Six teens arrested recently in the Cincinnati suburb of North College Hill for beating 45-year-old Pat Mahaney told police they ambushed the man for the fun of it because they were bored.

(Cincinnati.com)   […] The first five arrestees were: twin brothers Tyree and Terrell Mizzell, Lamont Champion and Daquan Cain, all 13-year-olds; and Michael E. James, 14.  The sixth and final suspect was arrested Tuesday. His name was not immediately available Wednesday.

All except one have been released from Hamilton County’s juvenile detention center and are on house arrest at their parents’ residences, court officials said.

The teens are scheduled for trial Aug. 24.

Mother of the Mizzell twins, Latasha Alford, 32, said that while not excusing her sons’ actions, they did feel peer pressure to go along with the other boys.

“They are deeply sorry for what happened,” she said. “They do feel bad. They do realize what they did was wrong.”

When police rounded up most of the teens, took them back to the police station and questioned them, they admitted Mahaney had done nothing to provoke being kicked and punched repeatedly in the face while he was helpless on the ground. (more…)

(Britainistan)  The parents of Shafilea Ahmed have been jailed for life after being convicted of her murder.  The 17-year-old went missing from her home in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2003 and her body was found in the River Kent in Cumbria six months later.

Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, had denied her murder but the jury at Chester Crown Court returned guilty verdicts against them both.  Mr Justice Roderick Evans said they would both serve a minimum of 25 years.

The judge told them: “Your concern about being shamed in your community was greater than the love of your child.”

The couple suffocated Shafilea with a plastic bag after years of abuse.

After the trial. Det Supt Geraint Jones described the killing as a “vile and disgraceful act against someone they should have been very proud of”. (more…)

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An elderly woman was brutally beaten with a brick by a young black male. The attacker picked his victim at random and appears to have beaten her for the fun of it. The attacker first stole the woman’s car, then drove back to the woman and lured her into the car with him. Then started beating her with a brick.

CLARKSDALE, MS – (WMC-TV) – The beating of an elderly woman with a brick outside her home has rocked the city of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Now, there is a city-wide search for that beating suspect.

Shirley Gordon’s chilling tale of violence is the latest in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She survived a brutal beating while defenseless at her home. And not only is she living to tell about it, she’s warning others in the town to be aware of what’s going on around them.

“It’s still kind of sore,” Gordon said.

Stitches, bruises and gashes remain on Shirley Gordon’s face after she literally fought for her life while being beaten with a concrete brick. (more…)

WASHINGTON — The feds have asked a judge to strike from the public record the  most “scandalous” details of a bombshell sexual-discrimination lawsuit against  Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security that refer to oral sex  and an odd bathroom prank.

The lewd details are included in senior law-enforcement official James Hayes’ suit claiming retaliation anti-guy bias.

The filing claims top immigration aide Suzanne Barr “humiliated” a male  employee by calling him in his hotel room and screaming that she wanted his “c–k in the back of [her] throat.” (more…)

IRELAND – US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle paid tribute to Jenny Gallagher and her colleagues who are credited with saving the lives of some of those injured in the massacre.

PHD student James Holmes has been charged in relation to the shootings which left 12 people dead.  However, her family has now been plunged into a sense of grief of their own. Jenny was out swimming in a lake close to her home when she is believed to have drowned.

Her husband Greg Pinson and five-year-old son Jack are struggling to come to terms with the loss of a “wonderful mother”.  (read more)

(Via CofCC) Bizarre treatment by media! A search on bing.com shows multiple news sites in Ireland, but none in the United States reporting her death.

Jennifer Gallagher was credited with saving the lives of multiple gunshot victims after the Aurora Colorado  theater shooting.  She became a local celebrity.  She was even hand picked to stand in the front of the Barack Obama campaign photo op at the hospital.

Then she died mysteriously and the media did not even report it. (more…)

BEALLSVILLE, Ohio — Mitt Romney today stood in front of eastern Ohioans seemingly straight out of the mine — hard hats, smudged faces, and blue and gray uniforms — as he accused President Obama of “waging war” on coal.

“He’s for all the sources of energy that come from above the ground, none of the sources below the ground, like oil and coal and gas,” the presumptive Republican nominee told a crowd outside American Energy Corp’s Century Mine near Beallsville, Belmont County.

“I’m for all of the above, whether it comes from above the ground or below the ground,” he said. “We’re going to take advantage of our energy resources to save your jobs, create more jobs, and, by the way, when we use our plentiful energy resources, our inexpensive carbon-based resources, you’re going to see manufacturing come back to America…,” he said. (more…)

Traditionally speaking Republicans are insufferably inept at messaging; the messaging on the Ryan Budget is a great example of their ineptitude.

President Obama takes $716 Billion out of the Medicare Program via expenditures and reimbursements to medical providers.   This is a factual consequence of “Obamacare”.  It is not disputed.   While the argument they should face, and be held to account for, is about “impact”, the factual reality of the shift of the money stands as a consequence of Obamacare and the Romney/Ryan team is correct to hold President Obama accountable for it.

However, the counter point from the Obama campaign is to continually point out that in Paul Ryan’s budget proposal he also maintained these same $716 billion reductions.  Subsequently they frame the Ryan budget as hypocritical.    This is where Republicans suck. (more…)