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In his 12 years of being a custom gun maker, Kris Cantrell has never had a busier few weeks than he has recently. It was unfortunate that I was that busy because people felt panicked and rushed to get something before it s taken away and they didn t think it could be taken away, Cantrell said.In the period between Washington s new assault weapons ban was passed and when it went into effect, he couldn t keep the AR-15 guns he makes on the shelves for long.He s a firm supporter of the Second Amendment and believes the law his state has passed is erroneous. Is this gun law gonna stop me from buying another AR Yeah, 100%. There s no reason that it s gonna stop criminals because they re criminals, Cantrell said.ACivil Liability lawpassed along with the assault weapon ban means that if someone buys one of Cantrell s guns and commits a heinous crime, he might face some legal penalties. He says his family is worried about whether they should even continue the business. Every person I ve ever sold a gun to is a law-abiding citizen. stanley cup And hopefully that continues. I don t know how things snap. I don t know how anyone would ever think that going and shooting a child is gonna fix anything, stanley cup he said.At the Alliance for Gun Responsibility in Seattle, there s a different reaction to the new law 鈥?one of hope an stanley cup d relief for the organization that worked on the legislation.Hazel Brown is the policy and research coordinator forAlliance for Gun Responsibility.SEE MORE: House Passes Semi-Automat Cdjs Florida employees worry about returning to work as coronavirus cases continue to rise
A former fraternity member and student at Truman State University in Missouri allegedly provided step-by-step directions to five people who died by suicide in 2016 and 2017, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the university, the fraternity and the student.The member of the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity told people he considered himself a superhero nicknamed peacemaker, pa stanley isolierkanne rents of two of the deceased allege in the suit, which identifies the accused as Brandon Grossheim.Grossheim counseled people with step-by-step directions for using their own free will and to deal with depression, according to a news release issued by lawyers for the parents of Alex Mullins, 21, and Joshua Thomas, 18.Grossheim gave no comment to CNN s repeated requests. Both the University and the Fraternity were aware that the Plaintiff victims were vulnerable and suffered from depression, yet they still allowed this suspicious fraternity brother to be alone and have unfettered access to the victims, the release states. This tragedy was preventable. The lawsuit alleges negligence and wrongful death and seeks unspecified damages. It is our understanding that a lawsuit has stanley thermos mug been filed by the parents of Alex Mullens and stanley cup Joshua Thomas, two members of the Xi Chapter of the Fraternity of Alpha Kappa Lambda, in connection with their deaths. Our sympathy continues for the families and friends of our lost Brothers of the Xi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Lambda, the fraternity said a statement. The deat

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Scott Peterson s defense lawyers wound up their case by lashing out at a key prosecution theory Wednesday, the notion that Laci Peterson s fetus died in her womb.Finishing his closing argument, lawyer Mark Geragos reminded jurors authorities never found the placenta or the fetus umbilical cord, leaving little evidence to determine whether the male fetus was born alive and killed later.If the fetus died later, Geragos said, it s not Scott Peterson who did that. In a brief rebuttal, a prosecutor called the defense suggestion that that someone else abducted and killed Laci, then framed Peterson, simply not reasonable. You can t base a reasonable doubt on an unreasonable interpretation of the evidence, prosecutor Rick Distaso told jurors. It s just not reasonable that anyone put that body in the bay to frame him. If it s not reasonable, you must reject it. With closing arguments complete, jurors were to hear jury instructions and were expected to begin deliberations in the highly publicized case later Wednesday.Prosecutors claim Peterson stra stanley drink bottle ngled or smothered his pregnant wife on Dec. 23 or 24, 2002, then dumped her weighted body into San Francisco Bay. Her body and that of the fetus washed ashore stanley cup in April 2003. Geragos claims someone else abducted and killed the Modesto woman stanley cup .Peterson is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and could get the death penalty. The jury will also be allowed to consider second-degree mur Zrjz Florida State football player s act of kindness goes viral
A rehab facility in Riverview is facing more trouble.Our I-Team earlier this week revealed big security concerns involving the River Oaks Residential Drug Treatment center.RELATED:Drug treatment center had more than 400 calls to 911 in 2 yearsI-Team: Drug rehab center bills patient s insurance nearly $1,000 a day for drug testingThe latest incident dunks shoes involves a runaway patient and a gun, and it has left neighbors on edge. We dont know who comes and goes. We dont know who lives there. We dont know what issues they might have, said Riverglen Subdivision resident Ray Serrano.He says the rehab has caused trouble since it opened two years ago. More and more situations are happening in our community and we need that to stop, Serrano said.River Oaks is next to a neighborhood park. Neighbors say its nike dunks panda easy for patients to climb over a fence and scale a wall to get into the gated neighborhood.Thats what neighbors believe happened Monday night.Reports say a 23-year-old River Oaks patient broke into several vehicles. I noticeda light in the driveway, a flashlight kind of light and thought it was my neighbor, said one neighbor.She didnt know the man had been in her driveway until she heard a gunshot. I heard a bang, and I said what is going on she said.While trying to break into a home, a homeowner confronted the patient with a gun and told him he was calling police.That homeowner didn t want to be on camera, but confirmed that the patient then pulled out a gun he air force 1 stole from a car an

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The View co-hosts are continuing to anchor their show from their own separate quarantines and on Tuesday, the women discussed a hot topic on many people s minds: Should essential workers like grocery store clerks and delivery drivers be treated like first responders Meghan McCain had strong thoughts on the matter.McCain, who is pregnant, said she has been relying on Amazon delivery for packages and her husband has been going to the grocery store once a week, since she is high risk and must be quarantined at home stanley cup during the coronavirus pandemic. I ve been reeling stanley cup about this for weeks that I think anyone who is doing any kind of essential work for us right now should not only get hazard pay but should have their pay doubled, she said.McCain, the daughter of the late Republican senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, admitted she is normally the last p stanley cup erson on planet Earth that ever wants the government to give any kind of financial handout to anyone. But I think these people are putting their lives on the line, putting their families at risk, just for us to be able to get our groceries and needed packages, and whatever else, she said. I think everyone from truck drivers to janitorial workers to anybody anywhere who is out still working in this kind of environment should absolutely be given hazard pay. Worker Safety Concerns Lead To Strikes | The View by The View on YouTube The other co- Bbro New York man convicted of murdering Kaylin Gillis after she mistakenly drove into his driveway
It looks like 2019 is shaping up to be another year of teachers strikes.Oakland, California educators picketed on Thursday with the goal of gaining more resources for students, such as smaller class sizes and more counselors. And in West Virginia, where teachers went on strike this week, teachers protested a proposed bill that would have provided them with a pay raise but contained measures they argued would siphon funding away from public schools. In Los Angeles, teachers went on strike in January to win measures like caps on class sizes adidas originals .Instead of the traditional labor protest over wages and benefits, teachers are calling out a wide range of problems that they argue weaken public schools. It s a crisis that s been in the works since cities and states cut their school funding during the recessi adidas og on. Even though the economy has since recovered, states on average are now paying $161 less per child than they did a decade ago air force 1 , according to ananalysis of Census data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. All states have have the same problem, said Kym Randolph, spokeswoman for the West Virginia Educators Association. This is about a group of people who chose education as s career who care desperately for these kids. Unfortunately, our public schools everywhere kind of get shortchanged. West Virginia and California school funding declined more than 11 percent from 2008, when the recession started, through 2015, after adjusting for

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Lady Gaga gave a surprise performance at the Oscars on Sunday. Gaga was nominated for best song for Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick, and while it is customary for the nominated songs to be performed, last week producers said she wouldn t be able to make it. Lady Gaga performs onstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023. She was nominated for best song for Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick, / Getty Images The awards show s producer, Glen Weiss, explained during a press conference last week why Gaga couldn t perform. We have a great relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp, he stanley cup said, according to Entertainment Tonight. But because she is in the middle of filming the newest J stanley cup oker movie, she didn t feel she could deliver a performance at the caliber she is used to, he said.However, Gaga showed up to the carpet just ahead of the start of the awards ceremony, and ET confirmed she planned to perform. She walked part of the carpet with BloodPop, the co-writer stanley cup of the nominated song. Lady Gaga and BloodPop attend the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. / Getty Images The news about her surprise performancewas first reported by Variety, and the host of E s carpet coverage commented that Gaga was there to Vwsh Death toll rises in California s Camp Fire as number of unaccounted for leaps
Democratic presidential candidate and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee unveiled his 100% Clean Energy for America Plan on Friday. Inslee says the ten-year plan, which is modeled after a clean energy law that was passed in April in his own state, would deliver 100 percent clean energy, make all new vehicles zero-emission, and would eliminate the carbon footprint for all new buildings.Inlsee has made climate change his signature is adidas samba og sue since he announced his campaign i adidas originals n March. His campaign says the clean energy plan is the first part of a host of policies they call the Climate Mission Agenda. This has to be the number one priority for the next president of the United States, Inslee told CBS News in an interview. I believe I have a unique position to deliver on that commitment. The plan would shut down America s coal-fired power plants, but says that every region in the U.S. will begin at a different starting point. It would also require utilities to become 100 percent carbon neutral by 2030.The plan includes tax incentives for the deployment of zero-emission technologies, such as renewable electricity and energy and smart grids. This clean electricity will be the backbone of our ec skechers onomy powering homes, vehicles and industry, the plan says. In a statement released by the campaign, Marc Jacobson, a Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering, said that while this is just a first step, Inslee s plan is a mo

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Updated 8:33 p.m. EDTA 16-year-o stanley canada ld Southern California girl attempting a solo sail around the world was feared in trouble Thursday thousands of miles from land in the frigid, heaving southern Indian Ocean after her emergency beacons began signaling and communication was lost.Pictures: Abby Sunderland Sunderland s brother discusses the search mission An international effort to rescue young Abby Sunderland began, but the vast distances meant long hours of waiting for her family and support team, which expressed confidence that she was alive because the beacons were deliberately turned on rather than set off automatically. She stanley water bottle s got all the skills she needs to take care of what she has to take care of, she has all the equ stanley cup usa ipment as well, said brother Zac, himself a veteran of a solo sail around the world at age 17. Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Carly Lusk said three vessels were sent from the French territory of Reunion Island and an aircraft was to depart from Perth on a four-hour flight to Abby s location more than 2,000 miles from both Africa and Australia.It was not clear when the vessels left, but it would take a day for the nearest ship to reach the area. Reunion Island is off Madagascar, the very large island along the east coast of Africa.Support team member Jeff Casher said the two emergency beacons were continuing to broadcast and GPS location data showed they were together and drifting at 1 mph. He belie Igil Lost amp; Found Couple Found Again
A horse is a horse, of course, of course -- even when that horse is filing a lawsuit.A judge in Oregon tossed out a lawsuit filed by Justice -- a horse -- against his owner over allegations of animal neglect.Washington County Circuit Court Judge John Knowles issued his ruling on Tuesday, saying the $100,000 lawsuit will not be allowed to proceed on the basis of the horse being a non-human animal. Court rules monkey cannot s adidas samba uomo ue in copyright fight over selfie The court grants with prejudice defendants motion to dismiss based on a lack of standing for Justice the horse, the ruling stated. The court finds that a non-human animal such as Justice lacks the legal status or qualifications necessary for the assertion of legal rights and duties in a court of law. The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed the suit on Justice s behalf alleging owner Gwendolyn Vercher was neglectful in caring for the horse, leaving him outside and not providing proper food or water. He was extremely emaciated -- about 300 pounds below body weight for a horse -- and most significantly, he suffered from penile frostbite as a result of his exposure to the cold and that was left untreated f skechers arbeitsschuhe or months, Matthew Liebman, Justice s lawyer from the Animal Legal Defense Fund, told ABC News daily pod yeezy slide cast, Start Here, back in May when the suit was filed.Vercher called the suit outrageous in an interview with ABC News at the time. She pleaded guilty to first-degree animal neglect in criminal court in July 2017, and sa

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The first woman speaker of the House -- now Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California -- commemorated women s firsts by donating items from her Jan. 4, 2007 swearing in and speech as speaker of the House to the Smithsonian National American History Museum Wednesday. I m really humbled by my colleagues who had the courage to elect the first woman speaker of the House -- that was no small feat -- bringing us closer to the ideal o stanley puodelis f equal stanley cup ity that is America s hope and heritage, Pelosi said at the ceremony.Pelosi, who served as the 52nd Speaker of the House, from 2007 to 2011, donated the lacquered-maple gavel given to her, theburgundy skirtsuit she wore to her swearing in and the original speech she gave on January 4, 2007. And she gave the vote tally -- it s all about a vote, Pelosi laughed. S stanley tumblers he remains the woman who has reached the highest political rank of any woman in U.S. history. Suit donated to Smithsonian by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Smithsonian website: https://newsdesk.si.edu/photos/womens-h ... i-ensemble In her 2007 acceptance speech, Pelosi talked about the marble ceiling that had been broken with her election as speaker.It is an historic moment for the Congress, and an historic moment for the women of this country. It is a moment for which we have waited over 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many y Nwwy Report finds five states at heightened risk for militia activity as officials anticipate Election Day unrest
Is it just a momentary blip mdash; or did a little of the luster come off of the burgeoning Fred Thompson campaign this weekend Restless Republicans not enamored by the current field of the 10 men in their party actively in the race have been talking up the well-known actor and former Tennessee senator as an antidote to their current funk. The inability of any of the current candidates to dramatically break out of the pack in last week s televised debate did little to soothe GOP concerns and set the stage nicely for Thompson s speech this weekend to an important conservative group in California. But if the early reports on his address to the Lincoln Club of Orange County are any guide, any opportunity to build on the buzz was missed.One particularly disheartening review was turned in by conservative columnist Robert Novak, who wrote, Lincoln Club members, like man copo stanley y conservative Republicans, have been unimpressed by the existing field of Republican hopefuls and envisioned Thompson as the second coming of Ronald Reagan. Th stanley cup ey did not get it Friday night. Novak s description of a rather tepid reception among the gathered GOP faithful is unlikely to derail what has become a sort stanley vattenflaska of presidential campaign-in-waiting. But it does illuminate the potential drawbacks associated with the kind of spontaneous exuberance and high expectations that have surrounded Thompson thus far. At what point does the hype grow larger than the candidate himself

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DALLAS -- High-profile Mexican attorney Fernando Benitez will represent affluenza teen Ethan Couch in his fight to stay in Mexico, CBS affiliate KTVT reported.Benitez has been called a rock star and is the same attorney who got a U.S. Marine out of a Mexican prison last year where he had been held for seven months.Couch, 18, won a delay in his deportation based on a constitutional appeal in Mexico that could lead to a trial process that could last weeks or even months. adidas originals Why mother of affluenza teen could face harsher sentence 02:25 adidas samba He is being held in a detention center in Mexico City until a judge hears arguments on whether he was rightfully detained. Couch s mother, Tonya Couch, 48, was returned to the United States early Thursday after her deportation from Mexico. She has been charged in Tarrant County with hindering an apprehension, a felony charge that carries a two- to 10-year prison sentence, af1 and is being held on a $1 million bond.Any flaw in the process of his detention by Mexican immigration authorities can be considered a violation of due process and of his human rights, San Antonio attorney Javier Lopez de Obeso, who is licensed to practice in Mexico, said Thursday. If the immigration authorities didn t act properly, he can find a way

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Kabulmdash; President Biden is meeting his Afghan counterpart, President Ashraf Ghani, at the White House on Friday to discuss the ongoing U.S. military withdrawal from his country. As CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata reports, the meeting will come with Ghani s government under severe pressure from a Taliban offensive, and amid rising concern for thousands of Afghan civilians who worked with the U.S. military during 20 years of war.Afghanistan has entered its most critical period since the U.S. invasion in 2001. The Taliba stanley cup n has made huge military advances across the country in recent months, as U.S. forces withdraw from the country.The United Nations says the militants have captured more than 50 of the country s 370 districts since May. Some estimates are much worse. The Taliban says Afghan soldiers are simply surrendering and abandoning their posts without a fight. At the beginning of th stanley deutschland ei stanley cup r meeting, Ghani expressed gratitude to the U.S. and said Afghanistan respects the president s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. We are determined to have unity, coherence, Ghani said, adding that Afghanistan security forces have retaken six districts today. Mr. Biden said U.S. support for Afghanistan will be sustained, but Afghans are going to have to decide their future, what they want. The partnership between Afghanistan and the United States is not ending, it s-it s going to be sustained, Mr. Biden said. And, you know Arod Corey Lewandowski firing brings hope for change among Republicans
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows Mitt Romney up six points in the crucial battleground state of Florida. According to the survey, which was conducted last week, Romney holds a 47-41 percent lead ove stanley cups uk r President Obama in the Sunshine State. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.4 percentage points. Just weeks ago in a poll released on May 3, the polling group found Romney edging out Mr. Obama by just a 44-43 percent margin. In a March 28 Quinnipiac poll, M stanley water jug r. Obama led Romney 49-42 percent. Additionally, the poll fou vaso stanley nd that picking Sen. Marco Rubio to be his vice president would give Romney an additional two percentage points, widening the gap against an Obama - Biden ticket to 49-41 percent. Amongst independents the split is even more dramatic, with 46-37 percent support for the Republican ticket. Men overwhelmingly supported Romney in the poll 50-37 percent, but women were divided, 44-45 percent. The Romney campaign, which seeks to stay on an economic message at all times, says that essentially, Mr. Obama has hit a ceiling in terms of his favorability numbers in the state, and will only continue to because of Florida s frail economy. Underscoring Mr. Obama s challenges in the battleground state he won in 2008, Florida s unemployment rate in April was 8.7 percent - a drop from 9 percent in March, but still above the national average of