One officer is dead and another has been treated and released after being shot as they responded to a 911 call in Arkansas, according to reports. Around 7:10 a.m. on Wednesday, Deputy Bill Cooper and Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells arrived at a home located on a rural lot, where a father and son were involved in an altercation over tools, when the son pulled a gun, CNN reports. When the officers arrived they reportedly notified dispatch that the son - later identified as 35-year-old Billy Monroe Jones - possessed an assault-style rifle and was wearing body armor. After taking cover,...
- 8/12/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
One officer is dead and another has been treated and released after being shot as they responded to a 911 call in Arkansas, according to reports. Around 7:10 a.m. on Wednesday, Deputy Bill Cooper and Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells arrived at a home located on a rural lot, where a father and son were involved in an altercation over tools, when the son pulled a gun, CNN reports. When the officers arrived they reportedly notified dispatch that the son - later identified as 35-year-old Billy Monroe Jones - possessed an assault-style rifle and was wearing body armor. After taking cover,...
- 8/12/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
Fresh off a pair of hot Sundance titles, Jayson Warner Smith (“Rectify”) has joined the cast of four high-profile features, including one studio movie and three indie projects, TheWrap has learned. Smith will join Tom Cruise in Doug Liman‘s “Mena,” which just started shooting, and he has already wrapped the Hank Williams biopic “I Saw the Light” with Tom Hiddleston and the slavery drama “Birth of a Nation” with Nate Parker, as well as Antonio Campos’ indie drama “Christine” starring Rebecca Hall and Michael C. Hall. In the true life drug-runner tale “Mena,” Smith has been cast as Bill Cooper,...
- 5/27/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Don't fret, Minneapolis (forecast high of 12 degrees F). Take heart, Pittsburgh (26 degrees, 80 percent chance of snow). Spring is on the way.
That was the forecast Saturday (Feb. 2) from Punxsutawney Phil, who made his annual Groundhog Day appearance in Pennsylvania. Phil didn't see his shadow, and lore has it that when that happens, an early spring is on the way.
Hundreds of onlookers took shuttle buses in the pre-dawn hours to Gobbler's Knob, Phil's home outside the town northeast of Pittsburgh. After a fireworks display, Phil emerged from his burrow to make his forecast.
"It doesn't matter where you are from, if you get the Groundhog Day gene it is a pilgrimage you are going to take," Bill Cooper, a member of the Groundhog Club, which sponsors the event, tells Reuters. "It breaks up the monotony of winter. It has existed for 127 years, not because it is the best meteorological science...
That was the forecast Saturday (Feb. 2) from Punxsutawney Phil, who made his annual Groundhog Day appearance in Pennsylvania. Phil didn't see his shadow, and lore has it that when that happens, an early spring is on the way.
Hundreds of onlookers took shuttle buses in the pre-dawn hours to Gobbler's Knob, Phil's home outside the town northeast of Pittsburgh. After a fireworks display, Phil emerged from his burrow to make his forecast.
"It doesn't matter where you are from, if you get the Groundhog Day gene it is a pilgrimage you are going to take," Bill Cooper, a member of the Groundhog Club, which sponsors the event, tells Reuters. "It breaks up the monotony of winter. It has existed for 127 years, not because it is the best meteorological science...
- 2/2/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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