WCSO Press Releases - August 14, 2015

Incident: Burglary

Date of Incident: 12 August 2015

Location: 6000 block of Quantico Road, Quantico, MD

Suspect: Ralph Lee Pusey, 54, Quantico, MD

Ralph Pusey

Narrative: On 12 August 2015 at 3:34 PM a deputy arrested Ralph Pusey in connection with a burglary to a shed that had occurred in the 6000 block of Quantico Road in Quantico. Investigation revealed that Pusey entered the shed without permission and stole a kayak that he subsequently sold at a pawn shop in the Salisbury area.

The deputy transported Pusey to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner released Pusey on Personal Recognizance.

Charges:  Burglary 2nd Degree

                  Theft under $1,000.00

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Incident: “Most Wanted” Apprehension

Date of Incident: 13 August 2015

Location: 700 block of Buckingham Circle, Salisbury, MD

Suspect: Shawn Lawrance Alexander, 33, Salisbury, MD

Shawn Alexander

Narrative: On 13 August 2015 at 2:30 PM, Shawn Alexander, a wanted fugitive, was located hiding inside a residence in the 700 block of Buckingham Circle in Salisbury. Alexander had been sought since March 2015 on a Circuit Court Bench Warrant that had been issued after he violated the terms of his probation in a burglary case.

Alexander had been featured on several different occasions on multiple different media outlets as one of Wicomico County’s “Most Wanted” which generated many tips to the Crime Solvers line. These tips proved extremely beneficial in locating Alexander.

Upon arrest, Alexander was transported to the Detention Center where he was held on $25,000.00 bond pending an appearance in front of a Circuit Court Judge.

Charges:  Violation of Probation

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Incident: Possession of Heroin

Date of Incident: 13 August 2015

Location: 9000 block of Gumboro Road, Pittsville, MD

Suspect: 1. Jerome Torres Hicks, 29, Dagsboro, DE

Jerome Hicks

               2. Leontya William Davon Adkins, 33, Seaford, DE

Leontya Adkins

               3. Travis Leroy Irving, 27, Selbyville, DE

Travis Irving

Narrative: On 13 August 2015 at 6:39 PM a deputy stopped a Chevrolet Pick-Up truck towing a trailer carrying a motorcycle for speeding on Gumboro Road. During the stop, the deputy discovered that the individual driving the truck, Jerome Hicks, had his driver’s license revoked by the State of Delaware. While standing next to the open window, the deputy also detected a strong odor of burnt marijuana emanating from within the vehicle which caused the deputy to initiate a search. During the search, the deputy did locate marijuana, but further search revealed 13 individually wrapped baggies that contained heroin.

A query conducted on the motorcycle on the trailer revealed that it had been reported stolen in Montgomery County, MD back in July.

Due to the amount of heroin and its individual packaging, the deputy arrested Hicks and his two passengers, Leontya Adkins and Travis Irving, for possession of Heroin with the intent to distribute. All three were transported to the Central Booking Unit where they were processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following their initial appearance, all three were detained on bond in the Detention Center, Jerome Hicks in lieu of $55,000.00 bond and both Leontya Adkins and Travis Irving on $50,000.00 bond each.

Charges:  Possession of Heroin

                  Possession of Heroin with the intent to Distribute

                  Theft

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Incident: Violation of a Protective Order

Date of Incident: 13 August 2015

Location: 32000 block of Shavox Road, Parsonsburg, MD

Suspect: Hope Milicent Glinowiecki, 48, Parsonsburg, MD

Hope Glinowiecki

Narrative: On 13 August 2015 at 9:51 PM a deputy responded to a reported complaint of a subject being inside a residence in defiance of a protective order. Upon arrival, the deputy located Hope Glinowiecki inside the residence. The deputy verified that Glinowiecki was barred from entry into the residence by a protective order that was issued back in July.

The deputy placed Glinowiecki under arrest and transported her to the Central Booking Unit where she was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner detained Glinowiecki in the Detention Center in lieu of $40,000.00 bond.

Charges:  Violation of a Protective Order

   Releasing Authority: Lt. Tim Robinson        Date:  14 August 2015

Local leaders concerned over zoning of medical marijuana dispensaries

OCEAN CITY, Md. —Zoning and locations of medical marijuana dispensaries are major concerns amongst local lawmakers.

Maryland state lawmakers approved the use of medical marijuana to bring relief to patients suffering from a variety of ailments, but what role will cities and counties play in overseeing the facilities that provide it?

The topic garnered a standing-room only crowd Thursday morning at the conference of the Maryland Association of Counties in Ocean City. County and municipal leaders wanted to know more about the regulation, growing, distribution and dispensing of marijuana for medicinal use.

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Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford At Assateague's 50th Anniversary Celebration

"Took a tour of the island and saw some of the wild horses!"

It was an honor to attend the Assateague Island 50th Anniversary Celebration today and deliver an official proclamation...
Posted by Boyd Rutherford on Friday, August 14, 2015

‘Climate Change Industry’ Now a $1.5 Trillion Global Business

The plaintive calls about global warming and loss of polar bear habitats, the stern warnings about rising seas and flooded coastlines - this is what the public hears about. Then there’s this pesky, inconvenient truth they don’t hear about: $1.5 trillion.

“Interest in climate change is becoming an increasingly powerful economic driver, so much so that some see it as an industry in itself whose growth is driven in large part by policymaking, notes Don Jergler, an analyst for Insurance Journal, an industry publication.

“That also includes the climate change consulting market, which a recent report by the journal estimates at $1.9 billion worldwide and $890 million in the U.S.,” Mr. Jergler says.

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Salisbury Fire Department Open House Tomorrow!!

Resurgence of Tropical Disease In US

One rainy Friday morning in March 2015, Dr Laila Woc-Colburn saw two patients with neurocysticercosis (a parasitic infection of the brain) and one with Chagas disease, which is transmitted by insects nicknamed 'kissing bugs'. Having attended medical school in her native Guatemala, she was used to treating these kinds of diseases. But she was not in Guatemala any more – this was Houston, Texas.

For half a day each week, one wing of the Smith Clinic's third floor in Houston is transformed into a tropical medicine clinic, treating all manner of infectious diseases for anyone who walks through the door. Since it opened in 2011, Woc-Colburn and her colleagues have treated everything from dengue and chikungunya to river blindness and cutaneous leishmaniasis. Their patients are not globetrotting travellers, bringing exotic diseases back home. The Smith Clinic is a safety net provider, the last resort for healthcare for people on low incomes and without insurance. Many of their patients haven't left the Houston area for years.

This suggests that what Woc-Colburn sees in the clinic may be just the leading edge of a gathering crisis. Diseases once associated with 'elsewhere' are increasingly being found in the southern states of the USA. Infectious disease physician Peter Hotez was so concerned that he founded a school of tropical medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, well within the territory that Hotez argues is one of the world's ten hotspots for so-called neglected tropical diseases.

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FINALLY: A Transsexual Teddy Bear Teaches Your Children About Transgenderism

Worried that American culture isn’t indoctrinating your children with the LGBT agenda enough? Well, have no fear! A lesbian mother, and daughter of a transgender father, has written a book featuring a transgender teddy bear so that all the children everywhere can learn about how denying biology is actually not a mental illness.

Out Jessica went in search of a bedtime tale which would explain to her son how his grandfather was now his grandmother, even though the Shegrandfather (as he/she/it shall henceforth be known) still has a pecker. Still with me?

Soon after her dad’s transition began, Walton and her partner had their own child, and they started looking for children’s books that reflected their family. And, whereas they did find “great books” that featured gay parents, they had real trouble finding books featuring transgender and gender-fluid characters. So she decided to “write the book we wanted to read to our son.”

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PEOPLE OF SPOKANE TO VOTE ON WORKER BILL OF RIGHTS

Mayor of Spokane loses court challenge attempting to strike a duly qualified
citizens’ initiative from the ballot

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON: Judge Salvatore Cozza from the Spokane County Superior denied a preliminary injunction brought by the Mayor of Spokane to block the vote of a Worker Bill of Rights initiative, which is on the November ballot. The Worker Bill of Rights was duly qualified by the local community rights group, Envision Worker Rights. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) has provided legal assistance to the community group, including legal defense against the challenge brought by the mayor.

This first-in-the-nation Worker Bill of Rights would secure a right to a family wagewhen working for a large employer, right to equal pay for equal work, right to not be wrongfully terminated, and that corporate powers shall be subordinate to people’s rights.  

To CELDF’s knowledge, this will be the first time in the United Stated that citizens will vote on a true living wage, which is provided for in the Worker Bill of Rights through the right to a family wage provision.

“We are very happy that the people of Spokane had their right to vote protected,” said Brad Read, Campaign Manager for Envision Worker Rights.

In today’s decision, the judge repeatedly referenced the need to protect the citizens’ initiative process. He spoke of how the initiative process was developed in the early 20^th century as a means for the people to bring forward ideas “outside of the box” that would not be entertained by “traditional” legislative bodies whether it be at the local or state level.

The judge concluded his decision by saying the “heart of the matter” was whether the Worker Bill of Rights fell within the very narrow realm of a pre-election challenge. He felt that it did not and that he was compelled to follow what he called a “general principle” that the right of the people to vote needs to be upheld.

“This legal challenge was clearly a calculated attempt by the mayor, goaded and backed by Spokane’s corporate powerbrokers, to thwart the right of the people to vote”, said Kai Huschke, CELDF organizer for Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii. “That move has blown up in their faces, so the corporate interests will now see if they can buy a campaign to kill the passage of a very popular proposal in the Worker Bill of Rights.”

The mayor’s attorney, Michael Ryan from the international corporate law firm K&L Gates, said that the not decision has been made on whether the mayor will appeal the preliminary injunction.

SSA: Phased retirement’s not right for us now

The Social Security Administration has informed its workforce that a phased retirement program will not be implemented at the agency, at least not anytime in the foreseeable future.

“For now, we’ve opted not to pursue a phased retirement program. As we looked at the options and the impact on the agency, to try to launch a program like that at this time, it might destabilize us in ways that we really can’t afford,” Deputy Commissioner for Human Resources Reginald Wells told Federal News Radio’s Lauren Larson during an interview for Ask the CHCO.

Social Security has seen a significant amount of it’s workforce retire in recent years, topping the list of large independent agencies in the last 10 years with 26,586 employees leaving between 2005 and 2014. NASA came in second at 5,628 workers retiring. Roughly 25 percent of the workforce at SSA say they expect to retire within the next five years according to results from the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

Wells said the Reemployed Annuitant Program, which allows retired employees the opportunity to be rehired, gives them flexibility and has helped them tremendously with knowledge transfer and training.

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Exclusive: Jeb Bush Linked to Cartel Money Laundering While Serving CIA

Jeb should explain his association with violent cartels

During the recent Republican presidential candidates’ “debate” in Cleveland, former Florida Governor John Ellis Bush (JEB) wanted to recount his eight years as governor of the Sunshine State; however, it is not Bush the politician who should be of interest to voters but Bush the Central Intelligence Agency “non-official cover” banker in Venezuela and Miami-based real estate businessman/money launderer who should alarm the American electorate.

While Jeb’s brother, George W. Bush, glossed over his AWOL status with the Texas Air National Guard, Jeb does not have a military record to defend but he does have a CIA employment record to fess up to.

Jeb’s early work in Venezuela and south Florida is much more troubling than Dubya pretending to be on active duty in Texas while he was actually off in Alabama helping a GOP U.S. Senate campaign and getting sloppy drunk in redneck bars. Jeb should fully explain his relationship with Alberto Duque, a Colombian national who laundered drug money for the Medellin and Cali narco-cartels and Nicaraguan contras while serving as owner of City National Bank of Miami and president of the General Coffee Company of Colombia.

Apparently, there was more than coffee arriving in sacks of coffee coming into Miami from Colombia. Duque financed a $30 million real estate development project run by Jeb Bush.

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MAJOR Book Publisher BANS The Use Of ‘Pig’ And ‘Pork’ So They Don’t Offend Muslims

I don’t care how big a publisher they are, I would highly recommend boycotting Oxford University Press. This is reason 10,237 you need to get your children out of public schools. Those textbooks, if I’m not mistaken, are also used in our schools. The level of political correctness here is insane in the extreme. Banning the mere mention of ‘pigs’ and ‘pork’ to avoid offending Muslims is just obscene. What next? Are you going to ban any mention of gays? How about women’s clothing, dating, freedom of speech? Are you going to go out and kill off all pigs because the Muslims find them distasteful? Get a grip! But the Oxford University Press is doubling down and defending their pandering to Islam. They must have Islamists in their upper corporate structure. It’s a manipulative move worthy of the Muslim Brotherhood. This just ticks me off.

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Bay Island Lovers Seek Solution With DNR To Prevent Recreational Closing

OCEAN CITY — A sandy spit in the Isle of Wight Bay that has become a popular recreational boating site will remain so for the remainder of this summer, but it will likely be closed to the public in the future for nesting migratory birds.

When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged the navigation channels around the coastal bays last winter, the resulting 40,000 cubic yards of sand and dredge spoil were used to restore some of the islands in the coastal bays that had not been seen since the 1930s, including the famed Dog and Bitch Island. Approximately 18,000 cubic yards of sand were specifically pumped onto Dog and Bitch Island, essentially accomplishing the dual goals of finding a home for the dredged material and re-creating the historic small island once essential for migratory bird habitat.

However, a funny thing happened on the way to creating a quiet reserve for threatened or endangered migratory birds, such as terns and skimmers. From the beginning, recreational boaters were drawn to the sandy spit in the Isle of Wight Bay and hundreds of boat operators drop anchor and wade ashore creating a weekend retreat for their families and friends.

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Not Everybody Likes Kissing

The music swells. On-screen, the two main characters' eyes meet. They lean in, and — slowly! — their lips gently press in a romantic kiss. All the teenage girls in the audience exhale audibly.

Such on-screen behavior seems romantic if you were raised in a culture that practices romantic kissing. But that type of culture may not be the majority. In a studypublished this month in American Anthropologist, researchers propose that romantic kissing isn't something everybody does; in fact, not even half the cultures surveyed lock lips in romance.

Scientists have at least a couple of ideas about why we kiss people we are attracted to. We might be doing it to evaluate a potential mate, evolutionary biologists say, or to maintain a bond, or to arouse the other person. Kissing behaviors have been observed in chimpanzees and bonobos, though how romantic the animals were feeling at the time is unknown.

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Carly Catches Jeb For Third Place In Poll As Trump Falters

In the first poll to show troubles from his debate performance, Donald Trump has tumbled from 26 percent to 17 percent, with insurgent Republican business leader Carly Fiorina skyrocketing into third place.

Rasmussen Reports said that Trump remains the leader of the GOP pack, but his support has fallen by more than a third over the past week-and-a-half.

Fiorina, on the back of her strong "happy hour" pre-debate last week, has surged to near the top. She is third in the new poll at 9 percent, even with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and virtually tied with Bush and just behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio who are slightly ahead at 10 percent.

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Devastating Bird Flu Threatens US Poultry Farmers

Amish chicken farmer Ura Gingerich begins each day by lantern light, but his simple life of tradition is threatened by a modern scourge that has devastated the US poultry industry.

More than 48 million turkeys and chickens have either died by the bird flu virus or been killed to stop its spread since it emerged on the west coast in December and swept across the nation.

Egg prices have doubled as farmers work to rebuild their flocks in 20 states, prompting some restaurants to take the breakfast favorite off their menus.

Meanwhile, a handful of countries have banned US poultry imports and rural life has changed as farmers implement strict biosecurity measures and state fairs cut back on exhibits.

While it's been more than a month since the last case was detected, Gingerich and other farmers worry the outbreak could return with autumn's cooler temperatures and the migrating water fowl that spread the virus.

"We're just hoping God protects us from getting it," Gingerich told AFP.

Unlike most US poultry farmers, the Amish won't accept financial aid from the government and don't use insurance programs that would help compensate for the loss of their flock.

Gingerich, 58, and his wife Mary support 16 children by raising around 12,000 chickens and selling vegetables and flowers from their farm in Baldwin, Wisconsin. He is an elder in a group of 32 Amish families in the area.

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The Truth About Hillary's Email Server And The Law

“I did not email any classified material to anyone…” proclaimed Hillary Clinton at her March press conference in an attempt to quell questions about the unsecure server she used for all State Department business. Cleverly, Clinton dodged the fact that she received classified email on that vulnerable server, conduct also in violation of 18 USC 1924, which makes it a crime to have classified information at an “unauthorized location.” Just ask General David Petraeus.

This week’s disclosure that Clinton’s unsecured emails contained Top Secret material — one of the highest classifications — calls into question just about every phrase the former Secretary of State and her campaign staff have uttered to excuse her conduct. Let’s cut the spin and identify her email transgressions for what they are: gross mismanagement of classified material that happens to violate the law.

One Clinton spokesperson proffered that because the material was not specifically marked, Clinton could not have been aware that the material was classified. In that same March news conference Clinton bragged that she was “certainly aware of the classified requirements.” Apparently not.

Government officials are required to keep their correspondence on the appropriate government server so the material can be classified before it is mistakenly sent to an “unauthorized location.” Clinton’s argument ignores her actual misconduct. The reason the documents were not marked is because she never submitted them for clearance.

As former intelligence professionals, we are well aware that strict guidelines are required for handling classified information. Briefings that include classified information are held in Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, rooms with elaborate protections to minimize eavesdropping. Telephone conversations of classified information are conducted via secure phones. Emails that might contain classified information are sent only through secure networks, not through – heaven forbid – a personal server in a basement.

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[Republican Pete Hoekstra represented Michigan's 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives. He is the former House Intelligence Committee chairman. Victoria Toensing is a former Chief Counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General.]

Cannery Village application day set for Saturday

Application day is Saturday at Cannery Village, where more than 40 new townhouses will be offered for rent in Berlin.

The affordable housing complex on Flower Street broke ground earlier this year and recently set up an office in the Berlin Visitor’s Center.

Osprey Property Company Vice President Andrew Hanson, who is overseeing the project, said response has been strong.

“We had a huge response in the first couple of hours,” he said. “Probably 25 or more people came within hours of opening. Even before we opened the leasing office and put a sign up, we probably had over 200 folks express an interest and we’re really excited about the process.”

Hanson said the applicants have been diverse.

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An Easy Way to Feel $10,000, Even $20,000 Richer

Next time you’re moving, you might want to take a minute to count the trees on your potential new block.

Sound like a strange thing to do? Not according to recent research, reports Fast Company.

Stately oaks, leafy maples and swaying aspens not only provide a scenic backdrop to your life, but also offer distinct advantages over living in a concrete jungle, including significant health gains and wellness benefits equal to earning thousands more per year, according to a study recentlypublished in Nature.

Researchers found living on a block with 10 more trees than the average number “improves health perception in ways comparable to an increase in annual personal income of $10,000.” Adding just one more tree — so 11 more than average — was comparable to being $20,000 richer!

How Did They Figure It Out?

To analyze the benefits from living near trees, researchers scoured high-resolution satellite images and tree data in Toronto, Canada.

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BREAKING NEWS: US Embassy re-opens in Havana

Secretary of State John Kerry presides over flag-raising ceremony in Cuban capital.

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Police, local leaders learning more about body cameras

OCEAN CITY, Md. —Body cameras for Maryland police officers was a big topic Thursday at the Maryland Association of Counties Conference in Ocean City.

County and municipal leaders are learning about the benefits and limitations of body cameras, which some consider great tools to protect citizens and police officers.

Eighty percent of Maryland law enforcement agencies are considering whether officers should wear body cameras.

St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron said his agency is proceeding cautiously as it finds out more about the technology.

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O’Keefe Won’t Back Down as U.S. Customs Assaults First Amendment

FBI Picked Up 'Blank' Clinton Email Server

Hillary Clinton's private email server was turned over to the FBI on Wednesday afternoon after news broke that two of the classified emails found on the servers were "Top Secret."

The New York Times reported that Clinton instructed aides to give FBI the server along with the thumb drive that contained copies of the emails.

Barbara Wells, an attorney for Denver-based computer services firm Platte River Networks, which took control of Clinton's server after their private email network was updated in 2013, told The Washington Post that federal agents picked up the server from a data center in New Jersey on Wednesday.

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In Texas, Hillary plays race card for 2016

Echoing President Obama’s musing about mandatory voting while leveraging a billionaire’s money, Hillary Clinton is playing the race card in the run-up to the 2016 elections.

Struggling with non-minority voters, Clinton told a crowd at Houston’s historically black Texas Southern University that sweeping changes are needed to get African-Americans to the polls.

“Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting,” she charged.

The former First Lady’s broadside came three months after Obama suggested that voting be mandatory.

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Sandra Bland Dashcam Footage Appears Edited, Texas DPS Denies Manipulating Footage

Dashcam video of the arrest of Sandra Bland, a woman who was found hanged in her jail cell, is raising even more questions about not only her death, but why Bland was arrested and brought to jail in the first place.

As we have reported, Bland’s death prompted an investigation launched by multiple agencies including the Waller County District Attorney’s Office, The Texas Ranger Division of the state’s Department of Safety and the FBI. Bland was found hanged in a cell at Waller County Jail July 12, where she had been held for three days after an arrest stemming from a traffic stop.

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Proposed Law Changes Aimed At OC Vehicle Events; Public Nuisance Issues Targeted

OCEAN CITY – For the last couple of years, city officials have promised action to ease concerns over vehicular events in Ocean City, and a first step is the Police Commission proposing recommended changes to city laws.

The most recent event to worry residents was Cruisin, which hit Ocean City in May with 3,400 classic cars officially registered for the event and thousands more unaffiliated with it. While the officially registered participants appeared to be well behaved for the most part and attended the event’s official activities at the Inlet and Roland E. Powell Convention Center, the uninvited groups raced up and down Coastal Highway and other streets, dumped trash in parking lots and left a considerable amount of rubber on the roads.

Cruisin has become one of the biggest weekends of the year in Ocean City, according to promoter and organizer Bob Rothermel and many business owners. While local residents bristled at the steady roar of the hot rod engines and the consequences of the large convergence, special events drive the economy in Ocean City, especially in the shoulder seasons. Balancing them with the quality of life has always been a challenge.

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Not News: Unarmed White Teen Killed by Cop; Two White Cops Killed by Blacks

Call it the "Ferguson effect"

The media enthusiastically remind us that it’s the first anniversary of the death of Ferguson’s Michael Brown, a death that spawned the so-called Black Lives Matter movement.

In a September speech at the United Nations, President Barack Obama said, “The world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri — where a young man was killed, and a community was divided.”

Never mind that both a grand jury and the federal Department of Justice exonerated the officer who shot and killed Brown. Never mind that neither the physical evidence nor eyewitness testimony corroborated the assertions that Brown had his hands up or that he said, “Don’t shoot.”

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‘Burn, Baby, Burn!': The Watts Riot 50 Years Later

Fifty years ago, on a hot August day in the Watts district of Los Angeles, a white police officer pulled over a black motorist for drunk driving. That encounter sparked a riot that lasted five days and resulted in the destruction of 600 stores and over thirty deaths. Watts was the first major riot in the era of televised news; the nation was transfixed and wanted to know why blacks were rioting in what became known as the “looter’s playground.”

The political and media elite explained the “root cause” of the Watts unrest as black protest against “the system.” This became the standard explanation for three hundred riots that broke out in cities nationwide during the “long, hot summers” of 1965 to 1968. This script was replayed to explain the Rodney King riots in 1992 and more recent disturbances in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland.

In truth, the so-called “rebellions” were opportunistic free-for-alls, carried out “mainly for fun and profit,” as political scientist Edward Banfield aptly put it. Rioters sacked thousands of small businesses, regardless of the owner’s race. In Detroit, nearly half the 2,500 businesses looted were owned by blacks. The primary targets indicated a desire for quick gain: pharmacies, liquor stores, and pawn shops.

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Russian Developers Claim They Have an NSA-Proof, Secure Encrypted Phone

Developers are reportedly in talks now with mobile operators across Russia
Scientists at Russia’s National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in Moscow have developed this country’s first handset for smartphones which protects users against concealed tapping. The new solution was presented earlier this summer at Mobile World Congress, one of the world’s largest mobile products shows in Shanghai, China, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.

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Families Of 9/11 Victims On Verge Of Proving Government Cover-Up In Court

For many years, rumors have circulated regarding the U.S. government’s involvement in an active cover-up of a sinister connection between Saudi Arabia and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In fact, 28 redacted pages from a congressional intelligence report are said to contain damning information that implicates the Saudis in the 2001 mass murder of American citizens. Despite a bipartisan effort to release the information, the now notorious 28 pages are still being withheld from the public under the predictable guise of “national security.”

Now, thanks to a federal lawsuit in a Manhattan court, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel.

Two authors of the concealed pages may soon be called to testify in a court case currently pending against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Former FBI investigator Michael Jacobson and former Justice Department attorney Dana Lesemann, both of whom investigated the terror strikes for the FBI, were given the assignment to track down possible leads connecting Saudi officials to the hijackers and then document their findings. The evidence they compiled was recorded in the infamous 28 pages.

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The son of an Eastern Shore mayor is charged in the death of motorcyclist NyAnn Smith

NyAnn Smith finished her goal, but she didn't live long enough to enjoy it.

An avid runner from Towson, she wanted to do 50 races in one year before turning 50; she made it to 53. But just four days after her birthday, she was killed.

"It's been difficult for all of us because while we've been waiting for everything to happen, there's no real closure," said Ginnie Welsh, a family friend.

On Sept. 7, 2014, Maryland State Police say Smith was on a motorcycle on 50 eastbound outside of Salisbury, when a car crashed into her. The driver, Taylor Morrison, 23, stayed at the scene.

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Wicomico County Fair August 14-16

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Woman found dead in jail fears for her life in video

A Cleveland woman who was found dead in her jail cell tells prison officers she fears for her life in body camera footage released by police on Tuesday.

Ralkina Jones, 37, discussed her medical needs with Cleveland Heights jail officers in a video filmed roughly 15 hours before they discovered her dead last month, the Northeast Ohio Media Group reported.

“I’m not asking for any exception to any rules, but I will tell you this: I don’t want to die in your cell,” Jones said, pointing at the room where she was later found dead.

Her initial autopsy revealed “no suspicious injuries,” and Cuyahoga County medical examiners are still investigating her exact cause of death, police said. But Jones’ family wants answers after officers found her unresponsive on July 26.

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State Police to Conduct Citizen’s Police Academy in Sussex County

Location: Sussex 911 Emergency Operation Center, 21911 Rudder Lane, Georgetown, DE. 19947

Date of Occurrence: Thursday, October 15, 2015 to Thursday November 19, 2015

Georgetown - The 2015 Fall Delaware State Police Citizen’s Police Academy will begin on Thursday, October 15, 2015. The academy is comprised of six consecutive sessions for the next six Thursdays from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and will conclude on Thursday, November 19, 2015, the Graduation day. Most of the classes will take place at the Delaware State Police 911 center in Georgetown.

Participants will learn about a wide variety of police activities consistent with what a Delaware Trooper experiences today. The instruction includes criminal and traffic investigations, special units, and various other law enforcement related topics. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to ride with patrol troopers. Class size will be limited to 20 participants, and a background check will be conducted on all applicants.

Deadline for registration is September 17, 2015. Applications must be returned by that date in order to be processed.

If interested, please click on the link for an applicationhttp://dsp.delaware.gov/citizen_police_academy.shtml, or please contact:
Sgt. Richard Bratz at Richard.Bratz@state.de.us or (302) 242.5456, in order to obtain an application.

Archaeologist believes he may have found remains of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti — hidden in King Tut’s tomb

Nefertiti — she’s an ancient Egyptian queen and the source of a fantastic mystery regarding the iconic remnants of long-lost royalty.

For decades, archaeologists have speculated on the location of the queen’s remains, the last royal mummy missing from the dynasty of the famous King Tutankhamun, better known as King Tut. But now, an archaeologist claims that he has found her secret tomb in the Valley of the Kings, hidden just beyond a wall near the resting place of the boy-pharaoh.

The dramatic theory, published in a paper by Nicholas Reeves of the University of Arizona, is based on an analysis of detailed scans of Tutankhamun’s tomb. The scans reveal the texture of walls beneath their layers of paint, and Reeves believes he found a number of cracks indicating two previously concealed doors.

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Women Supporting Women’s Walk for Awareness

Location: Winterplace Park, Salisbury MD

Date: Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015

Walk Agenda

8:30 am Registration and Check-In

9:00 am Team Pictures

10:00am Opening Ceremonies Start

11:30am Lunch by Texas Roadhouse

Goochie Goo

Sheriff Arpaio Says Federal Judge Has Been Out To Get Him

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has petitioned to have the federal judge who is investigating him kicked off the case, telling an appeals court that Judge G. Murray Snow’s wife admitted to friends that her husband was intent on destroying the Arizona lawman.

Judge Snow has been battling Sheriff Arpaio for years, and in 2013 ruled that the Maricopa County department discriminated against Hispanics by targeting them for immigration enforcement.

Earlier this year, the judge began contempt proceedings against Sheriff Arpaio, accusing him of intentionally ignoring the court’s orders — but the sheriff says the judge has created a conflict of interest through his own unusually aggressive courtroom tactics and his wife’s words.

If the judge is removed, it could upend the entire years-long case, including the 2013 ruling and subsequent non-discrimination agreements to which the sheriff's department has agreed.

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Other Democrat-Run Cities Join Baltimore with Surging Gun Crime

On July 9, Breitbart News reported that gun crime was surging in the Democrat-run cities of Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, New Orleans, and St. Louis.

We can now expand that list to include Democrat-run Houston, Philadelphia, and New York City too.

According to USA Today, the “number of murders in 2015″ is up by more than 30 percent in Baltimore and up by at least that much or more in New Orleans and St. Louis. The Baltimore Sun reports that “a rising number of homicides have been recorded this year in [the] cities… [of] Chicago (up 18 percent from last year), Milwaukee (up 117 percent), Houston (up 36 percent)… and Philadelphia (up 7 percent).”

The Mayor of Baltimore is Stephanie-Rawlings Blake (D), the Mayor of Chicago is Rahm Emanuel (D), the Mayor of Houston is Annise Parker (D), the Mayor of Milwaukee is Tom Barrett (D), the Mayor of New Orleans is Mitch Landrieu (D), the Mayor of New York City is Bill de Blasio (D), the Mayor of Philadelphia is Michael Nutter (D), and the Mayor of St. Louis is Francis G. Slay (D). And Democrat rule has by and large been the norm in the these cities for decades, with the exception of Rudy Giuliani (R) in NYC in the 1990s/early 2000s.

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Hogan has decided state will cooperate with feds on undocumented detainees

Immigration advocates in Maryland are criticizing a decision by Gov. Larry Hogan to notify federal immigration officials when an illegal immigrant targeted for deportation is released from the state-run Baltimore City Detention Center.

Advocates consider Hogan’s stance to be a departure from the policy of his predecessor, Democrat Martin O’Malley, who last year joined other elected officials in refusing requests from the Obama administration to coordinate with federal law enforcement whenever a detainee was being released.

Hogan’s decision, which was made with no fanfare shortly after he took office in January, is especially troubling, advocates say, because it is his first significant action regarding immigration policy.

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Gowdy on Hillary's Server: "Almost Got Away With It, But She Didn't"

REP. TREY GOWDY: Every explanation Secretary Clinton has provided about a week later was proven to be demonstrably false. this is just the latest one of those assertions that there was no classified info. i saw the clip this morning. she was very definitive – she neither sent or received classified information. Well, that is patently false. hat I’m primarily concerned with is whether or not I’m going to have access to records that i need to do the job that the House asked me to do...

If she were interested in cooperation she wouldn't have done any of the things she's done to date. This was not about cooperation, and Bill, frankly, it's not about convenience, it's about control. she wanted to control access to the public record, and she almost got away with it but she didn't.

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OCPD Needs Your Help!

We need your help again! Yesterday, officers responded to Sportland Arcade for a report of theft from an arcade machine....

Posted by Ocean City Police Department on Thursday, August 13, 2015

‘Top Secret’ emails found as Clinton probe expands to key aides

WASHINGTON - As pressure builds on Hillary Clinton to explain her official use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, she faced new complications Tuesday. It was disclosed her top aides are being drawn into a burgeoning federal inquiry and that two emails on her private account have been classified as “Top Secret.”

The inspector general for the Intelligence Community notified senior members of Congress that two of four classified emails discovered on the server Clinton maintained at her New York home contained material deemed to be in one of the highest security classifications - more sensitive than previously known.

The notice came as the State Department inspector general’s office acknowledged that it is reviewing the use of “personal communications hardware and software” by Clinton’s former top aides after requests from Congress.

“We will follow the facts wherever they lead, to include former aides and associates, as appropriate,” said Douglas Welty, a spokesman for the State Department’s inspector general.

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So far this summer, ECI has donated nearly 5,000 pounds of food!

It was correctional staff at ECI who came up with the idea to start a garden at the institution. It has become so...

Posted by Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services on Thursday, August 13, 2015

Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?

A week before The EPA disastrously leaked millions of gallons of toxic waste into The Animas River in Colorado, this letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard & The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist detailing verbatim, how EPA would foul the Animas River on purpose in order to secure superfund money...

"But make no mistake, within seven days, all of the 500gpm flow will return to Cememnt Creek. Contamination may actually increase... The "grand experiment" in my opinion will fail.

And guess what [EPA's] Mr. Hestmark will say then?

Gee, "Plan A" didn't work so I guess we will have to build a treat¬ment plant at a cost to taxpayers of $100 million to $500 million (who knows).

Reading between the lines, I believe that has been the EPA's plan all along.

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2 ex-presidents witness wounded veteran’s marriage proposal

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — A soldier who was badly wounded in Afghanistan has proposed to his girlfriend in Maine while two former presidents looked on.

George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and their first ladies watched as retired Army Spc. Tyler Jeffries proposed to Lauren Lilly at the Bush summer home in Kennebunkport. The elder Bush tweeted his congratulations, wishing them “a lifetime of joy together.”

Jeffries is from Florida. He lost his legs in an explosion in 2012. Two friends helped him drop to a prosthetic knee to propose on Monday.

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The Economy is in Liquidation Mode

If you’re an American over a certain age, you remember roller skating rinks (I have no idea if it caught on in other countries). This industry boomed in the 1970’s disco era. However, by the mid 1980’s, the fad was fading. Imagine running a rink company at the end of the craze. You know it is not going to survive for long. How do you operate your business?

You milk it.

You spend nothing on capital improvements, slash maintenance, and reduce operating expenses. There’s no return on investment, so you cut to the bone and wring out as much cash as possible. When a business has no future, you operate in liquidation mode.

Your rink generates cash flow, but this is no profit. It’s simply the conversion of accumulated capital into present income. You are consuming capital, almost literally eating the business.

I have used a family farm as an example [6] to paint a clear picture of capital consumption. Imagine using your farm, not to grow food, but to swap for it. You tear down the barn to sell the oak beams for flooring, auction off the back 40 (acres), put the tractor on Craigslist, then finally sell the farm and house. All to buy the produce you can no longer harvest.

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Looks like a missile strike in China to me

Ocean City Sandfest

Back by popular demand! Experience all of the fun at the second annual Ocean City Sandfest August 24th through 30th. OC Sandfest will feature giant sand sculptures along the beautiful Ocean City boardwalk with special family attractions and activities.

August 24th through August 28th watch as master champion sand sculptors transform the smooth beach sand into massive works of art. Sculptures will remain on display through August 30th. Stroll along the Ocean City Boardwalk from North Division Street to 4th Street to see these breathtaking sculptures.

On Thursday, August 27th there will be a Sand Sculpting Class at 9am followed by a Family Sand Sculpting Competition at 10am. Prizes will be awarded at noon. Gather your friends and family and join the fun! On Saturday, August 29th there will be a Sand Sculpting Class at 9am and a Hands in the Sand Sculpting Demonstration at 2pm. All events will be taking place on the beach near North Division Street and are weather permitting.

Police analysis reveals homicide trends in Baltimore

Baltimore Police Department analysis of the city's 211 homicides last year (2014) offers some intriguing data, including the types of weapons and profiles of the victims. Some examples:

Weapons: Handguns were most common weapon, being used in 160 homicides. After that, the category "knife/sharp object" was cited in 33 incidents. There were 12 killings categorized as "blunt force/beating."

Victims: Black people were the majority of homicide victims — 190 were killed during the year. Most of the victims, 189, were male.

Nearly half of the victims were in the 18-29 age group. Eighty percent had criminal records — ranging from minor offenses to violent crimes — but fewer than 15 percent were suspected gang members.

Suspects: The analysis listed 83 suspects for the homicides, because about half of the year's cases have not been closed. More than 85 percent of the suspects had been arrested before. In fact, the average suspect had been arrested 10 times. About 67 percent of the suspects had been arrested for violent crimes, and 40 percent had previous gun arrests.

Less than 11 percent of suspects were linked to gangs, police said. But even though nine suspects and 30 victims were alleged gang members, 80 of the killings were "gang associated," according to the police analysis.

Homicides by the numbers

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Surfers Healing Provides Memorable Day For Special Needs Families In Ocean City

OCEAN CITY — Surfers Healing returned to Ocean City today, providing a day-long surfing camp and a lifetime of memories for kids with special needs and their families.

Surfers Healing is a national organization featuring teams of surfers traveling to coastal communities all over the country to provide a day of surfing for kids with autism and other special needs. While the event is all about surfers riding waves in tandem with young kids with special needs, it is really a day for the kids and their families to just enjoy the beach with other families facing the same challenges.

The event was held on Wednesday on the beach at 37th Street in front of the Castle in the Sand Hotel. Dozens of surfers helped hundreds of kids with special needs enjoy the ocean and the exhilaration riding a wave the calming influence of the sea. About 220 families signed up for the Surfers Healing event on Wednesday, an event that sold out in about five minutes.

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Shelter Animals Are Finding Homes Thanks To #TrumpYourCat

Take one hilarious meme, combine it with a plethora of adorable, adoptable animals in San Francisco, and you’ve got yourself a winning campaign. Say hello to #TrumpYourCat — the latest craze one Bay Area shelter is using to get more and more animals into loving homes.

Animal Care & Control San Francisco has been "Trumping" animals, ranging from cats and dogs to rabbits and chickens, that are awaiting adoption. Kathy Hentges and Daniela Wenzlow, two volunteers with ACC, started the project after being inspired by the #TrumpYourCat phenomenon.

"Shelter animals — and shelters — are so often seen as sad and depressing. This has helped to show people that shelter staff, volunteers (and animals!) can have a sense of humor and have fun while still doing difficult work," Deb Campbell of Animal Care & Control tells Refinery29. "It makes us feel great to do two important things — make people smile and find animals homes."

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Now the cultural cleansers want to ban a familiar Southern word

Cultural progressives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina want to change the name of the Dixie Classic Fair.

They say the word “Dixie” is offensive.

Councilman James Taylor told FOX8 that some folks find the word “offensive” and some folks are “angry” with the name. He said that as a progressive city – they need a name that “everyone can appreciate.”

The fair is just the latest victim of a cultural cleansing of the Southern States by angry liberals wound up tighter than a pair of Daisy Dukes.

They’re trying to dig up a dead Confederate general in Memphis. They want to sand blast Robert E. Lee’s face off the side of Stone Mountain, Georgia. And Lord only knows what they want to do with Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.

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Gowdy, GOP Blast Clinton Over Emails: She's 'Out of Options'

Republicans are in an uproar after news broke that two of the classified emails found on Hillary Clinton's email server were "Top Secret."

"This information revealed by the inspector general makes it even more important that the FBI and the State Department secure these documents," Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said.

"To date, the two agencies most critical to securing this information have failed to assure the American people that they are taking the necessary steps to protect America's national security interests."

"That's a long time for top secret classified information to be held by an unauthorized person outside of an approved, secure government facility," he told NBC News.

Hillary Clinton has since told her aides to give the Justice Department the server, along with a thumb drive that contained copies of the emails, according to The New York Times

"All this means is that Hillary Clinton, in the face of FBI scrutiny, has decided she has run out of options," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement, according to USA Today. "She knows she did something wrong and has run out of ways to cover it up."

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Cars can be hacked by plug-in insurance discount trackers

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —The latest way to remotely hack a car? By tapping into one of those plug-in tracking devices from insurance companies.

In some cases, hackers can send a text message -- and disable a car's brakes, according to research presented by computer security experts on Monday.

It's a relatively simple hack. And while researchers only tested one type of device, it raises serious questions about how dangerous it is to use them at all.

Almost every car on the road right now has a computer port inside, usually underneath the steering wheel. It accesses the computer networks in your car, so mechanics can identify problems.

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‘Soon, Very Soon You Will See’: Pro-Islamic State Hacking Group Issues Chilling Warning to America

A representative for a pro-Islamic State hacking group issued a chilling warning to members of the U.S. military and government Wednesday, promising that “very soon” followers of the organization would retaliate for overseas bombing targeting the terror organization.

Speaking to TheBlaze using smartphone messenger application Kik, a representative for the Islamic State Hacking Division said the group is constantly spying on U.S. servicemen. The organization on Tuesday published personal information purporting to belong to U.S. military and government online.

“Just like they spy on muslims, we are spying on them, watching their employees, watching their soldiers, recording their movements and taking their location information and passing it on to the soldiers of the islamic state,” the anonymous male member told TheBlaze.

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