In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, February 11th, 2018 was:
HAYLEY CORDARO
Brick, NJ
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
2/5/18
Chrissy Kim
Katrina Worford
Tammy Isom
Kathleen Hickman
Ashley Agner
Dean Bruss
Brittany Light
Dawn Raasch
Stacy Lynn Nelson
Stephanie Griffith
Eleazar Ruiz
Paula M Bondy
Lyvona Lena Perry
Be Schwerin
Jodi Stevens
Lauren Bradley
Jessica Davis
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Geri Rus
Maria Bouchard
Trish Marks
2/6/18
April Ashcraft
Brandi K Chaney
Chelsie Nicole
Vickie Gipson
Tera Wardrip
Bea Patrick
Katrina Worford
Michelle Hughes
Amanda Rosario
Jill Nauyokas
Kristina Rosson
Alicia Smith
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Geri Rus
Joanie Waterman
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Ashley Agner
Meg Marshall
Ann Patrick
Nacole Patrick
2/7/18
Christy Hawkes
Margaret Primos
Amber Chandler
Brittany Light
Alicia Johnson
Kathleen Marks
Jenifer Garza
Katherine Oliveira
Jenn Anthony
Karen Ann Hinkle
Jennifer Kearney
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Tera Wardrip
Adaria Johnson
Brian Fulop
Deborah Farris
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Althea Thomas
Wendy Messer-Brinnon
Kendra George
Bethany Henry
Jill Nauyokas
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Alysia Jackson
Sara Heller
2/8/18
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Jill Nauyokas
Amber Chandler
Jenifer Garza
Nicole Blaha
Mikey Mellor
Amanda Peters
Becky Holland
Alisa Jones
Sara Heller
Deborah Farris
Sheila Carvell
Nacole Patrick
Melissa White
Mike Adamski
Lindsey McCoy
Christina Montes
Kathi Taylor
Vinessa Vaquez
Bea Patrick
Alexis Maureen
Diane Hamric
2/9/18
Sheila Carvell
Ashley Agner
Amber Chandler
Jill Nauyokas
Enna-LenLen DR-Villafuerte
Priscilla Shimp
Michelle Hughes
Trish Musgrave
Eleazar Ruiz
Susanne Killion
Dave Miller
Alicia Smith
Kelly Jo Francisco
Carla M. Williams
Isis Sample
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Brian Fulop
Wendi Black
Michelle R. Carlino
Amy Conyers
2/10/18
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Jenifer Garza
Jennifer Kinner
Shelby Howke
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Sherry Lilly
Eleazar Ruiz
Karen Ann Hinkle
Wayne Gallas
Ambreen Rouf
Jennifer Ramlet
Bethany Henry
Brandi Kerr
Kayla Clemons
Karyn Koehler
Alexandria Fields
Chris Blythe
Jill Nauyokas
Diane Hamric
April Ashcraft
Demetris Crutcher
Marcy Coull
2/11/18
Jackie Poole
Jenifer Garza
Dawn Raasch
Jennifer Ramlet
April Ashcraft
Anggie Marie
Mikey Mellor
George Pownall
Jessica Bognear
Stella Methvin
Misty Shallcross
Jennifer Vega
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Shelby Howke
Jodi Stevens
Kristina Harris
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Abby Cox
Jenn Hess
Marcy Coull
Hayley Cordaro
Marilyn Wall
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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An appeals court has ruled that children who migrate to the United States with their parents without permission do not have the right to a government-appointed lawyer in U.S. immigration courts. The judges rejected a claim by the American Civil Liberties Union and immigrant groups that children have a constitutional due process right to a free attorney. In the ruling, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said “A system already exists to give the children a fair hearing, and requiring the government to provide free attorneys would be an expense that would “strain an already overextended immigration system.”
The plaintiffs said many of the thousands of children the government seeks to deport each year appear before judges without a lawyer because they can’t afford one or find one to take their cases for free. The result is an unfair process that pits children with no ability to navigate complex legal issues against seasoned government attorneys, the groups say.
The 9th Circuit considered a case filed by a 13-year-old boy identified only as “C.J.” who fled Honduras with his mother after facing death threats, including a gun to his head, when he refused to join a gang. C.J. testified in immigration court that he rebuffed recruitment attempts from the Maras gang three times, and eventually they held a gun to his head and threatened to kill his mother, aunt and uncles.
They fled Honduras, arriving in the U.S. in 2014 and the boy was placed in deportation proceedings three months later. An immigration judge told the boy’s mother he had a right to an attorney, but she said she did not have money, according to the court ruling. The case went forward without an attorney, and the judge rejected the boy’s asylum application. The judge said C.J. failed to present evidence that he had been persecuted, or feared persecution if he returned to Honduras, a requirement to establish eligibility for asylum.
The boy was appealing the ruling and sought a free court-appointed attorney for himself and other immigrant children who face deportation hearings. The Ninth Circuit upheld the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision finding C.J.’s due process rights were not violated when he wasn’t given free legal counsel and that the immigration judge had given him a fair hearing. The panel said the immigration judge had delayed the case for over a year so his mother could retain counsel for her son, and also noted that the Department of Homeland Security had given her a list of pro bono attorneys.
The ruling drew critical responses from immigrant rights advocates, who fear it could set off mass deportations against children in similar situations. In response to the ruling, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said, “If permitted to stand, this ruling will result in the deportation of thousands of vulnerable children to some of the most violent places on earth.”
The ruling is another crushing blow for the estimated 1.1 million undocumented children currently living in the United States that fear deportation. Advocates argue that criminal defendants, citizens or not, have the right to government-funded legal representation, yet that right doesn’t extend to immigration cases-leaving helpless children vulnerable.
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San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says he will throw out more than 3,000 marijuana-related convictions made in San Francisco courts since 1975. Any charges that were before the state’s legalization of marijuana went into effect this year will be dismissed with no action necessary from those convicted. Prosecutors are also reviewing whether to reduce nearly 5,000 other drug convictions from felonies to misdemeanors. Those that don’t involve violence or other crimes may be thrown out on a case by case basis. Since 1975, nearly 8,000 people have been convicted of marijuana related crimes in San Francisco.
The announcement comes just weeks after California’s legalization of recreational marijuana use went into full effect with the new year. The move is allowed under the 2016 ballot measure that legalized recreational cannabis use in California. Prop. 64, the voter approved initiative that legalilized marijuana use in California, allows defendants to petition to have their convictions thrown out but the process requires lawyers, time and money.
Nearly 5,000 people in California have petitioned courts to have a marijuana conviction expunged since Prop. 64 took effect but there are millions of Californians with marijuana convictions on their record. San Francisco’s decision to retroactively apply Proposition 64 has been applauded as a massive “step forward”—one that must be replicated throughout California and in other states that have legalized marijuana in order to “truly repair the drug war’s harms.”
“A criminal conviction can be a barrier to employment, housing and other benefits, so instead of waiting for the community to take action, we’re taking action for the community,” Gascon said. Gascon’s office said there was racial motivation behind the decision-noting that in 2010-11, African-Americans represented six percent of San Francisco’s population but represented nearly half of marijuana arrests in the city.
The decision has the backing of the governor’s office as well. Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom said “This example, one of many across our state, underscores the true promise of Proposition 64 – providing new hope and opportunities to Californians, primarily people of color, whose lives were long ago derailed by a costly, broken and racially discriminatory system of marijuana criminalization.” “This isn’t just an urgent issue of social justice here in California – it’s a model for the rest of the nation.”
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, February 4th, 2018 was:
ANNA NICHOLS
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
1/29/18
Kathleen Marks
Jill Nauyokas
Misty Shallcross
Sarah Harrison
Amanda Peters
Michelle Hughes
Be Schwerin
Brian Fulop
Marilyn Wall
Vickie Gipson
Nicole Blaha
Karen Bondehagen
Chris Maxwell
Paula Rousseau
Isis Sample
Jessica Bognear
Carol Scheive
Diane Hamric
Jenifer Garza
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
1/30/18
Beth Embrey
Lenis Abshire
Chelsie Nicole
Enna-LenLen Dr-Villafuerte
Allison Frederick
Christina Montes
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Sheila Vives
Deborah Farris
Brooke Scott
Chrissy Kim
Christina Domingue
Amanda Saltsman
Kristina Rosson
Stephanie Griffith
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Kayla Hernandez
Ann Patrick
Anggie Marie
Sandy Nevels
Jenifer Garza
1/31/18
Shelley LaClear Colby
Christy Hawkes
Brandi K Chaney
Mandi Smith
Beth Embrey
Tonya Velazquez
Jenifer Garza
Tracy Shafer
Stephanie Beckwith
Kathleen Marks
Denesha Brown
Kacie Rogers
Mikey Mellor
Hayley Cordaro
Alicia Smith
Toi Minnifield
Michael Flagg
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Brooke Scott
Geri Rus
Lisa Yu
Kathleen Hickman
Kristina Harris
Mary Achio
Anna Nichols
02/01/18
Cassandra Berholtz
Jennifer Vega
Jill Nauyokas
Amber Chandler
Kristina Rosson
April Ashcraft
Jenifer Garza
Sarah Harrison
Carol Scheive
Deborah Farris
Katherine Oliveira
Alysia Jackson
Jennifer Leffler
Brooke Scott
Paula Rivers
Alicia Smith
Jessica Davis
Angelique Morris
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jennifer Lee Clack
Lori Capobianco
Stacy Draeger-Brogan
Trish Hysell
Sean Stover
Adaria Johnson
02/02/18
Shelby Howke
Kimberly Kay
Stephanie Griffith
Alicia Smith
Morgan Alexandra
Brandi K Chaney
Mandi Smith
Keith Ruff
Mike Adamski
Priscilla Shimp
Be Schwerin
Kayla Hernandez
Diane Hamric
Erica Hansen
Mary Bubel Smith
Mikey Mellor
Dawn Raasch
Trish Clapper
Nancy Scharnhorst
Sheila Carvell
02/03/18
Jennifer Kearney
Jenn Anthony
April Ashcraft
Kayla Hernandez
Dawn Raasch
Megan Rhyne
Becky Holland
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Mikey Mellor
Kari Reed
Ashley Agner
Tera Wardrip
Christina Montes
Jenifer Garza
Nacole Patrick
Eleazar Ruiz
Lindsey McCoy
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Amanda Peters
Samantha Brwn
Diane Hamric
Anggie Marie
2/4/18
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Shelby Howke
Darlene Whyte
Amanda Rosario
Samantha Brwn
Wendy Meser-Brinnon
Tracy Shafer
Jenifer Garza
Holly Cajigas
Tonya Velazquez
Rebecca Fauteux
Ashley Agner
Eleazar Ruiz
Pamela White Brearley
Anna Nichols
Diane Hamric
Jennifer Marie
Nai Merri
Jennifer Kearney
Trish Marks
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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Alaskans were left panicked after they were jolted awake overnight Tuesday by a powerful earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska – then by sirens that warned of a possible tsunami. A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck at 12:32 a.m. off the Alaska coast. The quake itself was far enough away not to cause major damage but occurred in an area that triggered a potential tsunami.
Evacuation sirens blared “Attention, a tsunami warning has been issued for this area,” officials warned over loudspeakers. “The National Weather Service’s Tsunami Warning Center has advised that widespread hazardous tsunami waves are possible.” That warning covered not only most of coastal Alaska, but also the entire coast of British Columbia. Tsunami watches were posted from Washington state to California — and even Hawaii and as far away as American Samoa.
Within minutes, the roads in the seaside town of Kodiak, Alaska, were filled cars heading to higher ground. Residents of Kodiak were asked by police to move at least 100 feet above ground as a precaution. For two hours, many braced for the worst but by 4 a.m. — less than four hours after the quake hit — all warnings were lifted. The only tsunami was an 8-inch wave in Kodiak.
Around 4 a.m. local time, officials canceled tsunami warnings for coastal areas of South Alaska, the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. Warnings were also called off for Hawaii and the Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and California coasts. Tsunami warnings were later canceled in other parts of South Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula, specifically the coastal areas from Hinchinbrook Island, about 90 miles east of Seward, to Chignik, Alaska.
The US Geological Survey (USGA) said the earthquake was located in an area south of where the Pacific tectonic plate converges with the North America plate and at a depth of about 12 miles. Research geophysicist for USGA Will Yeck said the quake occurred on a fault within the Pacific plate that had not been previously charted and the area that ruptured is approximately 140-by-30 miles. Yeck said there have been at least 30 aftershocks from the initial quake, the largest being a magnitude 5.3.
From Indonesia, to Japan, to Hawaii and Alaska, the entire region sits in what is known as the Pacific Ring of Fire – an extremely volatile chain of active volcanoes, tectonic plates and earthquake zones. Most of the world’s earthquakes happen in this region. That’s the same spot which saw the second largest earthquake ever recorded: A 9.2 magnitude in March 1964 that caused widespread destruction and death in Alaska. That earthquake occurred over an area measuring 155 miles wide by 500 miles long. The epicenter was about 12 miles north of Prince William Sound, and 75 miles from Anchorage, the state’s largest city.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, January 28th, 2018 was:
CASSANDRA IVERSEN
Oshkosh, WI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
1/22/18
Marilyn Wall
Hayley Cordaro
Ambreen Rouf
Jill Nauyokas
Kristina Rosson
Sherry Lilly
Eleazar Ruiz
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Karen Brunet Moore
Brittany Light
Jenifer Garza
Shelley LaClear Colby
Melinda Dreier
Denesha Brown
Dawn Raasch
Ashley Agner
Kari Reed
Sheri Boydston
Melissa Mae
Brandi K Chaney
Melissa White
Eva Biggs
1/23/18
Sarah Harrison
Misty Shallcross
Ann Patrick
Michelle Hughes
Deborah Farris
Chris Maxwell
Nacole Patrick
Carrie Strickland
Amanda Thomas
Jenifer Garza
Marilyn Wall
Beth Meemo
Becky Holland
Caitlyn Johnson
Carrie Mitchell
Bea Patrick
Chrissy Kim
Beeg Reeb
Lori Sexton
Tiffany Patrick
Kristina Rosson
Aaron Chambers
1/24/18
Jennifer Vega
Eleazar Ruiz
Jill Nauyokas
Jennifer Downing
Kathleen Marks
Misty Flanigan
Stacy Lynn Nelson
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Desire Kightlinger Swarm
Tonya Velazquez
Misty Shallcross
Kimberly Snyder
Jennifer Ramlet
Dawn Raasch
April Ashcraft
Cassandra Berholtz
Alicia Dansby
Jodi Stevens
France Camer
Mary Bubel Smith
Alexis Maureen
Sheri Boydston
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Tracey Smith
Chelsie Nicole
Jen Freese
1/25/18
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Anggie Marie
Wilma Mast
Melissa White
Kendra George
George Pownall
Brittany Light
Mike Adamski
Helen Saez Deverter
Lisa Marie Ferraiolo Whitener
Deborah Farris
Keith Ruff
Veronica Hay
Geri Rus
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Jenifer Garza
Kathy Schmitz
Laura Del Robertson Dougherty
Michelle R. Carlino
Amanda Rosario
Be Schwerin
Tracy Shafer
Mary Pettiford
Nell Moore
Sean Stover
1/26/18
Paula Rousseau
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Amber McGrath
Carol Scheive
Hayley Cordaro
Deborah Farris
Sheri Boydston
Brittany Light
Marcia Hutcherson
Nacole Patrick
Stephanie Beckwith
Harvinder K. Singh
Bea Patrick
Jessica Davis
Misty Shallcross
Melissa White
Alicia Dansby
Ann Patrick
Vickie Gipson
Joyce Jette
1/27/18
Michael Flagg
Jill Nauyokas
Dean Bruss
Sheri Boydston
Dawn Raasch
Adaria Johnson
Mary Pettiford
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Jenifer Garza
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Traci Anderson
Jade Good
Eleazar Ruiz
Heather Marocco
Mandi Smith
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Marie Beauregard
Cassandra Iverson
Diane Hamric
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Karen Goodwin Delaney
1/28/18
Jodi Stevens
Jill Nauyokas
Veronica Hay
Kathy Rubio
Becky Holland
Paula Rousseau
Kathleen Hickman
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Teena Sierson
Tonya Velazquez
Shelley LaClear Colby
Diane Hamric
Jennifer Lee Clack
Cassandra Iversen
Mary Ann Cody
Diane Hamric
Brooke Scott
Chelsie Nicole
Kristy Curlee
Jenn Hess
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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A school shooting in Kentucky at Marshall County High School on Tuesday morning, left 18 students injured and two dead. Prosecutors say the suspect, a 15 year old student at the school, opened fire in the common area. The victims are Bailey Nicole Holt and Preston Ryan Cope, both 15 years old. Another 14 victims were shot, while four others were injured as they tried to flee the chaotic scene. Five students are still hospitalized in critical condition. All of the victims were aged between 14 and 18.
The suspected shooter barged into the school’s common area around 8 a.m., unleashing a hail of bullets that killed Bailey Nicole Holt and Preston Ryan Cope. Secret Holt, who received a phone call from her daughter before she died, said, “All I could hear was voices and chaos in the background and she couldn’t say anything.” “I called her name over and over and she never responded, so we rushed to the high school.” After the shooting, buses took surviving students to another school, where parents waited. Secret and Jasen Holt waited for their daughter Bailey to walk off one of the buses but she never did. They were later told Bailey Holt died at the scene.
Brian Cope said he knew his son Preston was shot when he arrived at the school. He peered into an ambulance and saw the socks he laid out for his son the night before. Preston Cope, who was shot in the head and hand was airlifted to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center, died during the flight en route to the hospital.
Gage Smock, Bailey’s boyfriend- was also shot in the head but is in stable condition. His father, Gary Wayne Smock, fought back tears as he told reporters that he’s been able to speak with his son but there’s no word from doctors on when the boy will be released from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. No other victims have been identified to the media so far.
The suspect appeared to fire his handgun at random, prosecutors said. Students tried to break down fences and gates to escape the building as shots rang out. Authorities have not identified the shooter because he is a juvenile but he has been identified as Gabe Parker, the son of an online newspaper editor. When Parker’s mother, Mary Garrison Minyard, heard gunfire had broken out at school, she rushed to the scene only to learn the suspected shooter was her own son. The suspect appeared in front of a judge at the Marshall County Judicial Center in Benton, less than five miles from the crime scene. He has been charged with two counts of murder and 12 counts of first-degree assault, according to Marshall County assistant attorney Jason Darnall, who is prosecuting the case. Darnall told reporters that his office would move to have the 15-year-old tried as an adult.
A joint visitation for Preston Ryan Cope, 15 and Bailey Nicole Holt, also 15, will be held 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Reed Conder Memorial Gymnasium at Marshall County High School.
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A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with operating a large-scale drug trafficking scheme. Deputy Kenneth Collins and three other men were arrested by FBI agents in a sting operation when they arrived to what they thought was a drug deal, according to records unsealed after the arrest.
Court documents outlining the case show that Collins, 50, has been under investigation for months. He was recorded by agents discussing “his extensive drug trafficking network, past criminal conduct, and willingness to accept bribes to use his law enforcement status for criminal purposes,” according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
Last year, an undercover agent met with Collins while posing as the relative of a wealthy investor looking to finance an illegal marijuana grow house. Collins offered to provide security and said he had three teams already working in the region, including one that was protecting an illegal marijuana grow house disguised as an auto repair shop, according to the complaint.
At a second meeting, Collins showed off his sheriff’s badge and lifted his shirt to show a gun in his waistband, the complaint said. He later said that he could provide teams of security made up of cops who “travel … with guns”. Collins sold about 2 pounds of marijuana to the agent for $6,000 as a “test run” to demonstrate his ability to arrange and carry out deals, federal authorities allege. The deputy said he had connections to marijuana operations in Northern California and could sell the agent $4 million of marijuana each month, according to the court records.
Undercover agents hired Collins to provide security while they drove several pounds of methamphetamine and other contraband from Pasadena to Las Vegas, the court records said. On the drive to Las Vegas, one of the other men charged in the case, David Easter, drove a lookout car while another, Grant Valencia, rode with the undercover agent in the vehicle with the drugs, according to court records. Collins rode in a third car keeping watch from behind.
In the complaint, agents said that Collins, Easter and Valencia had agreed to provide security for a large drug transaction at an events venue in Pasadena in exchange for $250,000. Collins and his team were p to help oversee the transport of a large cache of drugs and cash. Collins said he had a team of six men, including three other law enforcement officers, who could ensure the cargo made it to its destination “untouched, unscathed,” the document says.
According to court documents, after a Dec. 11th meeting to plan the transport, Collins called another L.A. County sheriff’s deputy to discuss the deal, according to the complaint. Thom Mrozek, a U.S. attorney’s office spokesman, said that the investigation is continuing but that no other law enforcement officers had been implicated so far.
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A front view of four nuclear free-fall bombs on a bomb cart.
The Pentagon is quietly preparing for a potential war with North Korea, with The U.S. military is launching a series of war games and exercises across the US and a planned deployment of additional special operations troops to the Korean Peninsula during the Winter Olympics in South Korea next month. The ongoing tensions between the US and North Korea have spurred precautionary planning for a potential nuclear war.
News outlets have reported that there are also plans to develop two new sea-based nuclear weapons. The new Defense Department nuclear strategy review says the proposed new nuclear weapons would be to counter Russia and China. Widening the permissible use of nuclear weapons to include responding to cyberattacks and other non-nuclear attacks to U.S. infrastructure has also been proposed.
The Pentagon has already outlined this expanded nuclear strategy in a draft document sent to the president for approval. Current US policy requires a lawful order by the President to use nuclear weapons. A lawful order is generally understood by the US military to mean any counterattack would have to be proportional to the threat in terms of damage and casualties of that attack against the US.
US Defense officials have said that the final draft is expected to be unveiled just after Trump’s State of the Union address on January 30. They said it will likely focus on deterrence and reflect the greater threat from North Korea, which has stepped up its testing of missiles and nuclear devices over the last year.
The review is looking at current needs and capabilities across the US nuclear enterprise, including nuclear laboratories, stockpiles and manufacturing facilities. It is also studying future needs for modernizing aging nuclear weapons, including missiles, submarines and bomber aircraft. The review will require increased spending or the government will be unable to produce and maintain a stockpile for land, sea, and air-launched nuclear weapons. Operations, interim upgrades and full modernization could cost $1.2 trillion, according the Congressional Budget Office report.
Defense officials have said the president is not expected to call for increases or modernization of the nuclear arsenal that would take the US beyond current arms control agreements. Many worry that if the review recommends deployment of small nuclear bombs abroad closer to anticipated conflict or the development of lower-yield nuclear weapons-that could lead to it being easier for the president to use nuclear weapons.
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The #MeToo movement continues to expose Hollywood’s dirty secrets but one accusation that has been doubted for years is on topic again. Woody Allen’s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, gave an interview saying she’s hurt and angry that her claims of childhood sexual assault by Allen have been disbelieved for years. Farrow says Allen molested her in 1992, when she was just 7 years old. Allen, who began an affair and eventually married Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn- has strongly denied the claims for years saying Farrow had manipulated Dylan into the claims for vindictive and self-serving motives.
Dylan Farrow gave an emotional interview to Gayle King, host of CBS This Morning where she spoke of the abuse and her frustration of not being believed for so many years. She said a few months after the affair was exposed, Allen had come to their house for visitation while her mother was out shopping. “I was taken to a small attic crawl space in my mother’s country house in Connecticut by my father. He instructed me to lay down on my stomach and play with my brother’s toy train that was set up. And he sat behind me in the doorway, and as I played with the toy train, I was sexually assaulted… As a 7-year-old I would say, I would have said he touched my private parts. Dylan also said that prior to the assault, he was always overly affectionate with her but not her other siblings and used to have her get in bed with him while both were in their underwear.
Woody Allen was never charged with a crime in this case. Both New York state child welfare investigators and a report by the Yale New Haven hospital found that the abuse did not happen. The Connecticut state prosecutor on the case, Frank Maco, said he found no evidence of coaching and questioned the report’s credibility saying there was probable cause to charge Allen but he thought Dylan was too fragile to face a celebrity trial. Dylan said she wished they had gone to trial because all these years of being ignored, disbelieved and tossed aside have been painful.
Woody Allen released at statement after the interview aired stating “When this claim was first made more than 25 years ago, it was thoroughly investigated by both the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of the Yale-New Haven Hospital and New York State Child Welfare. They both did so for many months and independently concluded that no molestation had ever taken place. Instead, they found it likely a vulnerable child had been coached to tell the story by her angry mother during a contentious breakup.”
“Dylan’s older brother Moses has said that he witnessed their mother doing exactly that – relentlessly coaching Dylan, trying to drum into her that her father was a dangerous sexual predator. It seems to have worked – and, sadly, I’m sure Dylan truly believes what she says.”
“But even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time’s Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn’t make it any more true today than it was in the past. I never molested my daughter – as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago.”
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