The defendant Christopher Lee Cornell purchased and possessed firearms in futherance of a plan to shoot and kill United States Government officers and employees,in violation of 18 U.S.C.Sec.1114 and 18 U.S.C.924(c). This Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015 photo made available by the Butler County Jail shows Christopher Lee Cornell. Cornell plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol in Washington and kill government officials inside it and spoke of his desire to support the Islamic State militant group, the FBI
The defendant Christopher Lee Cornell purchased and possessed firearms in futherance of a plan to shoot and kill United States Government officers and employees,in violation of 18 U.S.C.Sec.1114 and 18 U.S.C.924(c). This Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015 photo made available by the Butler County Jail shows Christopher Lee Cornell. Cornell plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol in Washington and kill government officials inside it and spoke of his desire to support the Islamic State militant group, the FBI
So sad… $27 Million Dollar Powerball Winner Passes Away Dead Broke David Lee Edwards, the ex-felon from Kentucky who won the $27 million Powerball in 2001 , has died broke, and in hospice. Via Broward Palm Beach reports: As reported by New Times in 2007, Edwards had managed to blow his entire fortune within just five years. He and his wife Shawna went from living in a lavish Florida mansion decorated with medieval armor, to a Kentucky storage unit container filled with human feces. See also: Powerfall: For David Lee Edwards, winning the lottery was a wild rocket ride And now, just 12 years after striking it rich, Edwards has died penniless, and alone, at age 58. Edwards was a convicted felon who had spent a third of his life behind bars when he walked into a Kentucky convenient store and bought $7 worth of lottery tickets. When he won, he opted for the one-time payout, rather than the annual payments. And within a year of being an instant millionaire, Edwards went on a spending spree. He threw down $12 million in that first year alone, buying himself and Shawna a 6,000-square-foot mansion in Palm Beach with a private tennis court for $1.6 million, dozens of expensive cars, and a LearJet with a personal pilot worth $600,000. His Palm Beach neighbors complained that Edwards had so many cars in his driveway, that it looked like a car dealership. He also spent on three losing racehorses, a limo business, and a fiber optics installation company. He also spent lavishly on medieval armor and swords to decorate his mansion — most of it cheap knock offs of originals. But Edwards also had a drug problem. He and Shawna contracted hepatitis from sharing tainted needles, while she had an Oxycontin addiction. The two had multiple run-ins with authorities. Within five years, he was broke. And once the money dried up, Shawna left him and remarried. Edwards tried to do right by his winnings. Shortly after falling into his fortune, he had vowed to spend it right, to make it last for Shawna and his daughter. He even hired a financial adviser, James Gibbs. Gibbs invested some of the winnings in stocks and bonds. But Edwards sold them all off. “If he followed my advice,” Gibbs told New Times in 2007, “he’d be pulling in about $85,000 a month for the rest of his life.” On Tuesday, Edwards’ daughter, Tiffani Lee Edwards, said that her father had died penniless and alone. And that he had left her nothing, not even a life insurance policy. “There is NO MONEY anywhere!!!!” she wrote on Facebook. A very sad story. The poor guy had a very troubled life before winning the Lottery but it seemed the money only slowed and lengthened the tragic inevitable. Do you feel bad for the man?
Teacher Denies Making Racist Remark About President Obama To Black Student The teacher who allegedly told one of his African-American male students with presidential aspirations that the country “didn’t need another black president” says he was misquoted. via Cincinnati News The Fairfield teacher accused of making a racist remark to an African American student will fight the allegations. Fairfield Freshman School teacher Gil Voigt told The Enquirer he has requested a hearing to defend himself against the accusations. According to officials in the Butler County school district, Voigt told a black male student, who had professed his desire to follow President Barack Obama as president of the United States that “we do not need another black president.” Nearby students also reported hearing the comment, according to a Fairfield assistant superintendent who conducted a review on the allegation. But Voigt disputes the accusation, telling school officials that his statement was misquoted by the student, who Voigt said was not a very good student and was troublesome in class. The Ohio University graduate, contended during a meeting with Fairfield officials that he told the student “I think we can’t afford another president like Obama, whether he’s black or white.” Sounds like another case of damage control to us. Do you believe this shady teacher?
Over the next month, attendees at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York City will be in for a surprise: An Oscar-winning actress, asleep in a glass box. As co-creator of a piece titled “The Maybe,” Tilda Swindon will arrive at unannounced times and lie down for all to see. The museum itself will reportedly be unaware of when Swindon takes part in the exhibit, which will be moved all around the grounds, as explained in the following MoMA statement to The Gothamist : “An integral part of ‘The Maybe’s incarnation at MoMA in 2013 is that there is no published schedule for its appearance, no artist’s statement released, no museum statement beyond this brief context, no public profile or image issued. Those who find it chance upon it for themselves, live and in real — shared — time: now we see it, now we don’t.” Interesting. We guess. What do you think? Should be this considered art? Yes, and it’s beautiful No, but who am I to judge? No, WTH?!? View Poll »
Beaten down by months of snow, wind and cold, an Ohio county has issued an “indictment” against Punxsutawney Phil over his Groundhog Day prediction . Phil did not see his shadow February 2, signaling spring’s imminent arrival. Six days later, Winter Storm Nemo dumped 30 inches of snow on New England. Six weeks later, temperatures across the Northern U.S. remain frigid. Birds chirping? Flowers blooming? No sign of those anywhere. As a result, (hopefully) tongue-in-cheek Butler County, Oh., prosecutors are demanding justice, claiming Phil deliberately misled the American people. They say such a felony should be punished by death. Butler County’s chief prosecutor filed an official brief about this, lambasting the rodent for actions “against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio.” “Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that spring would come early,” wrote Mike Gmoser. He vowed to bring the Pennsylvania icon to justice in the neighboring Buckeye State, but Phil’s handlers are having none of it, coming to his defense. Bill Deeley, president of the club that organizes Groundhog Day, said Phil has a lawyer and would fight attempted extradition by the Ohio authorities. “We’ll have to plead our case one way or the other, but I think we can beat the rap,” Deeley said, taking Butler County’s indictment more or less in stride. Criminally negligent or not, Phil really dropped the ball in 2013. This winter was pretty harsh, at least by recent standards, and grew worse if anything following Phil’s prognostication that spring would come early. Case in point: There’s another storm due on Sunday/Monday that could bring several additional inches of snow across the Midwest and Northeast. The first day of Spring was Thursday, March 21.
Beaten down by months of snow, wind and cold, an Ohio county has issued an “indictment” against Punxsutawney Phil over his Groundhog Day prediction . Phil did not see his shadow February 2, signaling spring’s imminent arrival. Six days later, Winter Storm Nemo dumped 30 inches of snow on New England. Six weeks later, temperatures across the Northern U.S. remain frigid. Birds chirping? Flowers blooming? No sign of those anywhere. As a result, (hopefully) tongue-in-cheek Butler County, Oh., prosecutors are demanding justice, claiming Phil deliberately misled the American people. They say such a felony should be punished by death. Butler County’s chief prosecutor filed an official brief about this, lambasting the rodent for actions “against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio.” “Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that spring would come early,” wrote Mike Gmoser. He vowed to bring the Pennsylvania icon to justice in the neighboring Buckeye State, but Phil’s handlers are having none of it, coming to his defense. Bill Deeley, president of the club that organizes Groundhog Day, said Phil has a lawyer and would fight attempted extradition by the Ohio authorities. “We’ll have to plead our case one way or the other, but I think we can beat the rap,” Deeley said, taking Butler County’s indictment more or less in stride. Criminally negligent or not, Phil really dropped the ball in 2013. This winter was pretty harsh, at least by recent standards, and grew worse if anything following Phil’s prognostication that spring would come early. Case in point: There’s another storm due on Sunday/Monday that could bring several additional inches of snow across the Midwest and Northeast. The first day of Spring was Thursday, March 21.
Our partners at the Middletown Journal have confirmed with the Board of Elections that the Website is under a deliberate attack from an unknown source. Officials in Butler County said someone has hacked into the Board of Elections Website. So far, three servers have been crashed, and that is delaying getting results posted. Officials said the attack is not impacting actual ballot counting. They believe that the votes are safe. The Butler County Board of Elections website is under attack from
