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Inmate Dies Of COVID-19 With 17 Days Left On 40-Yr Sentence

As COVID cuts a deadly path through Indiana prisons, inmates say their needs are ignored | May 29, 2020 | Side Effects Public Media – Scottie Edwards died of COVID-19 just weeks before he would have gotten out of the Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana. Edwards, 73, began showing symptoms of the disease in early April, according to the accounts of three inmates who lived with him in a dormitory. He was short of breath, had chest...

Jimmy’s Roadhouse Defies Gov. Whitmer, Open For Business

Fox News – The owner of a restaurant in western Michigan is defying Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's executive order by reopening in a late-ditch effort to save his business. Jim Cory resumed dining service at Jimmy’s Roadhouse in rural Newaygo and now faces a threat by the state health department to revoke his licenses, he said Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “It’s just been one different set of rules after another,” Cory said of the...

Child Molester’s Tax-Funded Sex Change Moves Ahead

WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS "Mr. Edmo claims he has 'felt like a girl' from childhood, when he played with Barbies, bonded closely with his sisters, and developed crushes on boys in grade school." BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Supreme Court won't put an Idaho transgender inmate's sex-change surgery on hold while a lawsuit over the procedure moves forward. The order on Thursday means Adree Edmo can continue getting pre-surgical intervention and potentially...

NFL’s New Masks Could Look Pretty Weird

NFL looking to use surgical or N95 material with helmets to combat coronavirus Fox Sports – The NFL and the sports equipment company Oakley are working on face masks that could contain surgical or N95 material, the NFL Players Association’s medical director said Monday. Dr. Thom Mayer told “The Adam Schefter Podcast” what he’s expecting when the league starts the 2020 season: “I had suggested that we should consider novel and emerging ways to handle the helmets...

New Yorkers Who Refuse To Wear Masks

May 18, 2020 | Fox News – There’s no hiding without a mask in virus-stricken New York City, the American epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. New York requires people to wear face coverings when in close proximity to others in public. As people grow wearier of the extended lockdown, some residents complain that requirement infringes on individual liberties. Residents are caught in the middle of a debate over when and where, exactly, it is necessary to wear...

Meat Shortages Caused By Migrant Worker Conditions?

Some blame meatpacking workers, not plants, for virus spread May 12, 2020 | Minneapolis (AP) – As coronavirus hotspots erupted at major U.S. meatpacking plants, experts criticized extremely tight working conditions that made the factories natural high risk contagion locations. But some Midwestern politicians have pointed the finger at the workers' living conditions, suggesting crowded homes bear some blame. The comments — including a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice's remark that an outbreak didn't seem to have come from...

Florida Man Made Millions Defrauding Health Agency

"The ordering physician ... authorized genetic testing for hundreds of patients across the country that he never saw, examined, or treated." Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey May 6, 2020 NEWARK, N.J. – A Florida man today admitted his role in using his company to defraud the Medicare Program in connection with fraudulent orders for genetic tests, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Kacey C. Plaisance, 38, of Altamonte Springs, Florida, pleaded guilty by videoconference before...

Shelley Luther: “I just woke up one day and I said, ‘I have to open'”

Judge Who Sentenced Shelley Luther Should Serve The Rest Of Her 7-Day Sentence – Agree or Disagree? Comment below. | May 8, 2020 | Fox News – Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther, who was ordered jailed for seven days Tuesday after she violated a local coronavirus-related business closure order, joined "Hannity" for an interview Thursday, hours after her release. Luther said she is feeling much better after being allowed to go back home, and told host Sean...

Border-Crosser Coughs In Face Of Customs Officer, Charged

Driver who coughed in face of Nogales customs officer faces assault charge May 6, 2020 Tuscon.com – A driver accused of coughing in the face of a customs officer in Nogales and saying “you are sick, too” with the coronavirus now faces an assault charge. Danilo Cardenas Leyva, a U.S. citizen in his mid-20s, is accused of coughing directly into the face of a customs officer as he drove into the United States on April 7. The officer...

10 States Where Malls Are Set To Re-Open

The biggest mall owner in the U.S. is preparing to open a number of its properties across the country, as states such as South Carolina and Georgia start to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an internal memo that was obtained by CNBC. Simon Property Group is reopening 49 of its malls and outlet centers Friday through Monday, the memo said, including Haywood Mall in Greenville, South Carolina, and Lenox Square in Atlanta. (A...

She’s been accused of starting the pandemic …

... her life has been turned upside down. | A military family's living nightmare reveals dangers of online hoaxes and conspiracy theories | Apr 27, 2020 | CNN Business – Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, saying she brought the disease to China. The false claims are spreading across YouTube every day, so far racking up hundreds...

Navy Captain Who Sought To Protect Sailors May Get Job Back

"The extraordinary episode has captivated a public already overwhelmed by the pandemic." WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Navy officer has recommended the reinstatement of the aircraft carrier captain fired for sending a fraught email to commanders pleading for faster action to protect his crew from a coronavirus outbreak, officials familiar with the investigation said Friday. Adm. Mike Gilday recommended that Navy Capt. Brett Crozier be returned to his ship, said the officials, who spoke on condition...

‘Herd Immunity’ Taking Hold In NYC?

‘It wouldn’t surprise me if, at this point in time, we have probably close to 1 million New Yorkers who have been exposed to COVID-19…’ (Liberty Headlines) Adding more fuel to theories that the deadly coronavirus pandemic could eventually run its course, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said one in five Big Apple residents had developed the antibodies necessary for immunity. Officials said Thursday that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, offering insight...

Critical Shortage Threatens Brewers

"A shortage in CO2 would impact the U.S. availability of fresh food, preserved food and beverages, including beer production." Food Dive – The longer the coronavirus wears on the deeper its impact on more facets of the U.S. economy becomes. While soda and beer are far more popular than fizzy drinks such as sparkling waters or trendy hard seltzers, they all remain dependent on one signature ingredient to give them their signature mouth feel: carbon dioxide. With...

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