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Man accused of brutally killing 2 women, burning house down after 'hearing voices'


Fox 8
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:54 UTC
Matthew Leupold
Matthew Leupold
A Washington state man is accused of brutally killing two women, decapitating them and then trying to set a house on fire to hide the evidence.

Pierce County prosecutors said 32-year-old Matthew Leupold attacked the women during a drug binge at a house in Tacoma's Lincoln District, according to KCPQ-TV.

Leupold was charged Wednesday with two counts of aggravated murder and one count of first-degree arson after he allegedly told police that he "heard voices" telling him to kill Theresa Greenhalgh, 31, and Mary Buras, 22, in the middle of the night Jan. 4.

Lindsey Leupold, Matthew's sister, was charged with first-degree rendering criminal assistance in the case.
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Bullseye

Cheating wife stages home invasion to frame husband

Matthew Hendrickson
Chicago Sun-Times
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:43 UTC
Mehwish Memon and Syed Hassan
© Cook County sheriff's officeFrom left: Mehwish Memon and Syed Hassan
A woman and her ex-boyfriend have been charged with multiple felonies after they allegedly staged a home invasion last year in northwest suburban Maine Township and planted marijuana and a dead dog in her husband's vehicle.

Mehwish Memon, 30, of the 9400 block of Bay Colony Drive in unincorporated Des Plaines; and Syed Hassan, 38, of the 2800 block of South King Drive in Chicago, were each charged Tuesday with home invasion, aggravated unlawful restraint and filing a false police report, police said.

About 11:20 p.m. Dec. 30, 2016, sheriff's police responded to Memon's home for a report of a home invasion, according to a statement from the Cook County sheriff's office. Investigators were told a man in a black ski mask who was armed with a gun forced his way into the home. The gunman punched Memon in the face and tied up her 32-year-old husband with packaging tape before beating him with a stick.

Investigators eventually determined Hassan was the masked intruder and Memon planned the home invasion with him, police said.
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Actor Zoe Saldana speaks out: Hollywood bullied Trump

Frankie Taggert
Yahoo News
Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:33 UTC
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© @deadlineDominic/Twitter/Associated PressOn October 26, 2016, man armed with a sledgehammer and a pick-ax destroyed Donald Trump’s oft-vandalized Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
It isn't an opinion heard frequently in the famously liberal Hollywood, but sci-fi queen Zoe Saldana has spoken out against the acting community for bullying abrasive Donald Trump.

The Star Trek, Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy star -- who is not a supporter of the Republican president-elect -- believes insults flung at him during the race for the White House turned off much of middle America.

"We got cocky and became arrogant and we also became bullies," the 38-year-old actress said of Trump, who has been frequently berated himself for bullying tactics, including seemingly mocking a reporter with disabilities.

"We were trying to single out a man for all these things he was doing wrong... and that created empathy in a big group of people in America that felt bad for him and that are believing in his promises."

Saldana's analysis echoes comments made by Hawaiian-born Australian actress Nicole Kidman, who told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show this week it was time Americans got behind Trump, who takes office on January 20.

"I just say he's now elected and we as a country need to support whoever's the president because that's what the country's based on. However that happened, he's there, and let's go," Kidman said.

Comment: She is absolutely right. It's refreshing to see a non-Trump supporter express some common sense.

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Pistol

Bizarre cluster of deaths strike soldiers assigned to Fort Hood Army base; 12 dead in 2 months

Ariel Zilber
Daily Mail
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 15:01 UTC
Fort Hood
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The United States Army launched an investigation on Friday into the mysterious death of a soldier who was found unresponsive at his post on the Fort Hood base - the latest in a string of nearly a dozen deaths of soldiers serving in the massive Texas encampment.

Sgt. Alex Mathew Dean Taylor, 23, a soldier assigned to the 15th Military Intelligence Battalion, was found dead while on duty, according to Stars and Stripes.

Taylor had enlisted as an aviation operations specialist.

The army released no information about the circumstances of Taylor's death.

'At this point in the investigative process we do not suspect foul play, but have not completely ruled it out while we conduct a complete and thorough death investigation,' a spokesperson for the Army Criminal Investigations Command said.

Taylor was a decorated soldier, having earned numerous commendations during his service, including the Army Commendation Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Aviation Badge, and the Air Assault Badge.
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Family

Who's Your Daddy? Man ordered to pay child support despite not being father


5News KFSM
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:19 UTC
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A man in Oklahoma is hoping to change the law after he has to continue to pay child support for a baby that is not his, according to our affiliate KOTV.

When Thomas' high school girlfriend got pregnant, he married her. Five months later she had a little boy and he believed he had a son, but their marriage fell apart.

Thomas decided to take a paternity test when the boy was three years old.

"It comes back zero percent. I was in my office and I saw that. I should've expected it but I didn't and it hit me. I'm telling my co-worker how shocked I am that someone could do this to someone," he said.

Comment: See also: Man who was proven not to be father still faces jail time over unpaid child support

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Slaughterhouses across France to install cameras after shocking videos of animal cruelty


RT
Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:35 UTC
Camera
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All slaughterhouses across France will be equipped with CCTV cameras next year, the country's parliament voted, after the emergence of numerous shocking videos of animal cruelty in the facilities.

The cameras are to be installed "in areas where the animals are delivered, kept, immobilized, stunned, and slaughtered," the MPs ruled late on Thursday.

The deputies voted 28-4 in favor of relevant amendments to be made to a bill on animal cruelty.

In September, the France's National Assembly has issued a report, which suggested 65 measures to improve the "transparency and the inadequate controls" at French abattoirs.

Setting up CCTV cameras and providing more qualified veterinarians at the facilities, in particular during stunning and killing, were among the top proposals on the list.
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Attention

Norwegian school takes five-year-old children to see reindeer being slaughtered


RT
Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:11 UTC
A group of reindeer
© Granstubben Barnehage / Facebook
Preschoolers in Norway took a break from learning their ABCs to watch reindeer being slaughtered and skinned in a move which school says was aimed at teaching them about indigenous peoples who herd the Arctic animals.

Though they're just learning to read and write, the administration of Granstubben Barnehage preschool believed their five-year-old students were ready to see Santa's sleigh-pullers be murdered right in front of their eyes.

A video posted on the school's Facebook page showed the children on the field trip, first viewing the reindeer while they were still alive.


The pictures later turned more gruesome, with one showing a dead reindeer turning the powdery white snow blood red. Another image showed a child dragging a reindeer skin across the snow.

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Ambulance

British Red Cross warns of humanitarian crisis as severely overcrowded NHS hospitals unable to cope with demand

Katie Forster
The Independent
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
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© Press Association Bed shortages in some NHS hospitals are so severe more than 20 hospitals have issued a 'black alert'
Overcrowding in NHS hospitals has become so severe that last week more than 20 trusts issued 'black alerts', meaning they are unable to guarantee life-saving emergency care.

The top-level alert, considered a "serious incident" by NHS England, can result in scheduled operations being cancelled and patients being diverted to other hospitals as overflowing A&E departments struggle to cope.

At least 23 hospital trusts in England declared they were unable to manage demand last week, reported The Guardian.

In Leicester, patients were made to wait in ambulances until A&E staff were able to see them, according to the newspaper.

Comment: The head of the NHS recently warned that the the system was close to a breaking point because of its escalating cash crisis due to years of underfunding. Cuts to social care, mental health and public health have stretched the NHS to the limit.

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Bad Guys

Suspects detained by German police for having explosives may be linked to neo-Nazi terrorist group


RT
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 11:38 UTC
german neo-nazis
Two suspects detained with 155 kilograms of pyrotechnic explosives may have links to a neo-Nazi terrorist group, German DPA news agency reported, citing a local prosecutor's office. One reportedly had an explosive device bearing a swastika and SS signs.

The explosives were found in a private flat in Lauterecken in western Germany on December 29. A local prosecutor's office said the suspects may belong to a neo-Nazi group called the 'Oldschool Society,' DPA reports.

In addition to the explosives, investigators found an improvised explosive device bearing a swastika and SS runes, according to the report.

The detention of the two men and seizure of the pyrotechnic explosives was reported earlier in January by the prosecutor's office itself. One suspect was caught with 110 kilograms of the material, and the other with 45, according to their statement, which stressed that the priority of the investigation was to find out if they had connections to far-right extremists.
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Handcuffs

Map shows locations of underground sex-slave bars in the United States

Tim Rogers
Fusion
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:32 UTC
sex slaves, human trafficking
© Polaris/PalantirThis map shows all sex trafficking cases, including cantinas, with a Mexico or Central America nexus, based on Polaris-operated hotline data.
Jessica was halfway into her teenage years when the dashing stranger with a silver tongue came to town. The older man singled out Jessica from all the other girls and approached her with a mouthful of promises: A new home, a loving family, money, education—and, most importantly, a way out of her small town in Mexico.

So Jessica packed her bag and followed the pied piper out of town. Shortly after giving birth to their first son, Jessica and her older suitor arrived in New York City with plans to get married and start a new life together. Or so she thought. That's when Jessica's American Dream went horribly sideways.

The man quickly became physically and emotionally abusive, Jessica would later tell counselors. He isolated her from everyone else and forced her to start working seven days a week in cantina bars that doubled as brothels.

Jessica, whose last name has been withheld to protect her identity, didn't realize it at first, but her "courtship" had really been a targeted recruitment by a skilled sex-trafficker. The headhunter had not come to town looking for a wife, rather a victim for the skin trade. And like most so-called padrotes, or Lothario-type recruiters who lure small-town teens into trafficking situations with false promises of romance, work and money, he was playing the long game.
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