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Woman keeping 200 dogs, 32 horses arrested on animal-cruelty charges, sheriff's office says

Robert Allen
Detroit Free Press
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 19:15 UTC
dog in snow
A woman keeping more than 200 dogs, 32 horses, five cats and two peacocks was arrested this week on animal cruelty charges in southern Michigan, the Lenawee County Sheriff's Office reports.

Sharon Kay Evans, 53, was allegedly keeping the animals in "extremely poor" and life-threatening conditions on rural farm property on the 8800 block of Shepherd Road, according to a news release from the sheriff's office. Investigators searched the property Wednesday and found that some of the animals were kept outside "in little cages throughout the yard," horses were in an unheated barn with their water frozen and "kind of feces everywhere," Undersheriff Troy Bevier said.
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Arson suspected in blaze at home of Roy Moore accuser, investigators say fire unrelated to Moore or allegations


RT
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:45 UTC
Judge Roy Moore
© Reuters
The home of a woman who accused Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual harassment has burned down in what is being investigated as a possible arson attack.

Tina Johnson, who alleged in November that Moore groped her in his office in 1991, said Friday that her house in Gadsden, Alabama had burned down on Tuesday morning. None of the family were home at the time of the fire.

The local fire department extinguished the blaze, but Johnson says her home and all of her belongings are destroyed. "I am devastated, just devastated," Johnson told AL.com Friday morning. "We have just the clothes on our backs."

Comment: It will be interesting to see what the investigation reveals - Tina Johnson has a rather unstable background, to say the least.

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Cryptocurrency crime wave may be ahead


RT
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 19:05 UTC
It's never been a more bullish time for crypto investors. Despite the recent correction, the army of digital currencies led by bitcoin demonstrated incredible growth in 2017. But their rise in value could trigger a crime tsunami.

cryptocurrency
© Global Look Press
Along with the unprecedented surge in value, cryptocurrencies saw an equally unprecedented number of controversies. In December, the US Securities and Exchange Commission acted for the first time to halt a fast-moving Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraud that had raised up to $15 million from thousands of investors by promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month. The same month, leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase suspended trading due to suspicions of insider dealing.
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#MeToo strikes again: Chairman of Alabama newspaper resigns after accusations of spanking female staff members


The Anniston Star
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
H. Brandt Ayers, Anniston Star chairman

H. Brandt Ayers

H. Brandt Ayers, former publisher of The Anniston Star, resigned his role as chairman of the board of directors of the company that owns the newspaper Thursday, after a series of allegations against him.

"It is of utmost importance to me that this newspaper continue to serve its role of reporting on matters of concern to the Anniston community and that nothing stand in the way of preserving the newspaper as an independently owned publication serving this community," Ayers wrote. "I feel my resignation at this time is in the best interests of the paper and its mission."

Ayers, known nationwide as one of the few Southern newspapermen who openly supported racial integration in the 1960s, fell from public grace this week after a former reporter, Veronica Pike Kennedy, accused him of spanking her, against her will, in The Star's newsroom in the 1970s. Other women, who have asked that their names not be used, told The Star similar stories of spankings.

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Suspected Kosovo organ-trafficker, wanted person since 2010, arrested in Cyprus


RT
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 05:50 UTC
Pristina, Kosovo
© Hazir Reka / Reuters
Pristina, Kosovo
A man suspected of trafficking in human organs has been arrested in Cyprus. Israeli national Moshe Harel faces extradition to Kosovo, where he is accused of luring kidney donors from Turkey and the ex-Soviet Union a decade ago.

Harel is accused of promising up to $14,500 in payment to donors, with the extracted organs reportedly being sold on to mainly Israeli recipients for as much as $120,000. Some donors were reportedly never paid.

Interpol and Russia had issued international arrest warrants for Harel. His extradition is now being requested by the authorities in Kosovo - a province of Serbia that declared independence in 2008, but remains unrecognized by the UN and a number of countries, including Cyprus.

"Based on an international arrest warrant the suspect M.H. was arrested a few days ago in Cyprus. He has been a wanted person since 2010," Baki Kelani, a spokesman for Kosovo police, told Reuters.

Comment: See also: ISIS jihadists sell sex slaves on Facebook, hundreds of women held captive and traded by the terror group

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Natural gas prices in NYC nearly triple in 1 day due to storm


Sputnik
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:47 UTC
125th street NYC
© REUTERS/ Mike Segar
125th street NYC
Natural gas prices in New York City have spiked nearly three times in a single day due to a powerful winter storm and sustained cold weather, US Energy Information Administration said in a press release on Friday.

"Prices for January 5 settled at about $83/million British thermal units (MMBtu) in Boston and about $140/MMBtu in New York City (NYC), up 128% and 173% from the January 4 prices," the release stated.
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'Particularly heinous': Pennsylvania police chief charged with sex crimes with a minor


RT
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 07:40 UTC
Leechburg police
© TribLIVE / YouTube
Leechburg, Pennsylvania Police Chief Michael Diebold, who gained national attention after losing part of his arm in a fireworks accident last summer, has been arrested and charged with various sex crimes.

Diebold, 40, was arrested on Friday at a designated meeting location in Westmoreland County by agents belonging to the state attorney general's Child Predator Section and booked on charges of unlawful contact with a minor and criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, after he attempted to meet with a 14-year-old girl, the state attorney general's office said Friday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

The state attorney general's office stated that Diebold sent inappropriate photos and solicited sexual contact from an undercover agent posing as the 14-year-old girl.

The police chief's arrest was still being processed into the late hours of Friday afternoon, and a criminal complaint is not yet available, according to the Post-Gazette.
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New US customs guidelines prohibit agents from accessing remote data on electronic devices


RT
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:22 UTC
cars at border crossing
© Jorge Duenes / Reuters
In response to a nearly 60 percent spike in searches of electronic devices, customs agents are now prohibited from accessing information that is not stored on the device itself, such as cloud data.

US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) issued a new policy directive on Friday that creates a distinction between "basic" and "advanced" searches of electronic devices. A basic search involves reviewing the content of phone, while an advanced search involves connecting the device to external equipment to review, copy or analyze the contents.
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Man placed on sex offenders' register for grabbing Tinder date's breasts during sex has conviction quashed


RT
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:11 UTC
court gavel
© iStock
A medical student who was placed on the sex offenders' register after having consensual sex on a Tinder date has had his name cleared. The 37-year-old man was taken to court for grabbing his date's breasts during sex.

Philip Queree met the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on the Tinder dating app and had what he called "rough" sex on their second date. He was later taken to court for grabbing her breasts too hard during sex.
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Toronto: Plane wing catches fire after two-jet collision at airport

Chris Baynes
The Independent
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:43 UTC
sunwing plane
© AFP/Getty Images
The Sunwing plane caught fire after colliding with Westjet flight.
An airliner's wing burst into flames after colliding with another jet at Toronto's Pearson Airport, causing the emergency evacuation of 168 passengers.

Dramatic footage filmed from inside one of the aircraft showed passengers screaming as the blaze broke out on the other plane, which was being towed by ground crew.

One firefighter was taken to hospital after being injured responding to the collision between the the two planes, operated by Canadian airlines Sunwing and Westjet.

Calgary-based Westjet said it had received unconfirmed reports of "minor injuries" following the incident but that all 168 passengers and six crew members on board its flight were safe and accounted for.

The jet, a Boeing 737-800, was waiting to proceed to the gate when its wing was clipped by the other plane at 6.20pm on Friday.
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