Dallas police say almost 120 people in the last five days have overdosed on the synthetic marijuana K2.
Police sources say that the drug likely originated from a Dallas supplier.
The director of prevention programs for the Council on Alcohol & Drug Abuse in Dallas said that while K2 use on the whole is not rising, addicts are always looking for new suppliers who might carry tainted forms of the drug.
K2, which is supposed to mimic the effects of natural marijuana, can have multiple toxic impacts on the body. The recent overdose victims in Dallas suffered comas and some had to be sedated because of uncontrolled tremors and seizures.
Police say the drug is difficult to regulate because the makers keep changing the ingredients, which technically make it a new drug. Lawmakers would have to pass laws to make every single version of the drug illegal before police can take action to stop the drug’s use.
A 17-year-old Minnesota boy has been taken into custody and charged with planning to kill his family and then go to his school and detonate a series of bombs.
The teen suspect, whose name is being withheld by officials, faces charges in juvenile court including four counts of attempted first-degree murder, six counts of possessing explosive or incendiary devices, and two counts of criminal damage to property.
Police were tipped off when a resident noticed something suspicious happening at a self-storage facility.
“This case is a classic example of citizens doing the right thing in calling the police when things seem out of place. By doing the right thing, (an) unimaginable tragedy has been prevented,” Capt. Kris Markeson of the Waseca police said at a press conference.
The teen admitted to police that he planned to kill his mother, father and sister before setting a fire in the rural part of the county to distract emergency responders. The he planned to set fires at the junior and senior high schools before throwing bombs and shooting as many students as possible.
The boy reportedly idolized the shooters of the 1999 Columbine massacre.
A Pennsylvania woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after being sentenced in connection to the killing of her newborn child.
Amanda Hein, 26, had gone to a bar in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania last August to watch a pay-per-view wrestling event with three men. She went into labor and gave birth during the event in the women’s bathroom. She then wrapped the newborn in a plastic bag, placed it in the toilet’s tank, went outside for a cigarette and then returned to watch the wrestling event.
The baby was found the next day when the cleaning crew could not flush the toilet. The county medical examiner says the child was born alive and suffocated in the plastic bag.
She had pleaded guilty to murder as part of a plea deal last month but it was up to a jury to decide if it was pre-meditated first-degree murder or third-degree murder. The jury went with first-degree which called for a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Hein’s defense attorneys claimed that her actions were spur-of-the-moment out of shock because she did not know she was pregnant.
A Pennsylvania woman who wrapped her newborn in a piece of plastic and then dumped him in a toilet at a sports bar has pleaded guilty to a general charge of murder.
The plea of 27-year-old Amanda Hein of Allentown entered the plea during a pre-trial hearing. The general plea means that a jury will decide in a trial next month if the charge should be first degree murder, which would carry a life prison term, or third degree murder which would jail her for 20 to 40 years.
Hein acknowledged that she had been taking medication for severe depression at the time of the killing but that she was aware what she was doing at the time.
The body of the child was found in a toilet at Starters Pub at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in August and the coroner determined the boy was alive when he was placed in the plastic and the toilet.
Prosecutors had initially planned to seek the death penalty but decided her mental health issues made it very unlikely that she would be sentenced to death.
The University of Michigan is hosting an exhibition whose purpose is to glorify and glamorize abortion and even mock God with a poster claiming that God is a woman who endorses the killing of babies via abortion.
The horrific display, titled “4000 Years For Choice”, is an exhibition of posters promoting abortion practices through the years. The University has a web page describing the exhibit as promoting a “means to reclaim reproductive freedom as a deeply personal and life-sustaining act.”
The exhibit also includes a poster that reads, “Abortion is a gift from God.” However, the “O” in God is the universal symbol for a woman, implying that God is a woman and that “she” gave abortion to women so they didn’t have to worry about a child.
Other posters reading, “Abortion is a blessing” and “anything 46 million women do every year can’t be immoral.”
The program is sponsored by the Program for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, an official arm of the University of Michigan. The program receives public funding. When questioned by The College Fix regarding whether the other point of view on abortion would be presented on campus, calls were referred to Planned Parenthood.
The University of Michigan administration has not issued a statement on using public funding to promote abortion.
The case of an alleged drunk driver who drove into a crowd of concertgoers at Austin’s South by Southwest Festival has taken a dark turn.
Police now say that 21-year-old Rashad Owens deliberately drove through the crowd of concertgoers after fleeing from police on suspicion of drunken driving.
“For me from his actions, from what I’ve seen this is an individual that showed no regard for human beings. He plowed through in his attempt to get away,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told Fox News.
Owens was scheduled to perform later that night. He has a long criminal record and the car he was driving had been reported stolen.
Owens killed two people who were riding a moped and before swerving around a police officer that tried to stop him and drove through the crowd. He was subdued after trying to flee on foot after driving into a taxi.
The festive mood of Austin, Texas’s South By Southwest Festival has been destroyed after a drunk driver drove into a crowd of concertgoers.
The driver also struck a moped outside the concert venue and killed the couple riding it. The car then struck 23 people outside The Mohawk nightclub, with five critically injured.
Police say the suspect has to be subdued with a taser after ramming a van and then trying to flee on foot.
Officials said that the driver, who was obviously drunk, would face two counts of capital murder charges and at least 23 counts of aggravated assault. Should any of the five critically injured concertgoers die from their wounds, additional murder charges will be added to the indictment.
The section of Red River Street near the incident has been closed and the club canceled all events. No word on whether they will open tonight for any concerts or events.
A grown man who wanted a youngster’s iPad punched an 8-year-old Minneapolis boy in the face.
The boy was following his aunt from a daycare building to the aunt’s car. Aaron Stillday, 32, ran up to the child, punched him in the face, grabbed the iPad and ran up the street.
Stillday, who has been arrested 60 times, made the mistake of attacking the boy in front of Mohammad Armeli.
Armeli had been working at a nearby restaurant when he saw Stillday attack the child. Armeli immediately began to chase the thief and followed him for a half a mile.
When Stillday was caught, he responded by smashing the iPad on the sidewalk before he could be subdued.
“This is the scum of the earth,” Armeli said of Stillday. “You cannot hit a child like that. Don’t hit him for his iPad, or for anything.”
The good news from the incident: the Apple Store in Minneapolis, when they were informed of what happened to the boy, gave him a brand new iPad.
The 8th Commandment clearly meant little to whoever broke into the safe at Lakewood Church and stole over $600,000 in donations Sunday night.
The Houston, Texas church, home of internationally known pastor Joel Osteen, reported Monday morning that someone had broken into their safe and taken away all the donations received during the weekend’s services.
Cash, checks and credit card information was stolen. The church says that the funds were insured, so the church will not lose revenue, but that there was no way to assure someone would not try to use the stolen account numbers for other kinds of fraud.
Donors were encouraged to check their accounts for fraudulent activity and to take steps to protect their accounts.
Church officials say $200,000 of the theft was in cash.
Houston police are investigating the theft. The police are reviewing surveillance video from inside the church but have not named any suspects.
A new reality TV program ordered by WEtv will feature couples having sex inside a soundproof box and then talking about it.
The program, called “Sex Box”, is based on a British show of the same name. The show will put couples inside a soundproof booth in the middle of a stage to have sex while a panel of marital counselors discusses issues with a host.
When the couples are finished, they walk out of the “sex box” to talk about problems in their relationship with the counselors on the panel.
The network says the “in the moment” portion of the show “fosters conversation about intimacy that are completely filter-less and emotionally honest.”
“Sex Box is an intriguing and original concept,” Marc Juris, president of WE, said about the show.
