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NEW YORK (WABC) — Former tennis star James Blake is calling for the firing of the officer who tackled him in an arrest mix-up Wednesday morning. “It’s not debatable if he should be out there ever again,” said Blake Saturday morning, noting that the officer has other civilian complaints against him. “You can’t let that…
NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda reports on new information in the death of 42-year old Fridoon Rawshan from court documents including the city’s response to a lawsuit filed Thursday. The officer reported the man was brandishing an object that turned out to be a pen. (Published Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015) A man shot to death by…
Joshua Goldberg posed as an Islamic radical and allegedly encouraged a terrorist to attack on September 11. That’s just one of his online personas though. When Joshua Goldberg wasn’t posing as an Islamic radical, he was pretending to be a white supremacist—and is accused of impersonating a Jewish lawyer. Goldberg had several online personas: an…
An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar. Depending on whom you ask, the use of the active voice over the passive is arguably the most fundamental writer’s maxim, thought to lend weight, truth, and power to declarative statements. This absolutist view is flawed, however, because language is an art of nuance. From time to time, writers…
(Bigstock) A Pittsburgh woman has been convicted and fined $300 for, well, it isn’t exactly clear. A North Side woman interfered with official police duties April 25 when she watched an arrest in her neighborhood and didn’t leave the scene when asked, a district judge ruled Thursday. Kimberly Bracken, 30, was fined $300 by Judge…
END ID=”RES436569067″ CLASS=”BUCKETWRAP TWITTER LARGE GRAPHIC624″ Despite a Supreme Court ruling that compelled a Rowan County clerk in Kentucky to give out marriage licenses to gay couples, Kim Davis refused to comply once again on Tuesday morning by denying marriage licenses to everyone. Ryland Barton, a reporter for Kentucky Public Radio, reports that Davis said…
John Howard, who served as prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, is no one’s idea of a lefty. He was one of George W. Bush’s closest allies, enthusiastically backing the Iraq intervention, and took a hard line domestically against increased immigration and union organizing (pdf). But one of Howard’s other lasting legacies is Australia’s gun…
Former Ohio resident John Felton was pulled over by Dayton police in front of his mom’s house after he allegedly activated his turn signal less than 100 feet before making a right turn. Unable to believe an officer would stop him on such a piddling technicality, Felton asked the officer why he was really followed…
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s injunction against the National Security Agency’s program to collect records on billions of telephone calls to, from and within the United States in an effort to seek out terrorist plots. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit splintered on the…
Soon after the on-air shootings of two Virginia journalists, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians called on Congress to take up gun control. “We have got to do something about gun violence in America — and I will take it on,” Clinton told reporters in Iowa. “There are many people who face it…