Arizona - A man was shot and killed after a traffic confrontation

SPRING VALLEY, AZ - Authorities say a man who was shot during an apparent confrontation after a traffic collision in Northern Arizona has died.

Deputies with the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office responded to the shooting on Highway 69 near Mayer High School in Spring Valley around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Officers with the Department of Public Safety were already on the scene and reported that a man in his 40s had been shot and was being transported to a local hospital.

Officers had detained a 59-year-old man and identified him as the shooter.

Within the hour, deputies learned the victim had died.

YCSO says witnesses indicated the two men, each in their own vehicle, were in some type of dispute while driving south on Highway 69.

The man who was shot apparently confronted the other man on the side of the road following a collision.

The shooter remained at the scene and is being interviewed by sheriff’s detectives.

YCSO said a handgun has been recovered.

No arrests have been made and the incident is under investigation.

British-Iranian volleyball woman gets jail time

A British-Iranian woman who was arrested in Tehran after trying to attend a volleyball match has been sentenced to one year in jail, her lawyer was reported as saying Sunday.

Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 25-year-old law graduate from London, who was detained in June at a Tehran stadium where Iran's national volleyball team was to play Italy, went on trial last month.

"According to the verdict she was sentenced to one year," her lawyer Alizadeh Tabatabaie was quoted in Iranian media as saying, noting that the judge had shown him the sentence.

But no reason was given for the conviction.

Iranian officials have said Ghavami was detained for security reasons unrelated to the volleyball match. So far she has been held in the capital's notorious Evin Prison for 126 days.

The "Free Ghoncheh Ghavami" Facebook page where her friends and family campaigned for her release features photographs of her against the slogan: "Jailed for wanting to watch a volleyball match".

An update on the page on Sunday appeared to corroborate the one year sentence but bemoaned the closed-doors legal process that has prevailed in the case.

"This morning Ghoncheh's family and lawyer returned empty handed from branch 26 of Revolutionary court," it said.

"It is not clear to her family and lawyer as to what the current legal basis of her detention is. A fair and just legal process according to Iran's legal framework is the basic right of every Iranian citizen. Why are these rights not upheld in Ghoncheh's case?"

Ghavami's arrest came after female fans and even women journalists were told they would not be allowed to attend the volleyball match at Azadi ("Freedom" in Persian) stadium in the capital.

National police chief General Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam said it was "not yet in the public interest" for men and women to attend such events together. "The police are applying the law," he said at the time.

Women are also banned from attending football matches in Iran, with officials saying this is to protect them from lewd behavior among male fans.

Last Update: Sunday, 2 November 2014 KSA 15:58 - GMT 12:58

Puppy Abuse - Woman throws puppy out window of car ( in plastic bag)

Alsu Ivanchenko was caught throwing a puppy out of the window of a car, and she is now facing time behind bars for her actions. According to The SpreadIt, the Staten Island woman showed up at Supreme Court on Thursday, about five weeks after the incident occurred. In September, Alsu allegedly grabbed her 3-month-old Maltese-Shih Tzu mix, put her in a plastic bag, and tossed her out of the car, all because she couldn’t afford to care for her anymore — so she said.

“The dog survived, but suffered a long list of injuries, including a fractured skull, femur, brain trauma and loss of vision,” reports The SpreadIt. The pup has been renamed (Charlotte), and is being taken care of at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York, but she is making “minor progress” following surgery.

Alsu Ivanchenko was met by puppy lovers at the Supreme Court yesterday morning. According to Staten Island Live, protestors stood outside the courtroom holding signs that read thing like “Justice for Charlotte” and “Charlotte is not trash but you are.” Ivanchenko was able to avoid the yelling by using a side entrance. She wore dark sunglasses and kept her head covered by a scarf.

Sadly, animal abuse happens more often than you might hear about. The media doesn’t cover every case, but the ones that do make it to the news are some of the most unbelievable — and the most heartbreaking. According to The Inquisitr, a mom from Washington state was accused of drowning four puppies in a toilet. Apparently Ginger Hartson felt helpless after her adult pit bull had six puppies, and she was told by her landlord that she couldn’t keep the pets. She was able to find homes for two of the pups, but decided to drown the other four in the toilet, believing that “animal control would euthanize them anyway.”

“Most of our animal cruelty cases involve some level of negligence. This was deliberate and it was cruel. She knew exactly what she was doing,” said attorney Mark Lindquist. Hartson pleaded “not guilty” to four counts of animal cruelty.

Alsu Ivanchenko, known as the “puppy abuser from New York,” is free on $3,500 bail. She pleaded “not guilty” to charges of torturing and injuring animals, and abandonment of a disabled animal. She is due back in court on January 13, 2015, and she faces up to two years in prison.

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Women find out they will be " Sex Slaves " for ISIS ( Video)

ISIS fighter offers UK paper bribe for revealing ‘Jihadi John’

A British Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant offered to reveal the identity of “Jihadi John” – the ISIS fighter who was featured in a series of gruesome videos released by the group in which Western hostages were beheaded – in exchange for a bribe from the London-based Mail on Sunday, the newspaper reported.

In online correspondence with the Mail on Sunday, 20-year-old Junaid Hussain, - who was imprisoned for six months in 2012 after publishing on the internet former UK Prime Minister Blair’s address and social security number - for the sum of $4,800.

Although the newspaper did not pay and contacted UK police, Hussain reportedly revealed that “Jihadi John” was of Arab origins, was born a Muslim and has been in Syria “for ages.”

Cash not principles

In exchange for the money, Hussain said that he could give the newspaper the name and old Twitter account information of “Jihadi John.”

The money, he explained, would be used to pay for a car that would use to transport his family around the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.

Jihadi John - who is wanted for executing two American journalists and two British aid workers - was identified by the FBI in late September, although the bureau did not release his name to the public. UK Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered UK intelligence agencies to capture him.

Although drones earlier this month managed to track “Jihadi John” in Syria, British Special Forces fear a mission to either kill or capture him may end in failure.

Last Update: Sunday, 2 November 2014 KSA 17:31 - GMT 14:31

Iran defends executions record, says most drug-related

Responding to a United Nations report criticizing death sentences in Iran, a senior official in the Islamic Republic is saying that 93 percent of executions in the country involve drug smuggling.


Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council, made the comments in a report posted on the judiciary's website Saturday.

The Oct. 23 report by the United Nations said at least 852 people were reportedly executed between July 2013 and June 2014 and called it an alarming increase.

Delegates from many European countries have urged Iran to adopt a moratorium on the death penalty at an ongoing human rights meeting in Geneva.

Iran previously has threatened to allow drug smugglers through its territory to Europe if the West continues to criticize it for executing convicted drug traffickers.

ISIS kills 85 more members of Iraqi tribe

November 1, 2014

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants have executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week in retaliation for resistance to the group’s territorial advances, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday.

Sheikh Naeem al-Ga’oud, one of the tribe’s leaders, told Reuters that ISIS killed 50 displaced members of Albu Nimr on Friday. In a separate incident, a security official said 35 bodies were found in a mass grave.

The sustained bloodshed shows how the al Qaeda offshoot has proven resilient despite U.S. airstrikes against militant targets in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls.

It has been killing at will, with no signs that Iraq’s armed forces will come to the tribe’s rescue anytime soon.

Members of the Albu Nimr tribe had held out for weeks under siege by ISIS fighters in Anbar Province to the west of Baghdad, but finally ran low on ammunition, fuel and food.

Hundreds of tribal fighters withdrew and hundreds of members of the tribe fled their village. ISIS rounded many up and shot them at close range. Over 300 people have been executed since the killing began in the middle of last week.