Suspect In Deadly Trooper Ambush, Gives Away Location, Police Say

Authorities searching for accused cop killer Eric Frein in Pennsylvania got a big break when the suspect slipped-up and used his cellphone to contact his parents.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported the Sept. 18 call lasted only seconds, but that was long enough for investigators to draw a bead on his whereabouts.

As a result of that call the manhunt for Frein was narrowed to a five-square mile perimeter in Monroe and Pike counties, the paper said Friday citing sources with knowledge of the investigation.

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US 13 BRIDGE REHABILITATION PROJECT OVER POCOMOKE RIVER EXTENDS TO 7-DAY SCHEDULE

As Night Time Work Ends, Daily 10-Hour Schedule Begins

The State Highway Administration’s (SHA) first phase of the bridge deck replacement on the southbound dual lanes of the US 13 Bridge over the Pocomoke River remains on schedule, but as intermittent night time work on the project ceases, construction begins seven days-a-week on Sunday, September 28. Construction crews will work 10 hours every day, weather permitting, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Much of the recent work on the southbound lanes concentrated on the substructure under the bridge. For the remainder of the first phase, the project will focus on milling then resurfacing the southbound US 13 lanes.

This first phase is currently on schedule to be completed by late November 2014. In spring 2015 the two northbound lanes of the bridge will begin to be replaced and the entire project is expected to be completed by fall 2015. Motorists should expect one of the two lanes in each direction to be closed during construction.

After experiencing numerous motor vehicle crashes within the project work zone, an Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) camera was installed on site and through the construction area reduced significantly. In early September state and local law enforcement issued 136 speeding violations with fines up to $140 each, in just four days.

Anyone with questions about the new work schedule for the project should contact Gee Williams, SHA District Community Liaison at gwilliams10@sha.state.md.us or phone 443-463-7141.

Boy, 5, Tests Positive After Being Found Sitting Next to Bag of Cocaine in Parent’s Car

A 5-year-old Sylmar boy tested positive for cocaine Friday after being found sitting next to a half-pound bag of the drug in the backseat of his parent’s vehicle, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.

Authorities made the discovery at the end of a months-long investigation into alleged cocaine sales in Ventura County that led detectives to Sylmar resident Marco Cuevas, according to a news release from the Ventura County Interagency Pharmaceutical Crimes Unit.

The 31-year-old Cuevas was arrested Friday in Moorpark where he was suspected of going to engage in a cocaine deal, the release stated.

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Troopers Arrest Three after Shopliftings

Rehoboth, DE- Delaware State Police have arrested three Baltimore, Maryland women after they were found to be in possession of over $5700.00 in stolen merchandise at the Coastal Outlets in Rehoboth yesterday afternoon.

The incident occurred after troopers were told to respond to the Osh Kosh Store located in the Coastal Highway Tanger Outlets, in the 36000 block of Seaside Outlet Drive, Rehoboth, on Friday, September 26, 2014, at 4:45 p.m., for the report of a shoplifting. As troopers were responding, they were informed that three female suspects, who employees believed to have been shoplifting while in the store, had exited and were being followed by one of the employees. Troopers were able to apprehend the three suspects, later identified as Lamia Pretlow, 27, Tre’Shawna S. Laboard, 18, and Pachena J. Whitney, 25, all of Baltimore, MD, without incident.

After further investigation and interviews, troopers obtained permission to search a vehicle that the suspects had used to travel to the Outlets. Upon searching the vehicle, troopers located numerous bags of clothing which were discovered to have been stolen from a total of 18 stores located within the Outlet complex.

Lamia Pretlow, Tre’Shawna Laboard (no photo available), and Pachena Whitney (no photo available), were all transported to Troop 7, Lewes, where they were each charged with Shoplifting, Conspiracy 2nd degree, and Possession of Shoplifting Tools. They were then arraigned at JP Court 2 and committed to the Delores Baylor Correctional Institution for lack of $4000.00 secured bail apiece.

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Saving, One Flippin’ Switch At A Time

Worcester County’s public schools are cutting costs one light switch at a time.

It might seem trivial, but small measures such as flipping a switch saved about $200,000 in electricity last year — around 10 percent of the 14 district schools’ power bill, said Chief Financial Officer Vince Tolbert.

About $60,000 of those savings are going back into the 11 schools that cut their costs, he said.

“We just looked at what we use and what we do on a daily basis to really try to cut into it,” said Tom Sites, principal at Berlin Intermediate School that cut its electric costs by more than 20 percent last school year.

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Study: Mideast Immigrants to US Pose Huge Security Threat

A new study shows that the number of immigrants in the United States jumped 3 percent in three years — to a record 41.3 million in 2013 — and that the nearly 300,000 who came from Muslim countries pose a major national security threat, the report's co-author told Newsmax on Thursday.

"All of that does raise national security concerns, and I don't think there has been any consideration of that," said Steven Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies.

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Baltimore Police Seize $3M Worth Of Drugs, Cash In Operation Ceasefire Bust

A drug bust nets a huge haul. Baltimore police say they’ve seized $3 million in heroin and cash–all from one suspect.

Alex DeMetrick has more on how the bust went down.

It’s a different approach to policing, one where the suspect was given the opportunity to go straight or go to jail.

When police pulled back the sheet holding the evidence, it even impressed the news media.

“That’s a lot of money. A lot of drugs,” a photographer said.

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Ignore the Financial Media… Now is the Time to Prepare

“Buy stocks! It’s a great opportunity! They present great value.”

This is the non-stop mantra espoused on financial media. It’s simply astounding given that

1) Everyone with a modicum of sense knows stocks are in a bubble

2) Financial media viewership is plunging to multi-decade lows (you think they’d consider changing the content?)

Here are a few thoughts no one in the mainstream financial media seems to address.

First of all, corporate insiders are dumping shares at a pace not seen since 2000.

That’s correct. The folks who know more about their companies and future growth prospects than anyone in the world are unloading their shares as quickly as possible.

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PR Man Fired In Ferguson Because He Was Convicted Of Reckless Homicide

The public relations expert hired to help restore public opinion in the city of Ferguson has been fired as it emerged he shot a man dead eight years ago.

Devin James was brought in to rebuild the community after a white police officer shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

But today his employers were forced to apologize for the appointment as they discovered James was convicted of reckless homicide in Tennessee in 2006.

James has founded his company on his personal story of overcoming a background filled with gangs and drugs - and says the shooting in Shelby County, Tennessee, was in self defense.

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Gohmert: Holder enabled Boston Marathon bombings

'He needed to be impeached. He's just a guy that needed to be gone'

Attorney General Eric Holder says he will resign as soon as his successor is confirmed, but U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, argues Holder needed to go a long time ago for politicizing every issue from Fast and Furious to the fight against radical Islam and even failing to prevent the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured 264 others.

Holder is one of the longest-serving attorneys general in U.S. history and has hinted at retirement several times in recent years. His tenure is one of the most controversial in history, with Holder drawing fire on issues ranging from civil rights to treatment of reporters and the level of cooperation with Congress to the intensity with which he investigated issues embarrassing to the Obama administration.

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Homicide Eyed In Deadly Oklahoma Bus Crash, Killing 4 College Softball Players

A tractor-trailer crossed a southern Oklahoma highway median and plowed into the side of a Texas college softball team's bus, killing four team members and injuring more than a dozen others, authorities said.

The collision involving the North Central Texas College team happened at around 9 p.m. Friday on Interstate 35 south of Davis, which is about 70 miles south of Oklahoma City and 60 miles north of Gainesville, Texas, where the school is located.

The team was heading home from a scrimmage earlier Friday against Southern Nazarene University, in Bethany.

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Krauthammer's Take: Left Will Regret Holder's Politicization of AG's Office

While it is “perfectly honorable” for Eric Holder to want to dedicate his life to combating perceived racial injustices, he should have done so in some other capacity and not while serving as attorney general, Charles Krauthammer said on Thursday’s Special Report.

“When you are the attorney general of the United States, you have to subordinate that to what the law is, and he hasn’t done that,” he said. “He’s been after an agenda, and if the Constitution was in the way, he trampled on the Constitution.”

Democrats may have benefited from Holder’s politicization of the attorney general’s office during the Obama administration, but they will come to regret it in the future, Krauthammer warned.

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Montana teacher -- initially given 31 days in rape of student -- now gets 10 years

Billings, Montana (CNN) -- Fighting back tears, Auliea Hanlon sat on the witness stand in a Montana courtroom, just feet away from the man who pleaded guilty to raping her 14-year-old daughter -- and initially received a sentence that required him to serve just 31 days in prison.

"Here we are -- six, seven years later, still waiting for justice," she said, according to video of the sentencing from CNN affiliate KTVQ. "He knew what he was doing. He knew what was going to happen to her."

"And he didn't care."

Stacey Dean Rambold was accused of raping Cherice Moralez, a freshman in his business class at Billings Senior High, in 2007.

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Public Pension Funds Face $2 Trillion Shortfall, Moodys Warns

"Despite the robust investment returns since 2004, annual growth in unfunded pension liabilities has outstripped these returns," Moody's warns in its latest report on the state of public pension systems. As Bloomberg reports, the 25 biggest systems by assets averaged a 7.45% return from 2004 to 2013, but liabilities tripled over the same period leaving them facing a $2 trillion shortfall as investment returns can’t keep up with ballooning obligations. The top 25 funds account for 40% of the entire US public pension system with Illinois, Kentucky, Connecticut, and Louisiana at the top of the 'most underfunded' list.

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Better To Focus Efforts On Route 90 Work

While it’s unlikely to matter in the short term, Ocean City officials are wise to pursue Route 90, rather than Route 50, as a priority infrastructure project.

At last week’s County Commissioner meeting, the Maryland Department of Transportation reviewed its six-year transportation project budget with Worcester officials. Continuing the dualization phases of Route 113 remains the top priority for the state and the county, but the discussion gets interesting after that. For years, adding lanes to Route 589 has been the second priority with the Route 50 Bridge vying for more consideration. Last year Ocean City officials made a case that dualizing Route 90 is actually the resort’s more pressing project, and some in the county even believe it’s more of a time-sensitive matter than Route 589.

It’s ironic that this summer’s Route 50 Bridge malfunction played a part in the argument to prioritize Route 90 by the city last week. Rather than advocating for the current bridge to be replaced because of the breakdown, the city maintained it underscored the importance of improving the secondary route into Ocean City from a public safety perspective.

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Judge: DOJ Must Produce List of Fast & Furious Docs by Oct. 22

(CNSNews.com) - Two days before Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation, a federal court ordered the Justice Department to produce, by October 22, a detailed list of Fast and Furious documents sought by a conservative watchdog group.

Judicial Watch requested the documents in a June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Three months later, in September 2012, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit, seeking all of the documents the Obama White House was withholding from Congress under a claim of executive privilege.

This week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Justice Department must submit a "Vaughn Index" of the requested documents by October 22 -- a three-week extension of the earlier Oct. 1 deadline set by the court.

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Man Tried To Smuggle 51 Turtles In Pants Across Border

Detroit — A Windsor man busted at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel with 51 live turtles in his pants is a serial smuggler who shipped thousands of reptiles to far-flung locales hidden in snow boots and cereal boxes, a federal prosecutor said Friday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward gave rare insight into a lucrative, international smuggling ring headed by Kai Xu that operated in at least three countries. She described an operation that peddled thousands of turtles, some endangered and worth $1,800 each, and relied on aliases and reptile couriers that Xu — aka "Turtle Man" — recruited through online forums and classified ads.

Woodward lifted the veil Friday on an unusual criminal case that drew headlines a day earlier as far away as the United Kingdom while successfully arguing that Xu should be denied bond while awaiting trial on charges that could send him to prison for 10 years.

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‘Not Islamic’?

President Obama declared in his recent address to the nation that “ISIL is not Islamic.”

But how does he know? On what basis did the president of the United States declare the a group of Muslims that calls itself “Islamic State” “not Islamic”?

Has he studied Islam and Islamic history and concluded that ISIL, Boko Haram, al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, Jamaat-e-Islami, Lashkar-e-Taiba (the group that slaughtered 166 people in Mumbai, most especially guests at the Taj Hotel,and which tortured to death a rabbi and his wife), the various Palestinian terrorist groups (all of which have been Muslim, even though there are many Christian Palestinians), and the Muslim terror groups in Somalia, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere are also all “not Islamic”?

Has he concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood, which won Egypt’s most open election ever, is “not Islamic?”

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