[KTLA] A man who had been one of Ohio’s “most wanted” fugitives for nearly 20 years is in custody.
Antonio Riano had been wanted for the shooting death of Benjamin Becarra, 25, in Butler County, Ohio, in 2004.
On August 1, U.S. Marshals arrested Riano in his hometown of Zapotitlan Palmas, State of Oaxaca, Mexico, where he was working as a police officer, according to a press release.
Whew! From the headline I assumed he was an American policeman.
Riano made his first court appearance in Ohio on Monday, where he was ordered held without bond.
Riano, now 72, was profiled on the “America’s Most Wanted” television series in 2005.
Police said Riano shot Becerra in the face following an argument inside and then outside of the Round House bar in Hamilton on the afternoon of Dec. 19, 2004, according to FOX 19.
“This type of apprehension would not be possible without the cooperation and due diligence of both the Prosecutor’s Office investigators, the United States Marshal Service, and the United States Department of Justice,” said Michael T. Gmoser, Butler County prosecutor in a press release.
The Butler County Prosecutor’s Office teamed up with the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs who worked with law enforcement partners in Mexico to secure Riano’s arrest and extradition.
Riano is due back in court later this month.
According to Butler County Jail records, Riano is being held on two charges of murder and one count of felony assault.
[NYPOST] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, mother of eight, who once suffered from drug abuse, was bumped off in the middle of the road by a group of teens she believed had sold one of her kids marijuana vape pens.
Maria Ramos, 33, was visiting her mother in Oakland when the two spotted a Toyota near her home suspected of selling the drug-infused e-cigarettes.
"Our plan was to tell them, stop coming to our house," Bianca Velasco, Ramos’ mother said before things took a tragic turn.
Ramos and Velasco drove up to the Toyota sedan full of teens near the intersection of Hilton Street and Bancroft Avenue in Oakland on Aug. 7.
A street camera captured the moment Ramos hopped out of the passenger side of her mother’s Toyota RAV4 and began pepper-spraying into the teen’s sedan, according to video obtained by KTVU.
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Forget it Jake, it's Oakland.
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[NYPOST] As Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... celebrates on the first day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, a man whose murder sentence he commuted will face trial for additional crimes he’s accused of committing since the now-Democratic vice presidential nominee set him free early.
Myron Burrell was given a lifelong murder sentence for the 2002 killing of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards, who was struck with a stray bullet while doing homework, but Walz voted to commute Burrell’s sentence when the governor was a member of the Minnesota Board of Pardons in 2020.
Burrell was 16 at the time of the shooting. Police said he shot Edwards while attempting to hit a rival gang member.
Two years after his commutation, Burrell has been in and out of court hearings for two separate arrests. He was first arrested in 2023 for illegally possessing a gun and fifth-degree possession of controlled substance.
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[PostMillennial] Legendary talk show host Phil Donahue, mainstay of the 1980s daytime television line-up, died on Sunday night, surrounded by his wife Marlo Thomas, his sister, grandchildren, and his golden retriever Charlie. He suffered from a long illness, his family said.
Donahue was the winner of 200 Emmy Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was the face of the talk show that spawned so many others in its format. Donahue hosted celebrities for hour-long interviews but also dealt with serious issues, such as racism, feminism, and other social problems.
"We grew up with the feminist movement, the consumer movement, the gay rights movement, we grew up with the antiwar movement, with the environmental movement," Donahue said in 2001. "The last part of the 20th century, the time in which I was able to go out there in public on television and feature the people who had the most to say about these very compelling issues, had my name on it."
It was after Donahue that Oprah, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, and Dr. Phil (via Oprah) came on the scene to embark on similar formatted daytime talk shows. Donahue would walk around the audience with his mic, taking questions from viewers, and would present these questions to his guests.
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I didn’t see this in 1979, when it happened, nor was I at time capable of fully appreciating it, but Mr. Donahue deserves credit for sharing this moment with America:
[NY Post] Prove it. Harley-Davidson released a statement on Monday renouncing DEI and other controversial company initiatives in the wake of social-media outrage and withering pressure from longtime loyal bikers.
"It is critical to our business that we hire and retain the best talent and that all employees feel welcome," the statement reads."That said, we have not operated a DEI function since April 2024, and we do not have a DEI function today. We do not have hiring quotas and we no longer have supplier diversity spend goals."
The statement also said Harley-Davidson was reassessing employee training initiatives and sponsorships while refocusing on its most loyal customers.
"As a consumer brand, we will focus exclusively on growing the sport of motorcycling and retaining our loyal riding community, in addition to the support we already provide to first responders, active military members and veterans."
One veteran felt it was a long overdue mea culpa by the bike maker, but remained skeptical.
"I think it’s great. But they never should have changed in the first place," Jesse Clay, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and longtime Harley-Davidson rider from Colorado, told Fox News Digital.
"Let’s see what actually happens."
Harley-Davidson had faced grumblings for years from longtime customers, including hard-core bikers, who claimed that the Milwaukee-based company "used" them to build its "bad—s" brand, then abandoned them as the motorcycle’s popularity expanded to upscale riders.
The dissatisfaction exploded in July when social-media influencer Robby Starbuck outed several controversial internal woke policies at Harley.
"@harleydavidson has been one of the most beloved brands in America but recently on CEO Jochen Zeitz’s watch, they’ve gone totally woke," Robby Starbuck shared with his more than 528,000 followers on X.
Starbuck, based in California, celebrated Harley’s announcement on Monday.
"We have a movement to bring down DEI and wokeism in corporate America and inject some sanity back into the workplace," Starbuck said in a phone interview on Monday with Fox News Digital.
"Corporations can’t ignore our movement anymore. They have to take us seriously. They made this statement because we’re obviously having an impact on their customer base."
Starbuck said his social-media movement is now "three for three" after recent efforts to spotlight similar leftist corporate initiatives led to policy changes at John Deere and Tractor Supply Co.
Harley-Davidson’s statement noted that the company was “saddened by the negativity on social media over the last few weeks, designed to divide the Harley-Davidson community.”
Starbuck responded to the criticism: “They can be saddened all they want. I got the changes we wanted, but we still want the CEO [Jochen Zeitz] gone, too,” he said.
“He’s a true believer, and we’ll keep constant tabs on their internal business,” said Starbuck.
“In his elite social circles, this move will not be popular. His world does not include bikers. This statement sounds like a board decision and not his decision. I’d be surprised if he was OK with this decision.”
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HD's Top Management has exposed its intent, to adopt a PC liberal business agenda, that it will now quietly implement and follow.
It has sealed its own doom and lost the trust of likely the majority of its current enthusiasts (customers).
HD is NOT a Crotch Rocket, it is a serious scoot.
A scoot that has protected the image of physical power, touring enjoyment and masculinity, over any rice burner for 100+ years.
Rice burners, to me, project the image of a get there and back as fast as you can, and little more.
But now also look at how WOKE & DEI has negatively impacted just about every major business that actually joined the liberal agenda bandwagon and played with it. Even far worse for those that actually fully tried to implement it.
Bud-lite anyone? Its sales revenue declined 23.9% in 1 year.
Biden, White House Admin, anyone?
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Harley, like most corporations in America, operate on a line of credit for operating capitol. Its just business in America. The banks, being blackmailed by the World Bank, force the DEI scores as the way to adjust interest rated for the capitol. Thus forcing businesses to take on DEI policies. The World Bank will set the rates to non compliant companies at rates they can not continue operating at.
Some of the companies, Harley the latest, are getting pushback against these policies. John Deer is another that recently stopped the DEI crap.
Harley and John Deer will fail. They will slide into history as financial failure and an example to all that the World Bank rules this nation, like it or not. We, the people are boycotting Harley and the others, an entirely stupid move on our part. We are doing exactly what the WEF wants us to do and drive these folks out of business.
Our anger is completely misdirected. I read folks are looking at their next bike will be an Indian. Indian is owned by Polaris, a Canadian company fully vested in DEI. We need to be angry with who is forcing this function. DO homework, it the World Bank, Carl Schwabb and the rest. They are our enemy, not Harley or John Deer.
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John Deere (that's how it's spelled, BTW) has embraced the CCP/MBA way for at least a decade. If you want good iron, made to last, buy Japanese.
Much of their stuff is made in America, by Americans, to be sold to Americans.
BLUF: Third World country has a Third World flood. Many deaths and much destruction follow.
[ARABNEWS] At least 50 people were confirmed dead on Monday following search and rescue efforts after torrential rain lashed central China in late July, state media said.
Fifteen others remained missing in Zixing city in China's Hunan Province, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
''All administrative villages in the disaster-stricken areas of Zixing City have preliminarily achieved access to roads, electricity, communication, and water,'' CCTV said.
''The affected residents have been properly resettled, and post-disaster reconstruction is under way.''
The downpours late July were triggered by Typhoon Gaemi, which moved on from the Philippines and Taiwan to make landfall in China, hitting hilly, landlocked Hunan province particularly hard.
Authorities evacuated nearly 300,000 people and suspended public transport across eastern China last month.
China has endured a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains across the east and south, and much of the north sweltering in successive heat waves.
Heavy rain in the northern province of Shaanxi last month caused a highway bridge to collapse, killing at least 38 people.
China is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that are driving climate change and making extreme weather more frequent and intense.
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[Regnum] Chinese and Philippine warships collided in the South China Sea. This was reported by Newsweek magazine.
"The Philippine side bears full responsibility for the collision," the publication quotes Chinese Coast Guard spokesman Gan Yu as saying.
He added that if provocations and violations continue, the Philippines will face the consequences of this situation.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in October 2023, a Chinese and a Philippine ship collided in the South China Sea near the Ayungin Shoal. Beijing accused Manila of deliberately organizing a collision in the disputed waters.
In December, the Philippine Coast Guard said it had spotted 135 Chinese maritime militia vessels off its coast, 320 km from Palawan Island.
On July 7, the Philippine Coast Guard reported that the Chinese ship CCG-5901 had stopped without permission in the country's exclusive economic zone.
In 2016, an international arbitration tribunal in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines over China's claims in the South China Sea, saying it had "no legal basis." China does not recognize the ruling.
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.
...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. 
Legendary talk show host Phil Donahue, mainstay of the 1980s daytime television line-up, died on Sunday night, surrounded by his wife Marlo Thomas, his sister, grandchildren, and his golden retriever Charlie. He suffered from a long illness, his family said.
