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by WashingtonsBlog
You know about the Boston terror attack. There have also been terrorist incidents in which no one has been hurt in California and Washington D.C. Specifically, CNN reports that an envelope containing the lethal poison Ricin was mailed to Capitol Hill. It was addressed to Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, but was intercepted at the U.S. Capitol’s off-site mail facility in Washington. And CBS San Francisco, ABC 7, KTVU, NBC Bay Area, the San Jose Mercury [...] CBS San Francisco: [...] Crews were working to clean up an oil spill caused by bullet holes at a PG&E transmission center just southeast of San Jose, a PG&E spokesman said. [...] “We are currently on site assessing the magnitude of the vandalism and the impact,” he said. [...] ABC 7: Bullets damage PG&E substation in San Jose [...] PG&E spokesman JD Guidi said shots were fired at the substation. “It does appear [...] Bundesbank confirms Weidmann opposed bond buys “Germany’s Bundesbank confirmed that its president, Jens Weidmann, voted against the bond-buying proposal unveiled Thursday by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi. A spokesman said Weidmann opposed the measures, which he viewed as “too close” to central-bank financing of government deficits “with a printing press.” Draghi, in a news conference, said there was one dissenting vote on the program, but didn’t identify who cast it. [...] Fire officials in California say at least 21 people were treated for burns after attendees of an event for motivational speaker Tony Robbins tried to walk on hot coals. At least three people went to a hospital and most suffered second or third-degree burns, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Robbins was hosting a four-day gathering called ‘Unleash the Power Within’ at the San Jose Convention Center, which was attended by around 6,000 [...] Fire officials in California say at least 21 people were treated for burns after attendees of an event for motivational speaker Tony Robbins tried to walk on hot coals. The San Jose Mercury News reports that at least three people went to a hospital and most suffered second- or third-degree burns. Jonathan Correll, 25, told the paper that he heard “screams of agony.” “It was people seriously hurting, like they were being tortured,” [...] Amount of plastic in Texas-sized ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ has increased HUNDREDFOLD since 1970sBad catch: Scientists have discovered that the amount of plastic in the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ has increased hundredfold since the early 1970s Scientists have found that the massive swirl of plastic waste known as the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ has increased a hundredfold since the early 1970s, which could spell major changes for California and other coastal states. During a 2009 expedition, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers took water samples [...] The soapy saga surrounding California Treasurer Bill Lockyer and his young wife, Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, took another bizarre twist last week, when a San Jose Mercury News reporter received a distressed email from Mrs. Lockyer’s personal account claiming her husband had hooked her on drugs.
According to the Mercury News, the email also said that she could not bear the harassment and torture of former boyfriend, Stephen Chikhani, who Mrs. [...] A millionaire lottery winner who claims to have beaten staggering odds to win the state lottery twice in her California town has run out of luck. Emily Leach, of San Francisco, California, says she gave away her winning $260,000 ticket last weekend to a homeless man when she handed him a $100 bill. And now she wants it back. Scroll down for video Ms Leach told San Jose Mercury News she purchased another winning [...] A NYT reporter has brought information to Politico‘s Editor-in-Chief John Harris and Executive Editor Jim VandeHei that has led to a reporter’s forced resignation. Politico issued a lengthy and serious memo tonight to employees announcing that Kendra Marr, a national political reporter who recently moved to a transportation beat, has been let go after numerous examples of lifted passages from other publications surfaced in seven of her [...] A Redwood City man will serve 30 days in the San Mateo County Jail and spend two years on probation for kicking Bucket. Bucket is his dog. John Abdon Johnson, 56, was sentenced on Friday according to the San Jose Mercury News. A police officer saw Johnson hit Bucket in the head and kick him on May 13. When the officer tried to stop him, [...] GILROY, Calif. (AP)– A Gilroy man charged with killing the Chihuahua puppy he gave his wife as a Mother’s Day gift is facing a possible life sentence because he already has four assault with a deadly weapon convictions.
The San Jose Mercury News reports that Bud Wally Ruiz was charged Wednesday with two felony counts of cruelty to animals after he allegedly threw the 6-week-old dog [...] by JR Instead of a financial safety net to save the economic victims of Fed/I MF financial manipulations, Apple, being an international company, has lauded attaching large nets to factory buildings to catch suicide victims around the world, this time in China. While Obama and the socialists are using taxpayer money to save the least fortunate who fall through America’s economic cracks, Foxconn in the southern [...] |
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