[News9] At least 12 people were shot and one killed in a deadly shootout early Saturday at an event center in southwest Oklahoma City, police confirmed to News 9.
Two adults have been arrested in connection to a deadly shooting that happened at an event center in southwest Oklahoma City around 12:30 a.m., according to police. Police
At least 14 people were shot and one killed in the deadly shootout, police confirmed.
The incident happened during a Halloween party at Patty's Event Center near 59th Street and South Agnew Avenue.
Oklahoma City Police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn said that shots were fired both inside and outside of the venue and that one person was killed. Two victims are in critical condition.
Police have confirmed there was no security at the party.
Police confirm all 12 people who were injured were shot; that number does not include anyone who fell or was hurt trying to get away.
Multiple people have been detained in connection with the shooting, and police are interviewing several witnesses. There are no suspects in custody yet.
DAVISBORO, Ga. (Gray News) - A sheriff’s office found drugs during Helene cleanup and wants to return the items to their owner.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said deputies found the drugs while clearing off Highway 231 near Washington State Prison in Davisboro, Georgia.
Authorities said they found marijuana, prescription medication and THC-infused candy. "If you would like to claim ownership of these packages, please come see us."
#2
I am advised by my inlaws in Asheville MC to not visit [Apocalypse Tourism]. They have gathered disadvantaged neighbors and friends to their hilltop home. Openfire cooking of freezer contents and neighborhood BBQ. Plenty of firewood.
Two hour travel to a standing hotel with vacancies so they have no room. Overbooked with rescue workers, firemen, power workers, patriots.
They have food, and gas for cars and generators in 55gal drums delivered by nephew via Deuce.5 for coffee and microwave service. Charging cell phones in car or by inverter. No water so no hot water.
Buried gas station tanks are flooded. Huge contamination downstream.
Water infrastructure destroyed, Army CoE planning to pump from Lake Lure. Some weeks away.
Power poles and cell towers down. Easy power fixes, breakers and line splicing underway. Pole replacement under advisory. Pole inventory is slim, overwhelmed by demand or washed away.
Churches as shelter, OK. Feed stations, not so much. Keeping their money for reconstruction.
Mission Hospital is full. Triage underway.
My BiL, the Doctor, is on volunteer tour to the outcountry with NCNG and local with nephew's Deuce.5. They transport patients when they can but no place for them to go. Home dialysis is in trouble, no consumable supplies. Same with O2 for breathers. His medical practice was looted for drugs and picked over for supplies while still storming.
He's moved his office furniture to his basement. Exam beds for sleeping when his guests can, waiting room chairs for seating. No portable storage remaining.
Givens Estates, an elder retirement community in Asheville has no water or power and few attending employees, so no kitchen. Non-potable water is delivered for flushing, 3000 units. Families are encouraged to take the residents home. Some have nowhere to go. Many will die in place from age ailments, cold or despair. Dr. BiL moved his 97yo mother out, now in the basement with 3 other beds.
Rescue was reduced to recovery, now rubble search is over and small communities are being bulldozed for cleanup, and burial.
Send supply 'stuff' that doesn't require electricity. Blankets, quilts, robes, socks and more socks. Mountain nights down in the 40-50s. Sending money feeds the charities.
People need stuff: period supplies, ear swabs, TP, Keurig coffee makers [water is rationed, they were delighted with a pallet of canned water from Anheuser-Busch], tooth brushes and paste, cigarettes and lighters, candies, power bars, vitamins and food supplements, baby formula and diapers. Things you consume daily and throw away are unavailable.
Amazon is delivering multiple items in big box deliveries. Single items not so much. 'Next Day' is mostly next week. We have many items returned or canceled.
#5
Have my nephew checking the local emergency shelters and supply points now. Will post locations able to actually deliver items. So many are filled to brim with stuff, but unable to reach those in desperate need of items. They victims can't get to them.
Hello Nc Gov. Where is the NC national guard and its choppers?
#7
Disgusta is 99% up.
Many outlaying areas are screwed.
XFINITY opened its internet cell service for the public use.
Wrens, Millen, Valdosta, Ga & lower ga still about 50 % screwed.
Wally World and other Super Markets running out everything. Since over a 250k homes lost power for 3+ days and a lot food got trashed, which now needs restocking.
Skidmark: the Ohio Department of Wildlife has nest box plans with mounting instructions for three species of owls plus bats and other birds native to Ohio. See here.
They’re not the latest research (I know specifically that the bat houses should not have the bottom floor shown there), but they are considerably better than nothing. Oh, and bat houses will be very helpful to reduce the mosquito population next summer.
#13
Do you have any recommendations for groups we can donate to?
I can recommend The Salvation Army, they tend to show up early and stay late.
The red Cross only shows up when the media is there in force, when the media leave, so do the red Cross.
Salvation Army can use money, they actually spend most of it helping people mostly feeding them, sheltering then (in large tents and empty building they rent for the purpose, etc.) and so on.
I donate to the salvation army, but I also donate clothes and stuff that they can use.
[FoxNews] Sheriff will not allow 'criminal element' into evacuation shelters during Hurricane Milton
A Florida sheriff went viral on X for declaring that criminals with outstanding warrants would be arrested at the entryway of Hurricane Milton evacuation shelters and sent to the county jail for immediate processing.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly announced during a briefing that he has no tolerance for relaxing law enforcement's activities against the "criminal element," even during a hurricane.
"Anyone that comes in will be checked to make sure they're not a fugitive and not a sex offender," he said at the briefing. "If you are a predator, you are not allowed in the [sic] shelter. If you are a designated a sex predator in a court of law, you'll need to go to… the county jail," he said.
He explained in an interview with Fox News Digital that people with outstanding warrants will be arrested at the evacuation shelter. Sex predators, even if they do not have outstanding warrants, should go directly to the county jail, where they will be housed behind bars, until after the storm.
"Anybody that comes in is checked through a state national database to make sure that they are or not a sex predator or sex offender or a fugitive criminal element," he said.
"We want to be able to ensure that there's a safe environment, whether it's children with their parents, senior citizens, whoever, that we're not co-mingling them with inappropriate people. When it comes to sex predators, they are not allowed in our shelters that are open to the general public so they can go to our county jail and we will put them up in the fire of the jail. And when the storm is over, we'll unlock the door and push them out the door."
Florida sheriffs are known for their no-nonsense attitudes, particularly when it comes to criminals.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey has been considered "the most politically incorrect sheriff in the country" for his refusal to mince words when it comes to his dislike of criminals, whom he proudly refers to as "idiots" and "dirtbags."
Ivey is vocal on social media about his programs such as "Wheel of Fugitive," where he spins a wheel to determine who will get arrested that day. As for those who disagree with him blasting criminals publicly? The sheriff says they should "shut up."
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson encourages citizens to shoot to kill home invaders to save taxpayer money.
"If someone is breaking into your house, you're more than welcome to shoot. We prefer you to do that, actually," he said in 2022.
"If somebody gets killed during a home invasion, the odds of them re-offending are zero. And we like those odds." he said.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd infamously recommended shooting looters until they resemble "grated cheese."
"I’m highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns," Judd said in 2020. "I would highly suggest that if a looter comes into your home, breaks into your home while you’re there, to steal stuff, that you take your gun and you shoot him. You shoot him so that he looks like grated cheese."
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Just looked at the Florida power outages site. Late Friday there were still about 2M customers without power. As of this morning about 900k. Good job but still a ways to go and probably the last 50k or so will be the most difficult.
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From a link in Nn2N1’s post, it looks like they’ll have to repair/replace equipment before the last power hook-ups can be made, Lord Garth. But Florida is mostly rescued, so Governor DeSantis has already send the Florida National Guard to North Carolina to help there.
"BREAKING: Chinese quantum computer just cracked multiple SPN algorithms. This is way bigger than cracking the ENIGMA code. The future of encryption is at stake."https://t.co/ZhphtZIdjr
[FoxNews] The former students were allegedly taking pictures of military vehicles and other equipment
Five former University of Michigan students have been charged after they were caught allegedly covering up spying on a National Guard training center in Michigan for the People's Republic of China (PRC) while a training operation with the Taiwanese military was taking place.
The former students, all Chinese nationals, were confronted by a sergeant major of the Utah National Guard in August 2023 after midnight near a lake at Camp Grayling, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court Oct. 1.
They told the sergeant major they were with the media photographing a meteor shower and believed they were in a campground. They then took their belongings and left.
But four months later, one of the men, Renxiang Guan, was interviewed by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport before traveling to South Korea and China.
He told investigators he and others had taken a trip to northern Michigan to see shooting stars, but he was unable to recall where they went.
CBP officers then searched his electronic devices and found images of the Grayling Military Installation, including military vehicles and other equipment. The data from an external hard drive showed the photographs had been taken during the time that live firing exercises were taking place, around two hours before the sergeant major encountered the students.
The other four men were interviewed in March after arriving in Chicago on a flight from Iceland. They told investigators they too were in northern Michigan in August 2023, but it was to see a meteor shower, according to court documents citing the FBI.
WeChat messages in a group chat among the Chinese nationals discussed clearing photos from their cameras and phones.
They have been charged with giving false statements to investigators, conspiracy and the destruction and falsification of records as they tried to cover their tracks by deleting data.
The Chinese nationals remain at large and are understood to have returned to China, according to local reports.
That’s the piece we previously lacked.
The other four individuals are named as Zhekai Xu, Haoming Zhu, Jingzhe Tao and Yi Liang.
The students attended the university as part of a joint program with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. They graduated in May, according to the complaint.
Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., says the case exposes the serious threat the nation faces from Chinese spies.
[Rudaw] Two women of Kurdish descent are running in Belgium’s municipal elections, which are scheduled for Sunday.
Sayran Zawiteyi, originally from Duhok in the Kurdistan Region, is running in Leuven and Karine Rashidova, a Kurd born in the former Soviet Union, is a candidate in Asse .
"My party works on 25 points for the city’s municipality to benefit everyone," Zawiteyi, a candidate on the Christian Democratic and Phlegmish (CD&V) ticket, told Rudaw’s Hemin Abdullah during an episode of the Diaspora program.
Leuven is a university town, home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
"This is a city of students, which is why housing prices are very high," Zawiteyi said, adding that one of the most important issues she intends to work on is housing for low-income families and persons with special needs.
CD&V, a Phlegmish party based on Christian values, advocates for the importance of family, welfare, health, and equal income. The party has three ministers in the Belgian government and three in the Phlegmish government.
Rashidova is a 56-year-old woman of Kurdish descent. She has worked as an interpreter and chairs an association that promotes Kurdish-European cooperation.
"I have been working in the municipalities for the past 15 years, with much experience in law and working in the municipalities. If elected, I can work on issues that matter to the residents of Asse," Rashidova told Rudaw.
Rashidova is running on Team Burgemeester, an "alliance between our party, Christian Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... , and the Social Democrats. Our list is number nine, and we have 33 candidates. I am candidate number 15," she said.
The elections will be held on Sunday. Belgians will vote to elect local councils for 19 municipalities.
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The 2nd stage that landed in the ocean off of Australia nailed the landing site but still had some burn through on one set of fins. The newer starships waiting to launch have that fin pair moved. There is still one ship with the fins in the same place. I don't think they will try to land that one on the catch arms but the newer ones they may. They still need to fire the vacuum engines and play with the starship's (2n stage) movements in space so I can see dunking one more in the ocean then after those issues are solved landing the newer version 2 starship on land also.
That means all stages to earth.
There is the interstage that is thrown away currently. When block 2 boosters come online there will be no throw away bits of the rocket.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[News9] At least 12 people were shot and one killed in a deadly shootout early Saturday at an event center in southwest Oklahoma City, police confirmed to News 9.
DAVISBORO, Ga. (Gray News) - A sheriff’s office found drugs during Helene cleanup and wants to return the items to their owner.
...every time you hear the phrase 
