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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – A former nursing assistant who confessed to using insulin to murder seven elderly patients at a VA hospital will spend the rest of her life in prison.
During a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh called Reta Mays, 46, a monster of the worst kind. You are the monster no one sees coming. He delivered a life sentence for each murder victim, plus 20 years for an eighth victim she tried to kill.
Mays sobbed as Kleeh sentenced her. When a U.S. marshal approached her after the hearing, she sat down and buried her head in her hands, crying. She got up, and she was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom.
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“Not all ethics waivers are bad,” said a former director of the Office of Government Ethics.
Soon after taking the oath of office in January, President Biden issued a sweeping ethics pledge for executive branch personnel. But shortly thereafter, the administration granted waivers to two labor leaders to allow them to serve in senior positions, drawing the ire of some conservatives along with charges of hypocrisy. “Labor’s sizable personnel presence in the administration is driving policy,”
Axios reported on Friday. “And the president’s appointment of top union officials to senior posts gives those unions powerful voices in the federal bureaucracy even at the cost of strictly adhering to his own stringent ethics standards.”
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RICHMOND, Va., (AP) Police Chief Will Cunningham came to work four years ago to find that his six-officer department was the victim of a crime.
Hackers had taken advantage of a weak password to break in and encrypt the files of the department in Roxana, a small town in Illinois near St. Louis, and were demanding $6,000 of bitcoin.
“I was shocked, I was surprised, frustrated,” Cunningham said.
Police departments big and small have been plagued for years by foreign hackers breaking into networks and causing varying level of mischief, from disabling email systems to more serious problems with 911 centers temporarily knocked offline. In some cases important case files have gone missing.
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May 11, 2021
TODD: Let me give you the battle of two headlines here. This is in regards to the pipeline being shut down, the hack of this. This is New York Times: “Colonial Pipeline, a vital U.S. fuel artery that was shut down by a cyberattack, said it hoped to restore most operations by the end of the week. Since the shutdown, there have been no long lines for gas” and such.
Then you can go to the Twitter (laughing) and find video of people stuck in long lines for gas and showing gas stations saying, “We’re out of gas.” Then you can go to The Daily Caller on Twitter who has informed us that the governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, has signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency in North Carolina on Monday. Why?
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May 11, 2021
TODD: Let me give you the battle of two headlines here. This is in regards to the pipeline being shut down, the hack of this. This is New York Times: Colonial Pipeline, a vital U.S. fuel artery that was shut down by a cyberattack, said it hoped to restore most operations by the end of the week. Since the shutdown, there have been no long lines for gas and such.
Then you can go to the Twitter (laughing) and find video of people stuck in long lines for gas and showing gas stations saying, We re out of gas. Then you can go to The Daily Caller on Twitter who has informed us that the governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, has signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency in North Carolina on Monday. Why?