[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Georgia father has been found guilty on all 29 counts after his son allegedly murdered four people in a high school shooting.
Colin Gray, 54, showed no emotion as his fate was sealed in court on Tuesday after jurors took less than two hours to determine he was responsible for the deadly rampage at Apalachee High School.
His son Colt Gray, 14, is accused of carrying out the massacre on September 4, 2024, with an AR-15 style rifle that was given to him as a Christmas gift by his father.
Colt, who is awaiting trial, allegedly opened fire inside the school, killing two students: Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and Christian Angulo, 14, and two teachers: Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53. Nine others were injured.
Colin, who broke down during his trial after seeing his son stalking the school hallways before the shooting, was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
He was also found guilty on 20 counts of cruelty to children and five counts of reckless conduct.
Colin was seen slouched in his chair while the verdict was read. Deputies then handcuffed him behind his back as he stood at the defense table, talking with his lawyer before being escorted out.
Colin, who will be sentenced at a later date, could spend a maximum of 180 years in prison. He is the latest parent to be prosecuted after their children were accused of deadly shootings.
On Thursday, Gray covered his eyes and cried as he watched surveillance footage of his son walking the halls of the school while concealing the large gun behind a white poster board and backpack.
The clip showed the teenager entering the school with the gun as students and staff walked right beside him.
He was seen making his way down the hallway before entering a classroom, fidgeting around in his seat, and looking down at his cellphone.
Colt then walked into a bathroom with his backpack, where he texted his mother, Marcee Gray, 'I'm sorry mom.' Gray then called the school about her son.
Resource officers went into the restroom and escorted another student out who had the same name as Colt, leaving the teen free to allegedly carry out the shooting, according to Sheriff Jud Smith.
Afterward, Colt, wearing a white T-shirt, khaki pants, and yellow gloves, appeared to limp as he continued to carry the bag with the gun inside.
Another camera angle showed Colt looking through the door window of a classroom, holding the rifle.
Colt will be tried as an adult and is facing 55 charges, including four counts of felony murder.
Gray took the stand on Friday after prosecutors rested their case on Thursday afternoon.
He told the court he gifted Colt the rifle for Christmas in 2023, hoping that it would bring them closer together through hunting and trips to the gun range.
Prosecutors said that the father's decision came despite warning signs about Colt's behavior and mental health.
'I could have done better,' he confessed on the stand.
When questioned by his attorney, Brian Hobbs, if he noticed any 'red flags' from his son that made him believe he would be capable of the violent act, Gray took a moment before stating: 'No. I struggle with it every day.'
'He's a good kid. He wasn't perfect, and nor was I. But to do something that heinous, I don't know of anybody that can ever see that kind of evil,' he added.
'Like the Colt I knew and the relationship I had, there's this whole other side of Colt I didn't know existed.'
More than a year before the deadly shooting, police had interviewed Colt and Gray about a threat to carry out a school shooting that had been made on a Discord account created with an email associated with the teenager.
The father told investigators that his son had access to firearms in the home, as he was teaching Colt about gun safety and how to hunt, but his access to them was not 'unfettered.'
He said that if his son did make the threat, he would be 'mad as hell' and that 'all the guns will go away.'
Ultimately, investigators closed the case after being unable to substantiate that Colt was connected to the Discord account, and they did not find grounds to seek the needed court order to confiscate the family's guns, according to police reports.
Suzanne Harris, a computer science teacher at the high school, testified that she had noticed the concealed weapon sticking out of Colt's backpack.
She said that she assumed it was a school project, but thought it was odd as he had only been attending for a few days, so she asked him about it.
'I asked him what his project was about, and he didn’t really have much to say about the project, but he did tell me that he would show it to me later if I wanted to see it,' the teacher said in court.
Harris also said that she noticed Colt was struggling to carry the backpack and that he seemed nervous when she asked if he needed help.
His trial date has not yet been scheduled, but he is due to appear in court for a hearing on March 18.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An Alabama National Guardsman fatally shot his wife shortly after she gave birth to their first child before turning the gun on himself.
Kynath Terry Jr, 19, opened fire on Precious Johnson, 24, while she was a patient at Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham.
Johnson had just given birth and was shot multiple times. It is unclear whether their newborn was in the room at the time.
Officers responded to reports of shots fired at the hospital at 9.25pm on Sunday.
When they arrived, they found Terry and Johnson dead with no other parties injured.
Early signs led investigators to believe that the tragedy was 'an apparent murder-suicide and is domestic in nature,' the Homewood Police Department said in a statement.
Terry's mother told WTVM13 that the couple was having some marital troubles before the birth but that she could not imagine that her son would kill his wife and himself.
She added that Terry had just completed Army National Guard training and had recently married Johnson.
Immediately after the shooting, Baptist Health entered lockdown 'out of an abundance of caution' according to a statement released by the hospital Sunday evening.
The lockdown was lifted after authorities determined there was 'no active threat to patients, team members or the public.'
Danne Howard, president of the Alabama Hospital Association, told WTVM13 the shooting was the first time something like this has happened during her 30-year stint at the organization.
She said that Sunday's apparent murder-suicide could lead to an overhaul of security protocols at hospitals in Alabama.
Homewood Mayor Jennifer Andress said in a statement: 'Last night, our police department responded to a tragic shooting at Brookwood Hospital.
'Our officers acted quickly to secure the scene and ensure there was no ongoing threat to the public. This remains an active investigation.
'Our thoughts are with the victim, her family, the hospital staff, and everyone impacted. We are working closely with hospital leadership and will provide updates as appropriate.'
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"So, let's see. 9 months ago, I was on a base elsewhere...not available for 'relations'?"
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Of course we don’t know the whole story, but the baby could have come as much as three months early, and mixed race babies tend to come out lighter than they will be later. Also, mixed race babies’ skin colour is the emergent result of all the previous ancestors, not just mommy and daddy, which is how an unknown number were able to pass in the bad old days. I have friends from Eritrea whose family photos show the entire gamut from white to deep black, and from sharp caucasian features to decidedly sub-Saharan.
But how many nineteen year olds know that nowadays?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A US Foreign Service Officer killed a woman and a dog, and wounded three other people in a road rage stabbing attack over the weekend.
Jared Llamado, 32, attacked the four women in the southbound lanes of Interstate 495 in Fairfax County, Virginia at around 1.20pm on Sunday following what authorities said was a minor traffic collision.
Michele Adams, 39, and Llamado's own dog died as a result of their injuries, WJLA reports.
Dana Bonnell, 36; Mary C Flood, 37; and Heather Miller, 40, were also injured in the stabbing spree before Llamado was shot dead by a Virginia State Police trooper, authorities announced.
Llamado's LinkedIn account shows he has worked as a diplomatic technology officer at the US State Department since September 2024, describing his role as managing the technology infrastructure and underpinning diplomatic operations.
State Department officials have since confirmed Llamado's employment to Fox News Digital, calling him a 'Foreign Service Officer,' and adding: 'We extend our deepest condolences to all those affected by this tragedy.'
Dispatch audio indicated that the situation escalated rapidly following the collision, with a dispatcher reporting that multiple victims were in the roadway.
Disturbing video shared to social media also showed a man with a large knife attacking the victims.
When a trooper then arrived at the scene, Llamado confronted him with a knife, and the officer opened fire in self-defense, Virginia State Police said.
Llamado was then transported to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries, while the trooper remained unharmed.
He is now on leave pending the outcome of an investigation into his use of force.
State Police said they are also investigating the cause of the crash, which closed down the southbound lanes of the major thoroughfare for hours.
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Wtf did the dog do?
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Given the targets this guy may qualify for his 72 raisins.
This will be an extremely controversial article. Prof. @jean_twenge shows that young adults are walking from LGBTQ+ identity and it was more of a social contagion than an orientation. There’s been a 21% decline in young adults identifying as LGB+ in just 3 years. pic.twitter.com/ZwZJSIUu0t
Paywalled. My notes from what I could see of the article.
[BBC] Sunday before dawn, fighting lasted 3-4 hours before government forces drove them out. Dozens of unidentified youths from neighbouring Unity State linked to the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) in Abiemnon county in the Ruweng Administrative Area. The dead included civilians and 79 members of regional forces including police.
SPLA-IO is a South Sudanese Social Democrat a center-left political party and rebel group for the Nuers, the second largest ethnic group in S. Sudan — known for cattle herding. It split from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in 2013 due to political tensions between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar over leadership of the SPLM — the VP went with the new group, followed by the South Sudanese Civil War.
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Have Trump do something similar and the press will be triggered like some liberal teen girls at a Ted Nugrnt concert.
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Paywalled.
China has removed three retired military generals, including a former commander of the People's Liberation Army ground force, from a top political advisory body just days before its largest annual political gathering.
The advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) voted to remove Han Weiguo, Gao Jin and Liu Lei, state media said on Monday.
Authorities gave no explanation for the removals but they come after purges of military top brass have picked up pace in recent weeks.
China's leader Xi Jinping has regularly launched anti-corruption campaigns in since coming to power in 2012, but critics say it is a tool for removing political rivals.
Some 3,000 delegates from the CPPCC, an advisory body with no legislative power – and China's rubber-stamp legislature the National People's Congress – will gather in Beijing this week for the annual Two Sessions. The meetings begin tomorrow and will run for about a week.
Delegates of the CPPCC and NPC typically serve out their five-year terms, and their current terms are set to end in March 2028, which makes these mid-term removals unusual.
Han, 70, served as the PLA army's commander from August 2017 until he retired in June 2021. His two successors, Liu Zhenli and Li Qiaoming, have also been removed from their respective roles in the last two months.
Liu Lei, also 70, served as political commissar of the army from December 2015 to January 2022, which includes the period during which Han was in command.
Gao, 67, was the inaugural commander of the now-dissolved Strategic Support Force when it was formed in 2015. He was most recently the commander of the Central Military Commission's Logistic Support Department, until he retired in January 2022.
In addition to the three generals, several other CPPCC members were officially sacked, including Zhang Kejian, a senior official in the defence industry who is under investigation for corruption.
Monday's removals follow a series of high-profile dismissals.
Just last Thursday, authorities announced they had sacked 19 officials, including nine from the military,
In January, China's highest-ranking military general Zhang Youxia and his close ally Liu Zhenli were removed from their roles. Both generals are under investigation for "serious violations of discipline and law", China's defence ministry said.
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Yes, I remember something to that effect. But again I ask: What is he? A Nazi? A wannabe Heavenly Emperor? Or just another bloody dictator?
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Jairong, we didn't miss it. We (or at least I) dismissed it. You can soft-pedal ChiComs all you want. It's a lie.
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Can't swing a sign at a protest or picket line, even in SD, without hitting a couple of more or less witting Maoists. But to generalissimize...
A rose is a rose is a Mao-er!
A prick is a prick when in power.
All over the dead.
In big characters, red:
"From the howitzer's mouth, a corpse flower!"
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[Regnum] A giant solar prominence has been detected on the Sun. This was reported on March 3 by scientists at the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The measured dimensions of the plasma structure near the Sun were approximately 1 million km. This is three times greater than the distance from the Earth to the Moon," the laboratory stated in a message on its Telegram channel.
As experts noted, such objects, due to the significant density of matter and the influence of powerful magnetic fields, are considered among the most dangerous factors of space weather.
Scientists emphasized that the current event poses no threat to Earth or other celestial bodies. This is due to the plasma mass's nearly vertical trajectory.
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Sadly: Scientists emphasized that the current event poses no threat to Earth or other celestial bodies. This is due to the plasma mass's nearly vertical trajectory.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Georgia father has been found guilty on all 29 counts after his son allegedly murdered four people in a high school shooting. 
