Sex-trafficking victim jumps from semi onto interstate to flee kidnappers, TX cops say

A woman leaped from a semi truck on a Texas interstate to escape her kidnappers, police say.

The woman was seriously injured after jumping out of the 18-wheeler near a Flying J on Interstate 20 in Cisco, according to a news release. She was taken to a medical facility for treatment.

The woman told investigators she was kidnapped in El Paso, police say. Investigators say they believe she was going to be used for sex trafficking.

Another woman in the truck may be in “grave danger,” police say.

Police are looking for a green truck tractor with a white stripe pulling a white box-type trailer.

Police issued a statewide alert Wednesday night but had not received any information as of Thursday afternoon.

Cisco is about 100 miles west of Fort Worth on Interstate 20

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article245313185.html

Japan's 'Flying Car' Gets off Ground, With a Person Aboard

Flying Cars?…Finally

TOKYO (AP) — The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.

Japan’s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of “flying car” projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard.

In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a contraption that looked like a slick motorcycle with propellers lifted several feet (1-2 meters) off the ground, and hovered in a netted area for four minutes.

Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who heads the SkyDrive effort, said he hopes “the flying car” can be made into a real-life product by 2023, but he acknowledged that making it safe was critical.

“Of the world’s more than 100 flying car projects, only a handful has succeeded with a person on board,” he told The Associated Press.

“I hope many people will want to ride it and feel safe.”

The machine so far can fly for just five to 10 minutes but if that can become 30 minutes, it will have more potential, including exports to places like China, Fukuzawa said.

https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2020-08-28/japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground-with-a-person-aboard

Aussie's out of Hickam AFB

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Reg.:A41-209

Country:Australia

Type code:C17

Type:Boeing C-17A Globemaster III

Type Desc.:L4J

Squawk:2613

Speed:485 kt

Altitude:33,000 ft

Vert. Rate:0 ft/min

Track:78.9°

Pos.:37.641°, -119.782°

Distance:1833.5 NM

Six US Air Force B-52 bombers make symbolic sweep over all NATO members

COLOGNE, Germany — The U.S. Air Force is sending six B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers to fly over each of NATO’s 30 members on Friday, a gesture meant to signal the alliance’s unity.

Four bombers, taking off from Royal Air Force Fairford in the United Kingdom, will pass over NATO’s European members, according to a statement by U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.

Two B-52s departing from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, are scheduled to fly over the United States and Canada.

“This single-day mission, titled ’Allied Sky,’ is intended to demonstrate NATO solidarity, enhance readiness and provide training opportunities aimed at enhancing interoperability for all participating aircrews from the U.S. and NATO allies,” the European Command statement read.

Aircraft from 20 alliance members are scheduled to provide aerial refueling and other support throughout the day, it added.

Officials described the mission as a variation of the U.S. military’s routine Bomber Task Force flights. Sending nuclear-capable bombers airborne amid global crises is a key tool in the Pentagon’s deterrence calculus.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/six-us-air-force-b-124139665.html

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Reg.:60-0012

Country:United States

Type code:B52

Type:Boeing B-52H Stratofortress

Type Desc.:L8J

Squawk:2416

Speed:534 kt

Altitude:27,500 ft

Vert. Rate:n/a

Track:87.0°

Pos.:45.871°, -76.956°

Distance:870.0 NM

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Attorney: R&B singer R Kelly attacked in federal detention

CHICAGO — The lawyer for R. Kelly said Thursday the R&B singer, who is awaiting trial on child pornography and other charges, was assaulted by a fellow detainee at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.

Attorney Steve Greenberg revealed in a tweet that he learned of the attack on his client Wednesday. Greenberg says he has received conflicting information on the extent of Kelly’s injuries.

"We have not been provided any information from the jail, nor has Mr. Kelly called,” Greenberg wrote. “We are hopeful that he was not seriously injured.”

A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, citing privacy and safety reason, wouldn’t confirm or deny Greenberg’s report of the attack on Kelly.

Kelly, 53, faces several dozen counts of state and federal sexual misconduct charges in Illinois, Minnesota and New York, from sexual assault to heading a racketeering scheme aimed at supplying him with girls. The Grammy Award winning singer has denied ever abusing anyone.

https://www.startribune.com/attorney-r-b-singer-r-kelly-attacked-in-federal-detention/572244652/

Former Boy Scouts leader charged with sexually abusing 2 children in Western NY

Hamburg, N.Y. – A former Boy Scouts leader has been charged with sexually abusing children in Western New York.

WIVB reports Michael Meyers, 58, was indicted Thursday on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, course of sexual conduct against a child and second and third-degree sexual abuse. He’s accused of engaging in sexual misconduct with two children in the WNY towns of Boston and Hamburg, between 2015 and 2019; one victim was 11 when the abuse began in 2015, the other was 13 when their abuse began in 2016.

https://www.syracuse.com/state/2020/08/former-boy-scouts-leader-charged-with-sexually-abusing-2-children-in-western-ny.html

Sheriff: Man killed boys with hammer, knife in Putnam County mobile home

MELROSE, Fla. — A man is facing two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two boys whose bodies were found in a Melrose mobile home Tuesday.

The Putnam County Sheriff's office says deputies have arrested Mark Wilson, Jr. of Melrose for the killing of Robert Baker, 12, and Tayten Baker, 14.

Investigators say Wilson is well known to the family. Jail records updated Friday morning show Wilson, of Newberry, has been booked and is being held on no bond.

Thursday, the deaths of the two boys were confirmed as homicides, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. An autopsy reported was completed Thursday.

Investigators have not specified how the boys were killed.

Putnam County Sheriff Gator Deloach had some strong words for Wilson, which he shared in a post to his Facebook page Friday morning. It said:

"Mark Wilson, the sick monster responsible for Tayten and Robert’s brutal murder was arrested last night. Very quickly detectives honed in on Wilson and immediately established this individual was only a threat to those around him. Unfortunately, Robert and Tayten were the ones who suffered whatever was going through Wilson’s twisted agenda. As a parent, the murders of Robert and Tayten are an unimaginable loss to a family. I can’t begin to understand the anguish their parents are suffering.

I am grateful to the members of our community who called in with information and to our dedicated staff at the sheriff’s office who worked tirelessly together to bring this grieving family some closure.

This arrest is only the first step in bringing Robert and Tayten justice. My sincere hope is that the death penalty is pursued in these senseless murders."

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/double-child-murder-suspect-arrested-booked-into-putnam-county-jail/77-5197654e-afaf-45b2-a642-b4f7807ed8da

Five years on, France to try suspects in Charlie Hebdo killings

PARIS (Reuters) - Fourteen suspected accomplices to the French Islamist militants behind the 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris will go on trial next Wednesday.

Seventeen people were killed during three days of bloodshed that marked the beginning of a wave of Islamist violence that was to leave scores more dead.

On Jan. 7, 2015, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi went on a gun rampage in the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly whose cartoons on race, religion and politics tested the limits of what society would accept in the name of free speech. They killed 12 people.

The following day, Amedy Coulibaly, an acquaintance of Cherif Kouachi killed a female police officer. On Jan. 9 he killed four Jewish men at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris.

The three attackers were killed by police in separate standoffs.

In a video recording, Coulibaly said the attacks were coordinated and carried out in the name of Islamic State. The Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula claimed the Charlie Hebdo attack.

Zineb el Rhazoui, 38, who quit her job as a journalist at Charlie Hebdo two years after the attack, said she hoped her slain colleagues would be remembered as gentle, cultured human beings.

“If (the attackers) committed this butchery, it is because they believed in an ideology and this ideology will have to be put on trial. That’s what I’m waiting for,” she told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-charliehebdo/five-years-on-france-to-try-suspects-in-charlie-hebdo-killings-idUSKBN25O21W