Customer who killed gunman in Dallas Co. store called "Good Samaritan"

 

New details are emerging in the investigation into a shooting at a Dallas County dollar store that ended with a gunman dead at the hands of a customer who decided to take action.

Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson has identified the gunman as Kevin McLaughlin from Orrville and the customer as Marlo Ellis, 37, also from Orrville.

The fatal shooting happened around 12:45 p.m. Thursday at the Dollar General on Highway 22 in Orrville.

Officials say McLaughlin walked into the store waving a gun in the air and forced a cashier and Ellis at gunpoint towards a break room. At that point, Ellis pulled out a concealed weapon and shot McLaughlin once in the chest.

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77 year old man kills home invader

 

Phoenix police continued their investigation into what exactly led to the shooting of a man who broke into a home near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home on Friday morningA 77-year-old man who was in the home shot at the suspect with a shotgun about 3:19 a.m., said Sgt. Tommy Thompson of the Phoenix Police Department.The man told police his house had been burglarized the day before, Thompson said.

The intruder, William Thomas Mackey, 30, died at the scene, Thompson said. A pickup truck he drove was found in front of the residence, but Thompson said it was not clear if Mackey was involved in the burglary the day before.

More with video @ KPHO

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

January 17, 2014 addendum: Chart has been updated to show May 2013 version.

The 15 Worst Corporate Logo Fails

Via d_konstantinov

 

 A few weeks ago, Business Insider counted down the 10 worst logo changes of 2013.
 
There WAS Yahoo's disappointingly minor Change following A month's work of Prospective New designs, and the bizarre, "Hip" Twist Made by Professional Services giant Ernst & Young .
 
But while these changes were certainly unfortunate, they don't come anywhere near the completely ridiculous fails companies have made in the past.
 
We're talking about completely inappropriate stuff, like the London 2012 logo, Which WAS Accused of everything from resembling Nazi paraphernalia to Lisa Simpson Performing oral sex .  

And that's just scratching the surface of our 15 worst corporate logo fails of all time.

More @ Business Insider

Report: General Mills partnering with Michelle Obama to promote healthy eating.

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Anti-socialist Hispanics

 

Members attending the South Carolina Tea Party’s annual convention were told contrary to popular belief Hispanics do not want to embrace socialism and the failed liberal policies they left behind in their home countries – rather they are ready to embrace conservative values, but it is up to the tea party to educate them.

The South Carolina Tea Party is streaming its annual convention in both English and Spanish this weekend.

On the first day of their three-day convention in Myrtle Beach attendees heard from a trio of Hispanic speakers who sounded a warning that, while the Republican party is right about its need to reach out to Hispanics, the solution is not to embrace liberal ideas such as amnesty, but to instead boldly stand for conservative values, which they say large numbers of Hispanics actually embrace.

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Obama wins German transparency award........?

 

...."would I be a cynic if I thought this was a publicity stunt on the part of a marketing expert?"

A German marketing consultant has awarded President Obama a “transparency award,” highlighting Obama’s role in the NSA affair.

The award is apparently not a joke.

Sven Lilienström, a self-described guerrilla marketer in Kaarst, a town outside Düsseldorf in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, announced Tuesday that he “would like to present Obama with the massive, almost 6-kg gold trophy in February 2014 in Washington.” At the current gold price, the award would have a melt value of $241,921.50.

More @ The Daily Caller

Dog asks for directions: One minute

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Goodbye My Lover

NC: 50 African Study classes at UNC & popular with athletes, appear not to have existed.

More @ Ninety Miles From Tyranny

 

Mr. Duh

Everyone should go to college, we're frequently told. But what if we had a college, and nobody came? And still got credit anyway.

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill might not have gotten quite to that point, but it has come close: More than 50 classes offered by the African Studies department, and very popular with athletes, appear not to have actually existed. Some of these courses listed instructors who had not "supervised the course and graded the work," and others "were taught irregularly," a university review said.

UNC's chancellor and football coach lost their jobs. The African Studies department chair, Professor Julius Nyang'oro, is under indictment for fraud. That's bad enough. But it gets worse.

More @ USA Today