A Merritt Island mother was arrested Wednesday after her 2-year-old fell out of her car as she was driving — and didn’t know it, deputies said. Laway K. Meharie faces charges of felony child neglect for failing to properly restrain a child and failing to properly install car safety locks, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
Hill takes a spill and fractures her elbow.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fractured her right elbow Wednesday during a fall, State Department officials said. Clinton fell Wednesday afternoon on her way to the White House and was taken to George Washington University Hospital.
Continental Airlines pilot passes away while plane in flight en route from Brussels to Newark, N.J.
The captain of a Continental Airlines flight en route from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, N.J., died during the trip, FOX News confirmed. The pilot died Thursday aboard Continental Flight 61, and the co-pilot took over the aircraft’s controls, FAA spokesman Les Dorr told FOX. The plane was scheduled to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport at about noon EDT. It left Brussels at 9:45 a.m. local time, CBS News reported.
The Detroit Police Department is systematically undercounting homicides, leading to a falsely low murder rate in a city that regularly ranks among the nation’s deadliest, a Detroit News review of police and medical examiner records shows. The police incorrectly reclassified 22 of its 368 slayings last year as “justifiable” and did not report them as homicides to the FBI as required by federal guidelines.
Heads up Hawaii, North Korea is feeling froggy…may launch missile your way in a few weeks.
North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese newspaper said Thursday, amid escalating tensions between the communist country and the United States over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs. The missile, believed to be a long-range Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), would be launched from North Korea’s Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan’s top-selling newspaper.
Police are making unjustified and ‘almost certainly’ illegal searches of white people to provide ‘racial balance’ to Government figures. Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of terror laws, said he knew of cases where suspects were stopped by officers even though there was no evidence against them.
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A 26-year-old convenience store clerk was shot and killed in broad daylight in Gary, Ind., and police say witnesses stood by and did nothing. CBS 2’s Pamela Jones reports there are critical clues that may help crack the case. Police say one of the four men caught on surveillance video bursting into the clerk’s booth at the convenience store was about to commit murder.
Three illegal aliens receive total of 3.85 million dollars to settle work related claims.
Two undocumented workers from Mexico and one from Ecuador have reached court settlements in recent weeks for a total of $3.85 million in damages for New York construction-site accidents, an attorney for the men announced Wednesday. “All three cases involve construction and terribly unsafe working conditions,” the attorney, Brian O’Dwyer, said in a news conference. “We’re here today to re-emphasize — as we have in the past — to the Latino community and all undocumented workers that they have the same rights once they’re on the job as any New York citizen.”
Monica Weeks has met many men, but at age 51 she says she still hasn’t found her “Barack.” Among Weeks and her friends, President Barack Obama’s name has become shorthand for a black man with integrity, character and spirituality, one who loves and values his wife and makes his family a priority — in other words, the kind of man that many black women had despaired of finding.
If you’ve got your eye on a new SUV, don’t blink. (SNIP) Now, a year after $4-a-gallon gas nearly killed SUVs, some dealers in this market are selling them for window-sticker prices. Moreover, most late-model used pickups and SUVs have regained all of the thousands of dollars in trade-in value they lost last summer, dealers say.
A former McIntosh County sheriff pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy count Thursday in connection with a scheme in which he and his former undersheriff pocketed seized cash from motorists over a 19-month period. Ex-Sheriff Terry Alan Jones, 36, of Eufaula, pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce under color of law, U.S. Attorney Sheldon Sperling said.
Firearm used to kill infamous criminal John Dillinger up for auction July 28, 2009.
A Colt Army Special revolver used by East Chicago, Ind., police Capt. Timothy A. O’Neil to fatally shoot John Dillinger could be yours for what auctioneers say may be much more than their conservative $8,000 to $12,000 estimate. The .38-caliber, 5-inch-barrel gun and its holster will be auctioned at noon July 28 — six days after the 75th anniversary of Dillinger’s fatal shooting — at Chicago’s Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 1338 W. Lake. The new Dillinger movie, “Public Enemies,” premieres in Chicago tonight and opens July 1.
Continental Airlines said it has taken steps to ensure that proper procedures are followed after two unaccompanied girls were placed on wrong Continental Express flights over the weekend. An 8-year-old College Station girl erroneously ended up in Fayetteville, Ark., and a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl was mistakenly sent to Newark, N.J., after boarding planes operated by ExpressJet, which is under contract with Continental.
Nearly half a million 2009 Georgia income tax returns have yet to be processed by the state Department of Revenue as the agency struggles with budget cuts that have decimated its processing division. It could be five months before all 2009 returns are finalized.
A 37-year-old high school teacher in Newport Beach remains out on bail after his arrest last week on suspicion of furnishing marijuana to a minor, police said. Chad Edward Smith, a math teacher at Corona del Mar High School, was arrested Thursday afternoon after a parent of a 16-year-old discovered text messages about the teen smoking marijuana with Smith, said Newport Beach police Sgt. Evan Sailor.
The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation in the U.S. and sent the measure to the House. Democrat Tom Harkin first introduced the measure years ago but wanted it passed Thursday on the eve of Juneteenth – a day of celebration commemorating the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the release of African Americans from slavery.
North Carolina takes novel approach to delay sending residents their income tax checks.
The N.C. Department of Revenue dispatched letters this year to 6,700 North Carolina taxpayers who claimed a large number of dependents, at least five children, on their taxes. The tax agency’s message was simple: Prove it. (SNIP) The Revenue Department is verifying dependents of more taxpayers and doing it before refund checks go out, instead of auditing them afterward. Refund checks have been delayed in many cases.
Armed home invaders blasted with shotgun rounds by resident, one dead one wounded. Yay.
One armed robber is dead and another in the hospital after a resident opened fire with a shotgun during a home-invasion robbery late Wednesday in Mesa. According to Sgt. Ed Wessing, Mesa police spokesman, the two armed men entered the home and demanded money in the 1400 block of south Allen, near Stapley Drive and Southern Avenue, about 11:30 p.m.
Quote of the day.
The media no longer ask those who know something … to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
-Serge Daney