Former Republican State Senator Waives Right To Preliminary Hearing On Child Pornography Charges

Folmer was arrested September 17 and charged with possession of child pornography, sexual abuse of children and criminal use of a communication facility, Slate reported. Authorities were alerted that someone had downloaded images of child pornography from Tumblr. After an investigation, Folmer’s house was searched and the images in question were discovered on his phone. The criminal complaint says Folmer admitted to investigators that the images were his and that he “had been dealing with some personal problems....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 442 words · Steven Collins

Former Slam Dunk Champion Jason Richardson Retires From Nba

Despite signing a non-guaranteed contract with the Hawks in August, the two-time NBA slam dunk champion announced his retirement Wednesday night after 13 seasons. PHOTOS: Relive Air Canada’s best dunks | MORE: Zach LaVine dominates Seattle Pro-Am dunk contest | Wolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns throws down nasty between-the-legs slam Injury concerns reportedly played a role in the decision. A photo posted by J-Rich (@richboyz23) on Sep 23, 2015 at 6:23pm PDT...

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 126 words · David Durr

Former Speechwriter For Rudy Giuliani Calls Feds Raid Tragic Third Act To His Legal Career

John Avlon, a former Giuliani staffer, said he was “shocked” when he found out that federal investigators executed a search warrant against Giuliani and seized multiple electronic devices from both his office and home in New York City. “[The raid had] A real sense of the tragedy…given the trajectory of his career,” Avlon told CNN’s New Day on Thursday. “Before he was New York City mayor—when I worked for him and was proud to do so—he was a crusading U....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 583 words · William Watkins

Former Syracuse Forward B.J. Johnson Transferring To La Salle

According to ESPN, Johnson will now play for the La Salle Explores of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Johnson is a 6-7 forward who averaged 4.2 points and 3.2 rebounds per game, including a 19-point, six-rebound performance against Notre Dame in Februaury. MORE: Sweet 16 schedule | Realtime brackets contest | Ranking the Sweet 16 The decision to transfer comes weeks after the NCAA handed down harsh penalties to Syracuse. In addition, the announcment was made that head coach Jim Boeheim will retire in three years....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 110 words · Michelle Baylor

Former Teacher Pastor Arrested In Undercover Florida Human Trafficking Sting

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office announced the results of a 20-day undercover operation, entitled “Operation Round-Up” where “undercover detectives targeted criminals who attempted to prey upon minors, sought sex for themselves, or exploited victims through human trafficking,” the sheriff’s office said. The operation took place from August 4 to October 13, the sheriff’s office said. Two of the 125 suspects were identified as 38-year-old Joel Velasco, a former teacher at Hillsborough County Public School District and 44-year-old Samuel Phillips Jr....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 407 words · Dara Reece

Former Trump Appointee Federico Klein Faces New Charges In Connection With Capitol Riot

Klein was already accused of being in the “first wave” of the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol in an effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory. Prosecutors previously said that Klein ignored orders from officers protecting the Capitol and used a shield to block law enforcement from securing the entrance to the Capitol. But a newly posted indictment expanded the charges against the former midlevel aide in the State Department....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 446 words · Janice Moore

Former Trump Doctor Who Just Won Texas Gop Nomination Says Masks Are Personal Choice

“I think that wearing a mask is a personal choice, and I don’t particularly want my government telling me that I have to wear a mask. And so I think that’s a choice that I can make,” Dr. Ronnie Jackson, who served as physician to the president under both the Trump and Barack Obama administrations, said during an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends. “We know a lot about this virus now....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 439 words · James Schmidt

Former Ufc Fighter Josh Neer Posts Video Of Him Beating Up Internet Bully

According to Neer, who spoke with Bloody Elbow about the video, a man named Patrick Martin continued to insult Neer and MMA on Twitter and Facebook. over the weekend, Neer responded and challenged Martin, who Neer estimated was 6-6 and weighed 270 pounds, to come to Neer’s gym and fight him on Monday. MORE: Astonishing UFC photos | UFC Fight Night 61 results Martin accepted the challenge, and soon found out why Neer, who is 5-11 and weighs 171 pounds, gets paid to beat people up....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 217 words · Greg Aguirre

Former Wrestling Star Scott Hall To Be Taken Off Life Support Kevin Nash

Nash confirmed the news on Instagram Monday morning, stating that Hall’s life support will be discontinued “once his family is in place.” On Sunday, Hall, 63, suffered three heart attacks due to complications from hip replacement surgery in Marietta, Georgia, according to wrestling news outlet PWTorch. “I love Scott with all my heart but now I have to prepare my life without him in the present,” Nash wrote in his Instagram post....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 451 words · Thomas Richard

Fort Bliss Home To Thousands Of Unaccompanied Minors Also Housing 10K Afghan Evacuees

The Biden administration gave a media tour on Friday of Fort Bliss military base, where Afghans evacuated out of their country are being screened before beginning new lives in the U.S. Fort Bliss is also where thousands of children from Central American countries, who have been fleeing to the U.S. in record numbers without adults, are staying. The children will stay there until they are reunited with relatives in the U....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 479 words · Nadine Liu

Fortnite How To Survive A Storm

Just like PUBG, Call of Duty: Warzone, and all of the other similar battle royale titles of that ilk, Fortnite has a system in place to draw players closer together to force them into coming into contact. Every game, players must run to avoid the oncoming storm, signified by a series of dark clouds rolling in. The storm itself is actually a sentient being, and it’s a dangerous area that you must stay away from if you don’t want to die....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 477 words · Cheryl Jackson

Fortnite Brings Back Pump Shotgun In 9.30 Content Update

At the start of Season 9 in Fortnite, Epic Games made the shocking decision to get rid of the Pump Shotgun. Users were not happy with the news, and grew increasingly angry over the new Combat Shotgun because it became too OP. Also, the Tactical Shotgun was pretty much useless in gameplay, meaning if you didn’t get a Combat Shotgun, you weren’t winning most fights. Well, Epic Games listened and announced the return of the Pump Shotgun in its v9....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 585 words · Marilyn Wheatley

Found Family Mike Henneman Former Mlb Closer Connects With Seven Long Lost Siblings After Dna Tests

Turns out, Henneman told me, he only lived in St. Charles for a matter of days, maybe weeks. He was born at St. Joseph’s Hospital, then adopted through Catholic Charities of St. Louis by Bill and Shirley Henneman. They lived about 45 minutes south in Festus, and that’s where he was raised with his sister, Janet, who was also adopted by the Hennemans. As I digested that news and mentally pitched all of my St....

December 7, 2022 · 15 min · 3139 words · Randall Doyle

Four Centuries Of Drug Abuse

Since the Jamestown colonists first harvested tobacco in 1611, America has been afflicted by drugs but only occasionally conscious of it. As the nation slips into another period of denial and the drug issue disappears from the news, a Rochester, N.Y., museum has opened a chilling exhibit on the deep roots of substance abuse in American life. History-told in antique bottles, syringes, handbills and stills-becomes a succession of dangerous elixirs, each welcomed in its turn as a salvation from the disappointments of the last....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 475 words · Joel Weber

Four Chinese Warplanes Buzz Taiwan Radars In One Day

The air force scrambled interceptor jets to shadow three People’s Liberation Army Y-8s and one Y-9 as they flew sorties between southwest Taiwan and the Taiwan-controlled Dongshan Island, according to the Ministry of National Defense. An ADIZ allows a country to monitor foreign aircraft but, despite the zones’ widespread use, they are not recognized under international law. Chinese military planes—mostly reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft—have entered Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on 11 days this month, said the defense ministry....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 452 words · John Maier

Four German Healthcare Workers Hospitalized Following Covid Vaccine Overdose

Officials from the Vorpommern-Ruegen district said the doses were administered to eight employees, ranging from age 66 to 82, in a nursing home in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund on December 27. When the mistake was discovered, officials sent half of the employees home. However, the other half was sent to the hospital for observation after developing flu-like symptoms. “I deeply regret the incident. This individual case is due to individual errors,” said Stefan Kerth, a Vorpommern-Ruegen district administrator, in a statement published on December 28....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 379 words · Mary Harrell

Four In Four Out In Pursuit Of Playoffs Things Are About To Get Crazy Ier

Oregon can’t piece together an offensive line, and had another shaky performance on defense. MORE: Week 5 AP Top 25 | Coaches Poll | HAYES: Alabama is a work in progress Alabama tried to give away a game. Auburn is realizing its best player last year wasn’t quarterback Nick Marshall, it was tailback Tre Mason. How about that for four weeks into the first College Football Playoff season? Look at the bright side, everyone: this week begins the first full slate of conference play....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 619 words · Lowell Harrison

Four People Struck Killed While Changing Flat Tire On Florida Highway

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said the incident occurred just before 10 p.m. on the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 near Fruitville Road. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said in a release that a pick-up with a towing trailer was unoccupied and stopped on the inside of the highway’s paved shoulder because of a flat tire on the trailer. Seven men who had been in the truck were standing outside to help change the tire when a sedan veered into them....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 404 words · Rosa Torres

Four Premier League Clubs In London Connected With Historical Abuse

London’s police force revealed that five Football League clubs in the capital were also implicated. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) announced last week that investigations by 21 forces across the UK had “impacted” 98 football clubs. A number of ex-footballers, including former England international David White, have come forward in recent weeks to detail abuse suffered in their formative years in the game. Met Police’s detective chief superintendent Ivan Balhatchet of the Sexual Offence, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command said: “The Met take all allegations seriously, and specialist officers will work through the information passed to them....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 230 words · Linda Chavez

Four Things I Learned From Watching Monty Williams Speak At His Wife S Funeral

Never was that more evident than in the humility, strength and courage Thunder assistant coach Monty Williams exhibited when he stepped up to speak Thursday at the funeral of his wife, Ingrid, the mother of his five children, who died of injuries suffered in a car wreck a week ago. MORE: The 10 most important trade deadline deals | Trade deadline winners, losers Honestly, I have no idea how to look at what Williams did objectively, so I’m not going to attempt to do it....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 610 words · Geoffrey Buggs