Plano police do best 'Cartman' impersonation arresting black kid for walking home in the snow

If you needed another example why the Texas Legislature should forbid police from arresting people for Class C misdemeanors, here's yet another poster-child case for the history books.Rodney Reese, an 18-year old black man living in Plano, was walking home from his job at the Walmart during the Snowpocalypse when police officers stopped him ostensibly for a "wellness check." Carrying a plastic bag, underdressed for the cold in a short-sleeve shirt, he told them he didn't want their help and was ...
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Lots of local Texas #cjreform action, even as the #txlege is slow as Christmas

Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention:TX Senate Committees May Only Meet 2-3 Times: The Texas Legislature's ramp up remains slow as Christmas; a few things are happening, but "not much" appears to be the new normal. On its website, the state prosecutors' association told its members, "don’t be surprised if many Senate committees hold no more than two or three hearings on Senate bills for the entirety of this regular session." Yikes! Usually, you might see 8 or so.Vanis...
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Show Featuring Former Home Of Sacramento Serial Killer Dorothea Puente Now Streaming

SACRAMENTO (CBS14) — A show featuring the former home of a Sacramento serial killer premiered online Monday night. The first episode of “Murder House Flip” spotlights the former boarding house on F Street. The home belonged to seemingly sweet Dorothea Puente, who was arrested in 1988 and later convicted as a serial murderer. READ: Serial Killer Puente’s Former Home Becomes Classroom For Law Enforcement It is where Puente killed tenants in her boarding house, burying their bodies in the backyard....
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3-Year-Old Girl Sexually Assaulted by 34-Year-Old Man in McDonald’s Bathroom While Her Dad Was in the Next Stall

Accused of one of the most horrifying and repulsive crimes, a Chicago man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl in a McDonald’s bathroom stall right next to the girl’s father. Christopher Puente, 34, was charged with one count of felony predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under the age of 13 on Wednesday (Feb 19). According to prosecutors, on Monday (Feb. 17), Puente lured the 3-year-old into a bathroom stall and placed her on his lap. He then pulled down her pant...
Tags: Wtf, Crime, News, Sexual Assault, Chicago, Jazz, Mcdonalds, Pedophiles, McDonald, Puente, Child Molesters, JUST PLAIN SICK, Christopher Puente

New Play Delves Into Story Of Sacramento Serial Killer Dorothea Puente

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — She was the sweet grandmother who became the black widow of Sacramento. Dorothea Puente, the sweet-faced senior who drugged and murdered her elderly and disabled tenants, then buried them in her backyard and cashed their social security checks, is the subject of a new play called ‘Dorothea Puente Tells All.’ It’s a story that’s now taking center stage at the Wilkerson Theatre. Puente died behind bars in 2011, but the story lives on through this new play. Director Megan Coope...
Tags: News, Local, Seen On, Syndicated Local, Sacramento, Dorothea Puente, Cooper, Stevens, Puente, Janis Stevens, Sacramento News, Megan Cooper, Wilkerson Theatre Puente

Serial Killer Dorothea Puente’s Home Featured In “Murder House Flip” Series

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) —The notorious home of Sacramento serial killer Dorothea Puente is back in the spotlight, literally. Dorothea Puente (credit: AP) A production crew is on the property, filming a show that may even lead to the discovery of more buried body parts of Puente’s victims. The old Victorian on F Street is now being featured in a new true crime home renovation series titled “Murder House Flip.” Huck Rees recently moved into the house next door to Puente’s old home and quickly found o...
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Gods Bridge

Today we are off to Puente Dios Gods Bridge. Its another series of waterfalls where one can supposedly swim...although we have our doubts.This set of falls is on the same river as the Tamasopo Falls that we visited yesterday just a little bit
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Ronaldo's reported Real Valladolid takeover welcomed by city's mayor

Valladolid mayor Oscar Puente would welcome the arrival of Ronaldo to Real Valladolid as the club owner. A two-time World Cup winner with Brazil and a Real Madrid ambassador, Ronaldo is the leader of an investment group that is set to acquire a 51 percent stake at the La Liga club for €30 million. "He is a sports world icon and the operation seems interesting," Puente said following reports of Ronaldo's imminent purchase of Real Valladolid in AS. "Along with Michael Jordan, he is the only.....
Tags: Football, Sport, Story, La Liga, Real Madrid, Michael Jordan, Ronaldo, Brazil, Valladolid, Spanish Primera Division, Puente, Real Valladolid, Oscar Puente

LAPD launches team to combat illegal street racing in the Valley following a surge in deaths

Habib “Harry” Sabzerou was a soft-spoken Realtor who was so honest that he would point out all of the faults of the homes he was trying to sell. He was the kind of father who would teasingly answer the phone with “Hi Dad!” when his grown daughter Del called, knowing those would be the first words she would say to him. His daughter will never hear those words again. Sabzerou was fatally struck by a 16-year-old boy who, authorities say, was illegally street racing in Tarzana in January of last yea...
Tags: Facebook, Crime, La, Sport, Soccer, Chevy, Chatsworth, Local News, Lapd, Northridge, Los Angeles County, Valley, Lancaster, Los Angeles City, Tarzana, Woodland Hills

A dozen suspected Puente 13 gang members in SoCal arrested on narcotics, fraud charges

A dozen alleged gang members were arrested on federal narcotics and fraud charges, the result of a months-long investigation into the Puente 13 street gang, federal authorities said Wednesday, Aug. 15. The arrests took place Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, authorities said. The 12 arrested are among 17 defendants named in a series of indictments returned by a federal grand jury that allege various offenses, including narcotics, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Related Articles ...
Tags: Crime, News, Office, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Social Security, Mafia, Local News, San Bernardino, La Puente, Whittier, U S Attorney s Office, Azusa, San Bernardino County, Chino Hills

Fireworks explosion kills 19 near Mexico City

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nineteen people were killed and at least 40 injured Thursday when a series of explosions ripped through fireworks workshops in a town just north of Mexico City.The dead included four firefighters and two police officers who rushed to the scene after the first explosion, only to be killed by a second wave of blasts.Video shot from a nearby highway showed a massive plume of smoke rising up from the area of the explosions in the town of Tultepec. Other images released by local me...
Tags: News, Mexico, Mexico City, Veracruz, Milenio, Tlaxcala, Puente, Tultepec, Celaya, Luis Felipe Puente

Tito Puente's Cha-Cha-Cha

Yesterday, the temperature hit the mid-90s in New York. As the mercury climbed, thoughts turned to Tito Puente, the Les Brown of Latin dance music. In the 1950s, Puente was one of the so called "Big Three" mambo dance kings—Puente, Machito and Tito Rodriguez. While Machito veered toward Latin jazz and Rodriguez, a vocalist, was a bit more commercial, Puente's orchestra was primarily a dance band. But oh, what a dance band. The musicianship was extraordinary, as were the arrangements. He also be...
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Puente deserved better than dismissal from relegation-threatened Lobos

MEXICO CITY -- Perhaps they knew eyebrows would be raised. Maybe they were trying to answer the questions before they came in. Possibly, they were having second thoughts about the decision themselves. Liga MX side Lobos BUAP announced the firing of manager Rafael Puente Jr. with a brief press release on Monday. The note made mention of the coach's stats with the team, highlighting his 16 losses in 30 first-division matches, a controversial item that stirred reaction from journalists and fa...
Tags: Football, Sport, Mexico City, Blog Post, Lobos BUAP, Puente, LIGA Bancomer, Rafael Puente Jr

Ecuador: Boletín Legal Febrero 2018 - Puente & Asociados

Ley Orgánica Integral para Prevenir y Erradicar la Violencia contra las Mujeres. tiene por objetivo y finalidad prevenir y erradicar todo tipo de violencia contra las mujeres
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Home-Selling Can Come With $18,000-Plus Price Tag

Are you a homeowner listing your property for sale? Consider the expenses that are often overlooked by sellers: cleaning costs, moving costs, painting, staging… “Even in the hottest housing markets in the country, selling a home takes time and costs money,” says Jeremy Wacksman, CMO at Zillow, which assessed the costs that come with listing in the recently released “2018 Hidden Costs of Selling” report. “From decluttering and staging to pre-inspections, agents and homeowners often spend months b...
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Activist group to protest Phoenix council for Trump visit

PHOENIX (AP) — Local activists say they will gather at Phoenix City Council chambers to protest how police handled protesters during last year’s visit by President Donald Trump and ask that taxpayer money not be used to host the leader in the future. The activist group Puente says its protest of the visit six months […]
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Invisible Cities Illustrated: Artist Illustrates Each and Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel

If you want to read a book about cities, you still can't do much better than a slim, plotless work of fiction by Italo Calvino wherein the explorer Marco Polo tells the emperor Kublai Khan of what he's seen in his travels across the world. Originally published in Italian in 1972, Invisible Cities has inspired generations of readers, hailing from all across the world themselves, to think in entirely new ways not just about cities but about travel, place, perception, reality, myth, and literature...
Tags: Google, Art, Facebook, Books, College, Peru, Marco Polo, Khan, Seoul, Facebook Twitter, Kublai Khan, Italo Calvino, Puente, Colin Marshall, Calvino, Isaura

New Earthquake, Magnitude 6.1, Shakes Rattled Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, causing new alarm in a country reeling from two still-more-powerful quakes this month that have killed nearly 400 people. The U.S. Geological Survey said the new, magnitude 6.1 temblor was centered about 11 miles (18 kilometers) south-southeast of Matias Romero in the state of Oaxaca, which was the region most battered by a magnitude 8.1 quake on Sept. 7. It swayed buildings and set off a seismic alarm in the capital, promping ...
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Four Days After Quake, Survivors Still Being Pulled From Rubble In Mexico City

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Survivors are still being pulled from rubble in Mexico City as rescue operations stretch into a fourth day Friday, spurring hope among desperate relatives gathered at the sites of buildings collapsed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Mexico’s federal police said several people were lifted out of the debris of two buildings Thursday. Rescuers removed or broke through slabs until they found cracks that allowed workers to wiggle through to reach the victims, then lift them to safety...
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Mexico earthquake: at least 217 dead after powerful quake – latest

Death toll is expected to rise after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes 120km from Mexico City, collapsing buildings and killing at least 217 peopleIf you’ve been affected you can share your story here 8.41am BST The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has released updated advice for people planning to travel to Mexico today:On Tuesday 19 September 2017 there was an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 near Puebla, Mexico – approximately 140km south-east of Mexico City. Damage has been severe. Me...
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Another power plant in Oxnard? Energy Commission must say no: Tom Steyer and Gladys Limon

California is home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. But in our state, not all beaches are created equal. That becomes painfully clear if you drive 50 miles north of Los Angeles to Oxnard, where the beaches have been seized by corporate polluters, marred by industrial waste and devastated by three fossil-fuel power plants that sit along the shoreline. Oxnard has more coastal power plants than any other city in the state, and not coincidentally, its population is predominantly L...
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We Have a Name!

Do you ever keep your pets’ shelter names? For some reason or another, we have always changed our pets’ shelter names, with the exception of our Yoda, who was named by the city shelter: Our newest family member came to us with the name of Sunday: It’s a fine name but we didn’t adopt her on a Sunday…and it just seemed that we needed a name with a travel theme, to fit with most of our other pets. Irie has a Jamaican name, Tiki a tropical name, and Inca is named for Puente del Inca in Argentina....
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Andalucia: Roadtrip through Southern Spain

Our road trip began in Madrid… We loaded the Mini with our backpacks, cheese, an old paper map and set off on our adventure through the countryside of Southern Spain. For more information click here to see the article on the Top Tourist Attractions in Madrid. Day 1: Merida We arrived at 3pm after taking our time to stop off at the little towns along the way, and to stock up our cheese and wine supply. Merida is a historic little town bursting with Spanish colonial charm. Main attractions in...
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Why Mexican Chefs, Farmers And Activists Are Reviving The Ancient Grain Amaranth

The nutritious indigenous plant is part of a movement to revive native crops and cuisines — and a means of restoring the health and economy of Oaxaca, one of Mexico's poorest states.(Image credit: Courtesy of Puente a la Salud Comunitaria )
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Critic's Notebook: Bringing Tito Puente’s Fire to a New Generation

A Puente retrospective at the Hostos Center offered three days of performances, discussions and workshops in the Bronx, a rarity for the city’s Latin music tradition.
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Missing woman's car recovered in OB

Debra Puente, 50, went missing after going out with some friends after work on Tuesday, March 28. She was last seen leaving the area of Mission Gorge Road and Friars Road. Police said it is very unusual for Puente not to have contact with her employer or friends.  
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Blast at Mexico fireworks market injures dozens

An explosion Tuesday at a large fireworks market near Mexico City injured at least 60 people, Luis Felipe Puente, coordinator of Mexico's national civil protection agency, told CNN affiliate FOROtv. The explosion took place in Tultepec -- about 40 kilometers (about 25 miles) north of Mexico City -- where pyrotechnics are a major industry. Emergency responders are at the scene and assessing the damage, Puente said.
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Case Remanded After Insurer Fails to Carry Burden on Amount in Controversy

    The insured successfully remanded the case back to state court when the insurer could not substantiate that the amount in controversy would exceed $75,000.  Puente v. State Farm Lloyds , 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58103 (S.D. Texas March 28, 2016).     The insured's property was damaged in a wind and hail storm. State Farm denied coverage because the claimed damages were not covered by the policy. The insured hired a public adjuster and submitted another claim for $29,870. State Farm continued to...
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Main Event: Lord Puente vs Free-D (Round 1 Lord Puente’s Turn)

The Rules We go 3 rounds, a verse from each rapper. There is no restriction on the number of bars. At the end of the 3rd round, the community votes for the winner. The winner is awarded with 10 points. First Round Lord Puente welcome to the battle grounds, you a guest in my house,/ so get up off the couch before I slap you in your mouth,/ this a fire breathin dragon vs dick suckin faggot/ with pill poppin habbits who finna start relapsing,/ - you a fake, a fraud, a facade, so stop the bra...
Tags: Jazz, Caitlyn Jenner, Morgan, Don, Kevin, Puente, Battleground

Main Event: Lord Puente vs Free-D (Round 1 Free-D’s Turn)

The Rules We go 3 rounds, a verse from each rapper. There is no restriction on the number of bars. At the end of the 3rd round, the community votes for the winner. The winner is awarded with 10 points. First Round Lord Puente welcome to the battle grounds, you a guest in my house,/ so get up off the couch before I slap you in your mouth,/ this a fire breathin dragon vs dick suckin faggot/ with pill poppin habbits who finna start relapsing,/ - you a fake, a fraud, a facade, so stop the bra...
Tags: Jazz, Caitlyn Jenner, Puente, Battleground