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In addition to the $45,000 indoor pool and nearly $55,000 in stained glass windows, the Rev. Jonathan Wehrle spent more than $134,000 on landscaping at his 10-acre (4-hectare) estate in Williamston and other properties, according to the lawsuit filed by Princeton Excess and Surplus Lines Insurance Corporation, which insures the Catholic Diocese of Lansing.
Wehrle faces six counts of embezzling $100,000 or more from St. Martha Church in Okemos, which is just east of Lansing and about 70 miles west of Detroit. Prosecutors allege that Wehrle spent the money on himself, including to build and maintain the estate.
Cops say they still have no evidence Jennifer and Sarah Hart deliberately drove their SUV off the road — but have noted that there were no skid or brake marks where the vehicle went over. Three of the kids' bodies had been found as of Thursday morning, while the others — including 15-year-old Devonte, whose image went viral after he was photographed tearfully hugging a white cop at a 2014 protest in Ferguson, Missouri — remain missing.

A truck drives by the pullout where the SUV of Jennifer and Sarah Hart was recovered off the Pacific Coast Highway, near Westport, Calif., Wednesday.
Officials say they tried unsuccessfully to reach the family three times to investigate — but the neighbors say the family fled when a CPS worker showed up at their door Friday.
The outrage on the left is reminiscent of the Mavi Marmara onslaught in 2010, when Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish aid ship trying to reach Gaza and killed nine of the aid volunteers. Even Israel supporters are already making this comparison- to an event that brought global condemnation/diplomatic embarrassment to Israel.
The Associated Press reports 1000 Palestinians injured by tear gas inhalation and from being struck by live rounds or rubber-coated bullets. The Times of Israel reports "scattered" protests on the West Bank.
Comment: The Independent has also done an excellent job detailing the protests:
By first light yesterday Palestinian preparations for the Gaza "Return March" seemed well underway: tents were being pitched all along the Gaza buffer zone and old men were arriving with banners proclaiming the names of their villages, from which they were expelled as children 70 years ago, never to return.
Palestinian factions in Gaza, including the ruling Hamas, had ordered that the demonstration be peaceful, insisting marchers to keep well back from Israel's barrier wall.
With 100 snipers positioned on the barrier, however, Israel's preparations were a show of brute force and soon after dawn an Israeli tank shell had killed Omar Samour, a Palestinian farmer with land near the buffer zone - the first Return March martyr but certainly not the last.
Israel's ruthless response to the Gaza's peaceful Return March should come as no surprise. The Israeli military justified the show of force on the grounds that Hamas might exploit the event in some way with acts of violence. But Israel's real fear of the "return marchers" runs far deeper. Nothing has ever frightened Israel more than the demands of Palestinian refugees for a right to return to their pre-1948 homes. And no group of refugees has a stronger case than those of Gaza who live within a few miles of their former villages.

FBI Police vehicles sit parked outside of the J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Building in Washington, US
"MPD [Metropolitan Police Department] stands behind its original assertion that Mr. Lesin's death was not a homicide," the MPD's press office said on Thursday in response to Sputnik's request for comment.
The case, which was officially closed in October 2016, began making the rounds again this week after Buzzfeed published an article on Tuesday, citing a "secret report" by the author of infamous "Trump Dossier," Christopher Steele. Steele, an MI6 spy-turned-private investigator, alleged that Lesin, a former minister and an ex-head of Gazprom-Media, was beaten to death by associates of a Russian oligarch that were close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The report, which claims to draw on "high-level sources in Moscow," was provided to the FBI, which, according to Buzzfeed, is covering up the true causes of Lesin's demise.
"Mubarak [Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president from 1981 to 2011], Ben Ali [Zine El Abidin Ben Ali, Tunisia's president from 1987 to 2011] asked for Gaddafi's help. He helped 'third world' countries: from Asia to South America. For instance, the French Foreign Ministry's budget constitutes 1 billion 700 million euros, 780 million of which is allocated to develop relations and help other nations. As for Libya, there was no definite sum for such aims ever," Missuri said.
The interpreter elaborated that Libya had helped everyone under various circumstances - natural calamities, famine, grasshopper plagues - sending medicine and planes. In the meantime, he added that if any head of state asked for help, Tripoli donated from half a million to five million dinars.

Photos provided by SDF on February 9, 2018, showing captured ISIS members Alexanda Kotey and Shafee Elsheikh.
El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Amon Kotey were allegedly part of a four-member Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS/ISIL) cell known as "The Beatles." The cell became known for its brutal execution videos of hostages, including American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley in 2014.
The cell's leader, Mohammed Emwazi, became known as "Jihadi John," and appeared in many of the group's videos, threatening the west from behind a mask. Emwazi was "evaporated" in a coalition drone strike in Raqqa, Syria in November 2015. Another member of the group, Aine Lesley Davis, was arrested in Turkey last year and sentenced to seven years in prison.
- Francho Bradley, 59, and Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested on Saturday
- At 3.40pm, he called police in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, from his car
- He said someone had broken into his hotel room at the Marriott Inn Residence
- Bradley had a surveillance feed linked up to a mounted laptop in his car, he said
- Police went to the hotel room and found five rifles, a shotgun, grenades, a handgun, a revolver and hundreds of rounds of ammunition
- They also discovered walkie-talkies, six laptops, four phones and thumb drives
- Bradley met them at the hotel with Adrianne, who has a history of mental illness
- A bomb squad was called to search the room as they were questioned outside
- He said he was working for a secret government agency on a 'virus'
- In the week beforehand, he received 3 parking tickets a mile from the site of Saturday's March For Our Lives protest in Boston

Francho Bradley, 59, and his common law wife Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested in Boston on Saturday after police found their enormous haul of weapons which included rifles with sniper scopes, grenades, handguns and revolvers in a hotel room on the day of the March For Our Lives Protest.
Francho Bradley, 59, and Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested at the Marriott Residence Inn in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, on Saturday after he called police to report someone breaking into his room.
He told police he was in his Jeep where he had surveillance video feed from his hotel room linked up to a laptop in his car but that it had suddenly cut out.
He said he worried someone had broken into the room and gotten their hands on his one weapon which he said he had hidden in a drawer.
Comment: This story doesn't make sense, but it has the same ingredients of the "mass shooting" stories - Mental illness, Lot's of Guns, claims of working for "Classified" Job, Actions that doesn't follow the "common sense" for the purported Crime etc.

Silhouettes of laptop and mobile device users are seen next to a screen projection of Google logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018.
Three current employees and two others helping to organize the group said it formed last fall. They said that among its proposals, which have not previously been reported in detail, are that Google should tighten rules of conduct for internal forums and hire staff to enforce them.
Facebook deleted account of Gaza-based Palestinian news agency Safa as part of a pro-Israeli policy to block and delete users accounts considered "inciteful." The agency is allegedly affiliated to the Palestinian political party Hamas; a claim Safa denies.
Safa's account was disabled along with the accounts of 10 of its editors Saturday, after 5 p.m local time. The agency's social media manager, who is keeping his identity secret, told the Jerusalem Post "We were totally surprised." The news agency didn't receive a warning or an explanation.
"We are now working to restore the account because 60 percent of the website's traffic comes through Facebook," the social media manager said. A reminder of Facebook's growing power in limiting or facilitating access to information.
Those trying to make sense of the Skripal poisoning will have their work cut out following the news which have been coming out about it over the past week.
Firstly, the British police have announced that they now believe that Sergey and Yulia Skripal came into contact with the deadly chemical which poisoned them because it was smeared onto their front door.
This announcement has come after weeks of speculation during which a bewildering range of competing theories explaining how the poisoning supposedly took place have appeared in the British media.











Comment: Behind the facade of caring liberal progressivism lies the dark shadow of resentment, lust for power, and authoritarian control.