A man who reportedly was “fed up” with his infant son’s crying bit the nose off the child.
Joshua Cooper, 18, also caused the child to suffer a fractured skill and a brain hemorrhage.
Doctors at North Bay Medical Center made the determination that the child’s nose had been severed after the baby was rushed in bleeding from the face. A full examination determined the other injuries.
The child was rushed to Oakland Children’s Hospital for his severe injuries.
Police took Cooper into custody and charged him with child cruelty and aggravated mayhem.
A new report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shows that as little as nine terrorists could take out the United States’ electrical grid for as much as 18 months.
The report says that on a hot summer day, a coordinated attack on just nine of the nation’s 55,000 electric-transmission substations would cripple the system to the point it would cause a nationwide blackout.
“This would be an event of unprecedented proportions,” Ross Baldick, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas told the Wall Street Journal.
The article in the WSJ comes a day after a report from a New Jersey utility oversight committee showed a serious lack of security at key electrical substations. The report also cited the April 2013 attack on a Pacific Gas & Electric transmission station that knocked out 17 transformers with shots from sniper rifles.
The memo from the FERC says the California attack shows “it does not require sophistication to do significant damage to the U.S. grid.”
The festive mood of Austin, Texas’s South By Southwest Festival has been destroyed after a drunk driver drove into a crowd of concertgoers.
The driver also struck a moped outside the concert venue and killed the couple riding it. The car then struck 23 people outside The Mohawk nightclub, with five critically injured.
Police say the suspect has to be subdued with a taser after ramming a van and then trying to flee on foot.
Officials said that the driver, who was obviously drunk, would face two counts of capital murder charges and at least 23 counts of aggravated assault. Should any of the five critically injured concertgoers die from their wounds, additional murder charges will be added to the indictment.
The section of Red River Street near the incident has been closed and the club canceled all events. No word on whether they will open tonight for any concerts or events.
An aggressive anti-Christian group that targets Christians in the military has taken aim at a cadet at the Air Force Academy who posted a Bible verse on the personal whiteboard outside his dorm room.
The cadet had posted Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ therefore I no longer live but Christ lives in me.”
The virulent anti-Christian Military Religious Freedom Foundation claimed they had received complaints from cadets and faculty & staff who said they were offended the Bible verse was posted on the cadet’s whiteboard.
The MRFF’s director claimed the simple existence of the verse created a hostile environment at the Academy. He called in a complaint and in just over two hours the cadet’s whiteboard had been scrubbed of the verse.
MRFF Director Mikey Weinstein told Fox News they will use the erasing of the Bible verse as a “teachable moment” according to Lt. Col. Denise Cooper. Weinstein said the removal is not good enough, however. He wants the cadet to face discipline along with those in the chain of command over him for violation of the Constitution.
An Academy spokesman said that the verse did not violate Air Force regulations.
An attorney with the Liberty Institute said if the verse didn’t violate Air Force regulations, it makes no sense why the Air Force would violate the cadet’s religious freedoms to cater to anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein and his organization.
A new report says that the United States electrical grid is extremely vulnerable to terrorist attack.
New Jersey’s Regional Operations Intelligence Center released an oversight report that shows an increase in unauthorized access to electrical facilities by unknown persons.
From October 2013 to January 2014, there were at least eight intrusions at New Jersey electrical grid facilities. The group said that these kinds of intrusions are not unusual given the weak security in place at most of the electrical grid sites.
The report says that the intrusions show the vulnerability of the grid to attack.
“The electrical grid – a network of power generating plants, transmission lines, substations and distribution lines – is inherently vulnerable,” the report reads. “Transmission substations are critical links in the electrical grid, making it possible for electricity to move long distances and serving as hubs for intersecting power lines. Many of the grid’s important components sit out in the open, often in remote locations, protected by little more than cameras and chain-link fences.”
Other examples of sabotage on the power grid were displayed including someone removing the bolts from an electric tower’s support structure, which increased the potential for collapse.
In April, a group of gunmen destroyed transformers with a series of sniper rounds and cut underground fiber optic cables at a California power substation.
Forecasters say that another arctic blast is going to drive temperatures in the northeast to frigid levels.
This week temperatures rose into the 50s or higher for most of the northeast with Philadelphia reaching the 60s and Washington DC into the 70s on Wednesday. By Thursday morning, the cities will see temperatures in the 20s.
Officials are warning drivers that roads which have been wet or slushy because of melting snow and ice from recent storms will quickly freeze in the early morning hours because of the rapid temperate fall. The possibility of dangerous conditions for early morning commutes have many communities encouraging people to plan extra time to head to work or school.
A spokesman for Accuweather said the sudden cold after the unusually high temperatures could bring unexpected problems including broken water mains. The possibility also exists that roadways will crack from the conditions and create more potholes than usual.
Two Washington, DC area teenagers are in jail after being arrested on charges related to torturing an autistic boy.
Lauren Bush, 17 and a 15-year-old girl recorded their assaults against the 16-year-old victim. In addition to forcing him to perform various personal indignities, they stabbed him multiple times and dragged him around by his hair.
They also forced the victim to walk across a partially frozen pond where he fell through the ice multiple times. The suspects refused to help the boy out of the frigid water and laughed as he struggled to get back onto the ice surface.
Bush is being charged as an adult. Both defendants are facing charges of 1st degree assault, 2nd degree assault, production of child pornography and false imprisonment.
Bush and her co-conspirator have not told police why they committed the acts against the boy.
A new reality TV program ordered by WEtv will feature couples having sex inside a soundproof box and then talking about it.
The program, called “Sex Box”, is based on a British show of the same name. The show will put couples inside a soundproof booth in the middle of a stage to have sex while a panel of marital counselors discusses issues with a host.
When the couples are finished, they walk out of the “sex box” to talk about problems in their relationship with the counselors on the panel.
The network says the “in the moment” portion of the show “fosters conversation about intimacy that are completely filter-less and emotionally honest.”
“Sex Box is an intriguing and original concept,” Marc Juris, president of WE, said about the show.
Over the years, one thing that has troubled me deeply and that I’ve asked Jim and our show guests about is, “Where were the Christians when they took prayer out of school?” Of course, many, like Jim, were doing everything they could to stop this travesty. But once it started, it was like a snowball rolling downhill, gaining momentum and strength. Though there were individuals who were preaching, teaching and proclaiming that taking prayer out of schools would lead to all kinds of moral decay, the resistance lacked unity and the result was a dismal failure. They succeeded in taking prayer out of schools, and it was because Christians of all denominations couldn’t get it together enough to stand in one accord and say, “oh no you don’t!”
America’s moral decline rapidly accelerated following this one event – the U.S. Supreme Court’s removal of prayer from our nation’s schools. On June 25, 1962, 39 million students were prohibited from doing what they and their parents before them had been doing since we became a nation – publicly calling upon the name of the Lord at the beginning of each school day. Continue reading →
Scientists say that forecast models predict the first waves of low-level radiation from the 2011 Japan Tsunami and nuclear meltdown will begin to hit the U.S. West Coast during April.
Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, presented a report to the issue last week saying that more monitoring is necessary now that radiation is starting to appear.
No federal agency is monitoring the Pacific Ocean for radiation levels.
“I’m not trying to be alarmist,” Buesseler said, “we can make predictions, we can do models, but unless you have results how will be know it’s safe.”
A report last week showed that Cesium 134 has been detected in the waters off Canada near the Gulf of Alaska. Buesseler said that Cesium 134 is part of the release from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
“The models show it will reach north of Seattle first, then move down the coast,” Buesseler said.