Man who killed newlywed during robbery executed in Texas

Braziel became the 24th inmate put to death this year in the U.S. and the 13th executed in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state. He will be the last Texas inmate executed this year.

https://nypost.com/2018/12/12/man-who-killed-newlywed-during-robbery-executed-in-texas/

(sitting on death row this long is a travesty…while the victim's tax dollar used to feed and cloth him.)

Military: Plane crashes in Hawaii; pilot survives

HONOLULU — A pilot is in stable condition after an aircraft crashed in the ocean off Hawaii on Wednesday, authorities said.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says a Hawker Hunter jet went down in the ocean around 2:25 p.m. after taking off from Honolulu’s airport.

He said in an email the plane went down about 3.5 miles south of one of the airport’s runways.

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam spokesman Charles Anthony says it was a military-affiliated plane, but it may be civilian.

U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Officer Sara Muir says the pilot is in stable condition after being rescued about 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) south of Oahu near Honolulu’s Sand Island.

He says he hasn’t confirmed whether the plane was participating in Air Force exercises called Sentry Aloha.

The website of defense contractor BAE Systems says the Hawker Hunter is a British jet developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

State Department of Transportation spokesman Tim Sakahara says departing flights from the Honolulu airport are being held as a precaution.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/military-plane-crashes-in-hawaii-pilot-condition-unknown/2018/12/12/6980f85c-fe73-11e8-a17e-162b712e8fc2_story.html?utm_term=.8edef5496f97

Lawmakers will be personally liable for sexual harassment claims under a deal reached in Congress

Members of Congress will have to pay out of their own pockets to settle sexual and other harassment claims made against them under compromise policies that lawmakers announced Wednesday.

Currently taxpayers cover the cost of settling harassment claims made against elected officials. The new policy, a bipartisan response in the #MeToo era after nearly seven months of negotiations between the House and Senate, could get a Senate vote by the end of the week, said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-congress-sexual-harassment-20181212-story.html?