Residential Alarm Leads Troopers to Arrest Burglar

Lewes, DE – Troopers have arrested a Rehoboth Beach man after a residential alarm was set off at one of the locations he burglarized.

The incident occurred at approximately 10:50 p.m. Monday July 14, 2014 when troopers responded to Taramino Place Apartments in Lewes after a burglar alarm was activated in one of the units. Upon the trooper’s arrival, Richard M. Walls, 47 of Rehoboth Beach, was seen entering his black Pontiac Sunfire parked in a darkened corner of the parking lot behind the apartment complex. As he began to back out of the parking spot, troopers made contact with him and observed a flat screen television, a cable box, and controllers in the passenger’s seat. Also located in the center console was a frozen vanilla fudge drumstick ice cream treat that, after talking with the victim of one of the break-ins, confirmed it had been stolen from the freezer of his home along with the TV and cable box. Numerous other apartments were slightly damaged by pry marks to the rear doors, but entry was not made.

Richard Walls was taken into custody and transported back to Troop 7 where he was arrested for Burglary 2nd, four counts of Attempted Burglary 2nd, Possession of Burglary Tools, Theft under $1,500.00, and five counts of Criminal Mischief. He was arraigned at JP3 and committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $34,500.00 cash bond.

3 killed, 4 wounded Sunday in three D.C. shootings

Three people were killed in three separate shootings in the District on Sunday that injured another four people and brought the city’s homicide total up to 67, compared with 45 killings at this time last year, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Two men were killed and a teenager injured in a shooting early Sunday at North Capitol and T streets. The three victims were found inside a vehicle around 1:20 a.m.

Donchell Thomas, 21, of Montgomery Village died shortly after being taken to a hospital. Police announced Sunday night that 20-year-old Derek Price of District Heights also died from his injuries.

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Here’s Exactly Why the TSA Is Worried About Your Phone

Though the TSA recently outlined new security measures on U.S.-bound flights, the agency’s decision to target cell phones raises several questions about the policy’s specificity and effectiveness.

Apple iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones were singled out for extra scrutiny, U.S. officials told Reuters, though Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson does not specifically name the two smartphones in TSA’s official statement. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official emphasized to TIME that the search will cover a wide range of electronic devices, and the inspection of items will be “not just focused on two manufacturers.”
Aviation and terrorism experts agree that if Apple and Samsung phones will indeed be checked more closely, then that decision is based on specific information gathered by U.S. intelligence.

“Somewhere, somehow, somebody has recovered those devices by those names, which were probably used in the process of developing an explosive that would be detonated by the use of one of those, or [U.S. officials] have first hand intelligence information,” said Glen Winn, an aviation security expert who has handled bomb threats.

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Thursday, Aug. 7 Wicomico NAACP 9th annual Back-to-School Rally Salisbury Middle School

The Wicomico County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (WCNAACP) will host its 9th annual Back-to-School Rally from 12:30-3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 7, at Salisbury Middle School on Morris Street in Salisbury.

This rally encourages each child to begin the school year ready to work and learn. In addition to enjoying entertainment and a motivational speaker, each student will be given a bag of school supplies. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Students from prekindergarten through eighth grade are eligible to receive school supplies. For more information, please contact Mary Ashanti at 410-543-4187.

The WCNAACP is accepting monetary donations or school supplies, with the goal of providing at least 300 students with supplies. Supplies can be delivered to Sojourner-Douglass College at 408 Coles Circle, Suite D, Salisbury. Monetary donations may be made by writing checks to Wicomico County NAACP; mail donations to Wicomico County NAACP, PO Box 1047, Salisbury, MD 21802.

The Awful Reason Florida Is Bulldozing One of the World’s Rarest Forests

The lush tropical canopies of pine rocklands exist only in South Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas. But soon the Sunshine State will lose some of its remaining tracts of the imperiled ecosystem in Miami-Dade County, expelling wildlife and rare flora to make room for a new tenant: Walmart.

This month the University of Miami sold 88 acres of rockland to Ram, a Palm Beach County–based developer known for building strip malls and residential complexes. The Miami Herald reports that the company has allotted space for 900 apartments and 185,000 square feet for a Walmart, in addition to a Chick-fil-A, a Chili’s, and a fitness center.

Before the sale, the university and the developer agreed to preserve 40 acres of rockland. For environmentalists, it’s not nearly enough.

“You wonder how things end up being endangered? This is how,” Dennis Olle, a lawyer and a board member of Tropical Audubon and the North American Butterfly Association, told The Miami Herald. “This is bad policy and bad enforcement. And shame on UM.”

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Watch The Inner Harbor Water Wheel Pull Trash From The Chesapeake Bay

Baltimore's water wheel, powered by water currents and the sun, permanently sits at the mouth of Jones Falls River in the Inner Harbor.

If you're wondering how it works, watch the video of the wheel pulling trash after a storm.

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Department of Transportation Takes Wikimapping to the Boardwalk

Bicyclists of all levels asked to log routes and riding experiences

Dover -- Ranked between Wisconsin and Oregon, Delaware is the fourth most Bicycle Friendly State in 2014, according to the League of American Bicyclists, and the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) continues to work toward the number one spot. Anthony Aglio, DelDOT Bicycle Coordinator explained some of the ways the department is working to climb up the rankings:

"Summertime in the beach communities of Sussex County is a great time to work on Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, and Evaluation," four of the five "Es" the League uses to determine the bicycle friendliness of a place, he said.

In addition to the dozen or so safety checkpoints and many local rides that happen annually at the beach, this summer DelDOT is working on a bike-mapping effort that will identify routes that cater to less-experienced cyclists. The goal is to get more people bicycling comfortably and safely and make Delaware an even more bicycle friendly state.

Police: Please Stop Pooping On Roofs Of Passing Trains

The police in Uxbridge, Massachusetts have a request. Someone out there is standing on train bridges and defecating on passing locomotives, and the police would like these people to stop.

The part where they ask folks to stop crapping on trains is drawing headlines, but the more serious issue is that some graffiti artists left their cans on the tracks, and authorities are worried that metal cans or other debris could cause a derailment. Cut it out, the police warned on their Facebook page. “I was told by a P&W [Providence & Worcester Railroad] engineer today that this type of activity could derail or damage the train,” explained a department representative. “At times the trains passing through carry hazardous materials, and if the train gets derailed it could cause a HUGE problem.” Even if the risk isn’t all that high, it’s still not cool to leave anything on railroad tracks.

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Feds Investigate “Racist” Depiction of Obama as a Zombie

Making fun of the president is now considered a domestic threat requiring DOJ intervention

Following complaints by the NAACP, the Department of Justice is investigating a parade float, labeled “racist” by the Nebraska Democratic Party, which featured President Obama depicted as a zombie.

The float, which featured in last week’s July 4th annual Independence Day parade in Norfolk, Nebraska, depicted a zombie stood outside a hut adorned with the words “Obama Presidential Library.”

The Nebraska Democratic Party responded by describing the float as among the “worst shows of racism and disrespect for the office of the presidency that Nebraska has ever seen.”

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Excuses Abound For Md. Campaign Report Failings

When it comes to getting out of late fines, Jared DeMarinis has nearly heard them all.

DeMarinis, the director of candidacy and campaign finance for the Maryland State Board of Elections, is the person candidates call when they receive notification the state is assessing them for failing to file timely campaign finance reports.

"I get a lot of phone calls telling me a lot of personal problems," DeMarinis said. "I know way too much about people's financial records or their health than I really want to."

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Teen Suddenly And Horrifically Loses Her Life Over An iPhone Infraction

A young teen girl who had recently won an iPhone based on her hard earned school merit, promised her mother she would treat the prized possession with complete care. So when a mugger snatched it from the girl while she was walking her 7-year-old sister home from school, the Santa Ana, CA teen gave chase in pursuit of the thief for the item she had worked hard to earn.

The girl managed to jump on top of the trunk of the getaway car, a gray or silver Pontiac that had been waiting nearby, and hold on to the antenna, reports KCAL9.

But when the car swerved she was thrown off and hit her head. She suffered severe head trauma and died at the hospital from her injuries two days later.

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Three Lowe’s Employees Come Through for Wounded Hero in Huge Way After the Federal Bureaucracy Failed

A military veteran who lost both of his legs in Vietnam says several employees at a Lowe’s hardware store came to his rescue earlier this month when his old wheelchair broke down.

Michael Sulsona wrote in the Staten Island Advance that on the evening of July 7, his wheelchair “fell apart” while shopping.

The veteran, who lost his legs after stepping on a land mine in 1971, added that the Veterans Administration had failed to provide him a new wheelchair in the past couple years.

“For the past two years, I have been waiting to receive a new wheelchair from the Veterans Administration. In addition, I have been told that I am not entitled to a spare wheelchair,” he wrote.

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US Atty General Eric Holder criticizes Palin's call to impeach Obama

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder took to ABC's 'This Week' Sunday morning to blast conservative personality and former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in response to her editorial calling for the impeachment of President Obama.

'She wasn't a particularly good vice presidential candidate' said Holder on the political talk show, speaking to host George Stephanopoulos. 'She's an even worse judge of who ought to be impeached and why.'

Holder's comments were responses to an editorial written by Palin and published last week onBreitbart.com, entitled 'It's Time to Impeach President Obama.'

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FORENSIC PROFILER: OBAMA 'SLIPPING MENTALLY'

Veteran of O.J., Natalie Holloway cases expects 'more and more drastic behavior'

A forensic profiler whose career has included work on the double-murder case against O.J. Simpson and the Natalie Holloway disappearance says Barack Obama is confessing he’s under enormous pressure and is “slipping mentally.”

“Not madness such as total loss of control mentally, but more and more drastic behavior seen in disturbed traumatized leaders,” said Andrew G. Hodges, M.D., who wrote “The Obama Confession: Secret Fear, Secret Fury.”

Hodges, an expert who previously suggested Obama was revealing alarming ideas about martial law and described how the president wants “total gun control,” provided to WND an analysis of some of Obama’s recent comments, specifically those from speeches in Minneapolis in late June.

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War Hero, Olympian Zamperini Dies at 97

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Zamperini , an Olympic distance runner and World War II veteran who survived 47 days on a raft in the Pacific after his bomber crashed, then endured two years in Japanese prison camps, has died. He was 97.

Zamperini's death was confirmed by Universal Pictures studio spokesman Michael Moses . A family statement released early Thursday said Zamperini had been suffering from pneumonia.

He is the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption," which is being made into a movie directed by Angelina Jolie and is scheduled for a December release by Universal.

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Department of Agriculture Sends Misguided Fiasco of a Poultry Processing Rule to the White House

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent its benighted poultry processing rule to the White House for final review. The millions of consumers who eat undercooked chicken at their peril and the beleaguered workers in these dank, overcrowded, and dangerous plants can only hope the President’s people come to their senses over there and kill this misguided fiasco.

Ordinarily, we would have hoped that Department of Labor secretary Tom Perez would have put his foot down before USDA proceeded with the final rule, but after months of pleas from the National Council of La Raza, African American labor advocates, trade unions, and consumer groups across the spectrum, he has remained aloof. Apparently, the economic needs of multi-billion dollar poultry processing companies that have brought us salmonella outbreak after salmonella outbreak will once again trump the needs of the consumers and workers, especially Hispanic and African American workers who, if they are lucky, manage to avoid cutting themselves too often on crowded assembly lines only to succumb to crippling ergonomic injuries a few years down the road.

USDA claims that the rule will “modernize” the food safety system with respect to poultry grown and slaughtered in the U.S. This claim has got to be one of the greatest misrepresentations launched by the government so far this year. Instead, the rule makes a pair of very bad changes that benefit an industry undeserving of the public’s trust: (1) it pulls hundreds of federal inspectors off the line at poultry plants so they won’t be able to check birds for feces, blood, and feathers and (2) it allows chicken producers like Foster Farms, Perdue, and Pilgrim’s Pride to speed the line up from 50-70 birds/minute to 175—or close to three birds every second.

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‘A Threat to Internet Freedom’

The last few months have been critically important for the future of Internet freedom and access.

The concept of “network neutrality” has been so central to our experience of the Internet, and such a driving force for innovation and expression, that most of us have taken it for granted. This Op-Doc explains the basic idea: when you visit a website, the phone or cable company that provides Internet access shouldn’t get in the way. Information should be delivered to you quickly and without discriminating about the content.

Yet now the principle is under direct attack. On May 15, the Federal Communications Commission (whose chairman, Tom Wheeler, was formerly a leading lobbyist for the telecommunications industry) proposed troubling new rules: Internet service providers could split the flow of traffic into tiers, by offering priority treatment to big corporations who would pay higher fees. That would mean a fast lane for the rich and a dirt road for others, harming small businesses and users.

Meanwhile, telecom behemoths turn huge profits that increase their leverage. Through aggressive lobbying, they have managed to limit competition in 20 states.

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McAuliffe Puts GreenTech Fundraising Exec in Charge of Virginia Lottery

Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe has appointed the director of fundraising for GreenTech Automotive to be deputy chief of the Virginia Lottery, despite the company currently being the target of multiple federal investigations.

Randy Wright, a longtime political supporter of McAuliffe, will receive a state salary of $115,000 in his new role according to Watchdog.org.

Wright, an 18-year Norfolk, Va., city councilman, served a central role in the controversial GreenTech Automotive use of the EB-5 visa program, which allowed foreign investors to receive visas in exchange for investment in the company, according to Watchdog.org.

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