Julianne Grohowski, Reporter - ABC News 57 (South Bend, Indiana)
Stephan: This weekend in South Bend, Indiana.
Neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana were a double homicide occurred. Credit: ABC News 57 South Bend
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA — South Bend Police are investigating a double homicide that took place early this morning. Officers responded to reports of a shooting just after midnight near Jefferson and Wellington St., finding one victim with gunshot wounds. Then, officers later discovered that another victim of the shooting had been found near Eddy and Cedar St., also with gun-related injuries. Both victims have died.
Saturday’s double homicide adds to a list of fatal shootings that South Bend has seen recently. While police believe that this shooting was an isolated incident, it still leaves many people in the community worried.
“You never know which way a bullet’s going to go,” says Johanna Foster, nearby resident to Lasalle Park Homes.
Johanna Foster collapsed to her living room floor last night after she heard shots being fired just down the street from her house. These gunshots she heard resulted in a deadly shooting, leaving two victims dead. She says this is not the only time […]
Stephan: This was the weekend in Houston, Texas. Also this weekend a man shot his wife and then committed suicide with his gun, and five days ago a 14-year boy was shot while bicycling.
Houston, Texas, Houston County sheriffs at shooting crime scene Credit: Twitter @@shannonrwatts
Two people died and three were injured after another tragic shooting, this one occurred on Sunday afternoon at a flea market in Houston, Texas where there were about a thousand people shopping, according to official information released by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
How did the Shooting in Houston occur?
In an impromptu press conference held at the scene, police reported that they had received an emergency call at around 1:07 pm (local time), Harris County officers responded and were alerted to a confrontation between five people of Hispanic descent.
The shooting occurred at a bazaar that was set up in the 8729 block of Airline Drive, this area is better known as Tia Pancha.
According to the same official information, preliminary investigations are being carried out, but at the moment it is known that the five people involved were all shot and wounded, as mentioned above, two of them died at the scene and the others were each taken to different hospitals.
The five involved are men under 20 years of age, teenagers […]
HANNAH FRY, RICHARD WINTON, LAURA NEWBERRY, JEONG PARK, and ANH DO, Reporters - Los Angeles Times
Stephan: This was Sunday in Laguna Woods, California during a church service.
A sheriff’s deputy ties crime scene tape in front of Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods on Sunday. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
One person was killed and five others were wounded Sunday after a gunman opened fire on a Taiwanese church congregation in Laguna Woods.
The shooting occurred at 1:26 p.m. inside Geneva Presbyterian Church on the 24000 block of El Toro Road. Authorities said the shooting happened during a lunch banquet following a morning church service, and that a group of church-goers “hog-tied” the shooter’s leg with an extension cord and took two weapons from the suspect.
The Sheriff’s Department said it detained the suspect and recovered two commercially available handguns from the scene. Of the five who were wounded, four sustained critical injuries, officials said. A motive remains unclear, and officials said they don’t know whether the shooting was driven by hate.
“That group of churchgoers displayed what we believe is exceptional heroism and bravery,” Undersheriff Jeff Hallock said, later adding, “It’s safe to say that had they not intervened this situation could have […]
Sonali Kolhatkar, Founder, Host and Executive Producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show and Writing Fellow for the Economy for All project at the Independent Media Institute. - AlterNet / Independent Media Institute
Stephan: To me it seems increasingly probable that it is already too late to stop massive damage to the earth's matrix of life, and the death of millions as a result of climate change. And all of this is because we cannot seem to wake up to making wellbeing our first priority. If the rich think they are going to have enough money to protect themselves from climate change they are in for a very rude awakening. Nowhere on planet earth is going to be untouched by what is occurring.
Fossil fuel lobbyists have larger presence at COP26 than any individual country
Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently dropped a bombshell announcement that should have garnered news headlines in the major global and U.S. media, but did not. New WMO research concludes that “[t]here is a 50:50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level for at least one of the next five years.”
WMO Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas explained, “The 1.5 degree Celsius figure is not some random statistic. It is rather an indicator of the point at which climate impacts will become increasingly harmful for people and indeed the entire planet.”
In 2015, the likelihood of reaching that threshold within five years was nearly zero. In 2017 it was 10 percent, and today it is 50 percent. As we continue to spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in dizzying amounts, that […]
Stephan: White supremacy, male dominance christofascism is the passionate worldview of about a third of Americans, and it is tearing America apart as this report discusses.
An anti-abortion demonstrator holds a cross near the unscalable fence that was erected around the Supreme Court after Samuel Alito’s draft decision, which would overturn Roe, was leaked. Credit: Jim Watson / Getty
The court’s apparent decision to deprive women of a constitutional right to control their bodies, health, and destiny is the direct consequence of the pact between the Republican Party and American’s religious nationalists. Tellingly, the authoritarian origins of the decision are written into the draft opinion itself, which, should it end up being the majority holding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, will serve as a model and platform for advancing a wider assault on individual rights and American democracy for the benefit of a privileged few. Women of childbearing age are among the first victims of the authoritarian movement that brought us a radicalized Supreme Court. They won’t be the last.
Since it is difficult to imagine a right more fundamental to our constitutional system than the right to control one’s own body and health, how does a radicalized court justify its dismantling? The […]
