The Weekly Scramble

Police were called to the home of Terry Ward, 64, on Sunday, October 11, and arrested the man, charging him with “abduction” and misdemeanor assault and battery against a family or household member for forcibly restraining his wife by duct-taping her to a chair in the couple’s home.
“When I arrived on scene, [the wife] stated that her husband had tied her to a chair with tape in the basement,” a police report reads, according to WTVR-TV. “Terry stated that he did indeed tie his wife [name redacted] to a chair and place[d] her down in the basement.”
Officers also noted that the woman said she was trapped in the chair for nearly an hour and had bruises and contusions on her arms from being restrained in the chair.
The reports added that Ward told officers that he restrained his wife in the basement so he could watch the game in peace upstairs.

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A winery co-owned by the husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was shuttered amid fraud claims, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said.
Comer said over the weekend that the winery had been selling empty barrels to investors under the guise of "wine to be aged."
"I can tell you from our initial investigation of Omar and her financial disclosure form that there are multiple fronts where you could get a search warrant issued," Comer told Trey Gowdy on Fox News' "Sunday Night in America."

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The MEA school break has become a great grift in the education system.
Interesting data as it related to the upcoming election and the 2030 census.
Washington girls walk off cross country meet in protest of male athlete, parents reveal how it came to this.
Holly Burns and about a dozen other girls walked away from a cross-country race in Washington on Tuesday.
They refused to compete against a male athlete who had started the season racing on the boys’ team.
When the race began, half of the girls competing, and the male athlete, took off running.
Burns and the other half of the girls slowly walked forward past the starting line, and then into the nearby tree line, sacrificing one of their high school competitions.
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How is the 18-year-old accused of shooting two people outside Eden Prairie's homecoming game already out on bail?
He posted $100K bail through a bonding company, without paying the full amount.
President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who worked briefly at the Department of Homeland Security, holds her first briefing.
Cornell University said Tuesday it is suspending all “parties and social events” at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year amid an uproar over a former student’s allegation that she was sexually assaulted by members of the campus Chi Phi chapter nearly two years ago.
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A Milwaukee woman is facing six felony charges after she allegedly impersonated a substitute teacher at a Milwaukee Public Schools high school last month.
Amy Jones, 23, was charged with impersonating a public employee, a felony, and five felony counts of exposing a child to harmful descriptions.
According to the criminal complaint, Jones walked into Rufus King International High School on the morning of Sept. 24 and represented herself as a substitute teacher.

Minnesota state trooper rescues 2 people inside burning home, third person in critical condition
A Minnesota state trooper is being hailed as a hero after rushing into a burning Minneapolis home to save two people in the Seward neighborhood on Thursday morning, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department.
The state trooper was near 910 29th Avenue South at around 1 a.m. when they noticed flames coming from the back and heavy smoke surrounding the two-story home.
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