Hero Cop Beats Mentally Impaired Janitor to Death
...over a Snicker's bar:
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in prison for using excessive force against a mentally disabled janitor who died after...
“Creating Jobs”
Both candidates for the consulship of America entreated the electorate with fulsome promises that "jobs would be created" by them once (s)elected. This goes unremarked - or worse, openly cheered. Yet...
Sayonara, Suzuki
Cue Taps. There goes Suzuki.
On Nov. 6, the company (American Suzuki) announced it would stop selling cars in the U.S. after current inventory peters out - and that it will be...
Clover’s Travel Tips
This is just depressing:
... from an article about
How to Fly Through the Airport
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/us-news-travel/how-to-fly-through-airpor_b_2121227.html
Succumb to the Scan
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There has been a lot of backlash surrounding the recently introduced full-body scanner. While some passengers...
NY “Hero” To Be Released
From today's copblock:
Former Greece, NY Police Chief Merritt Rahn, now a convicted criminal who has served about 2 1/2 years in State prison for four felonies and three misdemeanors related to...
Newborns’ Blood Being “Databased”
After years of denying that blood samples were taken at birth, bioethicists are arguing for the State’s right to seize newborns’ blood samples for global database:
85 MPH: Almost a Speed Limit
On a stretch of road near Austin, Texas there is an actual speed limit. Or at least, close to one.
You can drive up to 85 MPH on Texas Highway 130 -...
2013 Volvo S60
Safety's not the sell it once was. Because everyone's selling it. Multiple air bags, ABS, traction control - and much more. It's common - and it's a given. Almost everyone has...
A New Car? Or Maybe a Used Car?
Here are some good - and some not-so-good - reasons to buy a new car.
Or a used car:
* Higher interest rates on used car loans - and shorter loan periods ....
Some Good News: Hero Cop Charged
The following, originally posted at WashingtonTimes.com on Thursday November 1, 2012:
A District Heights police officer who shot a handcuffed man in the back as he fled from the officer’s custody was...