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It Won't Be Trump.
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Three Sex Offenders Arrested in Single Day After Crossing Texas Border
McAllen Station Border Patrol agents came upon a Mexican national on Thursday after he illegally crossed the border near Hidalgo, Texas. The agents took him to the station for a biometric background investigation. The investigation revealed the man as a previous conviction from a court in DeKalb County, Georgia for sexual exploitation of children, according to information received from Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol officials.
Agents patrolling near the border town of Mission, Texas, later that day encountered a Salvadoran man who illegally crossed the border. A records check revealed that a Texas court in Fredricksburg convicted the Salvadoran national for sexual battery and sentenced him to 12 months in jail.
Also on Thursday, Weslaco Station agents teamed up with Hidalgo County Constables Office Precinct 4 deputies after receiving information about a human smuggling stash house. During the raid on the stash house, officials apprehended nine illegal aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The agents transported the illegal aliens to the Weslaco Station for processing.
During a biometric background investigation of the migrants, agents learned that one of the Guatemalan nationals has a previous arrest and conviction in Kansas City Missouri, for a charge of statutory rape, Border Patrol officials reported.
The previously deported criminal aliens could face federal felony charges for aggravated re-entry after removal as a sex offender. If convicted on those charges...
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10 Offbeat Stories You Might Have Missed This Week (12/15/18)
With another week in the history books, it’s time to sit back and review some of the stories that made the news over the last few days. Click here if you want to learn about the major headlines; otherwise, read on for unexpected and outlandish stories.
Even though Christmas is fast approaching, this week’s list feels better fitted for Halloween. There’s talk of ghost pirates, Dracula ants, ancient skeletons, alien noises, guys in robot suits, and, of course, a river of chocolate.
Two nuns have been accused of embezzling at least half a million dollars and using the money to take lavish gambling vacations.
Up until this year, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper served as principal for the St. James Catholic School in Torrance, California, while her friend, Sister Lana Chang, was a teacher. The two had access to an account nobody else was aware of, which was opened in 1997 under the name of “St. James Convent” instead of “St. James School.” The nuns often used it to embezzle tuitions, donations, and other fees. The $500,000 figure is just what forensic auditors were able to find by going through six years of bank records, and the real sum could be much higher.
The two nuns enjoyed taking vacations to casinos and, according to a lawyer for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, “used the account as their personal account.” Whenever questioned about their gambling trips, the duo said they were gifts from a rich relative. Meanwhile, parents were told that the school operated on a shoestring budget, and teachers were denied salary increases.
Both Kreuper and Chang have retired. Parents were further outraged when they found out that the archdiocese will not be pursuing criminal charges against the two nuns because they showed remorse.[1]
Photo credit: Brittany Dolan/NOAA Fisheries
There’s a new fad out there which has baffled scientists and poses a serious health risk: sticking eels up your nose. There’s just one catch, though. It’s not teenagers who are doing it but rather juvenile Hawaiian monk seals.
The story got picked up after the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) posted a picture of a seal with a dead spotted eel stuck up its nose on its Facebook page. The image puzzled animal experts, who’d never seen the bizarre phenomenon before. According to NOAA, the organization has been monitoring the endangered species for almost 40 years and had only noticed the odd incident on a few occasions, and they all happened in the last three years.
Charles Littnan, head of NOAA’s Hawaiian monk seal research program, said the first instance occurred in 2016.[2] He received an e-mail from a field researcher which, basically, said, “Found seal with eel stuck in nose. What do we do?” There was no protocol set in place back then, but now, standard procedure is to capture the animal and pull the eel through the nostril. So far, all the eels have died, but none of the Hawaiian monk seals seemed affected by the incident.
There’s still the question of why is this happening, and so far, there is no satisfying answer. NOAA has ruled out the work of a deranged person with a vendetta against seals. Littnan said it could be that the seal is regurgitating the eel, or the fish purposely swam inside the nose while the seal was hunting it, but doesn’t consider either hypothesis plausible.
Photo credit: Amanda Teague
A woman from Northern Ireland ended her marriage with a 300-year-old ghost pirate.
Amanda Teague first made headlines at the start of the year, when she announced that she’d wed a man named Jack. Nothing unusual at first, except that Jack was an 18th-century pirate from Haiti who was executed for thievery. The 45-year-old woman, who happens to work as a Jack Sparrow impersonator, had her ceremony in international waters off the coast of Ireland. A medium was present so that Jack could say, “I do.”
Their love story began in 2014, when Jack began visiting Teague at nights. The two spent a lot of time together, developed feelings for one another, and even started having sex. That’s when Teague decided that it would be proper for them to get married, even though Jack “would have been happy like most men with just sex.”[3]
Alas, it seems like it was not meant to be, as Teague recently announced that their marriage is over. She said she will explain everything “in due course” but, for the moment, advised everyone to be careful when taking part in spiritualism.
The Dracula ant has claimed the title of fastest movement in nature. Specifically, it can snap its jaws 5,000 times faster than a human can blink an eye.
The tiny creature can be found throughout Australia and tropical parts of Africa and Asia. It draws its name from the fact that it engages in larval hemolymph feeding, more colorfully known as nondestructive cannibalism. In other words, it sucks the blood of its own larvae.
Another unique feature of the ant is its mandibles. Their tips are pressed against one another, spring-loaded and ready for action. Instead of using them to bite its prey, though, the ant lets one mandible slide off the other one, smacking the target. This likely leaves the other critter stunned and fit to be delivered to the nest.
The motion of the mandibles is similar to a finger snap, except that it is much faster. Researchers from the University of Illinois and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History had to use high-speed cameras to capture the movement. They discovered that the jaws snap at 320 kilometers per hour (200 mph), making them the fastest movement in nature.[4]
Photo credit: MBKh Media
Russia recently hosted a technology forum dedicated to robotics. State television channel Russia-24 lavished particular praise on a robot named Boris. There was just one problem, though—Boris was a guy in a suit.
Soon after the channel showed footage of the “robot,” various blogs and news agencies started bringing the report into question. Some questioned why Boris had no external sensors or why it made many human-like movements. Others pointed out that certain photographs clearly showed that Boris had a visible neckline. The clincher came courtesy of MBKh Media, a news agency which obtained a picture of the actor prior to putting on the Boris head.[5]
As it turned out, Boris was actually “Alyosha the Robot.” It is a pricy £3,000 costume made by a company called Show Robots, which creates the “near total illusion that before you stands a real robot.”
The Proyektoria Technology Forum is hosted every year and is dedicated to the “future intellectual leaders of Russia.” According to its organizers, they never tried to pass off Boris as a genuine machine and don’t know how the Russian television channel got confused.
Photo credit: Reuters
It was a sad day in the German town of Westonnen as a ton of chocolate spilled onto the street.
On Monday evening, a tank tipped over in the factory of confectionery company DreiMeister. There was so much overturned chocolate that it burst out of the door and onto the nearby road. The cold weather quickly hardened the sugary treat, and the road had to be closed due to its Willy Wonka-style makeover.
Twenty-five firefighters armed with shovels worked hard to remove the chocolate, which covered around 10 square meters (108 ft2) of road surface.[6] They also had to use hot water and blowtorches to melt and remove the confection, which got stuck inside cracks and holes.
Company president Markus Luckey said that standard operations would resume on Wednesday and assured people with a sweet tooth that this setback will not lead to a chocolate-free Christmas.
It’s not often that Santa Claus goes on the “naughty list,” but one Kris Kringle from the English town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, had a...
Even though Christmas is fast approaching, this week’s list feels better fitted for Halloween. There’s talk of ghost pirates, Dracula ants, ancient skeletons, alien noises, guys in robot suits, and, of course, a river of chocolate.
10Sister Act 3: Viva Las Vegas
Two nuns have been accused of embezzling at least half a million dollars and using the money to take lavish gambling vacations.
Up until this year, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper served as principal for the St. James Catholic School in Torrance, California, while her friend, Sister Lana Chang, was a teacher. The two had access to an account nobody else was aware of, which was opened in 1997 under the name of “St. James Convent” instead of “St. James School.” The nuns often used it to embezzle tuitions, donations, and other fees. The $500,000 figure is just what forensic auditors were able to find by going through six years of bank records, and the real sum could be much higher.
The two nuns enjoyed taking vacations to casinos and, according to a lawyer for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, “used the account as their personal account.” Whenever questioned about their gambling trips, the duo said they were gifts from a rich relative. Meanwhile, parents were told that the school operated on a shoestring budget, and teachers were denied salary increases.
Both Kreuper and Chang have retired. Parents were further outraged when they found out that the archdiocese will not be pursuing criminal charges against the two nuns because they showed remorse.[1]
9The Mysterious Seal-Eel Connection
Photo credit: Brittany Dolan/NOAA Fisheries
There’s a new fad out there which has baffled scientists and poses a serious health risk: sticking eels up your nose. There’s just one catch, though. It’s not teenagers who are doing it but rather juvenile Hawaiian monk seals.
The story got picked up after the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) posted a picture of a seal with a dead spotted eel stuck up its nose on its Facebook page. The image puzzled animal experts, who’d never seen the bizarre phenomenon before. According to NOAA, the organization has been monitoring the endangered species for almost 40 years and had only noticed the odd incident on a few occasions, and they all happened in the last three years.
Charles Littnan, head of NOAA’s Hawaiian monk seal research program, said the first instance occurred in 2016.[2] He received an e-mail from a field researcher which, basically, said, “Found seal with eel stuck in nose. What do we do?” There was no protocol set in place back then, but now, standard procedure is to capture the animal and pull the eel through the nostril. So far, all the eels have died, but none of the Hawaiian monk seals seemed affected by the incident.
There’s still the question of why is this happening, and so far, there is no satisfying answer. NOAA has ruled out the work of a deranged person with a vendetta against seals. Littnan said it could be that the seal is regurgitating the eel, or the fish purposely swam inside the nose while the seal was hunting it, but doesn’t consider either hypothesis plausible.
8Shiver Me Timbers
Photo credit: Amanda Teague
A woman from Northern Ireland ended her marriage with a 300-year-old ghost pirate.
Amanda Teague first made headlines at the start of the year, when she announced that she’d wed a man named Jack. Nothing unusual at first, except that Jack was an 18th-century pirate from Haiti who was executed for thievery. The 45-year-old woman, who happens to work as a Jack Sparrow impersonator, had her ceremony in international waters off the coast of Ireland. A medium was present so that Jack could say, “I do.”
Their love story began in 2014, when Jack began visiting Teague at nights. The two spent a lot of time together, developed feelings for one another, and even started having sex. That’s when Teague decided that it would be proper for them to get married, even though Jack “would have been happy like most men with just sex.”[3]
Alas, it seems like it was not meant to be, as Teague recently announced that their marriage is over. She said she will explain everything “in due course” but, for the moment, advised everyone to be careful when taking part in spiritualism.
7The Speed Of The Dracula Ant
The Dracula ant has claimed the title of fastest movement in nature. Specifically, it can snap its jaws 5,000 times faster than a human can blink an eye.
The tiny creature can be found throughout Australia and tropical parts of Africa and Asia. It draws its name from the fact that it engages in larval hemolymph feeding, more colorfully known as nondestructive cannibalism. In other words, it sucks the blood of its own larvae.
Another unique feature of the ant is its mandibles. Their tips are pressed against one another, spring-loaded and ready for action. Instead of using them to bite its prey, though, the ant lets one mandible slide off the other one, smacking the target. This likely leaves the other critter stunned and fit to be delivered to the nest.
The motion of the mandibles is similar to a finger snap, except that it is much faster. Researchers from the University of Illinois and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History had to use high-speed cameras to capture the movement. They discovered that the jaws snap at 320 kilometers per hour (200 mph), making them the fastest movement in nature.[4]
6Boris The Not-So-Robot
Photo credit: MBKh Media
Russia recently hosted a technology forum dedicated to robotics. State television channel Russia-24 lavished particular praise on a robot named Boris. There was just one problem, though—Boris was a guy in a suit.
Soon after the channel showed footage of the “robot,” various blogs and news agencies started bringing the report into question. Some questioned why Boris had no external sensors or why it made many human-like movements. Others pointed out that certain photographs clearly showed that Boris had a visible neckline. The clincher came courtesy of MBKh Media, a news agency which obtained a picture of the actor prior to putting on the Boris head.[5]
As it turned out, Boris was actually “Alyosha the Robot.” It is a pricy £3,000 costume made by a company called Show Robots, which creates the “near total illusion that before you stands a real robot.”
The Proyektoria Technology Forum is hosted every year and is dedicated to the “future intellectual leaders of Russia.” According to its organizers, they never tried to pass off Boris as a genuine machine and don’t know how the Russian television channel got confused.
5No Use Crying Over Spilled Chocolate
Photo credit: Reuters
It was a sad day in the German town of Westonnen as a ton of chocolate spilled onto the street.
On Monday evening, a tank tipped over in the factory of confectionery company DreiMeister. There was so much overturned chocolate that it burst out of the door and onto the nearby road. The cold weather quickly hardened the sugary treat, and the road had to be closed due to its Willy Wonka-style makeover.
Twenty-five firefighters armed with shovels worked hard to remove the chocolate, which covered around 10 square meters (108 ft2) of road surface.[6] They also had to use hot water and blowtorches to melt and remove the confection, which got stuck inside cracks and holes.
Company president Markus Luckey said that standard operations would resume on Wednesday and assured people with a sweet tooth that this setback will not lead to a chocolate-free Christmas.
4Bad Santa
It’s not often that Santa Claus goes on the “naughty list,” but one Kris Kringle from the English town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, had a...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #471
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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