It's like a scene from a horror film. Residents of a California city are being terrorized by people dressed as clowns, some reportedly wielding machetes or baseball bats, police said. "There's a natural phobia of clowns," Sgt. Joe Grubbs of the Bakersfield Police Department told ABC News today. "And, clearly, if someone is dressed up as a clown and holding a weapon in a threatening manner, that's going to frighten people." There have been 20 sightings in a week, but only one clown has landed in cuffs. Bakersfield police arrested one juvenile last week for allegedly chasing other juveniles while in a clown costume. The 14-year-old suspect, who wasn't armed, told police he was participating in a hoax he had seen online. Read the Entire Story HERE.
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Source: Blue Nation Review Author: Kayode Kendall Bullying in schools has become a major issue in this country in the last few years, and hearing stories of young teens so pressured by bullying that they resort to suicide is especially troubling. So it’s great when we see stories of teens who not only won’t stand for bullying, but will make sure whatever schemes the bullies may hatch to humiliate their peers don’t come succeed. When a few high school students in Grand Prairie, Texas planned on pranking classmate Lillian Skinner by telling her that she had been nominated for homecoming court when she really hadn’t, Lillian’s friends, homecoming nominees Anahi Alvarez and Naomi Martinez, decided to fight back. Both girls agreed, and cleared their idea with the school principal, that if either girl won, they would renounce their title to Lillian. When Anahi Alvarez won the title of homecoming queen, Lillian, who was taking pictures for the school yearbook, was presented with the homecoming crown in front of her entire class. As Grand Prairie High School Principal Lorimer Arendse stated:
“In all my time in school, this is probably the greatest moment I’ve ever experienced as a principal.” The three girls have been friends since 7th grade, and Naomi and Anahi had nothing but nice things to say about Lillian, especially her belief that a person’s inner beauty and goodness is more important than their outward appearance. It’s clear that Lillian Skinner has inspired her friends with that message, and hopefully, they’ll inspire others with their gesture of kindness for one of their best friends. BNR Contributor Kayode Kendall (@KenKRK) is a pop culture renegade (in his own mind), sure to know the names of every actor you can only describe as “Hey, it’s that guy from that thing!” Source: Raw Story Author: TRAVIS GETTYS A Texas man who admitted to killing his mother and raping her corpse clowned around for jurors who are considering his sentence. Kevin Davis pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder, just as his trial began. Prosecutors played a videotaped confession Tuesday to jurors, who heard the 18-year-old admit he tried to strangle Kimberly Hill with the power cord from a video game console on March 27, but when she did not stop screaming, he struck his mother’s head repeatedly with a hammer. Davis told investigators on the recording that he stuck his hand into the open wound and moved her brain around to make sure she was dead, reported KZTV-TV. Then, Davis told investigators, he raped his mother’s dead body. “Guess I lost my virginity to a dead corpse,” Davis said. Source: WBTV Author: Nancy Amons PORTLAND, TN (WSMV) -In Portland, TN, a towering billboard quotes a Leviticus passage from the Old Testament: "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. It is an abomination." Ronnie Monday, a Vietnam veteran, is the man behind the message. He commissioned the billboard and paid for it with donations from some friends. It has been up for four months. "When the president came out and indicated that he thought that gay marriage was OK, that was pretty much the last straw," Monday said. Chris Sanders is the executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, a group that supports gay rights. "It's a free country. The man has the right to put it up there. We're not questioning that; we're questioning whether it's the right message," he said. Source: Associated Press
PHOENIX - Authorities say dozens of teenagers got into a fight at the opening night of the Arizona State Fair in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Public Safety and Phoenix police were at the scene near 19th Avenue and McDowell on Friday night. Officers say they detained about 30 youths at the fairgrounds and released them to the custody of their parents. They say as many as 60 youths may have been involved and some fought with police. Two adults were also arrested, including a woman accused of kicking and hitting a police officer. Authorities could not say what started the fight. URFA, Turkey (CNN) — The petite 25-year-old tentatively opens the door to the hotel room where we’ve agreed to meet. Her face is covered, but her body language betrays her anxiety. She slowly lifts her niqab, revealing her young, heart-shaped face. Her large brown eyes, filled with guilt and turmoil, are delicately made up under perfectly sculpted brows. She calls herself ‘Khadija.’ It’s not her real name, because she’s a marked woman. Once a member of a fearsome, female ISIS brigade, she’s a recent defector, disillusioned by the group’s brutality. Her interview with CNN is the first time she has ever told anyone her story. Source: Red flag News
(by Norvell Rose, WCJ) -- After two years attending the same Oklahoma City mosque where accused beheader Alton Nolen worshipped, this man claims that he became convinced — convinced that the “religion of peace” actually promotes radical jihad. Calling himself “Noor,” the man went on “The Kelly File” to describe what he learned about the non-public teachings that may well have led to the radicalization of the beheading suspect in the brutal murder of a woman at a Moore, OK food processing facility. Source: Charisma
Author: MARY WISNIEWSKI/REUTERS Churchgoers often grumble that they always get hit with pleas for money. But congregants at a Chicago church this month got a surprise: They each received a check for $500, with instructions to go out and do something good with it. "I was just in disbelief," said Valency Hastings, 42, when she got her check from the nondenominational LaSalle Street Church on the city's near north side. "The enormity of the responsibility of it has begun to sink in." The money was the result of a real-estate windfall—back in the 1970s, LaSalle Street and three other local churches had helped support a multiethnic, multi-income housing development. An Army intelligence bulletin is warning U.S. military personnel to be vigilant after Islamic State militants called on supporters to scour social media for addresses of their family members – and to “show up [at their homes] and slaughter them."
The assessment, obtained by Fox News, came from the Army Threat Integration Center which issues early warnings of criminal and terrorist threats to Army posts worldwide. The advisory warns military personnel and their families about the Islamic State, or ISIS, calling on supporters to target their homes. Source: Huffington post By Yasmine Hafiz The United Kingdom government has banned the teaching of creationism as a scientific theory in free schools and academies, which are the equivalent of a 'public' school in the United States. The move was done in the interests of having a "broad and balanced curriculum," according to UPI. The remarkable decision was part of a document published on June 9th that laid outnew clauses for church academies and stated that creationism is not widely accepted as a scientific theory. |
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