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Beltway Crash March 29, 2015 4:59 PM  Share on email View Comments Related Tags: Capital Beltway, Maryland State Police, Upper Marlboro, Veronica Denise Edmonds CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say a woman has died after her car veered off the Capital Beltway and hit a guardrail. Police say 47-year-old Veronica Denise Edmonds of Upper Marlboro was killed in the crash early Sunday morning. Investigators believe fatigue was a cause of the crash about 3:45 a.m. Police say the car veered across three lanes and hit a guardrail. No other cars were involved in the crash. Edmonds was pronounced dead at the scene.

<img class="wp-image-2996685 size-full" src="https://ionetheurbandaily.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/14267739415441.jpg?w=630&h=378" alt="Rihanna" width="630" height="378" /> Source: Neilson Barnard / Getty Despite some lukewarm reviews, the DreamWorks/Fox animated comedy Home was expected to bring in roughly $30 to $35 million in box office receipts during its opening weekend. It has surpassed those forecasts with an initial opening weekend of over $40 million. Variety reports the film cost $130 million to make, and it features vocal talent from Rihanna , Jennifer Lopez , and Steve Martin . Rihanna not only voices the lead character, Gratuity “Tip” Tucci, but she contributed the songs “As Real As You and Me” and “Dancing In the Dark” to the film’s soundtrack. “Dialogue was one of the challenge I had to work through,” Rihanna said, in a recent interview with PopSugar . “It was one of th...

Reuters / Lucas Jackson Tags Military , Police , Politics , Robert Bridge , Security , Terrorism , USA As elite branches of the US military prepare to hold military training in seven southwest states, with some troops operating incognito among civilians, some Americans fear the training is actually preparation for imposing martial law. Operation Jade Helm, which is scheduled to kick off in July and run for eight weeks, will involve the participation of 1,200 troops from the US military’s most elite fighting forces, including Green Berets, Navy SEALS and Special Operations from the Air Force and Marines. Battleground America: US Army surplus even going to coroners as militarization rampant The troops will be participating in what has been called Realistic Military Training in towns in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas and Utah. In an effort to simulate the type of battlefiel...

B-13 PEER REVIEW: This is a very serious issue! I don't understand how is it that the state department doesn't just get a warrant and seize her server. There are parellel justice systems in this country. One for the people that says ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking the law. Then there is another justice department the governs the elite. They get away with murder literally. How is there are no laws being made to fix this nor subpoenas being issue to seize her servers? Why is she left to decide what is to be submitted? She made the choice to take work home therefore all of her communications should be fair game. Her server her phones and all communications should be scrutinized. I don't understand she could be committing treason, but she is a juggernaut this STINKS of oligarchy! The Clinton's has a history of impropriety. Any average citizen with a track record like theirs would have been arrested all of their communications seized and the governme...

An Atlanta criminal defense attorney has beaten a $100 fine a Henry County judge levied on him for missing a client's court date. A panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday tossed the fine issued to Jackie Patterson. The appeals court said Henry County State Court Judge James Chafin III erred in issuing the fine because the judge had said Patterson's actions were negligent, not willful. To hold a party in contempt, the appeals court said, a court must find that the subject of the contempt order was willfully disobedient. As recounted in court filings, the fine stemmed from a March 2014 court date at which one of Patterson's clients, charged with driving with a suspended license, was supposed to be arraigned. When Patterson didn't appear, the Henry County judge postponed the arraignment to April 4, 2014. He also set a contempt hearing for Patterson to coincide with his client's new court date. Patterson appeared at the April 4 hearing ...

“‘You know, if we go out there and start messing with those folks, they know judges, they know lawyers, they know politicians. You start locking their kids up; somebody’s going to jerk our chain.’ He said, ‘they’re going to call us on it, and before you know it, they’re going to shut us down, and there goes your overtime.'” Washington DC – As the lies that keep the drug war alive begin to come unglued, many of the police officers and government agents who made it possible are now going public with the truth of their experience. Matthew Fogg, a former US Marshal, and DEA agent is one of those people. Ever since leaving law enforcement he has been speaking out against police brutality, profiling, and the drug war. Fogg appeared in an interview for Brave New Films, where he discussed the drug war and how race and class play a part the enforcement of drug laws. In the interview, Fogg said, “ We were jumping on guys in the middle of the night, all of that. Swooping down ...