GRAND LARCENY Anthony Giannattasio, age 27, residing at 551 Avalon Gardens Drive, Nanuet, NY, was sentenced April 17, 2013, before New York State Supreme Court Justice William A. Kelly to a state prison term of 3-9 years after pleading guilty to grand larceny in the second degree. District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe stated that on […]
Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have murdered his ‘only American friend’ in an unsolved triple killing two years ago, it emerged today. Brendan Mess had his ‘throat slit’ alongside two other men in a Massachusetts apartment in 2011 in what police described as a ‘very graphic crime scene’. Former associates of the Chechan immigrant didn’t […]
BOSTON (AP) — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by their religious faith but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating the severely wounded younger man. He was charged with federal crimes that could bring the death penalty. Dzhokhar […]
Will the media be losing its liberal slant? (NYTIMES) — Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged, 10-year strategy to shift the country toward a smaller government with […]
(Updated 10:30 a.m. 4/23/2013) CONFIRMED: African-American comedian Paul Mooney hurled racial insults at his audience Saturday at Levity Live in West Nyack, outrageously stating that white people in Boston deserved to be bombed, and as long as no blacks were injured in the attack, he was okay with it. It’s not clear the context preceding […]
Police are looking for a suspect who used a boat to access a Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear power plant Sunday morning and exchanged fire with a security guard on the plant grounds before fleeing downriver. The shootout occurred “several hundred yards from the site’s protected area, which houses the reactor and power production facilities,” TVA spokesman Jim […]