SACRAMENTO, Calif " Sacramento County law enforcement is again criticizing the elderly parole process after the Board of Parole Hearings granted parole for a convicted child molester after serving 27 years of his over 355-year sentence. Gregory Vogelsang, 57, was sentenced to prison for almost 30 counts of kidnapping and sex crimes against multiple children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the 1990s, according to Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho. He was sentenced to 355 years to life in prison. read more
Virginia is one step closer to enacting an assault weapons ban. read more
Between hearings for deposed Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and accused CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, the U.S. federal court in Manhattan was recently asked to consider an important question: When is salsa too spicy? The precipitating event was a 2024 trip to a Times Square taqueria by a German tourist. The plaintiff, Faycal Manz, said he suffered "severe physical symptoms" following a single bite of Los Tacos No. 1's green salsa, and sued for damages. read more
Minutes later, Rep. Dave Pinto, DFL-St. Paul, the committee co-chair, compared blaming higher work pay for causing higher prices to the impact shoplifting has on higher prices. He started by mentioning a presentation on the impact of organized retail theft he'd heard in a public safety committee the day before. "There was a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft," he said. "And it actually had not occurred to me to ask, it probably would have been good, to make sure that they would study the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft. Because perhaps people are relying on that and using that, and maybe it's assisting them in some way." read more
Recent retiree Reinaldo Jesus Lefonts was charging his EV in a Downey library parking lot when he was attacked in a stabbing that severed both carotid arteries and both jugular veins. He was alive when an ambulance arrived at the parking lot " but that emergency vehicle was then stolen. The driver of the ambulance, according to police, led officers on a pursuit that ended in a crash miles away. "In that moment, every second mattered," Lefonts' family says in a legal claim against the city. "The City's paramedics and rescue vehicle were Reinaldo's only realistic chance of survival. read more
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U.S: An F-35 just crashed during takeoff at Albuquerque, New Mexico. The pilot successfully ejected. @presamiga
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Might have been a tanker fuel transfer gone wrong.
#11 | POSTED BY REDIAL
It apparently wasn't .... it was a near head-on mid air collision.
Allegedly, a third tanker was around 10 miles behind this one & was just able to avoid being hit, too. At a closure rate of 1,000 mph, the third tanker would have around 40 seconds to maneuver away from the doomed jet after seeing the collision.
A better look at the partially sliced-off tail of the USAF KC-135 involved in the mid-air collision over Iraq yesterday, back on the ground in Tel Aviv.
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I didn't see any mention of taxes in his statement.
#15 | Posted by LampLighter
You didn't notice the timing?
You and eberly are pretty naive.