Winchester, VA - Fox News reports that 44 year old 911 operator Creshanda Williams was found guilty and sentenced to ten days in jail, along with eighteen months of probation for having deliberately hung up on emergency calls she received while on duty. Records showed that there were thousands of calls lasting twenty seconds or less due to her having hung up on calls ranging from robberies, to homicides, to speeding […]
Winchester, VA - The Associated Press reports that in 2016, Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz had been recommended by both school officials and a sheriff's deputy for involuntary committal in order to undergo a mental evaluation. Incidentally, the sheriff's deputy who recommended this course of action is Scot Peterson, the same one who was videoed standing outside the school while the Valentine's Day massacre was taking place. Cruz could have […]
Winchester, VA - The Seattle Times reports that in an unusual move, PBS is launching a new conservative leaning talk show called “In Principle.” It originates from the WETA-TV studio right outside of Washington D.C., and will air on Friday nights for an eight week trial period, and then the station will decide whether or not to continue the series. “In Principle” will be hosted by Columnist Michael Gerson, who is […]
Winchester, VA - He was best known for his role as Marty Crane, the ratty chair loving father of snooty Frasier Crane in the sitcom Frasier. The BBC reports that beloved actor John Mahoney passed away yesterday at the age of 77 in a hospice center in Chicago due to complications of cancer. Mahoney was born in Blackpool, England, where his mother escaped to avoid Nazi bombing raids. He seriously got […]
Winchester, VA - Live Action reports that President Trump will be addressing the March For Life this Friday live via satellite from the White House Rose Garden. This will make him the first sitting president ever to address the March for Life live in its 45 year history. Other presidents have used pre-taped messages to address the March. Over 100,000 Americans are expected to travel to Washington D.C. from around the […]
Winchester, VA - NBC reports that NASA announced that astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first astronaut to fly freely and untethered in space, has passed away at the age of 80. In 1984 he was photographed flying in space, with his spacewalker's jetpack, traveling over 300 feet from the Challenger space shuttle. Of his experience, McCandless said to the Daily Camera in Boulder, “I was grossly over-trained. I was just anxious to […]
Winchester, VA - The New York Post reports that the Ohio execution of Alva Campbell, was called off yesterday after an unsuccessful attempt. Campbell had faked paralysis decades ago before overpowering a police officer, stealing his gun, carjacking an 18 year old, and driving with him for hours before shooting the boy in the head as he crouched in his truck. Ironically, Campbell's health problems are the reason his execution was […]
Winchester, VA - Two stories of arrests were in the news yesterday. One tragic, one bizarre. UPI reports that 2 human traffickers, identified by the Guardian as Al Mabrouc Wisam Harar from Libya, and Mohamed Ali Al Bouzid of Egypt, were arrested after the boats of the at least 150 people they were trafficking sank. Among the dead, 26 Nigerian girls aged 14 to 18, who were found when Spanish military […]
Winchester, VA - Yesterday we reported on the story of two women who had been rescued by the Navy after their planned 18 day trip from Hawaii to Tahiti turned into a 5 month adventure adrift at sea. The women, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava, met in late December 2016 and decided almost immediately to make the 18 day sea voyage to Tahiti, then to travel the South Pacific and return […]
Sermons culled from traditional Catholic priests according to the season.
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