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Woman Charged with 36 Felonies for Crimes in Williston
Posted: Aug 21, 2014 5:32 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 21, 2014 5:32 PM EDT
By Tom Gerhardt, News Director - email
A Williston woman is jailed on at least 36 felony charges for two separate crime sprees through residential neighborhoods.
Brittany Foote allegedly went into several homes and in some cases entered residences while the homeowners were doing yard work. Most of the charges are for burglary and theft.
Authorities say Foote was found with cash, credit cards, gift cards, a hospital employee badge and painkillers.
Police say Foote was arrested last week when she went into a house that was occupied and got into a scuffle with a resident.
She was charged with terrorizing, simple assault and reckless endangerment for that incident.
She also faces several drug charges.
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http://www.kxnet.com/story/26341036/woman-charged-with-36-felonies-for-crimes-in-williston
I-79 IS BACK OPEN: Chickens and ammo to blame for shutdown
UPDATE 8:40 a.m.: Just before 4 a.m., Seth Grim was driving an early model Ford Explorer with Pennsylvania plates and rolled it over on Interstate 79 near Amma, WV. A dog tried to jump out of the window. Unfortunately, the dog later died and the driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries to his upper torso.
Here's where the story gets wacky. In the back of his explorer were 35 to 40 chickens along with an AK 47 and a large amount of ammunition. Also in the back of his vehicle was a device that police were extremely concerned about. The "improvised explosives" prompted a higher level of response.
The West Virginia State Police Bomb Squad out of Williamson, WV was sent to the scene and removed the device.
Initially, all of the chickens were reported to have made it out alive. Our reporter, who was on site during the shutdown of the interstate, tells us that some of the chickens did die and some survived.
I-79 is now back open, and charges will be filed shortly against Seth Grim. He's being held in the South Central Regional Jail on a $25,000 bond.
http://www.wowktv.com/story/26344732/interstate-79-closed-chickens-and-ammo-to-blame
Poor animals.
Bill Nye Fights Back
How a mild-mannered children’s celebrity plans to save science in America—or go down swinging.
By Ryan Bradley
Let’s say that I am, through my actions, doomed, and that I will go to hell,” Bill Nye said. He was prepping for a Super Bowl party and making pizza dough from a recipe given to him by his friend, Bob Picardo, who played The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager. He ducked beneath the countertop, pulled out a KitchenAid mixer and a bag of flour, and then returned to the topic at hand, which was religion and science and what he believed.
“Even if I am going to hell,” he continued, “that still doesn’t mean the Earth is 6,000 years old. The facts just don’t reconcile.” He turned back to the mixer, sighed, and slumped a little. For a moment, Nye looked weary at the thought of ill-informed parents undoing his life’s work. “So,” he said, straightening, “the worst that can happen in this debate is I lose my temper, Ken Ham is suddenly empowered, his Ark Park gets built, and it’s all my fault.” Then he poured the flour into the mixer, along with some sugar, salt, and a packet of yeast, and flicked the switch. In a little more than 48 hours he would walk onto a stage in Petersburg, Kentucky, to debate Ken Ham, founder and leader of Answers in Genesis, a ministry most famous for owning and operating the Creation Museum, which displays animatronic dinosaurs next to Adam and Eve. Preparing for the debate—the responsibility he felt defending reason in the face of extreme faith—had weighed heavily on Nye. But now, making pizza dough, he was just a guy wowed by science, which was currently happening right in that bowl.
Over the mixer’s low hum, Nye explained that the yeast, a fungus, was slowly eating the sugar and excreting carbon dioxide and alcohol, which would eventually cause the dough to rise. He said this with the same Aww, shucks, isn’t this incredible? delivery that made him who he is today: the Science Guy, star of the 1990s megahit television show and friendly explainer of all things scientific. Nye turned off the mixer and removed the dough, working the sticky ball on a lightly floured counter before dropping it on a plate and walking around the corner to the den, where he placed it atop a cable box. He said the warmth of the electronics would speed the reaction of the yeast enzymes, making the dough rise more quickly. Next to the box, a small bookshelf contained the DVD set of all 100 episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy. A few were missing, actually, on loan to some kids from his Los Angeles neighborhood. A framed sheet of paper hung above the shelf—the single-page mission statement Nye wrote while creating the show. At the top, he’d typed “Objective: Change the world!” He took it down and stared at it for a moment. Nye holds a deep fascination, a reverence even, for all we don’t fully understand. “We are literally made of the stuff of stars,” he said. “It gives me the willies—how can this be? How can we know our place in the universe?”
It was a rhetorical question. Nye had been setting up the same punch line for so long the answer had become his calling card, his signature shout-out: “Science!” But Nye is the first to admit that science in America is in a bad way. He said he felt that despite issuing more patents and Ph.D.s than any other nation, the country was drifting closer and closer toward scientific illiteracy. Just a few weeks earlier, a PEW research poll found that nearly 45 percent of Americans believed humans came to be by a process other than evolution. A similar poll found that one in two Americans don’t believe that humans are causing climate change, despite the fact that about 98 percent of all scientists do (a greater consensus than supports the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer). To Nye, science is under siege, and he is not about to sit back and watch the thing he loves and staked his career on suffer.
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http://www.popsci.com/article/science/bill-nye-fights-back?nopaging=1
Till Death Do Us Part: Domestic Violence in South Carolina
By Doug Pardue, Glenn Smith, Jennifer Berry Hawes and Natalie Caula Hauff
More than 300 women have been shot, stabbed, strangled, beaten, bludgeoned or burned to death by men in South Carolina over the past decade, dying at a rate of one every 12 days while the state does little to stem the carnage from domestic abuse.
More than three times as many women have died here at the hands of current or former lovers than the number of Palmetto State soldiers killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined.
It’s a staggering toll that for more than 15 years has placed South Carolina among the top 10 states nationally in the rate of women killed by men. The state topped the list on three occasions, including this past year, when it posted a murder rate for women that was more than double the national rate.
Awash in guns, saddled with ineffective laws and lacking enough shelters for the battered, South Carolina is a state where the deck is stacked against women trapped in the cycle of abuse, a Post and Courier investigation has found.
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http://www.postandcourier.com/tilldeath/
Warrant ordered for Ga. woman in explosives case
Source: AP/AJC
ATLANTA — A warrant has been issued for a north Georgia woman who was arrested on new charges less than six months after a federal judge sentenced her to probation on federal explosives charges, court records show.
U.S. District Judge Richard Story signed an order for a warrant for Celia Savage and a probation revocation hearing will likely be scheduled. The order was signed Aug. 14 and was filed with the court clerk Wednesday.
A lawyer for Savage said in an email that he had no comment.
Savage, 25, of Cornelia, originally was arrested in May 2012, after federal agents raided her home and found two pipe bombs and multiple guns. She pleaded guilty in July 2013 to making and possessing pipe bombs after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Read more: http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/georgia/warrant-ordered-for-ga-woman-in-explosives-case/ng6g9/
Physicists have chilled the world's coolest molecule
It's official. Yale physicists have chilled the world's coolest molecules.
The tiny titans in question are bits of strontium monofluoride, dropped to 2.5 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero through a laser cooling and isolating process called magneto-optical trapping (MOT). They are the coldest molecules ever achieved through direct cooling, and they represent a physics milestone likely to prompt new research in areas ranging from quantum chemistry to tests of the most basic theories in particle physics.
"We can start studying chemical reactions that are happening at very near to absolute zero," said Dave DeMille, a Yale physics professor and principal investigator. "We have a chance to learn about fundamental chemical mechanisms."
The research is published this week in the journal Nature.
Magneto-optical trapping has become ubiquitous among atomic physicists in the past generation -- but only at the single-atom level. The technology uses lasers to simultaneously cool particles and hold them in place. "Imagine having a shallow bowl with a little molasses in it," DeMille explained. "If you roll some balls into the bowl, they will slow down and accumulate at the bottom. For our experiment, the molecules are like the balls and the bowl with molasses is created via laser beams and magnetic fields."
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140821115924.htm
Remember that burglary of the 3-story dressing room in Texas?
Shocking twist in Texas 'she-cave' heist as burglar contacts local paper to complain that $1M in jewels and designer goods stolen from socialite are FAKE
Houston Press was contacted by the alleged burglar saying that Theresa Roemer's stolen valuables were actually worthless
The newspaper received a package containing 10-15 items from socialite's collection, including a locket allegedly containing her dead son's hair
Mrs Roemer was contacted last week by the burglar, who demanded $500,000 for her items - and for the thief's silence about their true value
Authorities say what appears to be a professional thief spent 40 minutes removing items from Theresa Roemer's massive closet August 2
Surveillance footage recorded a small man dressed entirely in white and wearing gloves in the house
Roemer and her husband were away from home at dinner only 90 minutes
The dramatic heist of nearly $1million in designer bags, jewelry and furs from the 3,000-square-foot closet of a suburban Houston socialite has taken a strange media twist possibly involving a failed ransom plot.
A person claiming to be the housebreaker sent several of the stolen items to a weekly newspaper, claiming that they were fake and therefore worthless.
The valuables were stolen August 2 from a closet in the palatial home of Theresa Roemer, who uses the room dubbed in the media the ‘she-cave’ for charity fundraisers.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2726952/Shocking-twist-Texas-cave-heist-disappointed-burglar-contacts-local-paper-complain-1M-jewels-designer-goods-stolen-socialite-FAKE.html
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