX Sub Compact Weapon; USA Corporation
* CM9MM-9H-M5A; Colt’s Manufacturing Company, LLC
"Another subgun option the Army could consider is [Heckler & Koch’s] MP5," Mr. South reported. "The [MP5 MLI] is an improved version on what they’ve had for decades. It’s pretty familiar to a lot of people. A lot of folks growing up like I did in the 1980s and 1990s might have seen it. The Navy SEALs carried it."
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Give em what McCready had: A shotgun and a flame thrower.
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Sweet little inexpensive 9mm gem, the Carl Gustov M/45 or Swedish-K. You can train an operator to write his or her name at 10 meters with little difficulty.
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If you go to the article, or other articles, you find out that the army specified that they want a select-fire weapon in 9mm, so I guess forget about the P90. In all seriousness, it's used by a lot of federal agencies, including the secret service.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[News 7 Miami] JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) ‐ Police say a man who tried to carjack two people was thwarted after the victims both pulled out guns to protect themselves.
[ONLINEATHENS] A rabid bobcat recently attacked a Hart County grandmother in her yard, spurring a furious battle that ended with the cat’s strangulation death.
[Rodong] Chairman Kim Jong Un and President Trump expressed expectation and belief that the two countries which have lived in the quagmire of hostility, distrust and hatred would pass the unhappy past over and dynamically advance toward an excellent and proud future beneficial to each other and another new era, the era of the DPRK-U.S. cooperation would open up.
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
