Alabama Police Officer Arrested Over Severe Injuries To Indian Man : The Two-Way : NPR

Alabama Police Officer Arrested Over Severe Injuries To Indian Man : The Two-Way : NPR: "The police chief in Madison, Ala., says that an officer who threw a man to the ground faces assault charges and dismissal. Sureshbhai Patel, 57, was stopped last week as he walked in his son's new neighborhood. Patel remains hospitalized after surgery to fuse bones in his neck; his son says he now has limited mobility.

"I found that Officer Eric Parker's actions did not meet the high standards and expectations of the Madison City Police Department," Chief of Police Larry Muncey said after an investigation. He added that he is recommending Parker be fired."

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Police Beating Led To Miscarriage: Lawsuit

Police Beating Led To Miscarriage: Lawsuit: "Kenya Harris, names the City of Albany, Georgia, police chief John Proctor and officers Ryan Jenkins and Richard Brown, Jr., according to Courthouse News.

The suit claims that in May, 2011, Harris came to the Albany Police department after her son was arrested. She waited five hours to pick him up, but then told Jenkins she needed to leave to tend to her other children at home.

Jenkins said if she made that request again he would take her head and "'put it to the floor."

When Harris asked again, the suit alleges "Defendant Officer Jenkins, without provocation, grabbed plaintiff, who weighs less than one hundred twenty (120) pounds, by her neck and slammed her to the ground. Plaintiff momentarily blacked out and came to with defendant Officer Jenkins sitting on her back, and with his knee on her arm. Plaintiff was pregnant at the time."

Jenkins then arrested Harris for obstruction of justice, according to WFXL.

The next day when she was released from jail, Harris went to Phoebe Convenient Care for medical treatment and was told she had miscarried because of her injuries, the suit said.

Albany city attorneys declined to comment and the police department said neither officer named in the suit currently works for the department"

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Police shooting raw video: bystander footage shows Washington cops killi...

The 35-year-old Washington orchard worker who was born in Mexico was shot dead at 5pm on Tuesday after he was found throwing rocks – one described as "softball sized" – at vehicles on a busy intersection in Pasco. Police said that after "low-level force" failed to bring him under control and the deployment of a Taser had "no effect", officers fired on the suspect after his "threatening behaviour" continued 

Sheriff's lieutentant's daughter accidentally shoots sister with father'...

Fresno police are investigating an incident in which a Madera County sheriff’s lieutenant’s 10-year-old daughter shot her younger sister Friday.

The incident occurred just before 8 a.m. near Bullard and Cornelia avenues. Fresno police Lt. Joe Gomez said officers found an 8-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to her torso. She was talking and in stable condition Friday afternoon at Community Regional Medical Center.  Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2015/02/13/4378028/fresno-girl-10-accidentally-shoots.html#storylink=cpy

Funeral for Muslims Killed in Chapel Hill Draws Thousands - NYTimes.com

Funeral for Muslims Killed in Chapel Hill Draws Thousands - NYTimes.com: "The three friends drove here Thursday from Blacksburg, Va., 190 miles to the north. Dressed in hijab and fashionable dresses, carrying a fabric floral arrangement in a gold-colored pot, they came for the funeral of the three Arab-American students who were gunned down at their home a couple of days earlier."

Yusor Abu-Salha was one of the young students killed in Tuesday's shooting in Chapel Hill, N.C.

She and her former third grade teacher, Mussarut Jabeen, spoke to StoryCorps in May. In fact, all three victims in the shooting — Abu-Salha, 21, her husband, Deah Barakat, 23, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19 — attended the Al-Iman School in Raleigh, N.C., where Jabeen taught.

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Ranchers Fight Drought With Desert Cows | Here & Now

Ranchers Fight Drought With Desert Cows | Here & Now: "magine a cow that can tolerate the heat and eats relatively little grass – in other words, a cow that can thrive in the desert.

Meet the Criollo, a cattle breed that was brought to America by Columbus and established by the Spanish conquistadors in the late 1500s."

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Halliburton to Trim Its Work Force by 7% - NYTimes.com

Halliburton to Trim Its Work Force by 7% - NYTimes.com: "HOUSTON — Halliburton announced on Tuesday plans to lay off about 7 percent of its work force, or 5,200 to 6,400 workers, in response to plummeting oil prices.

Halliburton and other service companies that drill and complete wells onshore and offshore are typically the first and worst hit when producers decommission rigs and cut investments in exploration and production.

In recent weeks one oil company after another has announced 15 to 30 percent reductions in their 2015 budgets because of the 50 percent drop in crude prices since June. As many as 90 rigs a week are being dropped across American shale fields over the last couple of months in the most rapid deceleration of drilling in decades. Service fees have dropped by an average of 15 percent in recent months and are expected to go down further."

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New York City Officer Is Said to Be Indicted in Shooting Death of Akai Gurley - NYTimes.com

New York City Officer Is Said to Be Indicted in Shooting Death of Akai Gurley - NYTimes.com: "The police officer who fired the shot that killed an unarmed man in a Brooklyn housing project in November has been indicted, according to three people familiar with the grand jury proceedings.

Peter Liang, 27, who had been on the force for less than 18 months, was patrolling a darkened stairwell at the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York when he shot and killed Akai Gurley, 28. Less than 12 hours after the shooting, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton acknowledged that the shooting had been a grave error."

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The New York Times > Business > World Business > Study Finds U.S. Companies Shifting Profits Overseas

The New York Times > Business > World Business > Study Finds U.S. Companies Shifting Profits Overseas: "Study Finds U.S. Companies Shifting Profits Overseas

By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
rom 1999 to 2002, American multinational corporations increased profits taken in countries with no taxes or low rates by 68 percent, while sharply reducing profits taken in countries where they engage in substantial business activity, a study to be published today in the journal Tax Notes shows.

In 2002, American companies took $149 billion of profits in 18 tax-haven countries, up 68 percent from $88 billion in 1999, according to Tax Notes, which analyzed the most recently available Commerce Department data. This compares with a 23 percent increase in total offshore profits earned by American multinationals during the same period."



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Break on Foreign-Profit Tax Means Billions to U.S. Firms

Break on Foreign-Profit Tax Means Billions to U.S. Firms: "Friday, August 19, 2005
Prompted by a one-time tax holiday on profits earned abroad, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. announced early this year that it would bring home $8 billion to boost research and development spending, capital investments and other job-creating ventures."



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