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Yuma police say five people have been killed and at least one injured in a series of shootings around Yuma County on Thursday morning.
Police have not yet identified the suspect or the victims, but YumaSun.com reports local attorneys have confirmed one of the shooting victims was Jerrold Shelley, a Yuma attorney.
As Congress continues to debate policies to bring the government deficit under control, no one on Capitol Hill wants to consider the enormous cost of illegal immigration on American tax payers. But despite these high costs, many of our Representatives support policies that will legalize illegal aliens and drive up these figures even more. In fact, recent studies show that granting amnesty to the nation's 12 - 18 million illegal aliens would cost more than $1 trillion!
As many states struggle to deal with a budget shortfalls, our Representatives cannot endorse proposals that will drive us into more debt. Enforcing the immigration laws that already exist is a a sensible approach to addressing illegal immigration and lowering the amount in services which illegal aliens receive. Please don't delay. Send this critical message to your 2 Senators and U.S. Representative, and urge them to take a stand against the high costs of illegal immigration.
Do you believe that Rick Pollitt is attempting to line up a high paying state job?
A rhetorical gunfight broke out Wednesday during a Senate hearing on legislation that would close what critics call the "gun show loophole" and what opponents call a solution in search of a problem.
Further gunpowder was added to the already heated debate by a Tuesday email from the National Rifle Association to its Delaware members saying that the bill, part of a package of gun-related bills advanced by Gov. Jack Markell, is "a move towards an ultimate ban on all private sales -- even those between family and friends -- regardless of where they occur."
That claim was disavowed by Markell, who in a statement said it is "unfortunate that the NRA has chosen to mischaracterize" the bill.
Under current federal and state law, licensed firearms vendors selling at gun shows must perform background checks, just like they do at their places of business. But private citizens wishing to sell their own guns can do so without conducting background checks, as long as the sales are occasional and they are not in the firearms business.
Senate Bill 39 would require background checks to be conducted for all sales at gun shows. Licensed firearms dealers would have to request the checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System on behalf of unlicensed vendors making sales. Sales between private citizens not taking place at gun shows would not be affected.
Home prices continue to fall so hard that it's tempting to believe they've either hit bottom or will do so soon. But some economists think home prices will remain depressed for a decade or more.
Fortune cites an analyst who says inflation-adjusted house prices could continue to plummet, thanks to a gloomy economic outlook, falling salaries and government spending cuts. Home buying is all about optimism — buyers need to be confident that they'll remain gainfully employed and believe they'll be able to make 30 years of regular payments, and since there are fewer buyers who are in such a position, demand for houses remains low.
Since the Depression-era housing market took 19 years to reach its previous peak, the economist reasons, it could take until 2025 for the current market to recover.
When do you think home prices will start rising again? And what are you doing to brace yourself from the poor market, or take advantage of it?
How housing could rebound — in 2025 [Fortune]
The job interview process can be quite taxing to the applicant's mind, body and wallet, but at no point should it involve being tied up, flogged and tortured... right?
Authorities in suburban New York have arrested a man who did the above-mentioned things, and more, to men who thought they were applying for high security gigs in the intelligence-gathering industry.
The jobs were fake, but the pain was real.
According to the AP, between 2008 and 2010, a man recruited a handful of men for these imaginary jobs, saying he would help train them for their eventual work overseas. That "training" included stripping them down, whipping them and sticking needles under their fingernails.
Police found a kit in the man's car that included rope, needles, strapping tape... and vegetable oil. No mention of whether it was corn, canola or peanut oil.
The man was arraigned on 29 counts, including assault, criminal impersonation and forcible touching, and ordered held on $250,000 bail.
Applicants for phony jobs whipped [Philly.com]
The true value of any all-you-can-eat deal depends on just how much food you're able to funnel down your gullet while you're sitting at the table. But seven teenagers in California most certainly got the most out of their dining dollar last weekend when they gorged on hundreds of pancakes at a local Denny's over the course of 24 hours, and all for $5 each.
According to one boy's father, the seven young 'uns swallowed 301 pancakes, for an average of 43 pancakes each. He estimates that each diner consumed around 14,000 calories, which, figuring in syrup, margarine and beverages, seems to match up with the nutritional info on Denny's website.
From OCWeekly.com:
“[O]ne boy nearly fell asleep on the toilet, and that Denny's actually ran out of pancake batter and had to go out and buy more.”
I don't know which is more horrifying: the sheer amount of food consumed, or the idea of seven teenagers taking over a Denny's booth for 24 hours.
Teens Take Advantage of Denny's All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes for 24 Hours [OC Weekly]
The Frederick News-Post reports that the US Postal Service has banished organizers of the petition drive to force the MD DREAM Act to referendum from Post Office property.
Don’t the folks at the USPS understand that POLITICAL SPEECH is the most protected speech of all? Yet, the Postal service, an arm of the Federal government, is curtailing one of our most basic rights.
Should any of us be surprised in this day and age?
If you're like us, you've been on the receiving end of more than a few e-mails falsely claiming that you've inherited millions from a relative you didn't know you have. All you have to do is hand over your bank account info — and have it drained rather quickly. One young man in Nashville says his inheritance is the real deal, though experts are waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The man said he got a letter about a month ago stating that he was to inherit around $16 million from an aunt in the UK he'd never heard of. He tells local TV station WSMV that he's already put $800,000 in his account, with which he's purchased a new car.
This post should not be construed as encouraging readers to actually answer these types of letters. In fact, we suggest that you immediately trash them. We just thought that the article was interesting. – Ed.
An interested reader submitted this link:
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/neighborhoods/crime-rates/top100dangerous/
According to this website, Salisbury still rates a pretty high crime rate. To be honest, I’m not sure how up-to-date the information is. However, it does offer some nice map overlays of crime in the Salisbury area.
Check it out and let us know what you think.
Len Lazarick @ Maryland Reporter reports that the group attempting to force the “Maryland DREAM Act” to referendum has filed over 40,000 signatures. This was more than twice the number required to be filed by Tuesday’s deadline.
18,579 signature were required by Tuesday. Del. Neil Parrott (R-2B) stated, “We know that some of them are going to be thrown out.”
Beginning Friday, the Maryland State Board of Elections will begin posting a running tally of the validated signatures. The petitioners must collect another 35,157 valid signatures by June 30 in order for the referendum to appear on the 2012 statewide ballot.
Would you expect less from the Once Free State?
The new law protects benefit LLCs from lawsuits by their members if they make decisions that put the environment, community, or social causes over making a profit. It is aimed at firms that want to make social activism part of their corporate mission.
Profit bad. Tree hugging good. Let’s all sit around the fire and sing Kum By Ya.
In a break with long-standing tradition, PBS is going to start putting those sponsor announcements as briefer breaks within the shows theummselves, instead of long stretches at the beginning and end,NYT reports. While the programming and mission remains non-commercial, the format is going to make the messages look more like, well, commercials.
The move reflects a harsh reality. When there is a program that runs over an hour, the messages at the end can sometimes go eight minutes long. Most of the viewers then leave, making it near impossible to build an audience for a subsequent show off the back of the previous one.
Instead there will be "hot switches" where the end of one program will cut right to the next program.
The question is whether rearranging non-commercial underwriting into a format that looks more like commercial television will also cause corporate donors and viewers to flee. We'll find out soon enough, as the we'll start seeing the changes this fall during Wednesday showings of "Nature" and "Nova." Based on what they see there, PBS will roll out the new format on a night by night basis throughout the year.
