NYPD Randomly Arrests Occupy Wall Street Protesters At Zuccotti Park – When asked what law they were breaking, Officer replied, “There’s a law against everything. That’s America.”

 

 

Eight Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested in Lower Manhattan late last night as the NYPD shut down Zuccotti Park in a strong and often baffling show of force. At the height of the confrontation, there were approximately 40 NYPD officers monitoring around 30 protesters, and the arrests, many of which were seemingly arbitrary and incidental, were spurred after several protesters brought backpacks and sleeping bags into the park.

Charley, a protester who [...]

700 arrests later, Wall Street protest continues

Reuters

Police officers reach into a crowd of protesters to make an arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge during an “Occupy Wall Street” march in New York on Saturday.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The “Occupy Wall Street” protest moved through its 16th day on Sunday, continuing with no end in sight after at least 700 people were arrested over the weekend.

Live streaming video of the movement on Sunday featured [...]

Recession, what recession? Wealthy families are cutting out the car ride and chartering planes to fly to summer camps.

Andy Molloy for The New York Times

Ana Sosa, 13, at the airport in Augusta, Me., on Saturday. She took a private jet from Miami with her parents to attend camp.

Gov. Paul LePage of Maine happened to be waiting for his flight at Augusta State Airport on a recent Saturday when the weekend crush began.

A turboprop Pilatus PC-12 carrying Melissa Thomas, her daughter, her daughter’s friend and a [...]

First royal wedding fan camps out by London abbey

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – The first royal fan has reserved himself a spot outside London’s Westminster Abbey to watch the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

John Loughrey, 56, has set up camp on the pavement across the road from the famous abbey, equipped only with a sleeping bag and two Union Jack carrier bags, and intends to remain there all week to beat the tens [...]

Shock: Florida Teens Allegedly Lured 15-Year-Old Friend To His Death By Text In Twisted Plot

Charlie Ely, 18; Michael Bargo, 18; Justin Soto, 20; James Havens III, 37

SUMMERFIELD, Fla. — When Seath Tyler Jackson received a text message Sunday afternoon from a 15-year-old ex-girlfriend saying she wanted to rekindle their romance and that they should meet at a central Florida house, a female friend of Jackson’s sensed something wasn’t right.

“I wouldn’t fall for that,” 16-year-old Brittnay Jones told Jackson, she recalled to The Associated Press.

The [...]

HORROR: Teen Beaten, Shot, Burned In Sleeping Bag

OCALA, Fla. — Deputies in Marion County arrested six people after a teenager was beaten and shot and then his remains burned in a bound sleeping bag. – Source

HORROR: 6 arrested after teen shot, his body burned in fire pit

Authorities said Seath Jackson was lured to a home Sunday in Ocala, Florida, where he was beaten and shot.

(CNN) — Six people were arrested this week and accused of luring a 15-year-old boy to a Florida home, shooting him several times, burning his body in a fire pit and putting the remains into paint cans, authorities said.

The killing occurred Sunday in the central Florida city of [...]