Aaron Persky, the California judge who drew national attention in 2016 when he sentenced Stanford student Brock Turner to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, was recalled on Tuesday. He is the first judge recalled in California in more than 80 years. Almost 60% of voters were in favor of removing Judge Persky from the Santa Clara County Superior Court, where he had served since 2003. Prosecutor Cindy Hendrickson was elected to replace him.
The recall stemmed from the case of Brock Turner, who was caught sexually assaulting a woman near a dumpster in 2015 after she had blacked out from drinking. In 2016, a jury found the 20 year old Stanford swimmer guilty on all three felony charges against him: sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated person, sexual penetration with a foreign object of an unconscious person, and intent to commit rape.
The maximum sentence in Turner’s case was 14 years but Judge Persky had sentenced him to six months. During sentencing Judge Persky said he thought Mr. Turner would “not be a danger to others” and expressed concern that “a prison sentence would have a severe impact” on him. His decision along with the fact that he did not mention the impact of the assault on the victim, outraged victims’ advocates nationally.
Turner served only three months before being released in September 2016. He also received three years of probation and was required to register as a sex offender. Stanford forced him to withdraw and barred him from campus. His victim, known publicly only as Emily Doe, described her suffering in a more than 7,000-word statement that went viral soon after it was published. The sentence and resulting backlash, prompted California lawmakers to change the law. Within four months, they enacted mandatory minimum sentences in sexual assault cases and closed a loophole in which penetrative sexual assault could be punished less harshly if the victim was too intoxicated to physically resist.
Talk of a recall campaign began immediately after he handed down his sentence. The recall campaign was led by Ms. Dauber, whose daughter is friends with Emily Doe — had collected enough signatures to put the question on the ballot. In a statement, Judge Persky said he had a legal and professional responsibility to consider alternatives to imprisonment for first-time offenders. LaDoris Cordell, a retired judge and a spokeswoman for Judge Persky, called the recall an attack on judicial independence and said it had “encouraged people to think of judges as no more than politicians.”
Among the effort’s most prominent backers were Anita Hill and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Ms. Dauber said the results “demonstrated that violence against women is a voting issue,” and that “if candidates want the votes of progressive Democratic women, they will have to take this issue seriously.”
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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, June 17th, 2018 was:
MARY MURPHY
Aurora, IL
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:
6/11/18
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Anggie Marie
Amy Chavis
Kathleen Marks
Jill Nauyokas
Misty Shallcross
Wendi Black
Jennifer Ramlet
Tracey Smith
Chuck Derr
Brittany Light
Cheyenne Shaw
Dawn Raasch
Mary Murphy
Marilyn Wall
April Ashcraft
Kiki Roberson
Dawna McKnight
Diane Hamric
Kelsey McKnight
6/12/18
Kathleen Marks
Sarah Harrison
Kendra George
Christy Hawkes
Chris Maxwell
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Tonya Velazquez
Pheobe Gerou
Ashley Agner
Wendi Black
Sheri Boydston
Kim Floyd
Brandi K Chaney
Tabitha Sinks
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Murphy Mya
Karen Bondehagen
Jenn Smith Jackson
Jennifer Cameron
Jill Nauyokas
Wilma Mast
Jazmine Nichole
6/13/18
Brittany Light
Marilyn Wall
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Kim Avery
Amber McGrath
Dale Fish
Brandi K Chaney
Jill Nauyokas
Priscilla Shimp
Preeti Chand
Alisa Jones
Georgiann D’Angelo
Chris Maxwell
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Crystal Young
Darlene Whyte
Sarah Harrison
Amy Conyers
Susan Clarke Jette
Michelle Webb
Eleazar Ruiz
Dawn Raasch
6/14/18
Wilma Mast
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Tabitha Sinks
Jenifer Garza
Nacole Patrick
Trish Musgrave
Jade Good
Trish Marks
Alicia Dansby
Jill Nauyokas
Christina Domingue
Bea Patrick
Mary Ann Cody
Stacy Lynn Nelson
Tonya Velazquez
Kristina Harris
Chrissy Kim
Brooke Scott
Kiki Roberson
Kimberly Snyder
6/15/18
Kathleen Marks
Amanda Peters
Pheobe Gerou
Jenn Anthony
Jenifer Garza
Nicole Blaha
Kendra George
Trish Hysell
Mary Ann Cody
Tabitha Sinks
Dawn Raasch
Kiki Roberson
Christina Montes
Becky Holland
Vinessa Vaquez
Christy Martinez
Mary Achio
Mary Murphy
Nai Merri
Bea Patrick
Joan Tompkins-Winborn
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Murphy Mya
6/16/18
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Brittany Light
Jill Nauyokas
Amber McGrath
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jennifer Alice Duran
Jenifer Garza
Beth Embrey
Murphy Mya
Betsy Brandon Riddle Smith
Jennifer Marie
Sheila Carvell
Jennifer Leffler
Alexandra Vindiola
Amber Chandler
Lauren Bradley
Chrissy Kim
Deborah Farris
Maria Bouchard
Lenis Abshire
Mary Achio
Kristina Rosson
Christy Martinez
Becky Holland
April Ashcraft
6/17/18
Priscilla Shimp
Jennifer Ramlet
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Marilyn Wall
Kimberly Snyder
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Isis Sample
Sheila Carvell
Alexandra Vindiola
Amanda Brewer
Harley Magoon
Stella Methvin
Kathleen Hickman
Andrew W Sauer
Amber Chandler
Dale Fish
Jill Nauyokas
Mary Mcmenamy
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Mary Pettiford
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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), arrested 114 undocumented immigrants working at an Ohio gardening business in one of its largest workplace raids in recent years. Tuesday’s arrests targeted employees of Corso’s Flower and Garden Center in Sandusky and Castalia, Ohio. Those arrested are expected to face criminal charges, including identity theft and tax evasion.
About 200 ICE personnel were involved in the operations, which began at 7 a.m. and continued late into the evening. Agents surrounded the perimeter of the Castalia locations, blocking off nearby streets as helicopters flew overhead. Search warrants were served at both locations without incident. They arrested 114 workers suspected of being in the country illegally and loaded many onto buses bound for ICE detention facilities.
Khaalid Walls, spokesman for ICE’s Northeastern region, said the investigation into Corso’s began in October 2017 with the arrest of a suspected document vendor. They reviewed 313 employee records and found that 123 were suspicious. He added that the majority of those arrested were Mexican nationals and some individuals were processed and released for humanitarian reasons.
Authorities are pursuing a bevy of allegations against Corso’s, including allegations of harboring illegal aliens, unlawful employment of aliens, false impersonation of a US citizen, fraud and aggravated identity theft, Walls said.
Steve Francis, special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations said “We are attempting to identify what criminal network brought over 100 illegal aliens to Ohio to work.” “If your business is operating legitimately, there’s nothing to fear. If you are hiring illegal aliens as a business model, we will identify you, arrest you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.”
In October 2017, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan said he ordered the investigative unit of ICE to increase work site enforcement actions by as much as fivefold. “We’ve already increased the number of inspections in work site operations, you will see that significantly increase this next fiscal year,” Homan said at the time. Homan also said that those actions would target both the employers and the employees in violation of immigration law. “Not only are we going to prosecute the employers that hire illegal workers, we’re going to detain and remove the illegal alien workers. The aggressive efforts are meant to deter people from entering the country illegally and protect jobs for American workers.”
Corso’s employee Salma Sabala told news outlets that undercover officers showed up in an employee break room initially offering to give out Dunkin’ Donuts. Then, they started rounding up workers. “ They’re armed. They had the dogs. We hear the helicopters on top of us,” Sabala said. Videos captured by workers and reporters showed immigration agents putting employees in handcuffs and separating authorized U.S. residents from undocumented immigrants. No employees were seen fleeing.
The 114 people arrested were taken to detention facilities in St. Clair County, Michigan; Seneca County, Ohio; and the Youngstown, Ohio, area. Families of the arrested workers gathered at St. Paul Catholic Church in Norwalk, Ohio, seeking answers as to the whereabouts of their loved ones.
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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, June 10th, 2018 was:
DEBORAH FARRIS
Carrollton, TX
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.
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Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
6/4/18
Misty Shallcross
Jill Nauyokas
Mikey Mellor
Marilyn Wall
Jenn Anthony
Kayte CookWatts
Deborah Farris
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Brittany Light
Nikki Hunsaker
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Mary Ann Cody
Kristi Cervantes
Helen Saez Deverter
Thalia BunBunz
Mary Achio
Justin Griffis
Anggie Marie
Becky Holland
Mary Bubel Smith
Dawn Raasch
6/5/18
Jill Nauyokas
Sheila Carvell
Joanie Waterman
Kathi Taylor
Crystal Hazelwood
Angel Shearl
Jodi Stevens
Dale Fish
Sherry Lilly
Cheryl Hall
Naomi Whitlatch
Amber Chandler
Wendi Black
Tina David Konegan
Priscilla Shimp
Jennifer Vega
Don Redfield Jr.
Karyn Koehler
Ann Patrick
April Ashcraft
6/6/18
Angela Janisse
Cheyenne Shaw
Kristi Cervantes
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Jade Good
Jill Nauyokas
Karron Redfield
Jennifer Vega
Vickie Gipson
Mary Achio
Diane Hamric
Christy Martinez
Amanda Peters
Brenda Hartwig
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Sheri Boydston
Beth Cleveland
Bethany Henry
Marcy Coull
Becky Holland
Eleazar Ruiz
6/7/18
Kathleen Marks
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
April Ashcraft
Holly Cajigas
Brittany Light
Stella Methvin
Jill Nauyokas
Melissa White
Deborah Farris
Chris Maxwell
Susanne Killion
Tanya Mattox
Sarah Harrison
Alisa Jones
Crystal Young
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Kacie Rogers
Jennifer Ramlet
Geri Rus
Stephanie Lynn Rich
6/8/18
Jennifer Lee Clack
Jenn Anthony
Mary Ann Cody
Toi Minnifield
Kathleen Marks
Tina Auth
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Jill Nauyokas
April Walrath
Bea Patrick
Diane Hamric
Dean Bruss
Sarah Haught
Brandi Kerr
Holly Cajigas
Nacole Patrick
Brandi K Chaney
Kristina Harris
Beth Embrey
Amanda Peters
6/9/18
Nacole Patrick
Jessica Davis
Lauren Bradley
Kimberly Necolie Garrasi
Cheryl Hall
Misty Shallcross
Bea Patrick
Jill Nauyokas
Kristina Harris
Brittany Light
Christy Hawkes
Angela Janisse
Adaria Johnson
Beth Meemo
Heather Marocco
Sheila Carvell
April Ashcraft
Kathi Taylor
Amber Chandler
Tina David Konegan
6/10/18
Priscilla Shimp
Tracy Heyer
Sarah Haught
Trish Marks
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Allessandro Tuono
Isis Sample
Sherri Kidwell
Marcia Hutcherson
Christy Martinez
Paula M Bondy
Hunter Coffey
Ashley Agner
Dean Bruss
Alexandra Vindiola
Sajida Hasham Salemohamed
Tricia Schewe
Jennifer Ramlet
Kim Minton
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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, June 3rd, 2018 was:
SARAH HAUGHT
Warren, OH
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:
5/28/18
Jill Nauyokas
Nicole Blaha
Beth Cleveland
Diane Hamric
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Theresa Sigourney
Renee Carrion
Heather Lynn Rood
Sheila Carvell
Dee Washington
Dmarie Nylin-Terrell
Tonya Velazquez
Angela Janisse
Be Schwerin
Amanda Peters
Becky Holland
Eleazar Ruiz
Stephanie Marie Walls
Cyndi Jansheski
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Andrew W Sauer
Samantha Brwn
5/29/18
Kelly Jo Francisco
Eleazar Ruiz
Amber Chandler
Jackie Hicks
Crystal Dotson
Susanne Killion
Crystal Young
Dustin Lawson
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Karen Bondehagen
Jennifer Ramlet
Jennifer Lang
Britta Brown Lawson
Nai Merri
Marcy Coull
Dawn Raasch
Kathleen Hickman
Monica Meador
Pheobe Gerou
Trish Musgrave
Alexis Maureen
5/30/18
Christy Hawkes
Deborah Farris
Sarah Harrison
Vickie Gipson
Alicia Johnson
Be Schwerin
Jenifer Garza
Christy Martinez
Trish Musgrave
Jennifer Vega
Brittany Light
France Camer
Ashley Agner
Kimberly Necolie Garrasi
Penny Fisher
Nicole Blaha
Melissa White
Amanda Peters
Kathleen Marks
Maria Bouchard
Kendra George
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Tonya Velazquez
5/31/18
Jill Nauyokas
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Anna Nichols
Jennifer Cameron
Mary Ann Cody
Naomi Whitlatch
Becky Holland
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Trish Hysell
Debbie Gremlin
Dale Fish
Karen Rimiller Presley
Sarah Haught
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Angela Janisse
Hayley Cordaro
Eleazar Ruiz
Diane Hamric
Brittany Light
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Kimberly Necolie Garrasi
6/1/18
Jennifer Ramlet
Marcy Coull
Mary Achio
Jill Nauyokas
Jennifer Lang
Teena Sierson
Heather Lynn Rood
Misty Shallcross
Alisa Jones
Wilma Mast
Cyndi Jansheski
Melissa White
Sheri Boydston
Crystal Young
Beth Cleveland
Stella Methvin
Lori Capobianco
April Ashcraft
Kristina Rosson
Tanya Holmes
Cheryl Hall
Tracy Shafer
6/2/18
Jill Nauyokas
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Emily Rice Bowersock
Carol Jean
Brandi K Chaney
Melissa Maestas
Christy Martinez
Jennifer Leffler
Mikey Mellor
Be Schwerin
Nicole Blaha
Cheryl Hall
Brooke Scott
Beth Cleveland
Angela Janisse
Alyssa DiFazio
Stephanie Beckwith
Heather Marocco
Beth Meemo
Jade Good
6/3/18
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Helen Saez Deverter
Jill Nauyokas
Cheryl Hall
Dawn Raasch
Anggie Marie
Kristina Rosson
Jenifer Garza
Nicole Blaha
Eleazar Ruiz
Naomi Whitlatch
Sherry Lilly
Britta Brown Lawson
Adaria Johnson
Dustin Lawson
Angela Janisse
April Ashcraft
Dean Bruss
Carol Jean
Sarah Haught
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!!
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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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NFL owners have unanimously approved a new national anthem policy that requires players to stand if they are on the field during the performance but gives them the option to remain in the locker room without penalty if they prefer. The vote was made by team owners without involvement from the NFL Players Association. The policy subjects teams to a fine if a player or any other team personnel do not show respect for the anthem. That includes any attempt to sit or kneel, as dozens of players have done during the past two seasons to protest racial inequality and police brutality. Those teams also will have the option to fine any team personnel, including players, for the infraction.
The previous policy required players to be on the field for the anthem but only that they “should” stand. When former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling in 2016 as a protest against racial injustice in the United States, the league had no rule it could use to prevent it. The movement grew with other players kneeling and drew increasing criticism with many who believed it was a sign of disrespect toward the flag and country. As the movement grew, the negative responses included suggestions that players who protest should be fired.
Others displayed their disapproval of players’ protests by leaving the stadium immediately after the protests or refusing to watch games at all. Owners had been divided on how to extricate the league from criticism. Some owners, including the Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones and the Houston Texans’ Bob McNair, wanted all players to stand. Others, such as the New York Jets’ Christopher Johnson, wanted to avoid any appearance of muzzling players. Some suggested clearing the field prior to the anthem but the idea was rejected by some owners who thought it would be interpreted as a mass protest or a sign of disrespect.
After spending months in discussions, and another three hours over two days at the leagues spring meetings, owners said they found a compromise that will end sitting or kneeling with an edict that stops short of requiring every player to stand. In a statement accompanying the announcement, National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league wanted to eliminate criticism that suggested the protests were unpatriotic. “It was unfortunate that on-field protests created a false perception among many that thousands of NFL players were unpatriotic,” Goodell said. “This is not and was never the case.”
Goodell added “All 32 clubs want to make sure that during the moment of the anthem and the flag,that that is a very important moment to all of us, as a league, as clubs, personally and to our country, and that’s a moment that we want to make sure is done in a very respectful fashion. And that, that was something that was very strongly held in the room.”
As for the man who started the movement, on March 3, 2017, Kaepernick officially opted out of his contract with the 49ers, becoming a free agent at the start of the 2017 league year. Kaepernick went unsigned through the offseason and 2017 training camps, leading to allegations that he was being blackballed because of his on-field political actions as opposed to his performance. Many players, including New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and former teammate Alex Smith, have stated that they believe his sporting ability is competitive in the NFL and they are incredulous of his prolonged unemployment. Kaepernick and former 49ers safety Eric Reid have both filed collusion cases against the league after failing to find jobs as free agents.
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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, May 20th, 2018 was:
SUZIE MIZE LOCKHART
Arlington, TN
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:
5/14/18
Lori Capobianco
Hayley Cordaro
Misty Shallcross
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Jill Nauyokas
Vickie Gipson
Anna Nichols
Amanda Peters
Kellina Fernell Murphy
Christy Hawkes
April Ashcraft
Brianna Ketchum
Melissa Maestas
Amber Chandler
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Melissa White
Be Schwerin
Nicole Blaha
Aaron Chambers
Jenifer Garza
Jennifer Ramlet
5/15/18
April Ashcraft
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Jill Nauyokas
Tracy Shafer
Tonya Velazquez
Brooke Scott
Jade Good
Jenifer Garza
Naomi Whitlatch
Mikey Mellor
Anna Nichols
Justin Griffis
Deborah Farris
Marcy Coull
Traci Anderson
Megan Rhyne
Tom Cavalli
Trish Marks
Martha Balderson
Isis Sample
Amy Chavis
Samantha Rentschler
5/16/18
Trish Musgrave
Vickie Gipson
Jenifer Garza
Jill Nauyokas
Tina Mimick
Jennifer Marie
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Diane Hamric
Christy Hawkes
Brooke Scott
Amanda Peters
Britta Brown Lawson
Kacie Rogers
Stephanie Beckwith
Maria Bouchard
Kristina Rosson
Rondi Clark-Conn
April Denise Council-Redmond
Shelly Ann Peoples
Sheri Boydston
5/17/18
Jill Nauyokas
Kelly Prestenbach
Vickie Gipson
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Isis Sample
Misty Shallcross
April Ashcraft
Beth Cleveland
Hayley Cordaro
Diane Hamric
Nicole Blaha
Mary Mcmenamy
Sherri Kidwell
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Tonya Velazquez
France Camer
Alicia Johnson
Amy Conyers
Pheobe Gerou
Marcy Coull
David M Still
Sheri Boydston
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Morgan Fam
5/18/18
Deborah Farris
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Chrissy Kim
Diane Hamric
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Stephanie Marie Walls
Jenifer Garza
Murphy Mya
Bre Kershaw
Be Schwerin
Eleazar Ruiz
Amber Chandler
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A Pennsylvania court found comedian Bill Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004. The 80 year old comedian is facing 30 years in prison and his sentencing hearing is scheduled for this summer. Though he faces a maximum of 30 years in prison, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele indicated he would not press for that sentence.
Legal experts believe that it is unlikely Cosby will ever be incarcerated and a judge will probably sentence him to home refinement due to his poor health. Legal analyst Areva Martin said the judge’s rulings so far suggest he will give Cosby a much reduced sentence. “I think the fact that the judge yesterday allowed him to walk out of that courtroom, did not remand him immediately to jail, gives us a sense about what this judge is likely to do when he gets to the sentencing hearing,” she said.
Judges can take any number of mitigating factors into consideration when issuing a sentence, she explained. “He will be able to take into consideration Cosby’s age, the status of his health, the philanthropic work that he’s done over the last several decades, the fact that this is his first criminal conviction — all of those will be factors that the judge can take into consideration when sentencing him.”
Constand is the former director of operations for the women’s basketball team at Temple University where Cosby was a trustee and one of about 60 women who have accused him of sexual assaults dating back decades. Constand’s case is the only criminal case stemming from the dozens of accusations of sexual misconduct — all of which the comedian/actor denies. She says she was “paralyzed” by pills he gave her while he claimed it was just Benadryl and that the encounter was consensual.
He maintains that the sexual encounters were consensual but has admitted to giving them drugs prior to the encounters. In January 2005, in a civil suit Constand filed, she accused Cosby of giving her pills, groping her and assaulting her. Thirteen other women relayed similar claims in court papers and agreed to testify to these claims but the case was settled out of court in 2006. Many of the women gave similar accounts of what happened to them but didn’t come forward for years because they felt no one would believe them over the well-loved actor/comedian.
That changed in October 2014 when comedian Hannibal Burress made fun of Cosby during a stand-up comedy bit and called him a rapist. “People think I’m making it up. I’m like ‘Bill Cosby has a lot of rape allegations,’ (they reply back) ‘No, you do’….That sh*t is upsetting, if you didn’t know about it trust me. Google ‘Bill Cosby rape.
Then in November 2014, Barbara Bowman wrote a Washington Post essay that immediately went viral in which she discussed being raped by Cosby and questioned why it took so long for people to believe her. For months after that essay, dozens of women came forward with similar accusations occurring as far back as the 1960’s.
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A deadly shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in suburban Nashville in the early morning hours of April 22, 2018 ended with four people dead and another four wounded before a heroe patron wrestled the gun away from the shooter. After being disarmed, the shooter, identified as 29-year-old Travis Reinking, fled on foot. Reinking was taken into custody the next day not far from his apartment complex, after an intense 34 hour manhunt.
Reinking reportedly arrived at the Waffle House naked, except for a jacket, armed with an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle just after 3am. He fatally shot two people just outside the Waffle House, 20 year old Joe Perez and 29 year old waffle house employee Taurean C. Sanderlin before entering and continuing his rampage. Once inside, he killed DeEbony Groves and shot 23 year old Akilah DaSilva, who was rushed to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he later died.
DaSilva’s 21-year-old girlfriend Shanita Waggoner and 24-year-old Sharita Henderson were also shot and wounded in the shooting. Two other people were wounded by breaking glass during the shooting. Twenty-nine year old James Shaw Jr., who suffered a bullet graze wound, has been hailed a hero for ending the bloodshed. Shaw hid near the restaurant’s bathrooms when the shooting began but when he saw an opportunity, he rushed the shooter and wrestled the rifle away. The gunman then fled on foot, leaving behind his rifle and ammunition.
Reinking was from Morton, Illinois but moved to the Nashville area in the Fall of 2017. He has had a history of erratic and delusional behavior. In May 2016, Tazewell County police responded to a call from Reinking’s parents in the parking lot of a drugstore, where a paramedic said Reinking had delusions that Taylor Swift was stalking him and hacking his phone. Reinking had previously lived in an apartment above his father’s crane rental business in Tremont, Illinois. In June 2017, an employee of the business called police, saying Reinking had come downstairs carrying a rifle, wearing a pink dress, and using an expletive before tossing the rifle in his trunk and leaving the building. On another occasion around the same time, a public pool director called police to report Reinking had come to the pool in a “pink women’s housecoat” and then exposed himself to lifeguards.
In July 2017, the U.S. Secret Service arrested Reinking near the White House after he crossed a barrier and refused to leave. The Secret Service said Reinking had said he “wanted to set up a meeting with the president.” Reinking was charged with a misdemeanor, unlawful entry and entered into a deferred prosecution agreement in July 2017. Reinking performed 32 hours of community service and was ordered to stay away from the White House. Reinking successfully completed the program in November 2017 and the court dismissed the case.
A month after his arrest, Illinois authorities revoked his state firearms authorization and seized four of his weapons, including the AR-15 used in the Nashville shooting. Two additional rifles and a handgun were also seized. The sheriff of Tazewell County, Illinois, said that Reinking’s father, Jeffrey Reinking held a valid state authorization card and asked sheriff’s deputies whether he could keep the guns. They allowed him to do so after he assured them he would keep them secure and away from his son. Reinking’s father now could face criminal charges after he admitted that he eventually gave all four guns back to his son which is potentially a violation of federal law.
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One person was killed and seven others sustained minor injuries on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York to Dallas when an engine exploded in midair. The explosion occurred about 20 minutes into the flight, shattering a window that passengers said partially sucked a woman out of the aircraft. The Southwest plane, a two-engine Boeing 737, made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport at about 11:20 a.m. Flight 1380 was on its way from La Guardia Airport in New York to Dallas Love Field with 144 passengers and five Southwest employees on board.
It quickly lost altitude after the explosion and violently depressurized after shrapnel from the explosion burst through the window. Passengers said the window burst and the woman, identified as 43 year old Jennifer Riordan, was partially sucked out of the 10-by-14-inch window head first. Firefighter Andrew Needum, of Celina, Texas, said he heard a “loud pop” moments after flight attendants had begun to take drink orders. Needum, seated next to his father and son, turned back to see that oxygen masks had deployed in the cabin and there was a commotion a few rows behind him. When he rushed to row 14, passenger Tim McGinty was trying to pull Riordan back inside the plane. Needum helped McGinty pull Riordan back inside the plane but she was unconscious and seriously injured.
Passenger Peggy Phillips, a retired nurse and an emergency medical technician onboard laid the woman down and immediately began administering CPR, while the pilot urged everyone to brace for an emergency landing. They continued CPR for the entire 20 minutes until the plane landed safely and airports EMT’s took over. Philadelphia Department of Public Health spokesman James Garrow said Jennifer Riordan, a mother of two and Wells Fargo executive from Albuquerque, died of blunt force trauma to her head, neck and torso and that her death was listed as an accident.
For that terrifying 20 minutes, passengers and flight crew unsuccessfully tried to plug the hole with luggage and clothing, which was just sucked out of the broken window. Finally, another brave passenger stood in front of the broken window with his lower back covering the hole to help maintain cabin pressure. Other terrified passengers spent those minutes thinking they were their last. Many were scrambling for phones and other electronic devices to record their final goodbyes or purchase wifi to contact loved ones.
Southwest captain Tammie Jo Shults, a former fighter pilot with the U.S. Navy, on her final approach to an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport calmly described conditions on the craft to the air traffic controller:
“Southwest 1380, we’re single engine,” said Shults,. “We have part of the aircraft missing, so we’re going to need to slow down a bit.” She asked for medical personnel to meet the aircraft on the runway. “We’ve got injured passengers.”
“Injured passengers, okay, and is your airplane physically on fire?” asked the air traffic controller.
“No, it’s not on fire, but part of it’s missing,” Shults said, pausing for a moment. “They said there’s a hole, and, uh, someone went out.”
The National Transportation Safety Board has said the principal culprit of the explosion was a fracture — most likely because of metal fatigue — of one of the 24 fan blades in the engine. When that blade broke away at the fan’s hub, it carried with it parts of the engine cowling and related engine parts.
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