Water Patrol authorities at the Lake of the Ozarks claims that a man who died while in their custody either fell overboard or jumped into the water and drowned. Officers claim that his life jacket slipped off after he fell into the lake. 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson had been arrested for boating while intoxicated and was…
Homeowner Byron Smith was convicted of premeditated murder and given two life sentences without chance of parole for shooting and killing two thieves who had repeatedly burgled his residence over the course of a summer. Smith was convicted after a jury listened to an audio recording of the incident that the man had captured which…
“He’s only a baby. He didn’t deserve any of this,” says Alecia Phoensavanh. Phoensavanh’s 19-month-old son, Bounkham Phonesavanh, is in the hospital with critical burns after police lobbed a flash grenade into his playpen during a no-knock raid. Police raided the home in the middle of the night as part of a search for an…
By Blake Neff A report by local Washington D.C. news station NBC4 indicates that over 60,000 low-income students in the area are skipping lunch, dissatisfied with the food offered to them by their schools. In Fairfax County, Virginia, which contains much of D.C.’s Virginia suburbs, 16 percent of students eligible for free lunch don’t eat on a…
When the impersonal force of government runs up against long-held personal values, the latter power prevails. As part of a nationwide campaign to encourage cremation, China’s government has begun demolishing tombs. To those who stand atop China’s millennia-old traditions, this policy constitutes a sacrilegious show of disrespect. AFP News reports that six elderly Chinese people…
Britain’s public broadcasting corporation has decided to cut the word “girl” from a documentary on the Commonwealth Games, fearing that it might “cause offence.” The offending speaker, Mark Beaumont, hosted a segment for the documentary on 19-year-old Judo champion Cynthia Rahming. In the segment, Beaumont described Rahming as a “19-year-old-girl” after she demonstrated her Judo…
A law student at the University of New Mexico is one testicle shy of a pair after a police officer kicked him in the balls during an arrest. A video was released showing the event where Jeremy Martin was detained for a DWI by officer Pablo Padilla. Padilla has been placed on leave during an…
By Brendan Bordelon Democratic Florida Representative Joe Garcia — fresh off being caught eating his own earwax on camera — was caught red-handed (or is it yellow-fingered?) in another gaffe this week, claiming that low crime rates in border cities with lots of federal immigration workers is proof that “Communism works.” Garcia made the comment during a…
As the economy continues its downward spiral, some Americans are starting to seek refuge in modern-day Hoovervilles, communities of people living in makeshift shelters. Shanty towns during the Depression era were christened Hoovervilles by DNC publicity chief Charles Michelson, who aimed to depict President Hoover, and the Republican Party in general, as the cause of…
“He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie.” Follow TLR on Google+ In the latest demonstration of our culture’s deranged and unthinking gun hysteria, a 7th grader has been suspended from a Vernon, New Jersey middle school for holding a pencil. Ethan Chaplin was fidgeting with his pencil in math class when a classmate…