Hilda Lezama was taking passengers back upriver to the township of Ahuas after a fishing expedition in a remote area of the Mosquito Coast in Honduras. In the pre-dawn darkness, she could hear the helicopters buzzing overhead, but she thought nothing of it at first.
Suddenly, bullets shot from U.S. State Department helicopters with DEA agents and Honduran police aboard penetrated both her legs.
"I threw myself in the water so they wouldn't shoot me again," she s... (more)
Israel Rangel was charged with possession of less than a gram of cocaine. Cops said he had half as much coke as there is Sweet’N Low in a single packet.
When citizens showed up in court to pick a jury, it started the way all cases do.
“The prosecutor asked a question to the first 65 people,” Dupont said.
I was just reading about how the median wage is lower today than it was a decade ago. Ouch. The cause, says this article, is inflation.
Inflation? That's interesting. Hardly anyone talks about that anymore. I can't remember the last time I read a mainstream article that so much as mentioned it as a problem. There is public consciousness about rising prices in specific sectors like education and health care. But is there really a general problem with inflation?
After the DJIA loses 251 points, Moody's finally released its rating cuts for 15 banks. According to Zero Hedge four firms were cut by a notch, 10 firms were downgraded two notches, and only one firm was cut three notches, with Morgan Stanley surviving with a two level drop rather than the th... (more)
Clinton, N.C. — The mother of a Clinton third-grader says a school administrator went too far when she strip-searched her child after accusations that he stole from another student.
Until recently, Carol Price was an employee of the Transportation Security Administration. As a member of the TSA's blue-shirted legion of gropers, Price enjoyed plenary immunity to touch air travelers in any way she chose. When passing through airport security at Southwest Florida International Airport on April 20, Price was on the receiving end of the treatment her a... (more)
Despite the fact that thousands of TSA agents across the country engage in similar behavior on a daily basis, a woman was arrested after she turned the tables on the federal agency and groped a TSA supervisor in protest at her treatment.
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Reno Gazette-Journal Photo Director Tim Dunn was thrown to the ground by a pair of deputies while trying to cover a fire. Via his own newspaper:
A 60-year-old Reno Gazette-Journal photojournalist was thrown to the ground, handcuffed and suffered minor injuries Monday after sheriff's deputies allege he obstructed and resisted them while trying to take photographs of a destructive fire in Sun Valley.
LIMA — A tiny circle of blood splatter on the sidewalk was all that remained Tuesday afternoon after an early morning scene of unfortunate events unraveled in a Lima neighborhood.
A pedestrian was accidentally shot by police and a wounded pit bull remained on the loose after it attacked Lima police officers around 8:40 a.m. Tuesday on West Kibby Street.
The Associated Press recently reported that half of all new college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed. These fresh-faced bachelor-degree holders are finding themselves opting for waiting tables and serving coffee just to pay off a trillion dollars in student loans. They are coming to grips with a lie perpetuated by university professors, faculty unions, and politicians that delu... (more)
A recent New York Times op-ed entitled Pinched and Griping in Iran by Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof shows how differently statists think in comparison to us libertarians, especially when it comes to foreign policy and moral principles.
Kristof is traveling in Iran and reporting on his experiences in the country. In his arti... (more)
IPv6 has been around for quite some time at this point, but as we get closer and closer to moving the internet over to the system, it appears that American and Canadian law enforcement has just noticed that it's not as easy to identify and track users, and they're frantically raising concerns.
FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Royal Canadian Mou
Some recent news out of Canada involves reports that the airport in Ottawa has hidden microphones installed, designed to record conversations of people. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) doesn't seem to see anything wrong with this, admitting that it's spent $500,000 upgrading video equipment to also include audio capturing. And, while the CBSA says th... (more)
