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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Full of drama and compassion: The best Children's books out now - Frank The Pizza by Eoin Mclaughlin, The Dawn Of Adonis by Phil Earle, The Other Girl by Emily Barr
Frank The Pizza by Eoin Mclaughlin, illustrated by Mike Byrne (HarperCollins £7.99, 32pp) Frank is a little slice of pizza, desperate to make friends but when you're delicious it's hard – some people want to meet you, others want to eat you. So when he's invited to Billy's birthday party, his parents try to protect him by topping him with anchovies and olives. No one likes him, until he meets Frances the cupcake whose parents have topped her with equally uninviting beetroot icing and they make such good friends they become overconfident and take risks that almost result in disaster. This scrumptious story has a gentle message but is also full of fun and plenty of opportunity for arguing about best pizza toppings. Who doesn't like olives? Age 3+. The Dawn Of Adonis by Phil Earle (Andersen Press £7.99, 240pp) Earle's multi-award winning When The Sky Falls introduced us to Adonis, a silverback gorilla kept in a London zoo during the Second World War. But how did he get there? This stand-alone prequel follows young Toff Squabble, assistant to the evil criminal Goliath Deeds who smells money in the illegal trade of exotic animals. When a baby gorilla is born in the backstreets of the docks, Toff seeks help from a vet and his brave daughter Nettie, who fights to rescue the vulnerable infant from Deeds' wicked plans. Set in 1911, this richly atmospheric adventure, full of drama, compassion and a brutal portrait of the city's dark underbelly, confirms Earle as a master of his craft. Age 9+ The Other Girl by Emily Barr (Penguin £9.99, 368pp) This twisty young adult thriller will keep you guessing until the surprising end. Rich, disturbed teenage Tabbi is headed for a rehab clinic in Switzerland after doing something terrible when drunk. When she meets runaway broke backpacker Ruby on a train, she persuades her to swap identities for six weeks, promising her that she's headed for a luxury hotel in the mountains, all expenses paid. But as Tabbi tries to survive without her credit card, she starts to wonder if Ruby is as innocent as she seemed. Who is conning who? There's a few improbable moments but the double-crossing, dual narrative and unfolding secrets propel you forward at high speed. Age 13+
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
‘There Was No Time to Be Nervous,' Says Montana Mushroom Hunter Who Shot Charging Grizzly
Justin Lee likes a good steak. And what completes a good steak, in Lee's opinion, is fresh-picked morels. On Wednesday, during his first foraging outting of the spring, Lee and his brother-in-law were looking for morel mushrooms on Lee's property north of Choteau, Montana. They were charged by a grizzly sow, and they shot and killed the bear at close range. 'There was no time to be nervous,' Lee tells Outdoor Life in an exclusive phone interview six days after he was charged. 'No time for calculation whatsoever.' Lee explains that he and his brother-in-law, John Long, had gone out walking on his property the evening of May 21. They drove his side-by-side down to Spring Creek, thinking it was a good spot to look for morels. Both men are from the area, and they know how to hike in grizzly country. They each carried sidearms: Lee had his 10mm Glock, and Long carried his 1911 chambered in .45 ACP. 'We weren't hunting bear,' says Lee, a 53-year-old retired attorney. 'We just carry these guns when we're down there in case. It just happened to be the 'in case' day that day.' After parking their rig in the cottonwoods near the creek, they started searching for mushrooms on foot. Lee walked toward the water. Long went about 50 yards ahead of him but returned quickly. 'He came running back saying, 'There's a bear. There's a bear.' Then I saw the bear and she had a cub. We started yelling and jumping up and down trying to scare her off. She just kept coming our way. Not charging but coming.' Lee says he suspects the sow was curious and trying to figure out what the ruckus was about. After closing the distance from 100 to 50 yards, the sow stood up on its hind legs, sniffing the air. Read Next: The Best Bear Defense Handguns of 2025 'She got our wind — she scented us,' Lee says. 'Then she got down on all fours and started jogging toward us instead of away from us. At 30 yards, she put her ears back and she was charging, so we started shooting.' It took eight bullets to put the sow down. Lee fired three rounds; Long shot five. They called a local game warden immediately to report the incident. Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks investigated the shooting and ruled it a case of self-defense. Wildlife officials tried searching for the cub but couldn't find it. They also removed the grizzly carcass from Lee's property, which is marked with 'Be Bear Aware' signs. 'They were very good,' Lee says. 'I'm sorry to have to kill a bear, especially a female with a cub. But there wasn't a choice. I've seen many bears and [have] been close to many bears. In all my encounters, they see me and they run away. But [this bear] just wasn't afraid of humans.' A few hours later, Lee was at the local bar. It was poker night. He played a few hands, carried on, and went home. It wasn't until he climbed into bed that the events of the day caught up with him. 'I was lying in bed when it finally dawned on me what had happened. I was a little restless. I don't have any desire to kill a grizzly, but I wish I had [been able to keep] a grizzly claw. You just can't believe them until you see them.' Read Next: Proposal to Keep Grizzlies on the Endangered Species List Is 'Ludicrous,' Say Western Lawmakers Lee has a few cabins on his mostly undeveloped property near Choteau, which lies in Central Montana along the Rocky Mountain Front and southeast of Glacier National Park. The area falls within the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, which is home to more than 1,000 grizzly bears and has seen an uptick in the number of grizzly conflicts in recent years. In April, a shed hunter shot and killed a charging grizzly bear near Dupuyer, which lies roughly 30 miles north of Choteau. 'It doesn't change the way I behave, but it makes me wonder about having guests,' Lee says. 'The grizzly bear recovery program in North-Central Montana has been wildly successful. When I was a kid, they were rare and in the mountains. It was a really big deal to see them. Over the years, it's become less odd. Now it's just standard.'
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Supreme Court Ruling Shows Guns Not a Priority Under Trump 2.0
At a speech to National Rifle Association members in February 2024, Donald Trump promised he'd almost immediately roll back all of the gun rules implemented over the previous four years if elected. 'Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated my very first week back in office,' Trump told the crowd to cheers. But Trump's first week in office came and went without any action on guns. And while he has taken a few steps to undo parts of Biden-era gun policy since then, he has yet to take significant action on any rules imposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives (ATF) under Biden. Among the four rules Biden implemented was the ATF's ban on 'ghost gun' kits—unserialized, unfinished gun parts sold alongside tools for self-assembly. Gun-rights activists argue the ghost gun rule gives the ATF too much power to determine what is and isn't a gun. They say it infringes on Americans' right to build their own firearms for personal use. And now, the Supreme Court has upheld that ban. In a 7-2 ruling on March 26, the justices found there were at least some ways to enforce the ATF rule against ghost gun sales that are consistent with underlying federal law. They concluded that was enough to give the ban a green light. 'Yes, perhaps a half hour of work is required before anyone can fire a shot,' Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority in Bondi v. VanDerStok. 'But even as sold, the kit comes with all necessary components, and its intended function as instrument of combat is obvious. Really, the kit's name says it all: 'Buy Build Shoot.'' That the Trump administration decided not to intervene demonstrates how it views the issue as a low priority. It's not that nothing could be done, even though the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case back in October, before the presidential election. The administration could have asked the Supreme Court to moot the case. It also could have submitted its own ATF rule change before going to the Supreme Court, which would have upped the odds of success. But it didn't do any of that, which fits with how it has approached gun policy to this point. President Trump didn't mention gun policy once in his marathon speech to Congress in early March. It was left out of the White House's literal priority list. He didn't issue any gun executive orders in his Day 1 blitz, and the one he has issued since is a plan to make a plan. This mirrors the campaign where he left guns out of his record-long RNC acceptance speech and deleted gun policy promises from the party platform. Still, there has been good news for gun-rights activists. The Trump administration eliminated the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which had been created by former President Biden. It deleted the 2024 surgeon general proclamation calling for new gun restrictions. And it reopened sales of military surplus firearms, like the collectible M1 Garand and 1911 pistol, through the Civilian Marksmanship Program. It also issued a new rule that looks to establish a new process for restoring gun rights to at least some former convicts. And it announced a civil rights investigation into Los Angeles County's long processing times and high fees for concealed carry permits. Perhaps most prominently, the Trump administration fired the ATF's chief counsel a few weeks back and recently hired Robert Leider, a Second Amendment scholar and gun-rights advocate, to replace her. In December, Leider—who is also a law professor at George Mason University—advocated for using the ATF's powers to enact pro-gun reforms. In addition to undoing other rules that haven't yet been considered by the Supreme Court, the ATF could still try to reverse or limit much of what's in the ghost gun rule. There's reason to think the Trump administration could eventually follow through on much of what the gun-rights activists want, even if it's not one of their top priorities. Of course, that also means they're likely to lose out whenever their wants conflict with something higher up the list. The risk of Trump turning on gun-rights activists remains as well. But that's mostly confined to what he might do in the aftermath of a major mass shooting. He endorsed red-flag laws after the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and reportedly considered backing an assault weapons ban in the wake of the El Paso Walmart shooting. He also went through with a ban on bump stocks—which help semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly—in the wake of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, but the Supreme Court struck that down last year, with Trump's own Supreme Court appointees joining the majority. In the meantime, it's likely gun rights advocates' priorities will take a back seat to everything else the administration is trying to do. That will probably still result in some movement they'll be happy with. But, as the Supreme Court ruling in Bondi v. VanDerStok demonstrates, it may not always end that way.
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Yahoo
Florida felon carrying gun says he would 'have a shootout' before going back to prison: deputies
The Brief A Florida convicted felon was recently arrested after he allegedly drove around with a gun and said he would "have a shootout with law enforcement" before he would go back to prison. The man, 32-year-old Jacob Davis, now sits in the Volusia County Jail with no bond and is being charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, carrying a concealed firearm, possession of meth, possession of drug paraphernalia, and violation of probation. Records show Davis was previously released from prison in April 2023 after serving about five years for multiple burglaries in Volusia County. VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida convicted felon was recently arrested after he allegedly drove around with a gun and said he would "have a shootout with law enforcement" before he would go back to prison. Deputies said they arrested the man, 32-year-old Jacob Davis, on Thursday, and he now sits in the Volusia County Jail with no bond. He is facing a multitude of charges. What we know On Thursday, March 13, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said it received a tip that Davis, a convicted felon, was driving around with a gun and said he would "have a shootout with law enforcement" before he would go back to prison. Possessing a gun is a violation of Davis' current probation. An official arrest report shows a deputy pulled Davis over for traffic violations around 3:15 p.m. Officials said Davis got out of his car and was handcuffed with no incident. When patting Davis down, officials said they recovered an empty holster, a knife and two loaded .45 caliber magazines in his pockets. Deputies said they also saw a loaded .45 caliber 1911 handgun visible under the driver's seat. Reports show a K-9 was alerted to narcotics in the car, and deputies found a magnetic box under the steering wheel containing methamphetamine and paraphernalia, as well as 113 rounds of live ammunition and about 100 rounds of spent ammunition. During the incident, Deltona detectives also responded to the scene to interview Davis about his car and trailer being captured on camera during a recent burglary. Davis was immediately arrested. The backstory Arrest reports show Davis was previously released from prison in April 2023. Davis served about five years after facing charges for multiple burglaries in Volusia County. What's next Davis is now being charged with: Possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon Carrying a concealed firearm Possession of meth Possession of drug paraphernalia Violation of probation Records show Davis currently sits in the Volusia County Jail with no bond. STAY CONNECTED WITH FOX 35 ORLANDO: Download the FOX Local app for breaking news alerts, the latest news headlines Download the FOX 35 Storm Team Weather app for weather alerts & radar Sign up for FOX 35's daily newsletter for the latest morning headlines FOX Local:Stream FOX 35 newscasts, FOX 35 News+, Central Florida Eats on your smart TV The Source This story was written based on information shared by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office in a Facebook post on March 14, 2025.
CBS News
03-03-2025
- CBS News
Man accused of sex trafficking 17-year-old in Sacramento County; assaulting her with hot coffee
A 26-year-old man was arrested after allegedly assaulting and pimping out a 17-year-old girl who escaped from being held against her will, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said. In a press release Saturday, the Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to the Ramada Inn near Auburn Boulevard and Fulton Avenue about a female who had been assaulted. Deputies arrived to find that the 17-years-old victim was being trafficked and pimped out for sex. The victim told detectives she had had sex with the suspect, identified as Alfred Walker, who was then driving her to various cities to perform commercial sex acts, the Sheriff's Office said. After telling him that she did not want to work on the street as a sex worker, Walker repeatedly threatened her life, pointing a handgun at her, and in one incident, pouring hot coffee on her, the office said. In another instance, when the victim attempted to leave Walker, he allegedly told her he would shoot any family members or friends who arrived to rescue her, the Sheriff's Office said. The threats and intimidation allegedly allowed Walker to continue exploiting her as a sex worker. Detectives learned that Walker communicated with all the sex clients to coordinate sex acts between buyers and the victim and would keep all of the money himself, the Sheriff's Office said. Detectives learned Walker also had an unrelated felony domestic violence warrant and began searching for him for several days in various areas throughout Sacramento County. On Thursday at about 10:30 p.m., detectives found Walker driving on the 4600 block of Fruitridge Road and performed a traffic stop, detaining him without incident. The Sheriff's Office said a search of his vehicle yielded a fully loaded 1911 handgun, along with about 32 grams of presumed methamphetamine. Detectives also learned of a second victim who was also rescued. Details about the victim and the circumstances of the victim's rescue were not available. The Sheriff's Office said detectives fear there are likely several more unreported victims that may have potentially been pimped and/or trafficked by Walker. Walker was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on multiple felonies and was being held without bail. He was scheduled to appear in court on March 3.
