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We haven't had this category yet.

I'm certainly curious what this is all about, "Police later searched Harris’ home and discovered that his porch was covered in slippery lubricant."

‘This Could Have Been… Different’: Armed White Man In Camouflage Vest Turned Away from Black Church, Foiling Mass Shooting Attempt​

A man armed with a shotgun was prevented entry into a predominantly Black Pennsylvania church, possibly thwarting a racially motivated mass shooting.

The 38-year-old white male, Jeffrey Harris, had failed to gain permission to enter the Greater Dominion Church in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Aug. 27. In response, Harris raised his loaded 12-gauge shotgun at two women standing at an intersection on the corner of Melrose Avenue and Fourth Street near the location of the church.



Police officers received a criminal complaint at 9 a.m. that morning about the incident between the two women and Harris and went to investigate.

The officers, in an interview with church Bishop Kenneth Crumb, were told that Harris was denied entry to the church because the service was too packed. Crumb told the officers that had he just come an hour later, he would’ve been allowed entry and was grateful this did not happen.

“When you just think about how close we came to having the same kind of horrific situation that we had at the synagogue in Pittsburgh, it’s like the Grace of God. Thank God for his grace, for his covering over us, because this could have been a total different way,” Crumb told WTAE-TV.

“There is a whole lot of mass murders going on, there is shootings, particularly in the African-American community, people targeting our communities,” Crumb said.

Harris would eventually be confronted by Ambridge police and would point his gun at the officer on the scene. The officer called for backup and, with some assistance, managed to arrest Harris, who now faces several charges, such as aggravated assault and terrorist threats.

Crystal meth was discovered on Harris’ body after the arrest.

Police later searched Harris’ home and discovered that his porch was covered in slippery lubricant.

Officers even found a weapons case with a drilled hole “creating a tactical position from which the occupant would fire at the front door from a protected position,” according to the report.

A bomb squad was called to Harris’ home to deactivate a device suspected to be an explosive. Later, officers found even more crystal meth, a cache of weapons and a handwritten note detailing plans for a mass shooting.

Harris’ failed attempt was less than 24 hours after a white man in tactical gear killed three Black people inside and outside a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, before turning one of his guns on himself.

In Harris’ case, the bond was set at $975,000. A preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 5.

Have never come close to winning a bracket. What thoughts you got? Who's winning?

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era bipartisan criminal justice overhaul.



The justices took the case of Mark Pulsifer, an Iowa man who was convicted of distributing at least 50 grams of methamphetamine, to settle a dispute among federal courts over the meaning of the word “and” in a muddy provision of the 2018 First Step Act.


The law's so-called safety valve provision is meant to spare low-level, non-violent drug dealers who agree to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors from having to face often longer mandatory sentences.




Some courts had concluded the use of the word indeed means “and,” but others decided that it means “or.” A defendant's eligibility for a shorter sentence depended on the outcome.


“Today, we agree with the Government's view of the criminal-history provision,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority in the 6-3 decision that did not split the justices along liberal-conservative lines.


In dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch referred to the First Step Act as possibly “the most significant criminal-justice reform bill in a generation.” But under the court's decision, “thousands more people in the federal criminal justice system will be denied a chance — just a chance at” a reduced sentence, Gorsuch wrote, joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor.


Nearly 6,000 people convicted of drug trafficking in the 2021 budget year alone are in the pool of those who might have been eligible for reduced sentences, according to data compiled by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.





The provision lists three criteria for allowing judges to forgo a mandatory minimum sentence that basically looks to the severity of prior crimes. Congress wrote the section in the negative so that a judge can exercise discretion in sentencing if a defendant “does not have” three sorts of criminal history.


Before reaching their decision, the justices puzzled over how to determine eligibility for the safety valve — whether any of the conditions is enough to disqualify someone or whether it takes all three to be ineligible.


Pulsifer's lawyers argued that all three conditions must apply before the longer sentence can be imposed. The government said just one condition is enough to merit the mandatory minimum.


Kagan wrote that the language “creates an eligibility checklist, and demands that a defendant satisfy every one of its conditions.”


Two of the three conditions applied to Pulsifer. The trial court and the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled he was eligible for a mandatory sentence of at least 15 years. He actually received a 13 1/2-year sentence for unrelated reasons.


Now 61, Pulsifer is not scheduled to be released from prison until 2031, according to federal Bureau of Prison records.


Congress could still change the law if it thinks the court was wrong.


The case is Pulsifer v. U.S., 22-340.

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Historical moment when black and white tv was switched to colored live

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Are most of the folks dying from fentanyl overdoes actually seeking fentanyl, or is this dealers buying fentanyl to give a cheap kick to placebos they’re selling as Percocet, or MDMA, etc?

If the Hawks are gonna have a shot at the NCAA tourney, what upsets should we be rooting for tmrw? Obviously, this is a long shot but I'm talking about the perfect storm of teams losing for us to sneak into the tourney. And the perfect storm of teams winning to improve our NET ranking.

Definitely want Virginia to lose bc they are just barely ahead of us on the bubble.
Iowa State...I hate to say it LOL...but we need them to win the Big 12 for our NET purposes

Who else should we be cheering for?

like I said, this is a long shot but I think there's still a path for us to be dancing if everything falls into place.

Figure this will be the last we see of this team until next week.

I’ve been thinking they could make a deep run in the NIT but now I have my doubts. No physicality, no toughness, no defense.

OSU is clearly gelling by the game.
All their young players are playing their best BB of the season.

They hang in strong vs physical Illini.
Two teams that play tough BB.
Good game.

This is a big deal.

No more 6% stuff. Will drop between 25%-50%.

Dark Brandon?

His dad gives off a very creepy vibe. Seems nice and all but I’m thinking things get a little different at home after three fingers of Wild Turkey. I hope everything is ok.

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It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Hey, gang.

My (no pics) son and I are going to San Antonio in a couple of weeks as part of our annual Grizzlies NBA road trip. We're flying into Austin (better/cheaper options) early on a Friday morning and flying out Sunday night.

We'll have a rental car and are staying at a hotel on the Riverwalk. So far the only thing planned is the game on Friday night. (my son is in his 20s)

1. Any must do things in either city? (Riverwalk? Alamo? Missions?)
2. What are some good local restaurants - definitely TexMex/BBQ, but also other things.

I've been to both cities a handful of times for work, but never for fun, so any and all suggestions are appreciated. TIA!

Sad how bad we play defensively. Every team we play shoots lights out from the perimeter. I lost count how many wide open threes they had tonight.

Just finished. I thought it was pretty good. Austin has really grown and Spencer & Iowa were very instrumental in his growth.

The quintessential white athlete. Johnny and Jenny Wonderbread.

Works pretty well in women's basketball which has 0 parity nationwide but not so much in men's basketball, where 5 brothers from the field house, playing pick up basketball would wipe this team.

But then again, the State of Iowa, has a type which caters to its demographics.

You know and I know, if Caitlin Clark were black, the reception to her success within the State of Iowa would be tepid at best and some racial shit would be tossed by one of you.

This is my final PSA.

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Downfall: The Case Against Boeing​

That's alotta dough for just one year.

Assuming Fran will be back, and everyone who went through Senior Day does indeed leave, and we don't have any portal changes, what will your interest level be next season?
10=I never miss a game, and go to as many as I can
1=Rat's Ass