Monday, September 14, 2015

The Hobbit and Arrow star Manu Bennett 'arrested for assault at Texas Comic Con'

The Hobbit and Arrow star Manu Bennett 'arrested for assault at Texas Comic Con'
Manu Bennett has been arrested for an alleged assault at Comic Con.
The actor who also played the evil Orc Azog in the Hobbit trilogy has been arrested for assault while attending the event in Texas.
Arrow star Bennett was held by police on a misdemeanour assault charge after allegedly punching a man in the face at a hotel party.

Kansas City has a massive network of underground caves that houses over 400 businesses, including a paintball facility and a post office

FILE - This June 27, 2002 file photo shows bags of dry milk stored in an underground warehouse at SubTropolis, an extensive network of caves in Kansas City, Mo., resulting from massive limestone mining in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A 24-year-old mother was charged Sept. 11, 2015 with two counts of felony child endangerment after her two young children were found barefoot, dirty and living in a wooden shipping crate in one of the caves. Many of the caves, stretching from Missouri into Kansas, have paved roads and utilities while others, such as the one where the children were found, consist of dirt floors and uncontrolled entrances. (AP Photo/Dick Whipple, File)
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — A mother is in custody after her two children were found barefoot, dirty, and living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave — part of a massive subterranean network carved out beneath Kansas City.
A look at the history of the caves:
Extensive limestone mining in the late 1800s and early 1900s created the millions of square feet of caves that are scattered throughout metropolitan Kansas City, in Kansas and Missouri.

Donald Trump just sold off the entire Miss Universe Organization after buying it 3 days ago

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Donald Trump has just sold the Miss Universe Organization, which includes the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageant groups, to the agency WME/IMG.
The agency made the announcement on Twitter on Monday morning.

Banker 'stripped naked, drugged and sectioned' because 'racist' police didn't believe she owned a BMW


Kamilah Brock
Locked up for eight days: Kamilah Brock was detained by police then sent to a mental hospital after they did not believe she owned the car

A black woman claims she was 'stripped naked, drugged with lithium and sectioned' in a mental hospital for eight days after 'racist' police refused to believe she was the owner of a BMW.
Banker Kamilah Brock, 32, says she was stationary at a red light in Harlem, New York when police approached her car and quizzed her on why her hands weren't on the steering wheel.

Delta State University shooting: First picture of victim as gunman remains on the loose


Ethan Schmidt, Delta State University assistant professor of history

This is the professor who was tragically shot dead on a Mississippi university campus earlier today.
A local coroner named the victim as Ethan Schmidt, an assistant professor of history who recently published his second book.
The professor was based in Jobe Hall, where the first reports of a gunman on campus originated from.

Macau is getting rocked by reports of a $258 million casino heist

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Some more bad news for Macau's high rollers — or what is left of them.
On Thursday, the Hong Kong-based investment bank Daiwa Capital Markets published a report saying that as much as $258 million had been stolen from a junket operating inside Wynn Macau.
In Macau, junkets operate as third parties within casinos, bringing in cash that high rollers — the VIPs who bet big at the casino — use to leverage their bets.

The Department of Justice gutted the largest illegal music-sharing site in the US

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The US Department of Justice has seized control of Sharebeast, the popular music-file-sharing website.

Sharebeast.com was the largest illegal file-sharing site for music operating within the US,according to the RIAA.
Like the act of putting a rotting corpse on display to warn other would-be pirates,Sharebeast.com now displays the familiar banner of the FBI on its site:

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