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Sen. Ted Cruz spoke out against the passage of gun reform measures during a panel at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday and the audience was not having it. The junior senator was met with boos and jeers after saying that the best way to stop mass shootings in schools is to increase law enforcement's presence on campuses. "Whenever you have a mass murder... you have Democrats in Washington, the step they immediately go to is 'We need to take away firearms from law-abiding citizens,'" Cruz said, prompting some applause from the audience. "OK, you can clap for that except for the minor problem that it doesn't work. If the objective is to stop these crimes, gun control is singularly ineffective." . @tedcruz says one of the most effective ways to prevent mass shootings is to "enhance security at vulnerable targets" and add more police in schools. https://t.co/HYwikriccm #TribFest22 pic.twitter.com/Y4VWyh0M3q — Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 24, … [Read more...] about Ted Cruz booed by Texas crowd for saying more police needed to make schools safer

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued 32 migrants from circumstances where human smugglers placed them in life-endangering situations. In one incident, smugglers packed migrants into the cargo area of a box truck. In another, they locked the migrants in an aut0-transport rail car. Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens tweeted a report that agents assigned to the Uvalde Station encountered a group of migrants locked inside a rail car. The resulting actions by the agents led to the rescue of 21 migrants. 21. That is the number of lives saved when agents from the Uvalde Station located subjects in a locked rail car. Great work by these agents pulling people from a potentially deadly situation. pic.twitter.com/Gp1CshRt63 — Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens (@USBPChiefDRT) September 24, 2022 Owens described the actions taken by human smugglers as placing the 21 migrants in a “potentially deadly situation,” as temperatures in the area remain in the 95+ … [Read more...] about 32 Migrants Rescued from Dangerous Smuggling Conditions near Border in Texas

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 12 Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 2-8: Oct. 2: Critic Rex Reed is 84. Singer Don McLean is 77. Country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 76. Actor Avery Brooks (“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”) is 74. Guitarist Mike Rutherford of Genesis and Mike and the Mechanics is 72. Musician Sting is 71. Actor Robin Riker (“General Hospital,” ″The Bold and the Beautiful”) is 70. Actor Lorraine Bracco (“The Sopranos”) is 68. Guitarist Greg Jennings of Restless Heart is 68. Singer Phil Oakey of Human League is 67. Singer Freddie Jackson is 67. Singer-producer Robbie Nevil is 64. Drummer Bud Gaugh of Sublime and Long Beach Dub All-Stars is 55. Musician Gillian Welch is 55. Actor Joey Slotnick (“Boston Public,” ″The Single Guy”) is 54. Country singer Kelly Willis is 54. Singer Dion Allen of Az Yet is 52. Actor-talk show host Kelly Ripa (“Live With Kelly … [Read more...] about Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 2-8

0 Seasonal & Holidays Pumpkin patches in the North Center-Roscoe Village area are gearing up for the peak season. Local News , Patch Staff Posted Reply NORTH CENTER-ROSCOE VILLAGE, IL — It's the time of year to think about picking up a pumpkin or two near North Center-Roscoe Village, whether your search for the best takes you to patches and fields or your local grocery store. In some areas, however, experts fear that heavy summer rains could have increased the likelihood of a blight that affects many vegetables including pumpkins, dampening the outlook for the pumpkin crop this fall. Illinois is a top producer of pumpkins in the United States, with around 17,399 acres harvested in 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture census. The state ranked first for most acres harvested in 2017. The USDA says six states — Illinois, California, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia and Texas — are responsible for 40 … [Read more...] about Pumpkin Availability In North Center-Roscoe Village Area For 2021

Once upon a time, in the ’90s, the rock star Melissa Etheridge had a house above the legendary Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles—and arguably the better parties happened around her pool. Yes, the famous lesbians of that era hung out together, Etheridge recalled to The Daily Beast laughing—herself, k.d. lang, Rosie O’Donnell , and Ellen DeGeneres : all famous and out, or on the verge of fame and headline-making comings-out. “A crazy thing happened,” recalled Etheridge. “My partner at the time (Julie Cypher, who she was with from 1990 to 2000), had been married to a young ’80s movie star (Lou Diamond Phillips, from 1987 to 1990). And so she knew that whole young Hollywood set: Dermot Mulroney, Catherine Keener, Brad Pitt , Julia Roberts. I had met Rosie through VH1 (where O’Donnell worked before starring in A League of Their Own ), and Ellen through a celebrity chef we both knew. I met k.d. lang at the first Grammys I went to. From 1988 to 1996, it was this really powerful … [Read more...] about Melissa Etheridge on Helping Celebrities Come Out, Love, Grief—and How Her Wild Parties Inspired ‘The L Word’

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for September 24 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! A South Carolina deputy was wounded and a suspect was killed in a shootout after deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call early Sunday, authorities said. The shooting happened around 8 a.m. on Cains Mill Road near Sumter, Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis said. The first deputy to reach the house found a garage on fire and was trying to put out the fire when Leroy Quick Jr. began shooting at him, the sheriff’s office said. The deputy was hit at least once and returned fire. TEXAS POLICE CHIEFS DECRY SURGING VIOLENCE: ‘THERE’S A LACK OF VALUE FOR LIFE… NO FEAR OF CONSEQUENCES' Deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call in Sumter County, South Carolina, early Sunday when a man opened fire on a deputy, … [Read more...] about South Carolina deputy wounded while responding to domestic disturbance call; suspect killed

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for September 26 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! A soldier from Massachusetts who went missing during the Korean War and was later reported to have died in a prisoner of war camp has been accounted for using modern scientific techniques, military officials said. Army Cpl. Joseph J. Puopolo, 19, of East Boston, was accounted for in August, according to a statement Friday from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. It was the news his family — including his now 99-year-old sister Elizabeth Fiorentini — has been awaiting for decades, Fiorentini’s grandson and Puopolo’s grandnephew, Richard Graham, said in a telephone interview Saturday. US SAILOR KILLED IN PEARL HARBOR TO BE LAID TO REST AFTER DECADES-LONG EFFORT TO IDENTIFY REMAINS "We have all heard about him, and we all knew of him, and … [Read more...] about Korean war soldier who died in North Korean POW camp accounted for

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for September 24 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! State investigators have substantiated more than 1,600 instances of corporal punishment in New York schools over the last five years, The Times Union in Albany reported Sunday. A substantial number of the complaints were in New York City public schools, the newspaper reported. CLASSROOM POLITICIZATION DRIVES MORE PARENTS TO HOME-SCHOOL THEIR CHILDREN, TEXAS MOM SAYS Other incidents included a substitute teacher in Watertown who was fired and arrested for grabbing a student by the throat and forcing him against a wall and a teaching assistant in Syracuse who was transferred and retrained for spanking a non-verbal student. NY state Education Department documented almost 18,000 complaints of corporal punishment in NY schools from … [Read more...] about NY schools allegedly saw over 1,600 instances of corporal punishment over last 5 years

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for September 24 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! A man convicted of having set a house fire that killed a young child and two women in Pittsburgh 4 1/2 years ago now faces a life prison sentence without possibility of parole. Jurors in Allegheny County deliberated for about six hours over two days before convicting Martell Smith of three counts of second-degree murder in the December 2017 fire, the Tribune-Review reported. He was also convicted of multiple counts of arson but acquitted of one attempted homicide count. Prosecutors had been seeking a first-degree murder conviction and planned to pursue capital punishment if jurors convicted Smith on that charge, citing the multiple felonies, the child victim and the defendant's criminal record. But Smith, 45, continued to assert his innocence and said … [Read more...] about PA man faces life in prison in arson that killed 3

Snowden appearing by video at a conference in Texas in June. Photo: Suzanne Cordeiro/Shutterstock Nine years after getting unexpectedly stranded in Moscow , American whistleblower Edward Snowden was granted full Russian citizenship by president Vladimir Putin on Monday. A contractor for the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden leaked classified documents in 2013 showing that the U.S. government was running a mass surveillance operation on American citizens. Charged with violating the Espionage Act, Snowden flew from Hong Kong to the Moscow airport, where he lived for over a month before he was allowed to leave the premises. Last year, the 39-year-old was granted permanent residency and said that he intended to apply for citizenship without renouncing his U.S. citizenship. His wife, Lindsay Mills, is also applying for a Russian passport, according to their lawyer. At the time his permanent residency was announced, he claimed it was not a political act, but one of … [Read more...] about Edward Snowden Is Now a Russian Citizen