[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The husband of the Nebraska teacher accused of having sex with one of her students has been revealed as a Harvard-educated deputy at the Department of Defense.
Erin Ward, 45, was charged with one count of felony sexual abuse by a school employee after she was found naked with the high school boy, 17, in her husband's car.
Now, DailyMail.com can reveal her husband is a high-ranking US government employee who has worked with the Department of Defense for nearly two decades.
William Douglas 'Doug' Ward, 53, was appointed Deputy Director of the Commander's Action Group and Senior Nuclear Deterrence Advisor at the United States Strategic Command in February.
His LinkedIn shows he worked with the Strategic Command since 2005 and initially served as a Deputy Branch Chief.
The Strategic Command, which is headquartered in Omaha, is a military unit that detects and deters attacks against the country and its allies.
In addition to his impressive job title, Doug graduated from the Harvard Extension School in 2021 with a master's degree in political science and government.
The father of three posted a photo dressed in his cap and gown to X, formerly Twitter, as he attended a virtual graduation ceremony during the pandemic.
The couple share a home in Gretna, just outside Omaha, with their three teenage children.
Their adopted daughter is a 10th grade student around the same age as the boy Ward is charged with abusing.
The 45-year-old worked as a substitute teacher at several metro area schools. It was at Burke she met the teenage boy with whom she was found in the early-morning hours of April 13.
Around 3 a.m., Douglas County deputies were called to investigate a suspicious car parked on a dead-end road.
There, they found Ward and the victim inside a Honda Pilot 'determined to be owned by Ward and her spouse,' the Douglas County Sheriff's Office wrote in a press release.
The 17-year-old jumped into the drivers seat and sped off in the SUV, crashing into a yard two blocks away. He then fled on foot, wearing only a t-shirt, boxers and socks, and was found about an hour later.
Ward was getting dressed in the back seat when deputies approached.
They recovered an Omaha Public Schools employee ID from inside the car. Ward confirmed she was a substitute teacher at Burke, where the teen was enrolled, and admitted to having sexual intercourse with him.
As the age of consent in Nebraska is 16, Ward was not charged with statutory rape, but faces a Class IIA felony charge carrying up to 20 years in prison.
#5
Abuse? She was just teaching the facts of life.. A question I have is where does her husband spend his time in Washington DC? We now have good communication paths.. and we should not be sending our reps to DC for any length of time. Have them vote from their home states.
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A 17 year old male banging his substitute high school teacher might be taboo, but a felony? Come on, that's been a school boy's fantasy since Van Halens Hot for Teacher.
"The victim was transported to a safe place to receive care and be interviewed," the release states.
[FoxNews] Hundreds of people had lined up to get assistance with their taxes 2 days before the deadline
An IRS office in Houston was forced to close early over the weekend – just two days before the Tax Day deadline – after a fight broke out and people rushed into the building to get help with their taxes.
It happened during the IRS' Tax Assistance event. Hundreds of people lined up early Saturday morning in hopes of getting help with their taxes before the Monday deadline, but were blindsided as the office abruptly closed due to a fight between two people waiting in line.
When you leave it to the last minute, little things like this can ruin everything.
"They opened the gates like around 9 or 10 a.m. and I think a couple of people started fighting, so after that, they told everybody to go home," Katrel Johnson, a visitor at the tax center who drove more than two hours for tax help, told FOX 26.
To add more chaos to the situation, FOX 26 reported that a large crowd of people tried to enter the building at the same time.
"All of a sudden everybody went in when they opened the door, and bum rushed and started skipping," said Tonya Johnson, a visitor at the IRS center.
The office was supposed to close at 4 pm, according to website hours, but instead closed right before 11 am, leaving many frustrated.
"I ain’t doing no playing. This is the second month I came out here, and I’m not going to play with the IRS," one angry taxpayer told FOX 26.
In a statement sent to FOX 26, the IRS said in part- "delays on Saturday occurred due to overwhelming taxpayer demand for assistance, and the IRS is committed to serving those who weren’t able to receive help in person."
"Unfortunately, they did everything as a walk-in, no appointments and that’s really what caused all these problems," said Henry Castro, another visitor at the IRS center.
The IRS also said it tried to collect the names and numbers of people who were unable to get help. It promised to offer further assistance to them throughout the week and to fully staff its offices and phone lines.
The deadline to file taxes, or file for an extension, is Monday, April 15.
#3
Why not eliminate mandatory filing until DC is required to have and meet a constitutional mandatory Balanced Budget, based on federal last year's revenues?
Seriously, Lately all they do is take, take, take and invent new ways to take more and then give $$$ Billions to other countries, companies and/or steer $million$ towards themselves and family.
BTW:
Read Fed Tax comment in another blog, that purposed automatic tax refunds spread across actual tax paying citizens. The divided amount equal to the DC amount spend on things other than Federal required operations, and the needed care protecting of US Citizens. With the illegal DC spent amount deducted from Congressional/WH operational budgets.
#4
It's OK. They are IRS employees, and it was the weekend.
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Maybe the IRS does need guns.
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1) If you're looking to the IRS to help you with your tax returns, you're a fucking idiot.
2) The general quality and knowledge of IRS office rats is abysmal; I've had to correct some of these clowns on my few occasions into the local offices, and they weren't happy about it because I did it in front of a small crowd in the waiting room each time. I fuckin' loved it.
3) Now let me get all these extensions out the door; they're not being sent to Kansas City because that's the largest IRS facility in the US, and I know for a fact that as of August 2020 there were 2 million unopened pieces of mail in that facility due to IRS laziness Covid. A year later, this happened. That would explain why my clients were getting barraged with penalty letters (i.e., my 2020 and 2021 extensions were sent to KC). It's not that hard to put two and two together.
[RussiaToday] The US Army factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania that specializes in artillery ammunition caught fire on Monday afternoon, according to local media reports and eyewitnesses.
The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant started spewing black smoke shortly before 3pm local time. Local emergency services were summoned to deal with what was described as a “structure fire.”
No further details were available.
The Joint Munitions Command (JMC) facility is owned by the US military but operated by General Dynamics-Ordnance and Tactical Systems. It makes 155mm and 105mm artillery projectiles, 120mm mortar rounds, 203mm naval shells, as well as a variety of smoke, illumination and incendiary rounds.
The US has been trying to ramp up production of artillery ammunition to supply Ukraine for its conflict with Russia.
Scranton is a community of about 75,000 residents in northeastern Pennsylvania. It is the birthplace of US President Joe Biden. He is scheduled to visit the town on Tuesday.
Fire crews responded to the heat treat building at the facility in downtown Scranton around 3:20 p.m.
Firefighters quickly knocked down the flames shortly after arriving.
Officials say no one was injured, and all personnel have been accounted for.
There is no word yet on the severity of the damage caused by the fire or the impacts it will have on production within the 495,000-square-foot plant which is run by General Dynamics.
The cause of the fire is under investigation in Lackawanna County.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The FBI has launched a criminal probe into the Baltimore bridge collapse that left six construction workers dead last month. The probe will be overseen by the US district attorney's office in Maryland and focus on whether the 22-crew of the Dali left the port knowing the vessel had serious systemic issues, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
There is already a separate federal probe into the deadly collapse of Baltimore¿s Francis Scott Key Bridge by the National Transportation Safety Board. During the initial stages of that probe, investigators are focusing on the electrical power system of the massive container ship that veered off course.
Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said her agency is gathering data with assistance from Hyundai, the manufacturer of equipment in the ship¿s engine room. Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee, she said investigators have also requested assistance to examine its circuit breakers. 'That is where our focus is right now in this investigation,' she said. 'Of course, that¿s preliminary. It could take different roads, different paths as we continue this investigation.'
Homendy said they¿ve zeroed in on the electrical system. The ship experienced power issues moments before the crash, as evidenced in videos showing its lights going out and coming back on. Investigators are also examining the bridge design and how it could be built with better pier protection 'under today¿s standards,' Homendy said.
The container ship Dali was leaving Baltimore, laden with cargo and headed for Sri Lanka, when it struck one of the bridge¿s supporting columns last month, causing the span to collapse into the Patapsco River and sending six members of a roadwork crew plunging to their deaths. Divers have recovered three bodies from the underwater wreckage, while the remaining three victims are still unaccounted for.
Crews have been working to extract sections of the fallen bridge, including those entangled in a muddy mess at the bottom of the Patapsco River. 'This work is remarkably complex,' Maryland Governor Wes Moore said during a news conference last week. Officials said they still expect to open a third temporary shipping channel by late April, which will allow significantly more commercial traffic to pass through the port of Baltimore. The east coast shipping hub has been closed to most maritime traffic since the bridge collapse, which blocked access to its main channel.
Moore said efforts continue to unload shipping containers from the Dali, which will eventually be refloated once pieces of the fallen bridge have also been lifted from its bow. He said crews aim to remove 178 containers; 34 have been removed so far. Moore also called for bipartisan congressional support to fund construction of a new bridge, saying federal lawmakers came together in 2007 to pay for rebuilding the Interstate 35 bridge in Minnesota after it collapsed into the Mississippi River. He called on members of Congress to visit Maryland and see for themselves.
She said the board’s preliminary report on the crash will likely be released early next month. Safety investigators previously laid out a preliminary timeline leading up to the crash, which federal and state officials have said appeared to be an accident.
Less than an hour after the Dali left Baltimore¿s port in the early hours of March 26, signs of trouble came when numerous alarms sounded. About a minute later, steering commands and rudder orders were issued, and at 1:26 a.m. and 39 seconds, a pilot made a general radio call for nearby tugboats. Just after 1:27 a.m., the pilot commanded the ship to drop an anchor on the left side and issued added steering commands.
About 20 seconds later, the pilot issued a radio call reporting that the Dali had lost all power approaching the bridge. Police had enough time to stop traffic from getting onto the bridge, but not enough to alert the contraction workers. Only two of their bodies have so far been recovered from the water.
[AFRICANEWS] A landslide in southwest Congo caused by heavy rains killed at least 15 people and left as many as 60 others missing, local officials said Sunday.
Seven people were found alive after the landslide Saturday near the port near the town of Idiofa.
"There"s a hill above the port, and the rain caused the earth on the hill to collapse," a local deputy elected official, Dhedhe Mupasa, told news hounds Sunday.
Interim provincial Gov. Félicien Kiway told news hounds a team was dispatched to help search for survivors and seven people were found alive and were hospitalized. A further 60 people were still missing, he said.
A local official said it was difficult to determine the exact number of people missing because the area was used as a marketplace every Saturday. The official described the area as a port where fishermen came to sell fish and buy soap.
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[AFRICANEWS] Floods have killed 58 people in Tanzania during the last two weeks, the government said, as heavy rains continue in the East African country.
The coastal region was hit hardest, with 126,831 people affected, according to the government.
Government spokesperson Mobhare Matinyi said on Sunday that essential supplies including food had been distributed to those affected.
Tanzania plans to construct 14 dams to prevent flooding in future, he added.
East Africa is experiencing heavy rains, with reported flooding in neighboring Kenya killing at least 13 people so far.
Infrastructure has also been damaged and those living in flood-prone areas are being urged to move.
The rains are expected to reach their peak towards the end of this month. And then...drought
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[AFRICANEWS] Zim-bob-we’s informal traders who account for about 75% of all employment in the nation have stopped accepting the ZIMdollar also know as RTGS dollar fearing its value has declined.
The new ZIG currency which was supposed to be effective from April 8 was delayed until the April 30th, leaving the US Dollar, dominating the market.
"When you introduce new measures, you will be hoping that, you will bring stability and lower inflation but you need to be disciplined and sincere about the process," economist Happy Zengeni explained.
"The ordinary Zim-bob-wean does not have the capacity to inject liquidity into the economy but capacity rests with the authorities so they need to be sincere about it."
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I've never understood why 'vegans' pretend to eat meat. Especially with how dramatic they are about being sickened by people eating meat...why pretend? Eat your damn sprouts with pride you freaking plant murderer!
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They are oh so smug about "plant based meat", not understanding that the 'plant' in question has a sign that says DuPont in front.
And they complain about 'forever chemicals' in their bodies.
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^ You said it all.
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Totally agree, S-brick. Why pretend? From the same gang that won't even wear a woolen sweater because of the torture of sheep getting a hair cut.
If someone who is beginning a plant-based diet and needs a "burger" to get over the hump temporarily, o.k., fine, but none of that chemical-laden crap is good for you--vegans or otherwise.
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Not fat ones no, we have some in our neighborhood who are like super skinny, totally weird and odd. I work in the oilfield so the only other vegans I know are Hindus.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The husband of the Nebraska teacher accused of having sex with one of her students has been revealed as a Harvard-educated deputy at the Department of Defense.
An IRS office in Houston was forced to close early over the weekend – just two days before the Tax Day deadline – after a fight broke out and people rushed into the building to get help with their taxes.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The FBI has launched a criminal probe into the 
