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NBC7 says a woman named Stephanie Pontarollo was driving the truck, engaged in what they describe as a "high speed fight" with Kelsey Shakespeare driving the sedan. California Highway Patrol has not confirmed this is an incident of road rage, but the attack looks pretty damn deliberate from here.
If investigators agree, Pontarollo could be looking at charges from assault with a deadly weapon to attempted murder. No word yet on what proved the outburst, assuming the truck wasn't just dodging a kitty in the road or something.
What do you say, folks— Are we looking at an egregious act of assholishness or just a gnarly accident?
Hat tip to Alex Wong!
Reigning world 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Emma Coburn has backed Linda Helleland to become the new President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and criticised rival candidate Witold Banka, claiming the Polish Sports Minister "does not have his finger on the pulse of mainstream athlete and public opinion".
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Presidential candidate Linda Helleland has accused rival Witold Bańka of making "offensive" statements and acting in "bad faith" after he called on the Norwegian to step down as vice-president during the campaign.
I have been reading with great interest the stakeholder commentary regarding the September 20 decision taken by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to reinstate the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) as compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code, under strict conditions.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Presidential candidate Witold Bańka has called for challenger Linda Helleland to step down as vice-president during her campaign for the top job at the global watchdog to ensure a fairer election race.
World Olympians Association (WOA) President Joël Bouzou has warned athletes to make sure they are not manipulated during the ongoing tensions surrounding the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and suggested his organisation could provide a global position.
A proposal made by the African Union of public authority representatives within the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has called for their candidate for President to be at least 45 years old in a move interpreted as an attempt to block Linda Helleland from standing.
Michael Pavitt: WADA civil war - Does everyone need a rethink?
If you are looking to get your point of view across, parking your tanks on the White House lawn is a good way of achieving it.
British Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has resigned after a decision on reducing maximum stakes in fixed-odds betting machines was delayed until next year.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) director general Olivier Niggli has claimed consensus must be reached despite a diversity of opinions, warning that cheats would prosper otherwise.
NORTHAMPTON -- Mayor David Narkewicz endorsed write-in candidate Jo Comerford in the race to fill Stan Rosenberg's former seat in the Massachusetts Senate.
Narkewicz, reading from a prepared statement on Monday, said he believes Comerford will "hit the ground running" on Beacon Hill and "be ready on day one" to represent the Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester District.
Also appearing on the steps of City Hall were Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan, Hampshire Register of Deeds Mary Olberding, former congressman John Olver, City Councilor Dennis Bidwell and former city councilor Alex Ghiselin.
Comerford, of Northampton, a longtime progressive activist, is former director of the National Priorities Project and a former campaign manager for MoveOn.org. She has also worked for the American Friends Service Committee and Food Bank of Western Mass.
The only candidate whose name will appear on the Sept. 4 Democratic primary ballot is Chelsea Kline of Northampton, an educational administrator who has been endorsed by Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts and other groups.
Also waging write-in campaigns are Democrats Ryan O'Donnell, who is Northampton City Council president; lawyer and political consultant David Murphy, of Amherst; and veterans agent Steven Connor, of Northampton.
Rosenberg resigned from the Massachusetts Senate on May 3 amid an ethics scandal involving his husband, Bryon Hefner, who now faces criminal sexual assault charges. A Senate ethics report concluded that Rosenberg failed to insulate Senate business from Hefner's behavior.
Rosenberg and Hefner are also the subject of civil litigation from an unnamed former Beacon Hill aide who alleges that Hefner assaulted him and that Rosenberg knew.
Both impressions are uncannily accurate, right down to Atamanuik and Adomian’s voices. They debate everything from their likenesses to Jesus and their opinions on Sarah Palin to their masturbation habits and positions in a hypothetical human centipede. The craziest thing is that while the topics get pretty absurd, the ...
November 12, Atlantic Records will release Phil Collins' first new solo album in six years. The 51-year-old artist says Testify includes some of the best songs he's ever written. Collins will launch its release with a live, one-hour radio concert, which will air on 150 stations via Premiere Radio Networks. The first si...
TLC's final album featuring the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes will be released on November 12. The trio was working on 3D at the time of Lisa's death. She was killed in a car accident in Honduras last April.
November 12, Reprise Records will issue a four-CD box set by new age artist Enya. Only Time The Collection includes her hit songs, such as Only Time, Orinoco Flow and Book of Days, plus many tracks that were previously unavailable in the U.S.
As expected, the soundtrack to rap star Eminem's new motion picture, 8 Mile, debuts at Number One on this week's (week ending November 16) Billboard Top 200 chart. It sold more than 700,000 copies its first week of release. 8 Mile, loosely based on the Eminem's life, opened in theaters on November 8. The soundtrack inc...
November 12, Universal Records will release Elton John's double CD anthology Greatest Hits 1970-2002. The 34 digitally remastered tracks include 22 of Elton's Top 10 songs. He plans to launch a "Greatest Hits Tour" in 2003.
The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) will present Emmylou Harris with its Patrick J. Leahy Humanitarian Award on November 12. Emmylou was chosen as this year's recipient for her efforts to ban landmines. She'll receive the honor at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. Many of Emmylou's friends, including...
November 13, "Stormy Weather 2002 A Benefit for Walden Woods" will take place at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Scheduled to appear at the fundraising event are Michelle Branch, Sheryl Crow, Reba McEntire, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Susan Tedeschi, Trisha Yearwood and others. Don Henley founded the Walden Woods ...
The 2002 MTV Europe Music Awards will be presented on November 14 in Barcelona, Spain. This year's top contenders are Kylie Minogue, Eminem, Pink, Shakira, Coldplay and Enrique Iglesias. Each received four nominations. Sean "P. Diddy" Combs will host the event, which will feature performances by Whitney Houston, Christ...
Peter Gabriel will kick off his Growing Up Live tour on November 12 in Chicago, Illinois. The outing was delayed for a week due to technical problems with the show's production. Gabriel will be promoting his new album, Up North American dates are currently scheduled through December 18.
November 14, former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, now performing as The Other Ones, will begin a U.S. tour in Roanoke, Virginia. They'll perform 17 concerts through December 6.
November 15, Country legend Dolly Parton will begin her first tour of the U.K. and Ireland in 19 years. Shows begin in Manchester, England. Parton will also perform in London on November 18 and 19; Belfast on November 23; Glasgow, Scotland on November 26 and 27 and Dublin, Ireland on November 29.
Tunisia is a young democracy with an ancient civilisation. There is no better symbol of that than Bardo, where the national museum and parliament are located. The museum, the largest in the country, contains many priceless works.
Among them are some of the most beautiful Roman mosaics in the world, and items dating back more than 40,000 years. In those terrifying hours on Wednesday, when the Bardo was attacked, those same corridors echoed with the sound of gunfire.
There were hundreds of people inside at the time. Many were forced to run for their lives, or hide, as they were hunted down.
There was one previous attack on civilians in Tunisia. At least 19 people were killed in 2002, in a suicide bombing at the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba in the south. However, what happened at Bardo is the first of its kind because it was specifically targeting foreigners and took place in the capital Tunis.
Amine Ghali, Program Director of Al Kawakibi Democracy Transition Centre, believes: "It was not just targeting Tunisia. It was targeting humanity, a symbol of humanity."
Up until recently, Tunisia managed to remain relatively sheltered from the chaos that has engulfed other Arab Spring countries.
That is partly because this small country has no real history of conflict or arms. Moreover, it has no history of tribal or sectarian divides.
It also has few natural resources, and has played a neutral role in regional conflicts - in Libya for example it has consulates in both Tripoli and in Benghazi.
Politically it was turning an important corner in its transition to democracy. There were free and fair elections at the end of last year.
I remember meeting Fouad El Hedi, a voter who had just cast his ballot. Like most of the people at the polling station Fouad was old enough to remember life in a state where political opposition or freedom of speech was not tolerated.
It was the first time Fouad had ever voted in a presidential election. I was struck by his excitement and optimism that investment would now flow back into the country.
The scenes at Bardo reminded me of the attack on Westgate, a Nairobi shopping mall in September 2013. It was a day that changed Kenya; the last time I visited the country in September 2014, people there told me they were still afraid of another similar attack.
Tunisia will also never be the same; this isn't just about tourism and the economy. In a way it has lost its innocence.
There will now be security at most hotels and tourist locations. More people will be stopped and searched, and there are fears the security forces will gain even more powers.
Those behind this attack want to polarize the country. It is up to the Tunisian people to make sure they stand united, and not divided.
“Over the past two weeks, Senator Cochran’s office received thousands of calls and emails in support and in opposition of the DeVos nomination, both from Mississippians and from other interested Americans,” Cochran spokesman Chris Gallegos said.
Opponents of DeVos had for several days mounted a social media campaign urging people to contact senators in hopes of changing at least one GOP senator’s mind because it would have taken just one more Republican senator flipping to prevent DeVos’ confirmation. Wicker had made it clear he supported DeVos but Cochran had...
Because of the volume of people who contact senators’ offices and the difficulty tracking phone calls, a more exact tally of how many constituents the senators heard from was not available.
In the end, both senators voted to confirm.
Two Republicans voted with Democrats, which resulted in a 50-50 tie that Vice President Mike Pence broke in an unprecedented vote on a cabinet nominee.
The editorial represents the views of the Sun Herald editorial board. Opinions of columnists and cartoonists are their own.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday his government, or any future national unity government, would work to preserve the Palestinians' right of return. Haniyeh, who is on his first tour abroad since his Hamas-led government took office in March, spoke at a press conference after meeting with the repre...
Women’s Aid has called for increased efforts by An Garda Síochána to address the “massive undercounting” in the proper recording of domestic abuse in sexual violence offences.
It follows the publication of a review by the CSO of the quality of Garda crime data.
The review saw the CSO analyse crimes with either a domestic abuse motive or a discriminatory motive (such as racism).
The analysis took a sample of 200 cases of physical and sexual assault offences in 2017 and examined all the information in the crime incident on the Garda Pulse system.
Of the 100 physical assaults, 22 indicated domestic abuse, while 18 were flagged as such in terms of motivation (82% of incidents).
The CSO report says domestic violence was recorded by selecting the appropriate motive type within the incident’s modus operandi (MO) data field.
“Statistics on domestic violence rely entirely on accurate completion of the MO field,” said the report.
The CSO said its sample indicated that Garda domestic abuse statistics considerably understated the actual number.
Margaret Martin of Women’s Aid said while the CSO found systematic improvements within the Garda in terms of recording and classifying crime generally, that had yet to happen for violence against women.
She said while domestic abuse was being mentioned somewhere in the narrative of the crime report of the sexual offences studied, in only one of the 19 cases was it recorded as the motivation — saying this indicated “massive undercounting”.
She said the relationship between victim and perpetrator was key for domestic abuse, as was the frequency of violence — which she said needs to be captured.
She said it wasn’t clear why the recording of motivation was so out of skew. She said it could be because the Garda had “so many things to improve” that there was “massive catchup”. Ms Martin said it could also be down to training gardaí in how to accurately identify domestic violence.
“In general crime, they have made strides, but for violence against women, we need an extra injection of knowledge, good practice and monitoring,” she said.
A year has passed since MultiCam won the U.S. Army's camouflage competition, but makers of the pattern said the service still refuses to pay what the market demands for more effective camouflage.
Sgt. Major of the Army Raymond Chandler said the Army was compelled to abandon its plan for replacing its ineffective Universal Camouflage Pattern when Congress ordered the Pentagon to stop the services from branding their ranks with unique camouflage uniforms.
Army uniform officials are now considering a new camouflage strategy, one that involves more testing and possibly adopting the Marine Corps desert and woodland patterns for specific operational environments.
But now new information offers a different explanation for the Army's reluctance to adopt MultiCam pattern.
Crye Precision LLC, the inventor of the MultiCam pattern, just released an account of the Army's negotiating techniques, beginning when Product Manager Clothing and Individual Equipment officials contacted Crye Precision last May.
"Crye was advised by PM-CIE leadership via teleconference on May 1, 2013 that its submission had won the final program phase of the camouflage improvement effort, and that a formal announcement would be forthcoming," the Crye Precision release states.
The Army had already been purchasing MultiCam uniforms and equipment for troops in Afghanistan since 2010.
But Army officials were surprised that vendors planned to charge up to 20 percent more for MultiCam uniforms and equipment than what the Army was used to paying for clothing and gear printed in UCP, Crye officials said.
"Army representatives approached Crye to discuss the market's pricing of MultiCam gear (such as uniforms) and told Crye that it would have to deliver 'significant cost savings,'" Crye officials said.
Caleb Crye, executive director of Crye Precision, said the Army doesn't believe that Crye Precision does not control the prices vendors charge for MultiCam. The company does get "printing fees" from companies, but that only accounts for about 1 percent of the price hike companies are charging for MultiCam, Crye said.
"They attributed the cost difference to us incorrectly," said a clearly frustrated Crye official during a March 19 phone interview with Military.com. "The Army doesn't get its uniforms from Crye yet it is complaining to us that the uniforms cost more. We don't control how vendors price things."
In October 2013, the Army released a Justification and Approval that it planned to issue MultiCam as the Army's "principle camouflage pattern," Crye officials said.
"Crye submitted several formal proposals which proved that the Army could procure MultiCam gear at prices within 1 percent of UCP gear," the Crye release states. "Crye's proposals additionally showed that this could be accomplished with no upfront cost to the Army."
"The Army rejected all of Crye's proposals and did not present any counter proposals, effectively saying that a proven increase in soldier survivability was not worth a price difference of less than 1 percent."
Program Executive Office Soldier representatives did not respond to an interview request from Military.com by press time.
Army officials then requested a buyout price for MultiCam, but Crye officials were reluctant to sell the service the rights to the MultiCam brand.
This course of action would require Crye to cede quality and brand control to the Army, effectively undermining Crye's commercial market permanently, Crye officials said.
"There is no way you could police the quality anymore," Caleb Crye said. "Right now we are the responsible parties. We have lawyers just for that -- all they do all day is police it."
A buyout price would have to include the entire lifetime value of the MultiCam brand, making it expensive, Crye officials said.
Crye officials finally agreed to provide a buyout price request -- $24.8 million according to an Army source familiar with negotiations.
"Crye's offer was rejected outright by the Army," Crye officials said. "No official counter offers to any of Crye's proposals were ever provided to Crye by the Army."
Army uniform officials launched the service's camouflage effort after Pennsylvania's Democratic Rep. John Murtha, got involved in the issue in 2009. Murtha was then chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. He pushed the service to look for a better camouflage pattern after receiving complaints from...
Murtha died in 2010, just before the Army selected MultiCam as the clear winner over several other patterns to issue to soldiers deploying to Afghanistan.
Some test community officials maintain that the 2004 adoption of the UCP was a mistake that could have been avoided, saving the Army billions of dollars on uniforms and matching equipment.
Critics of the UCP maintain that the service has spent $5 billion on uniforms and equipment all printed in the inadequate UCP.
Two separate studies performed by Army scientists from Natick Soldier Systems Center, Mass. -- one completed in 2009 and the other in 2006 -- showed that the UCP performed poorly in multiple environments when compared to other modern camouflage patterns.
In both studies, MultiCam, a pattern popular with Special Operations Forces, outperformed UCP.
On Friday, the cast of Parks and Recreation reunited at PaleyFest in Los Angeles to celebrate the show's 10-year anniversary and spilled lots of behind-the-scenes tea in a panel together.
Everyone looked fantastic, but I'm not here to talk about everyone. I'm here to talk about freakin' RETTA and the instantly iconic dress that she wore.
At first glance, it looks like she's just wearing a lovely pink dress. But take a closer look...and you'll notice a secret message.
She had "TREAT YO' SELF" printed all over the damn dress.

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