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Eels on wheels: Oregon highway & cars get slimed after 4 tons of eels spill out of semi-truck


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:10 UTC
Eels on wheels
© Oregon State Police / Facebook
A highway in Oregon turned into a scene from a goopy nightmare when a truck carrying live eels overturned, covering the road with nearly four tons of "slime eels." Officials said that the highway has since been cleared and all lanes have been reopened.

Oregon State Police say the incident began when a semi-truck heading north on US highway 101 failed to stop at a construction zone and overturned around 12:00pm on Thursday, according to KGW.

The truck was holding 7,500 pounds of "slime eels" headed to Korea for consumption. When the weight of the truck shifted, one of the containers fell off the truck. The remaining containers and the flatbed then separated, causing four other cars to smash into each other.

The contents of the truck quickly spilled onto the surrounding cars and across the highway.
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War Whore

Florida cops pull over state attorney - awkwardly struggle to explain why she was stopped


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:00 UTC
state atorney traffic stop
© Orlando Police Department / YouTubeTraffic cops pull over State Attorney Aramis Ayala for no reason
Bodycam footage of two Orlando police officers pulling over Florida's first and only black state attorney has gone viral. The cops, now accused of racial profiling, claimed her tags didn't come back as registered and also eyed her legally tinted windows.

On Wednesday, the Orlando Police Department (OPD) released the bodycam footage from an officer who pulled over State Attorney Aramis Ayala on June 19.

When the officer approached her window, she handed him her license. After scanning it, the cop asked her what agency she worked for. Ayala, who serves as state attorney in the 9th Circuit, told him who she was, at which point the officer quickly gave her license back and launched into an explanation of why she was stopped.
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Dollars

US soldier's widow seeks cash from husband's alleged killer after Canadian government 'paid him $8mn'


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:59 UTC
Omar Khadr
© Todd Korol / ReutersOmar Khadr
The widow of a slain US soldier is fighting to be awarded millions from her husband's alleged killer, after the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner was reportedly paid US$8 million by the Canadian government.

The case goes back to 2002, when US Army Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer was killed during a firefight at a suspected Al-Qaeda compound in Afghanistan.

His alleged killer, just 15 years old at the time, was Canadian-born Omar Khadr. He was suspected of throwing the grenade that killed Speer.

Comment: See also: Canadian government apologizes to former Gitmo inmate, admits human rights breach

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Dollars

$40mn marijuana tax funds Colorado's school repairs each year


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:39 UTC
marijuana and money
© Rick Wilking / Reuters
Legal marijuana is big business in Colorado. May marked the 12th consecutive month weed sales exceeded $100 million with tens of millions in tax revenue going to fix many of the state's crumbling schools.

The total haul from marijuana sales over the last 12 months for the Centennial State now stands at $1.4 billion, bringing in almost $223 million in tax revenue.

Sales for the first five months of 2017 alone were roughly $620 million, generating $96 million in tax, which is an increase of around 27 per cent on the same period last year, according to figures from Colorado's Department of Revenue.

Those figures combine both recreational sales and sales for medicinal purposes, though the former has consistently generated two-thirds of the income.
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Heart - Black

3 teens arrested after special needs woman sexually assaulted live on Facebook


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:42 UTC
facebook
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
Three teens in Mississippi were arrested and charged with kidnapping and sexual assault offenses after allegedly broadcasting an attack on a 23-year-old woman with special needs to Facebook Live.

The video was shared 1,500 times and gained 84,000 views before it was removed, reports the New York Post.

Officers were called to a house in Gulfport Tuesday morning where police discovered a recording of the assault at the scene and interviewed several suspects who were reportedly intoxicated.

"I wish people would look at just how warped our society has become," Chief Leonard Papania told reporters at a news conference Wednesday.

"We videotape pain and suffering, then we share it and we view it over and over. And I don't doubt this story will be dead in two days and everybody [will] move on to something else and you still have a victim of a crime."
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Family

Alabama court rules 12yo raped by relative can have abortion without parental consent


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:09 UTC
Alabama court
© West Coast Surfer / Global Look Press
After a girl in Alabama was raped by a family member, she asked for a waiver from a law that requires minors to receive parental consent before getting an abortion. A district attorney objected, but the appeals court ruled in her favor.

On Wednesday, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled in favor of a girl seeking a waiver from a state law that requires minors to obtain "the written consent of either parent or the legal guardian" before receiving an abortion.

The 12-year-old girl, only referred to as "anonymous" or "minor" in the opinion, was impregnated by an adult relative while she was living with her mother, stepfather, four siblings, and an uncle.

The relative who raped her was charged with statutory rape and the girl was removed from her home for the fifth time. She was placed in the custody of the Department of Human Resources (DHR) after the police were notified that her mother reportedly became physically abusive toward her upon learning of her daughter's pregnancy.

Comment: See also: Teen rape victim sentenced to 30 years for having stillborn baby

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Attention

Crowd gathers at DNC headquarters to honor Seth Rich while Dems laugh at questions about slain staffer

Alicia Powe and Chelsea Schilling
WND
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Vigil Seth Rich
© TwitterVigil attendees gather outside the DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C., to honor murdered staffer Seth Rich on the anniversary of his death.
On the one-year anniversary of the murder of Seth Rich, dozens of concerned Americans gathered outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., to honor the DNC staffer's memory and demand answers from top Democrats about the mysterious slaying.

But Democrats laughed Monday as they passed the crowd of at least 30 people who held a silent vigil and later chanted, "Justice for Seth Rich!"

Ralliers held up stuffed panda bears in memory of Rich, who reportedly used the pseudonym "Panda" online. They also held signs demanding to see Rich's death certificate and unreleased body-camera footage obtained by Metropolitan Police Department officers at the scene of the murder.
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Attention

London MP demands carrying acid be made a crime after 90-minute attack spree


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:58 UTC
London acid spree
© Sarah Cobbold / Reuters
Carrying corrosive fluids should be made a crime, an MP has said, after two men on mopeds went on an acid attack spree across London on Thursday night, inflicting "life changing" injuries.

The Metropolitan Police say two teenagers have been arrested as a major investigation into the series of attacks that took place in less than 90 minutes is launched. The assaults appear to be linked, and two of the victims had their mopeds stolen, police added.

A 32-year-old man on a moped was left with facial injuries in Hackney after another moped with two male riders pulled up alongside him and threw a corrosive substance in his face.

One of the men stole his moped and the other drove away on the vehicle they arrived on. Police said the victim had gone to an east London hospital and they are awaiting an update on his injuries.

Little more than 20 minutes later, another victim was sprayed with the liquid in Islington. He was taken to a hospital in north London.

About 15 minutes after that, an attacker targeted another man in Shoreditch High Street. His injuries are not life-threatening, police said.

Comment: See also: 83 acid attacks reported this year in London, LBC finds

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Biohazard

Fracking waste contaminates Penn. watershed with radioactive material and carcinogens


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:08 UTC
PA fracking
© Les Stone / Reuters
Stream sediments in Pennsylvania downstream from two fracking wastewater treatment facilities were found to contain radioactive material and carcinogens, according to study scientists from Penn State, Colorado State and Dartmouth universities.

The study's findings, published Thursday, came after Penn State's Bill Burgos and his fellow scientists sought to discover what had been the effect of the strategy of treating and releasing fracking wastewater, according to the Independent.

They sampled sediments and groundwater from the Conemaugh River water, downstream from two facilities that were created to make the water used in the fracking process fit for release into the environment.
"Isotopic ratios of 226Ra/228Ra and 87Sr/86Sr identified that peak concentrations of Ra and Sr were likely sourced from wastewaters that originated from the Marcellus Shale formation," according to the study Watershed-Scale Impacts for Surface Water Disposal of Oil and Gas Wastewater in Western Pennsylvania.

Comment: See also: Study finds little oversight in use of hazardous chemicals in routine unregulated oil and gas operations

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Pistol

5 policemen shot dead in Egypt security checkpoint ambush


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:49 UTC
Egypt border guard
© Amr Dalsh / Reuters
Masked gunmen opened fire on a security checkpoint south of Cairo, Friday morning killing five policemen before fleeing the scene. Authorities are currently searching the surrounding countryside for the assailants.

The attack occurred in the al-Badrasheen area of Giza province, 30km (20 miles) south of Cairo, according to the Interior Ministry.

Two officers and three conscripts were killed in the attack.

No group has yet claimed responsibility but Egyptian forces have been battling Islamic State insurgents in the northern Sinai region. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for multiple attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt this year as part of their North Sinai offensive.
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