Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of cocaine and was sentenced to one year of supervised probation.
As a member of Congress, Radel has co-sponsored legislation to change the nation's mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws and voted for a bill that called for states to drug test people who receive food stamps.
Well he doesn't need food stamps, but he only gets supervised probation.
The freshman congressman, who represents a solidly Republican district in southwest Florida. Radel was elected last year with Tea Party support in the Fort Myers-Naples area district. He was doing more than sipping tea...
According to USA Today, Radel was caught buying drugs in what official described as a sting operation. A drug dealer who told law enforcement officials that one of his customers was a member of Congress helped set up a buy and Radel bought the cocaine.
A federal judge in Missouri has given a stay of execution Tuesday to white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin just hours before his scheduled death. Why?????
Franklin, 63, was scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing Gerald Gordon, 42, in a sniper attack outside a suburban St. Louis synagogue in 1977. It was one of as many as 20 killings committed by Franklin, who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980.
McBride was killed on Nov. 2 in Dearborn Heights, Mich., when she went to 54-year-old Theodore Paul Wafer's porch seeking help after a car crash, according to authorities.
Police say McBride crashed a car in nearby Detroit and knocked on the homeowner's door afterwards, looking for assistance. McBride was "bloodied, disoriented and appeared to be confused" after the crash, according to witnesses, Worthy said. Wafer told police he thought McBride was breaking in; he also said his shotgun went off by accident.
Nearly 70 years after the execution of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. for the killing of two white girls, advocates have taken the unprecedented step of asking a South Carolina court to grant a new trial to clear his name.
The request for a new trial is the culmination of a lengthy investigation, started years ago by local historian George Frierson, whose work brought attention to what he calls the barbaric death of a child. They sat him on a book to prop him up high enough to take his life.
This year 2013 - KKK neighborhood watch upsets neighbors
After the KKK blankets a Missouri neighborhood at night with recruitment flyers to join the group's neighborhood watch program, a resident talks with KYTV's Mike Landis about knowing the Klan is targeting their area.
2012 whites in Delaware Lynching Black Men - Louisiana-styled Cover-ups in Delaware
"Some people might have expected to see an increase in the overt lynching and murder of Black men by white extremists under the Obama administration due to the backlash of white right-wing conservative resentment. What no one could have predicted is that the increase in white extremist murders of Black people would occur in liberal states such as Delaware."
Issa said. "Lynchings are political. They're more than just a murder. And they have a long history of white supremacist behavior.
Now that allegations of modern-day lynchings in Dover, Delaware have began to gain steam within the public’s eye, it’s clear that the death of Charles Conley in October 2010, and Johnny Clark May 2012, which were all within extremely close proximity of Silver Lake Park in Dover are suspicious to say the very least. Conley, a Wesley College Freshman and football standout had only been in Dover for 7 weeks before Edison, New Jersey police notified his parents that their son had died due to an apparent suicide. Two years later, Clark a local Barber was also discovered hanging from a tree in the same area of town. His death was ruled a suicide as well, and started chatter among locals of how much of a coincidence in which the manner, location, and police conclusion on how the pair died paralleled.
Observations: A Lynching in Dover?
Posted By Bill Colley WGMD Host On November 18, 2012 @ 7:54 am In Opinion-Commentary "I do know there is just enough of a possibility Attorney General “Beau” Biden could calm the situation with a few words and a public pronouncement no such evidence exists of racially motivated homicides a few blocks away from Legislative Hall. Silence can be deafening."
:"A pair of Georgia crackers." King, Edward (1875) The Great South
J. Cheney Mason is an attorney, best known as a co-counsel for Casey Anthony Florida murder case. "I'm a cracker, been one for 70 years."
Florida cracker refers to original colonial-era English and American pioneer settlers of the state of Florida, and their descendants.
The term "cracker" was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe boaster. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack meaning "entertaining conversation" (One may be said to "crack" a joke); this term and the Gaelicized spelling "craic" are still in use in Northern England, Ireland and Scotland.
It is documented in William Shakespeare's King John (1595): "What cracker is this ... that deafes our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?"
Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909. Title: A Cracker cowboy
J. Cheney Mason on Piers Morgan: "And she [Rachel Jeantel] was attacked, you know, in the lawyer manner [by Don West]. But I'll repeat, it doesn't mean she wasn't telling the truth many. One thing I did hear her saying, Piers, the people worrying about this comment about being a cracker.
Well, let me tell you something, I'm a cracker, been one for 70 years. In Florida, a cracker means a -- a cracker to us means a person that was born here, were native to Florida.
There's very few of us Florida crackers, less than 30 percent of the population. Thank you very much. It has nothing to do with race."
