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School worker caught on camera tossing puppies over fence
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MARSHALL, TX (WPVI) --
A school worker in Marshall, Texas, is on administrative leave because he was caught on camera tossing puppies over a fence, reports television station KSLA.
Paul Smith, 61, is charged with animal cruelty. Police say he tossed the five, three-week old puppies on to the Humane Society property.
"It appears the man was trying to do the right thing, of getting the animals to the proper place to take care of them," said Captain John Best with the Marshall Police Department. "But the manner he went about it was wrong."
The five puppies all seem to be OK. They'll be up for adoption in about a month.
One third of households making more than $75,000 live paycheck to paycheck
Close to one in three households earning more than $75,000 a year live paycheck-to-paycheck at least some of the time, according to a survey released Thursday by SunTrust Bank. More than one in four households earning more than $100,000 a year said the same.
The study showed that even households with middle-class earnings can struggle to save. When it came to retirement savings, 43 percent said they’re not saving enough or aren’t sure if they’re on track to have a large enough nest egg.
Granted, some of those low saving rates are due to poor spending habits. Of those who said they weren’t saving as much as they could, 44 percent said it was because they were spending too much money on leisure. For millennials, that jumped up to 71 percent.
The biggest culprits: 68 percent of people said they spent too much on going out to eat, 37 percent said they did too much shopping, and 35 percent said they overspent on entertainment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2015/04/16/one-third-of-households-making-more-than-75000-live-paycheck-to-paycheck/
officer resembled a "football player kicking a field goal", LAPD won't release "horrific" video
Beck acknowledged the public interest in viewing the footage of the Oct. 16 incident -- which was captured by a security camera posted on a South L.A. building -- but said Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey "has been very, very clear that she does not want that video out there."
Releasing the footage before the officer's trial, Beck said, could taint the jury pool or "otherwise interfere" with the case.
"My desire here is justice," Beck told reporters Tuesday. "I know that there are other things that could be met by the release of the video. ... But I want to get justice. And I think that's what this city deserves."
Beck's comments came a day after Officer Richard Garcia was charged with assault for using what prosecutors described as unlawful force when arresting Clinton Alford Jr. last fall.
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One source called the video "horrific." Another said the officer resembled a "football player kicking a field goal."
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-beck-video-lapd-assault-20150421-story.html
US Marshall goes berzerk. wrestles away woman's cell phone and smashes it
Following a brief struggle the man - later identified as a deputy U.S. Marshal - grabs her cell phone, throws it to the ground and then kicks it away in a fit of rage.
As the man returns to his previous position, the woman is seen scrambling for her phone.
She then turns to the woman across the street who has been recording the incident and asks: 'Did you record that?'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3049078/Deputy-Marshal-captured-video-snatching-camera-woman-s-hands-smashing-sidewalk-biker-gang-bust.html#ixzz3XygxKDse
police beating caught on tape April 9th - 650k settlement today
$650,000 Settlement For Man Beaten By Deputies After Horse Chase In SoCal County
April 21, 2015 12:12 PM
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/21/650000-settlement-for-man-beaten-by-deputies-after-horse-chase-in-socal-county/
SAN BERNARDINO (CBS SF)– A California county has approved paying a $650,000 settlement to avoid a lawsuit by a man whose beating by deputies after a horse chase was captured on video.
San Bernardino County spokesman David Wert said county supervisors approved the settlement with 30-year-old Francis Pusok in a closed meeting on Tuesday.
Pusok’s arrest was recorded by a TV news helicopter and has led to an FBI civil rights investigation and 10 deputies being placed on leave pending an internal probe.
Wert says the agreement would settle all potential claims from Pusok’s April 9 arrest.
Student Loan Debt is Being Increasingly Defined by Older and Low Income Borrowers
The New York Fed last week released research on the student loan market which found that aggregate loan balances has increased steadily, even during the credit deleveraging of the Great Recession, when the balances of other household debt types declined.
While student debt has historically been held by younger borrowers, the balances held by borrowers of all age groups have increased "The fastest growth has been in balances held by borrowers over age sixty," the Fed's report said, "which increased 850% between 2004 and 2014. In 2004, 25% of student debt was held by borrowers over age 40. That share went to 35% by 2014. This change occurred primarily as a result of increases in the number of borrowers over forty, which grew at nearly double the pace of younger borrowers.”
During the Great Recession, people from all walks of life fled the job market for higher ed, from career colleges to post-doctoral studies. Since they a return to the workforce has been noted.
"Although both the aggregate outstanding student loan balance and the number of individuals with outstanding student debt have been increasing steadily, we have recently seen a decrease in the number of active borrowers—borrowers originating new loans in each year," said the New York Fed report, which was written jointly by Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally and Wilbert van der Klaauw. "The number of active student loan borrowers peaked in 2010, at about 12 million, and is now down to about 9 million. This divergence in increasing aggregate balances and decreasing numbers of active borrowers stems from the low repayment rates."
https://www.mainstreet.com/article/student-loan-debt-is-being-increasingly-defined-by-older-and-low-income-borrowersi
Bear cubs orphaned by Russian poachers flourish in new homes after being rescued from starvation
Paws up if you think I’m cute! Bear cubs orphaned by Russian poachers flourish in new homes after being rescued from starvationSpring in Russia means increase in bear cubs being rescued as hunters kill their mothers
Some are found wandering alone in the wild, while others are left at sanctuaries and zoos
Mitya the bear waves a tiny fluffy paw as one of his carers at a Vlativostok animal park tells his tale.
The little cub was found abandoned outside the city's circus in February, and was taken to Sadgorod Zoo.
He is one of many bear cubs rescued by special groups across Russia this spring, often after illegal hunters kill their mothers.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3046887/Paws-think-m-cute-Bear-cubs-orphaned-Russian-poachers-flourish-new-homes-rescued-starvation.html#ixzz3XuVL07Xu
prosecutor apologizes in person to innocent man he locked up for 30 years
'I can't forgive you': Tense moment terminally ill man, 65, who spent 30 years on death row for a murder he didn't commit met the former prosecutor who put him there
Marty Stroud admitted in a letter published in a Louisiana newspaper last month that he was to blame for putting Glenn Ford behind bars in 1983
Stroud: 'I was not as interested in justice as I was in winning'
Ford, now 65, was freed a year ago after evidence emerged showing he was not at the scene of the murder and has since been living on donations
He has also been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and has months to live
Stroud visited Ford's home to apologize to him face-to-face but Ford told him he was not able to forgive him
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'The audacity of the state's effort to deny Mr. Ford any compensation for the horrors he suffered in the name of Louisiana justice is appalling.'
Ford was accused of shooting Isadore Rozeman, a Shreveport jeweler and watchmaker for whom Mr Ford had done occasional yard work, in 1983 and was convicted the following year.
He was sent to prison, where he lived with little light or heat, while Stroud, who had been with the Caddo District Attorney's office for two years, went out to celebrate by having drinks with his team.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3047420/Emotional-moment-innocent-man-65-spent-30-years-death-row-meets-former-prosecutor-there.html#ixzz3XsnxpI4T
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drug shows early promise for advanced lung cancer
Source: us news
SUNDAY, April 19, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug that boosts the immune system's cancer-fighting potential is showing early promise for some patients with advanced lung cancer.
The drug, marketed as Keytruda, was recently approved in the United States for treating advanced melanoma, but is not yet approved for lung cancer.
Still, experts were encouraged by preliminary findings reported Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In a study of nearly 500 patients with advanced lung cancer, those with high levels of a particular protein in their tumor cells responded well to the drug, researchers reported.
Close to half of these patients saw their tumors shrink, and so far, the effect has typically lasted beyond a year
Read more: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2015/04/19/drug-shows-early-promise-for-advanced-lung-cancer
Fla. woman filmed parole officer raping her during home visit:
Adding to the woman’s terrifying ordeal, she told police that her daughter was in the next room.
"The victim said, 'This is rape. This is rape. I don't want you to do this,'" Coral Springs Police Lt. Joe McCue recalled her words heard in the video to WSVN.
"Unfortunately, she was in fear that if she reported this, he would violate her probation and put her back in jail," McCue said.
Bailey was fired from the Florida Department of Corrections on Wednesday, where he had worked for more than25 years.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fla-woman-records-parole-officer-raping-cops-article-1.2168673
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