[NYP] A Missouri woman chased down her sister’s stolen car and allegedly shot two people inside after the vehicle crashed and caught fire, authorities said Thursday.
Francesca Jones, 32, was driving with three children in a St. Louis suburb when her sister’s Dodge Challenger — which had been stolen a day earlier — passed by her on the road, police said, according to reports.
Jones hightailed after the Challenger, which collided with a truck at an intersection and veered off the road before catching fire, the Kansas City Star reported, citing a Thursday news release from police.
As the Dodge burned, Jones allegedly got out of her car and shot two occupants of the stolen ride, with one of them firing back at her, authorities said.
Jones told investigators she wanted to force the car to stop by ramming into it, authorities said.
It’s unclear what condition the two gunshot victims are in.
It’s also unclear what the relationship is between the children and Jones.
Jones was arrested at the site of the crash where officers found her gun in the trunk of her car, KSDK reported.
Jones is facing three counts each of assault, armed criminal action and endangering the welfare of a child, police said.
Her bond was set at $750,000, the station reported.
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Francesca commences to cuss
And careens off the back of a bus
As she speeds in pursuit,
Making ready to shoot,
With three kids in the car. "What the fuss?"
Ain't No Justice, Just Us, or, "Repo Fran's always intense!"
Bret is moving into an area of moderate to strong southwesterly
shear associated with an amplifying upper-level trough over the
eastern Caribbean Sea. This, combined with some dry air
entrainment, should cause steady weakening starting on Friday
morning and continuing for the next several days. The NHC
intensity forecast continues to trend downward and now calls for
Bret to degenerate to a trough or tropical wave Saturday night or Sunday
Cindy is moving west-northwestward at 285/12 kt. The cyclone is
expected to continue on a west-northwestward heading during the next several days as it is steered by a subtropical ridge to its
northeast. This track keeps Cindy well to the northeast of the
northern Leeward Islands.
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I initially saw the headline and thought 'Baier' and 'Sheehan'.
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USA! USA! USA!
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[The Nation (Pak)] A-Far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro risks losing his right to run for office for eight years, as Brazil’s electoral court begins delivering its ruling Thursday on charges stemming from his unfounded allegations against the voting system.
The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is trying the former president on charges he abused his office and misused state media when, in July 2022, he convened foreign diplomats for a meeting in which he insisted Brazil’s electronic voting machines were susceptible to large-scale fraud.
Armed with a PowerPoint presentation but no hard evidence, Bolsonaro spent nearly an hour making his case to the assembled ambassadors at the presidential palace briefing, which was broadcast live on public TV.
Prosecutors say the event violated electoral law, given that it was held in the middle of Bolsonaro’s polarizing campaign for Brazil’s October 2022 elections, which he narrowly lost to his leftist arch-rival, now-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Losers get the Beria treatment … even if they won.
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Brazilian politics playing out just like here in the good ol US of Ghey. It's...almost like there is an invisible hand directing these events.
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/\ ....almost like there is an invisible hand directing these events.
[The Hill] Ford Motor Co. is preparing to conduct another round of layoffs within the coming weeks.
Sources told the Wall Street Journal Thursday that the round of layoffs is expected to hit salaried workers in the U.S.
The cuts are expected to affect those who work in the company’s electric vehicle (EV) and software division as well as employees who work in Ford’s gas-engine side of the business.
In a statement, a Ford spokesperson told the Journal the recent moves are "part of the ongoing management of our business includes aligning our global staffing to meet future business plans, as well as staying cost competitive as our industry evolves."
This round of layoffs follows one that happened last August that cut jobs for 3,000 white-collar and contract employees. The company also announced earlier this year that it was starting to cut 3,800 jobs in Europe, according to the Journal.
"We’ve consistently said that we’ll align our staffing around the skills and expertise needed to deliver on the Ford+ growth plan and provide customers with leading products and services," a spokesperson for Ford told The Hill.
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Who would have expected selling a US UNION made 2023 Ford F-150 with a MSRP Range: $41,530 - $107,350 in a budget penny-pinching tight economy would lead to crappy sales, large inventories and layoffs.
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Every time I see the Ford commercial showing a proud electric F-150 owner draining his truck's battery to power his house I don't know whether to laugh or shake my head in derision. I keep thing about what happens if his family has a real emergency...
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^ CA is exploring the idea of 2-way EV charging stations. Sure, you can charge your EV if there is available electricity. If not, the state will inform you of when you need to take your EV to the charging station so the state can drain your vehicle's stored energy and place it back into the grid. Brilliant!
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/\ "Loadsharing" will be the answer to forthcoming brownouts.
Rural areas will suffer. Clustering populations in urban areas is really the key to equity and our future.
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For a bunch of people who are seemingly oblivious to the shortcoming of their electric plans, they sure are out in front of prepping people for electric rationing.
"Loadsharing" I'm sure was the winner of four choices in a tiktok poll.
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My California energy idea would be for them to use all the dead lumber for fuel to generate electricity. In my book, that would be carbon neutral. It’s going to burn anyway.
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The remains of the Titan submersible were found 1,600 feet away from the wreck of the RMS Titanic in what the Coast Guard is calling a catastrophic implosion.
Speaking at a Thursday afternoon press conference, Rear Adm. John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District, said that parts of the submersible, including the tail cone, were found by a remotely operated vehicle. The debris indicates that the submersible likely experienced a failure, which ultimately resulted in the deaths of the five passengers aboard, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
“The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” he said.
“Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families on behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire unified command… I can only imagine what this has been like for them. And I hope that this discovery provides some solace during this difficult time.”
The Coast Guard will continue to map the debris field, Paul Hankins, director for salvage operations with the U.S. Navy said during the Thursday press conference.
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"Hunter Biden’s wrist-slap plea deal, the Pentagon’s “accounting error” that is sending billions more to Ukraine, John Durham’s congressional testimony, and yesterday’s IRS whistleblower testimony were all shoved aside form media space by obsessive coverage of the “drama” whose grim conclusion the Navy picked up last Sunday."
Well we all have survived another $$$$ making Climate Disaster prediction.
While her current net worth is said to be in the $100K range now.
I wonder how many $ MILLIONS her family has made off of her already?
BTW: Try looking up the amount of collected donations and admin spending for "Fridays for Future " or "FFF" her Climate S.I.G..
Given its climate demonstrations covered 180+/- countries and around 6000 events, attended by well over 7.5+ million participants. One might expect to see some IRS / Government level audits, or at the least a Charity Watch site review of it?
BLUF:
[Quartz] PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals that can be found in several everyday items like household cleaners, packaging like sandwich wrappers, paints and waxes, fire-fighting foams, and wire insulation. Because their molecules have strong carbon-fluoride bonds, they do not degrade easily. They were largely produced between the 1940s to early 2000s, with a slowdown in recent years, but their effects will last for more than a thousand years.
The chemicals, which most Americans have been exposed to, have been found to affect reproductive and thyroid levels. They’ve also been linked to cancer, developmental defects, and other health problems.
[JP] The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan will stop at Central Vietnam's port city of Danang on Sunday in a rare visit for a US warship to the southeast Asian nation, as tensions with Beijing in the South China Sea remain high.
The ship will arrive on Sunday afternoon and stay at Danang until June 30, local media reported the spokesperson for Vietnam's foreign affairs ministry as saying. The spokesperson did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
The visit is the third time since the end of Vietnam War
The visit of the USS Ronald Reagan is only the third for a US aircraft carrier since the end of the Vietnam War.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt stopped in Vietnam in 2020 to mark 25 years since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
