A search is underway in north Alabama after a man charged with capital murder and a deputy transporting him to court went missing Friday morning. Learn more in the video above.
Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office employee Vicki White, who is the assistant director of corrections, and inmate Casey Cole White have not been seen since 9:30 a.m. Friday when they allegedly left for the county courthouse. The sheriff’s office said the deputy and suspect are not related.
The marked vehicle that the two left the detention center in was located in the parking lot of a shopping center in Florence around 11 a.m. Friday. Their current direction of travel is unknown and investigators are looking for video footage that may give more information.
In a news conference Friday evening, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said Officer White, who is an employee of 25 years, told the booking officer at the detention center that she was escorting inmate White to the courthouse for a mental health evaluation. After dropping the inmate off with other deputies, Officer White said she was going to seek medical attention for herself because she wasn’t feeling well.
Around 3:30 p.m., the booking officer attempted to contact Officer White, but her phone was going straight to voicemail. It was also discovered that inmate White never returned to the jail. The sheriff said they began investigating “aggressively.”
Officials said the officer and the inmate never showed up to the courthouse and it has since been determined that the inmate did not have any evaluations scheduled. Local urgent care offices also have no record of Officer White visiting on Friday.
The sheriff added that it is a “strict violation of policy” for inmates with those types of charges to be escorted anywhere by one deputy, but they believe Officer White wasn’t questioned because she is the head of operations and coordinates all transports.
“Knowing the inmate, I think [Officer White] is in danger whatever the circumstances,” Singleton said. “He was in jail for capital murder. He has nothing to lose.”
According to court documents, Casey White’s capital murder charge stems from the “brutal death” death of Connie Ridgeway at her Rogersville home in 2015. The capital murder charge also includes first-degree burglary.
If anyone sees the suspect or Officer White, do not approach them and contact 911 immediately.
En la noche del lunes un restaurante ubicado en 26 de marzo fue asaltado por dos parejas que se hicieron pasar por clientes al momento de ingresar al local, según pudo confirmar El País con fuentes policiales.
Subrayado informó que entre los clientes se encontraba el embajador de Paraguay en Uruguay, Luis Enrique Chase Plate, pero el diplomático, al ser consultado por El País, negó haber estado en ese local al momento del asalto.
Fuentes de la investigación confirmaron a El País que las cuatro personas ordenaron un plato principal, esperaron a comer y una vez finalizada la cena en vez de pagar la cuenta uno de ellos fue a la puerta y sacó una escopeta de caño recortado.
Los otros tres delincuentes se encargaron de robar las billeteras, los relojes y el dinero de los clientes, logrando recaudar en total una suma de 300 dólares y 20.000 pesos.
Una vez que obtuvieron el botín, los cuatro lograron darse a la fuga.
The lawyer for the family of the Alabama woman turned ISIS wife in Syria tells ‘America’s Newsroom’ that Hoda Muthana is a U.S. citizen who wants to face the American legal system and pay her debt to society.
I had a column in the New York Post Wednesday about the so-called “ISIS bride,” Hoda Muthana, who is detained in a Syrian refugee camp and now pleading to come back home to her family in Alabama. I argued that, despite the fact that she has treasonously waged war against our country, she had a right to be readmitted if she tried to enter because she was – according to the facts available at the time – a natural-born American citizen.
Now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that Muthana will not be allowed to reenter the U.S. because she is not an American citizen: While born in America, she was the daughter of a diplomat and thus not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. As the secretary put it in his statement, “Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States. She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States.”
This conclusion is disputed by Muthana’s family and allies, and they may have a case. I would strongly urge the Justice Department to file an indictment against Muthana for treason, material support to terrorism, and any other readily provable offenses. She is less likely to press the issues of citizenship and right to enter if she understands that she faces prosecution and, very likely, lengthy imprisonment if she succeeds in coming here.
But it’s worth taking a closer look at the citizenship question itself. To my mind, the concept of citizenship implies not just the benefits of being a full-fledged member of the body politic, but also a duty of fealty to the nation. In a rational world, then, a citizen who made war against the United States would be stripped of citizenship.
Alas, that is not the law. As I related in the Post column, Supreme Court precedent holds that natural-born citizens may not have their citizenship revoked without their consent. (This is in contrast to naturalized citizens, who may have their citizenship revoked if they join a subversive organization within five years of being naturalized, but this is not relevant to Muthana’s case).
Empieza la semana laboral, luego de un feriado, con muchas noticias, especialmente vinculadas a temáticas políticas. Te detallamos las cinco más destacadas de esta jornada:
1.El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, llamó “cobarde” a Mauricio Macri y dijo ser víctima de “su obsesión y de su prepotencia y de su intervencionismo”.
2. El periodista Alfredo Leuco salió al cruce de una denuncia realizada por el titular del Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Horacio Verbitsky, en donde sostiene que el presidente Mauricio Macri omitió declarar entre sus bienes una millonaria propiedad ubicada en Bella Vista. El conductor acusó al escritor de “buchón” y de “montar una operación”.
4. El mundo del fútbol se vio sacudido por la reciente publicación del grupo de espionaje cibernético Fancy Bears que sacó a la luz una lista de 25 futbolistas que estarían implicados en distintos casos de doping durante el Mundial de Sudáfrica 2010, y entre los más afectados aparece la Selección Argentina con cinco jugadores.
CENTURY CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — An evacuation at a Century City mall has been lifted after a report of a man with a gun and a suspicious package prompted a scare on Friday.
Evacuees were being led back inside shortly after 5:30 p.m.
UPDATE: The LAPD has finished clearing the Century City Mall & it’s being reopened for business. There was no evidence of a shooting & Bomb Squad determined the suspicious device was not an explosive. We truly appreciate everyone’s patience in dealing with this lengthy incident.
Los Angeles police said there was no evidence of a shooting, and bomb squad officials determined a suspicious box at the scene was not an explosive.
Nobody was immediately detained or arrested but there is suspicion an individual may have lit the box on fire. Investigators said there were no injuries reported.
It all started shortly before 1 p.m. Los Angeles police said that during the search for a reported man with a gun, officers were directed to a suspicious box inside the Amazon Store. Video from AIR7 HD showed smoke coming from the Amazon Store. It’s unclear what was inside the box.
The box began to smoke when an individual described by witnesses as a man with a green bandanna and bushy hair left the Amazon store. Authorities are looking at surveillance video to determine whether that person lit the package on fire.
At about 2:30 p.m. LAPD urged those sheltering in place to remain calm and exit the location. Images sent to the Eyewitness Newsroom showed customers sheltering in place inside the H&M basement. After being stuck in there for about two hours, they were later evacuated.
All available police resources were sent to the mall, including the bomb squad.
Authorities cleared out the mall safely. Many shoppers and employees were escorted out the nearest exit. Nearby Beverly Hills High School was placed on lockdown as a precaution due to incident, the Beverly Hills Police Department said.
It was a scary situation for some.
“I had just clocked into work and then I saw my co-workers running, and he said, ‘Drop everything and run,’ and we just ran out the door. As we were running out the door, we heard a shot, and then I saw security, and mall security said just keep running, keep going,” said mall employee Gisell Lopez.
Police set up a perimeter around the mall and shut down Santa Monica Boulevard due to the investigation.
LAPD West LA Division is responding to calls of an “Active Shooter” at the Century City Mall. We have officers on scene who are clearing the location, but at this time we have NO evidence of a shooting or victims.
CHICAGO — Two people have been charged in the shooting death of an off-duty Chicago police officer.
Menelik Jackson, 24, is charged with one felony count of first degree murder, three felony counts of attempt – first degree murder and resisting police after attempting to flee during arrest. Jovan Battle, 32, is charged with one felony count of first degree murder and three felony counts of attempt – first degree murder.
Accused shooter Menelik Jackson, 24 & co-conspirator Jovan Battle, 32 will each face 1 felony count of 1st degree Murder & 3 felony counts of Att. Murder. Jackson also faces charges of resisting police after trying to flee during arrest. Both defendants appear in bond court today pic.twitter.com/M9UdffFROi
Supt. Eddie Johnson plans to provide more information during a press conference at 11 a.m. Monday.
According to the Chicago Tribune, one of the men charged has a history of domestic violence arrests that dates back to at least 2017, the same time period when he was trying to apply to become a Chicago police officer. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi declined Sunday to comment on the man or his background.
23-year-old Officer John Rivera, who was off-duty, was shot and killed after leaving a River North bar around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. Police said it appeared to have been a random act of violence.
According to official reports, Rivera was sitting in a vehicle on the 700 block of N. Clark Street when two men approached and one fired shots into the car, striking Rivera in the chest, arm and mouth.
Rivera was rushed to Northwestern Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A 23-year-old man in the vehicle with the officer was also shot and taken to the hospital in critical condition, but is expected to recover.
Officer Rivera’s funeral will be held Friday morning at the Church Of Annunciata.
Sheriff Wayne Ivey of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office gives tips on how to survive an active shooter situation. He uses the 4 As: awareness, avoidance, arm and attack. Video provided by Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
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Two are dead, including the suspect, and four are hurt after a shooting at the Red Bluff Walmart distribution center, the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Saturday. The victim killed — an employee at the facility — has been identified as Martin Haro-Lozano, 45, of Orland.
Allison Hendrickson, a spokeswoman for Dignity Health North State, said four patients were in fair condition at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and two had died. She wasn’t immediately sure whether there were other victims at another hospital.
Little on the investigation has come out so far, but Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said deputies have determined the shooter circled the parking lot four times before crashing into the building and opening fire with a semiautomatic long gun.
At least one person was struck by the suspect’s car, Johnston said. He said the shooter was able to enter the facility, where he shot at random. Johnston couldn’t provide details on when and where during the attack people were injured.
The shooter’s multi-round magazine held more than 10 rounds, making it illegal in California, Johnston said.
There also was a fire at the location, and the suspect appears to have rammed a vehicle into the building, officials said. Johnston could not say whether the fire started from the crash or if it was intentionally lit.
Johnston said later in the evening that the suspect and one victim, an employee, were dead. The suspect, a 31-year-old who still hasn’t been identified, also has a history with the workplace, Johnston said. He added that it has been about a year and a half since then. The motive still hasn’t been determined, he said.
Red Bluff police engaged in gunfire with the suspect shortly after, and he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound, Johnston said.
“I would estimate 20 to 30 rounds exchanged,” he said, noting that there were so many bullets fired the investigators did not yet have an accurate count.
Chief Kyle Sanders said the officers fired after the suspect first fired at them “multiple times.” The two officers who fired the shots are on paid administrative leave pending a routine investigation into the shooting of the suspect, Sanders said.
Meanwhile, officials initially said they hadn’t figured out whether the shooting is related to one earlier in the day in Shingletown, but Johnston later said they were separate incidents. Shasta County Sheriff’s officials have not responded to multiple requests for information about the Shingletown incident, and California Highway Patrol spokespeople referred all questions about it to the sheriff.
Scott Thammakhanty, an employee at the facility’s receiving center who unloads trucks, said he heard the shooter fire from what he judged to be a semi-automatic weapon.
“It went on and on — I don’t even know how many times he fired,” Thammakhanty said. “I just know it was a lot.”
Thammakhanty and others started running for their lives, and he saw people lying on the ground as he went, he said.
The shooter looked familiar to Thammakhanty, but he didn’t know his identity.
Vince Krick was waiting outside because his wife and son work at the facility. They weren’t hurt, but Krick was anxiously waiting to be reunited with them.
“It was real crazy, because, you know, you can’t do nothing,” Krick said.
Krick was on the way to pick up his wife when he saw the flames, he said. His wife texted that she was OK, but told him not to come to the front entrance.
The shooting happened right when a new group of workers starts their shift, he said.
Krick’s wife, a manager, was able to get some employees out the back of the building, he said.
Dispatchers reported at least one person had been shot, though the extent of injuries wasn’t immediately clear. A man had also reported his leg being run over when the shooter rammed a vehicle into the facility.
A woman was reportedly bleeding after jumping over a barbed-wire fence to escape.
“We need to get these people out of here,” a dispatcher said.
Dispatchers said they needed all units to respond to the facility on Highway 99 south of Red Bluff.
The suspect was described as being in a white vehicle that had wedged into the building and had what dispatchers believed was an assault-style weapon. The shooter was in the middle of the parking lot, dispatchers said.
Deputies said a fire had broken out by the time the suspect was detained and they couldn’t get into the building because of the blaze. Johnston said it wasn’t clear whether the suspect started the fire on purpose or the crash caused it.
The extent of any fatalities or injuries was not yet clear.
In an email, Walmart director of national media relations Scott Pope said the company is “aware of the situation” and working with law enforcement to investigate.
“We are deeply saddened by this tragic incident,” Pope wrote. “Our focus is on supporting our associates, as well as their families and co-workers in the facility. This is an active police investigation and we will continue to work with Tehama County Sheriff’s Office and assist in their investigation in any way possible.”
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Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and former candidate for governor of the state who built a national profile as a voting rights advocate, announced on Wednesday that she would run again for governor in 2022, setting up a high-profile clash in next year’s elections.
“I’m running for Governor because opportunity in our state shouldn’t be determined by ZIP code, background or access to power,” Ms. Abrams said in a tweet, which was accompanied by an announcement video with the slogan “One Georgia.”
If her campaign is successful, Ms. Abrams would become the first Black governor of Georgia and the first Black woman to serve as governor of any state. In 2018, Ms. Abrams, a former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, lost to Brian Kemp, a Republican, by about 55,000 votes.
The decision from Ms. Abrams, who has come to embody the state’s changing racial and political makeup and was previously considered to be President Biden’s running mate, sets up a likely rematch with Governor Kemp, who has already announced his campaign for a second term.
(CNN)On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, as the partial government shutdown continued, volunteers picked up trash outside Independence Hall, birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Whether a heavy rainstorm leads to destructive flooding, however, depends on a combination of factors: the amount of rainfall, the way that water flows and collects on the landscape, and how all that water is managed. Over time, studies have found, the United States and other countries have managed to reduce their vulnerability to many types of dangerous flooding by building dams, levees and other protective measures.
Still, plenty of risks remain. Cities such as New York are often more vulnerable to sudden downpours because so much of their land area is paved over with impervious surfaces like asphalt, which means that runoff is channeled into streets and sewers rather than being absorbed into the landscape. In Houston, researchers have found that the transformation of open land into paved parking lots and housing developments helped worsen flooding after Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
New York’s subway system, built a century ago, was also not designed to handle more extreme rainfall fueled by climate change. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has invested $2.6 billion in resiliency projects since Hurricane Sandy inundated the city’s subways in 2012, including fortifying 3,500 subway vents, staircases and elevator shafts against flooding. Still, this week’s flash floods showed that the system remains vulnerable.
And as heavy rainfall increases, experts say, more will need to be done. That could include adding more green space in cities to absorb excess runoff, as well as redesigning sewer systems, roads and public transit networks to cope with heavier precipitation. It also includes updating flood-risk maps to account for climate change, so that people have a clearer sense of where it’s risky to build and where they should buy insurance against flooding.
“Pretty much all the infrastructure we’ve built today was designed to deal with historical weather conditions, and that’s no longer enough,” said Jennifer Jacobs, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of New Hampshire. “It’s tough in places like New York City, because there’s just not much room for the water to go, but we need to think more creatively about drainage and how we design our systems for higher levels of precipitation.”
The three House committees that led the closed-door depositions released interviews with Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of State in charge of European and Eurasian Affairs, and Mark Sandy, a senior Office of Management and Budget official.
The document release comes as the House Intelligence Committee plans to work through the Thanksgiving holiday to compile a report for the House Judiciary Committee to use in determining whether to draft articles of impeachment against Trump over allegations that he pressed Ukraine’s president to interfere in the 2020 election by opening two investigations that would benefit Trump politically.
“The testimonies from Ambassador Reeker and Mr. Sandy continue to paint a portrait of hand-picked political appointees corrupting the official levers of U.S. government power, including by withholding taxpayer funded military assistance to Ukraine, to further the President’s own personal political agenda,” three Democratic House committee chairmen said in a statement Tuesday.
“Mr. Sandy confirmed that he was told by the office of Mick Mulvaney, the Acting White House Chief of Staff, that the President himself had directed the hold on security assistance to Ukraine. However, he was provided no other reason or justification for the hold when he was directed to implement it,” the Democrats said, noting that he “raised concerns” that a delay of aid may violate the law.
The president has denied withholding aid to pressure Ukraine, arguing that he was seeking to root out corruption in Ukraine with his investigation requests.
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Los trabajadores “cincuentones” perjudicados en su jubilación por el régimen mixto implantado en 1996 —que consiste en repartir los aportes entre el sistema solidario del Banco de Previsión Social (BPS) y la capitalización individual en las AFAP— continúan concurrieron a la Justicia para dejar sentado su reclamo. Esta semana unos 200 tuvieron audiencias de conciliación, una instancia previa que habilita al afectado a iniciar un juicio al Estado por los perjuicios económicos cuando se jubile.
“Son audiencias que se vienen haciendo hace más de dos años. Se cita al Poder Legislativo (como la contraparte) que rechaza su responsabilidad y queda abierto el camino para un juicio por reparación patrimonial por la responsabilidad del Estado en el acto legislativo” que creó el sistema mixto, explicó a El País el abogado Hoenir Sarthou, que promueve estos casos. Añadió que “todas las semanas” hay audiencias de este tipo fijadas en los tribunales judiciales.
Los “cincuentones” perjudicados eran trabajadores menores de 40 años en 1996 y fueron obligados a sumarse al régimen mixto por su nivel salarial, pero al momento del retiro laboral en algunos casos se encuentran con una pasividad inferior a la que recibirían por el sistema anterior (hasta 35% según cálculos hechos por el Pit-Cnt).
Aparte de las instancias de conciliación, en el plano judicial existen unos 8.000 recursos de inconstitucionalidad contra la ley que creó el régimen mixto presentado por personas perjudicadas en su jubilación. Sarthou dijo que las dos presentaciones más antiguas “están en carpeta de los ministros (de la Suprema Corte) para dictar sentencia desde noviembre del año pasado”. Según informó ayer el semanario Búsqueda, para los integrantes de la Corte la norma es constitucional y rechazarán el recurso interpuesto por los “cincuentones”.
El abogado detalló que la inconstitucionalidad en caso de que hubiera recibido un fallo favorable tendría efecto sobre los trabajadores activos, mientras que los ya jubilados tienen la opción de demandar al Estado previa audiencia de conciliación en un juicio cuyo monto se deberá estudiar “caso a caso”.
Hace unas semanas la representación de los trabajadores en el BPS presentó un anteproyecto de ley —la iniciativa legislativa en temas de seguridad social es exclusiva del Poder Ejecutivo— en busca de una solución para este colectivo. Plantean que se permita a los mayores de 50 años desafiliarse de las AFAP y jubilarse por el régimen de transición (anterior al sistema mixto), estableciendo un período de dos años (un año para los mayores de 60 años) para que el afiliado pueda asesorase sobre su situación.
De acuerdo con proyecciones hechas el año pasado por el BPS, la solución propuesta por la representación de los trabajadores tendría un costo anual de US$ 121 millones en un escenario de mínima (con 22.860 desafiliados de las AFAP) y de US$ 186 millones en una estimación máxima (con 41.163 desafiliados). Asimismo, como el dinero de los desafiliados volvería al BPS, el Estado tendría dinero suficiente para pagar las pasividades por el régimen de transición sin ningún costo extra por unos 15 años.
Pese a que el reclamo de los “cincuentones” cobró fuerza y las autoridades han reiterado que analizan la situación, fuentes sindicales dijeron a El País que un fallo contrario de la Corte sería motivo suficiente para que el gobierno rechace cualquier compensación para los perjudicados. Por este motivo es que parte del colectivo de “cincuentones” que se movilizó con el apoyo del Pit-Cnt no respaldaba los recursos ante la Justicia, ya que entienden que la solución pasa por una decisión política y no legal.
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