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Republican politician and grandmother, 53, is found dead in the home of another ex-GOP lawmaker after ‘shooting herself in the head’

State Rep Jessica Upshaw, 53, is found dead in home of former Rep Clint Rotenberry of a single gunshot wound to the head
She is believed to have killed herself

Upshaw is the fifth Mississippi lawmaker to die in the last few months

 

Authorities in Mississippi are investigating after a state representative was found dead in a suspected suicide at the home of a former lawmaker, according to local officials.

The death of Republican [...]

VIDEO: Man attacks ex-girlfriend inside courtroom where she sought order of protection

An Ohio woman who was seeking an order of protection against her ex-boyfriend was brutally assaulted by the man inside a Domestic Relations courtroom last week, an attack that was recorded by a surveillance camera.

As seen in the above video, the attack by Rashad Greene, 30, occurred after he was briefly left alone in the courtroom with Dominique Morrow, 28, and Greene’s grandmother.

Greene and Morrow were in the Summit County [...]

BREAKING: 223-caliber Bushmaster rifle used in NY fire ambush!!! HOW CONVENIENT FOR THE GUN GRABBERS!!!

WEBSTER, N.Y. –  The gunman who killed two firefighters during a pre-dawn ambush on emergency responders in suburban Rochester, N.Y., left behind a note outlining his “clear intent” to burn his neighborhood to the ground and “do what I like doing best, killing people,” police said on Tuesday.

A lone gunman, identified as William Spengler, set his home and a car on fire on Monday in what police called “a clear [...]

No family member has come forward to claim the bodies of the Lanzas.

I find this heartbreaking as well as disturbing.

Why wouldn’t the father, older son or grandmother come forward?

What did Nancy do wrong?

Very sad.

“A spokesman for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, in Farmington, Connecticut, confirmed that no family member had yet come forward to claim the bodies of Lanza or his mother. All other victims of the shooting had been handed over to loved ones, she said.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/Connecticut-school-shooting-police-fail-to-recover-data-from-Adam-Lanzas-computer.html

 

Supreme Court case: Right to resell your own stuff is in peril

This update corrects the spelling of Georgetown Law School’s Jonathan Band.

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4.

At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like [...]

Boy, 6, runs up $3,000 credit card bill playing Tiny Monsters app on grandfather’s iPad

Will Smith, 6, spent the money playing an online game on grandfather Barry Slatter’s iPad
He used Mr Slatter’s iTunes password to buy virtual tokens on the game

Mr Slatter was unaware until the fraud squad contacted him about the bill

A schoolboy has unwittingly racked up a £2,000 credit card bill playing an online game on his grandfather’s iPad.

Six-year-old Will Smith was innocently playing the popular children’s video game Tiny Monsters until [...]

WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO GRANDSON

Madden Hebert is a typical week-old baby — “eating like a champ and he doesn’t fuss too much,” according to his mother.

But there’s nothing typical about how he came about.

Last week, Madden’s grandmother gave birth to him.

“It was all pretty simple as far as I was concerned,” said Linda Sirois, 49, of Madawaska, who carried and delivered Madden because her daughter, Angel Hebert, had a heart condition that meant it [...]

FUND: DEMS SHOULD BE WORRIED

Liberal pundits are already fanning out in force to attack and discredit Paul Ryan. Michael Tomasky, who recently wrote a Newsweek cover story calling Mitt Romney a “wimp,” has now decided that Romney’s bold move is “a terrible choice” because Ryan has proven himself to be an extremist on budget issues.

No doubt there are many Democrats rubbing their hands in glee in contemplation of reviving some version of the ad that featured an actor [...]

Cops: Man assaults grandmother over chicken salad mix-up

A South Carolina woman returned home from the grocery store Saturday afternoon and told her grandson that she had purchased some chicken salad.

However, Jesse Beam, 26, misheard his 67-year-old kin.

“Don’t call me chicken, again!” said Beam,according to a Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office report.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/assault/not-chicken-chicken-salad-598671

Girl, three, SUFFOCATED to death after eight members of her family lay on top of her during exorcism ritual

A three-year-old Malaysian girl has died after seven members of her family allegedly suffocated her during an exorcism ritual.

A police report said the tragedy occurred at the home of the child’s parents in the town of Bukit Mertajam, 280 kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur.

Both parents, a grandmother, an uncle, two cousins of the victim and an Indonesian maid have been arrested, and investigators are treating the case as murder.

Enlarge Brutal: The [...]

My grandmother 76yo is still working, to keep her insurance

She’s 76 and is still working at the manufacturing plant,as a machine operator, she has been with them for the past 25 years..in Chicago which they her pay is $10.75/hr….. she continues to work for the sake of keeping insurance, food, medicine, and mainly to be insured because she has had 2 hip replacement surgeries already, and well the cost of over $50,000. Now still in severe pain after her [...]

Grandma Shoots Son For Smoking Synthetic Marijuana Blend

West Bloomfield Township— Police today released audio of the 911 call, played in court Monday, of Jonathan Hoffman seeking help after suffering gunshot wounds at his grandmother’s condominium in West Bloomfield Township.

His grandmother, 74-year-old Sandra Layne, was bound over to face trial on a charge of open murder Monday in his death.

Hoffman, 17, is heard pleading with emergency operators to hurry.

“My grandma shot me,” he says. “I’m gonna die. Help.”

Layne [...]

Obama’s fake SS# going to court!!

Obama’s favorite SS# (he has at least 16) originally belonged to a Connecticut man who died in Hawaii. Obama’s grandmother worked in the probate office where she could have had access to the SS#’s of recently deceased Hawaii residents.

According to Jack Cashill:

“If Barack Obama has an immediate eligibility problem, it is more likely to derive from the Social Security Number he has been using for the last 25 years than [...]

Teen was watching Food Network when door came down, stun grenade went off

EVANSVILLE — Stephanie Milan, 18, was relaxing in her family’s living room Thursday watching the Food Network when a heavily armed squad of Evansville police officers arrived on the front porch.

Dressed in full protective gear, police broke the storm door of the home at 616 East Powell Ave. — the Milans’ front door was already open on the hot summer day. They also broke a front window. They tossed a flashbang [...]

This could be the best small investment you’ll ever make

From Jeff Clark in the S&A Digest:

Ben’s parents looked like they wanted to kill me.

Ben graduated from high school last week. He’ll be going to UCLA in August to study finance. Ben wants to trade stocks and options for a living.

So at a fancy dinner party last week, while he was surrounded by family and close friends, Ben asked my advice on what classes to take at college. Without thinking, I [...]

Girl posts pic of cash stack on FACEBOOK; robbers drop by

via BBC News:

Two robbers have paid a visit to a house in south-eastern Australia, hours after a teenager posted a photo on Facebook of a large sum of cash.

The masked men, armed with a knife and a club, struck the home of the 17-year-old girl’s mother in the country town of Bundanoon on Thursday, police say.

Her mother told the men her daughter no longer lived there.

It is not clear how [...]

Mitt Romney’s New BFF: Donald Trump (says Obama told the truth about Kenya birth!)

“A book publisher came out three days ago and said that in his written synopsis of his book,” Trump went on, “he said he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia. His mother never spent a day in the hospital.”

“That’s what he told the literary agent,” Trump insisted. “That’s the way life works… He didn’t know he was running for president, so he told the truth. The literary agent [...]

Houston CPS force 3-year-old to take overprescribed psychotropic drugs

Texas is one of 5 states where children in foster care are often targeted by psychotropic drugs.

Randy Wallace
My Fox
May 18, 2012

HOUSTON (FOX 26) – Here’s 4-year-old Rachel Harrison before Child Protective Services took her away from her parents.

… “And as a parent it’s very hard to deal with because your baby’s in trouble and you can’t do anything to help,” said Rachel’s mother Christina Harrison.

Watch as the bubbly little girl starts looking [...]

MEDIA RACES TO DEFEND

Breitbart.com, as part of its continuing quest to bring you the stories the mainstream media refuses to report on, or else has already reported on but without the requisite paranoid hysteria, has a breathtakingnew blockbuster exclusive: Barack Obama’s literary agent created a promotional booklet in 1991 that described him as having been “born in Kenya.”

The Drudge Report is hyping the Birther Shock angle. Breitbart is careful to tiptoe around it. The story [...]

Couric gets the princes

 

In a rare interview, the two princes sat down with Katie Couric as a part of the lead up to Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee.

A preview clip of the television special shows the American journalist meeting with Prince William and Prince Harry, answering questions about one of the most important women in their lives. 

‘Behind closed doors, she’s our grandmother, it’s as simple as that’ Prince Harry told Ms Couric during the [...]

‘Monster mom’ found guilty of murdering her 4-year-old daughter who was found starving, beaten, and tied to a bed

The ‘monster mom’ whose four-year-old daughter died covered in bruises and open wounds and weighing only 19 pounds was convicted on Wednesday of murder.

Carlotta Brett-Pierce was emotionless when the jury proclaimed her guilty of her daughter Marchella’s death. Her punishment did not even stop her from giving the judge some attitude when asked if she understood the sentence.

‘I heard what you said,’ the 32-year-old mother said.

Tragic: Marchella Brett-Pierce was found [...]

Little girl is mauled to death by family’s pit bull… and grandmother is shot by neighbour who tried to kill it

A toddler has died after being mauled by her grandparents’ dog and her grandmother was shot when she tried to rescue her.

The 16-month-old was savaged in the back yard at a house in La Cruces and a neighbour fired a shot to try and kill the Pit Bull but instead hit the grandmother in the leg.

The girl was bitten on the head and chest when she was playing alone as [...]

Girl, 18, who grew up homeless and didn’t know how to wash is accepted to HARVARD on scholarship

Homeless, abandoned by her parents and once declared a high school dropout, a hardworking 18-year-old has turned her life around earning her acceptance into Harvard University with scholarship this fall.

High school graduate Dawn Loggins says her life in Lawndale, North Carolina first started out in decay, among bullying and a broken home surrounded by drug use and squalour before eventual abandonment by her parents.

‘I looked around at my family and I saw [...]

Tragedy at first birthday party as baby is killed by family’s 120lb mastiff as he tried to pet it

A baby boy has died after he was attacked by his family’s mastiff dog during his first birthday party.

A day after turning one, Jeremiah Eshew-Shahan was at his grandmother’s house in Las Vegas when he crawled over to the dog – a mastiff-rhodesian mix weighing about 120 pounds – and started to pet him. 

The dog then attacked the baby, sinking his teeth into Jeremiah’s head and shaking him.

Deadly attack: The [...]

The TSA Is Still Groping Children In Airports

Agents coldly refer to kids as “suspects” and scream at parents who attempt to diffuse situations

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
April 26, 2012

Two notable incidents this week indicate that despite a “change in policy” last year, the TSA is still conducting enhanced patdowns on children as young as four years old.

At a Kansas airport, a four year old girl was called a “suspect” andordered to undergo a full patdown by TSA officers after hugging her [...]

Grandma Foils Robbery By Getting Into Shootout With Suspects

MACON, Ga. (CBS Atlanta/AP) – Authorities in Georgia say a grandmother foiled a robbery attempt by two armed men by getting into a shootout with them, injuring one man.

Police told The Telegraph that Lulu Campbell just dropped off her grandson at her daughter’s house early Saturday morning when someone demanded money outside her car, threatening to shoot her.

“(The suspect) shouted, ‘Give me the (blanking) money and open the (blanking) door!’” Campbell [...]

4 year old punished by TSA for hugging grandmother

Kids today. They say and do the darndest things, even under the watchful eye of the Transportation Security Administration. So who knows what happens when your 4-year-old daughter gives grandma a hug at the airport security checkpoint. In addition to that peck on the cheek, a deadly weapon may have been exchanged.

A few readers have pointed to a story on Facebook, posted by a Montana mom who was flying home from [...]

The four-year-old ‘high security threat’: Weeping girl is surrounded by TSA officers and accused of having a GUN… after hugging her grandmother

Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong.

And a recent incident in Wichita, Kansas has reinforced that argument, as a four-year-old girl was apparently subjected to a humiliating ordeal after she hugged her grandmother while she was waiting in line.

The girl was accused of [...]

Police investigating series of arson attacks in Alaska name SEVEN-year-old boy as suspect

A fire marshal in Alaska’s capital city says a seven-year-old boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months.

Juneau fire marshal Dan Jager says the boy caused about $1,000 in damages by setting fires in restrooms at Harborview Elementary School and the Terry Miller Legislative Building, plus a downtown grass fire and two fires at a Fred Meyer store.

Jager says the boy told him he [...]

FL woman, 93, drives 576,000 miles in 1964 Mercury

The end of the road is here for Rachel Veitch’s beloved “Chariot.”

After 576,000 miles — or more than a trip to the moon and back — in the same 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente, the 93-year-old Orlando grandmother is stepping on the brakes due to age-related macular degeneration in both eyes. She realized her vision had completely failed her in early March after running a “bald-faced red light,” Veitch told FoxNews.com.

“I am legally [...]