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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Three injured in Portage, Michigan two boat collision


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PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD)

Three people were injured in a boating accident in Portage on Saturday morning.

Around 10 a.m., the Portage Department of Public Safety responded to a report of two boats colliding on Long Lake.

Multiple victims were in the water and being helped by a number of boaters when firefighters arrived. An additional boat came to shore and transported firefighters to the scene of the accident on the lake.

Three adults and three children were brought to a boat landing, where they were treated by additional Portage firefighters and paramedics from Life EMS and South County EMS.

Two adult males sustained serious injures and one child sustained unknown injuries. They were taken to area hospitals.

The accident is under investigation by the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department.

25 injured, 3 in critical condition, after deck collapse in Emerald Isle, North Carolina


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EMERALD ISLE, N.C. (WNCT) — 

The Emerald Isle Police say multiple people are injured after a deck collapsed at a beach house on Ocean Drive. 

Carteret General Hospital says 25 people were injured and three are in critical condition at their facility. 

Two people were transported elsewhere.

WNCT has multiple reporters on the scene and will have more information on this story as it develops.

WHAT IF 20 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS VACATED THE UNITED STATES?






Just few months ago one drug cartel chopped off the heads of 28 rival gang members shot the rest and buried 56 bodies in mass graves and Mexico is upset about Mr. Trump's words?
 

WHAT IF 20 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS VACATED AMERICA?


By Frosty Wooldridge
October 29, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, "Mexican visitor's lament" -- 10/25/07. 
 
She interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, 
 
"They (illegal aliens) pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes...what happens to your country's economy if 20 million people go away?" 
 
That's a good question – it deserves an answer. Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America? The answers may surprise you!

  • In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupted hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominate language again.
  • In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grand-kids – would move back "home," mostly to Mexico. That would save Coloradans an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 BIL) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.
  • Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.
  • Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67 percent drop out/flunk out rate via thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado. Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
  • In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law and English.
  • In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.

If 20 million illegal aliens returned "home" --
 
If 20 million illegal aliens returned "home," the U.S. economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local state and city coffers. 
 
No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must content with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches. 
 
We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country. In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the "18th Street Gang" would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters! 
 
Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens! 
 
Drain on America's economy; taxpayers harmed, employers get rich
 
Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to their home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America's economy – which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt. 
 
At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupted out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act. Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country—brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders. 
 
Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the "progressives" on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11 percent of our greenhouse gases.
 
Over one million of Mexico’s poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what the New York Times called, “colonias” or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, electricity, roads or any kind of sanitation. 

The New York Times reported them to be America’s new “Third World” inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I’ve seen them personally in Texas and Arizona; it’s sickening beyond anything you can imagine.) By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico.
 


High integrity, ethical invitation
 
We invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico. We invite a million people into our country legally more than all other countries combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation. 
 
It’s time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.















© 2007 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved

Police: Speed a factor in Niskayuna, NY car crash; driver charged with numerous traffic violations


Published 2:24 pm, Saturday, July 4, 2015
    H and K Towing works to remove two vehicles involved in a crash at 3801 Albany St. on Friday, July 3, 2015, in Niskayuna, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union) Photo: Cindy Schultz
  • H and K Towing works to remove two vehicles involved in a crash at 3801 Albany St. on Friday, July 3, 2015, in Niskayuna, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

NISKAYUNA, NY

A Schenectady man faces misdemeanor charges, including imprudent speed, after a two-car wreck Friday afternoon that sent both vehicles perilously close to a home on Albany Street, according to Niskayuna police. 

John Becker, 42, also is charged with aggravated unlicensed operation and operating out of ignition interlock restriction as well as several motor vehicle and traffic violations in connection with the wreck. 

It was not immediately clear why Becker had an interlock system on the 1992 Ford Ranger. 

Police said Becker's pickup truck collided with a car driven by Paul Avery of Schenectady. Both vehicles ended up against a home at 3801 Albany St. near the intersection with Mohrhoff Avenue. 

Avery had to be extricated from his vehicle by firefighters from the Stanford Heights Fire Department.

77th homicide victim in Milwaukee so far this year: 14-year-old shot multiple times, killed after Facebook fight over girl

14-year-old shot, killed near lakefront after Facebook fight over girl

Milwaukee police try to revive a 14-year-old boy who was shot Friday night.

Milwaukee police try to revive a 14-year-old boy who was shot Friday night.

A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed Friday night in the 2200 block of N. Lake Drive, in an incident police said was related to one group "feuding with another group on Facebook over a girl."

Milwaukee police Chief Edward Flynn briefed reporters near the scene of the incident, which occurred just before 10:30 p.m. Streets around N. Lake Drive and E. North Ave. were closed, the area ringed with police tape. 

The incident happened shortly after the U.S. Bank Fireworks. Crowds often watch the fireworks from a nearby hill overlooking Lake Michigan. 

Based on tweets from reporters at the briefing, Flynn said eight or nine shots had been fired. He was quoted as saying the boy was "far too young to be murdered." The boy has not been identified.

A news release from the department said "amid the chaos, responding MPD officers performed CPR on the victim and were able to restore his heartbeat. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he later died."

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, interviewed Saturday at a Fourth of July parade in the city's Bayview neighborhood, said he shares the frustration of many residents over violence in the city this year. 

"Their anger should be directed at whoever had the handgun," Barrett said. "I want to see where the gun came from."

The killing happened despite a large police presence in the area, Barrett said.
"There were a lot of police officers in the neighborhood," the mayor said. "Chief Flynn was less than two blocks away."

The boy is the 77th homicide victim in Milwaukee so far this year. He is the sixth child age 17 or younger homicide victim this year. Of those, three were killed in suspected child abuse or domestic violence situations. Three others, including the 14-year-old boy, were killed by gunfire.

Police ask anyone with information on the shooting to call (414) 935-7360.

Although we do not know the identity of the shooter or the dead teen, this kind of behavior is typically displayed by blacks or Hispanics.  We will wait to see the release of their identity.