| Local man under arrest in double homicide on Riley Drive
I saw Calvin every day. He would walk past my house when he worked at the furniture store on West Market Street," said friend Nicole Francis. Calvin Walls worked at Warehouse Furniture in Bloomington, Kimmerling said in a statement.“He was a nice guy, kind of quiet and easy going," Francis said.Francis said she was shocked to learn Wednesday that Calvin Walls was one of the shooting victims.“He came from a big family, I know that. You never heard anything negative about them," said Francis.Court records show Brown was sentenced in December 2002 to 180 days in jail, 30 months of probation and 50 hours of community service work on a charge of unlawful use of a weapon. He was accused of having a concealed 9 mm pistol, which was later forfeited to Normal police, in 2001.Brown was also accused in August 2001 of beating and trying to rob a man outside a Normal convenience store.
Reports warn of mercury levels in tuna
Mercury concentrations in tuna steaks and sushi tuna are nearly twice as high as U.S. Food and Drug Administration estimates - and roughly at levels that the agency warns about in other fish, two new reports suggest. Oceana, an international organization trying to force grocery stores to post mercury warning signs, sampled tuna steaks from 23 stores and sushi from 24 restaurants around the United States in November. Tuna mercury levels averaged 0.68 parts per million in the stores and 0.86 parts per million in sushi restaurants, Oceana said Wednesday. The FDA estimates mercury levels of 0.73 in king mackerel, one of the fish the government thinks children and women of child-bearing age should not eat. Some of the highest mercury levels in tuna showed up in a St.
McAllen cracking down on garage sales
McALLEN — The Saturday afternoon garage sale is no longer as easy and emptying your closets and hammering a sign onto your front lawn. A new city ordinance in McAllen restricts residents to selling only "used merchandise or personal property" — not new items, as is allowed under the former code. The regulation is set to go into effect this week. The more stringent regulations follow city officials’ discovery that residents were selling gift baskets and tourist merchandise out of their homes under the auspices of a garage sale, said McAllen Planning Director Juli Rankin. "Frankly, before this came to light I didn’t think it was that active," she said. "Around holiday times we do get people who make things, like figurines and gift baskets. "This last Valentine’s Day we had people make up Valentine’s baskets with candy and flowers and then sell them from their residence." Such activity disrupts the quality of life in the city’s neighborhoods, officials say.
Amarr converts N.J. facility into distribution center
Amarr Garage Doors, based in Winston-Salem, has completed the conversion of a Fimbel Door Co. facility in New Jersey into an Amarr distribution center. The Fimbel Door Co. is a garage-door manufacturing facility owned by Amarr and located in Whitehouse Station, N.J. The facility now will distribute a full line of Amarr garage doors and products. "In recent years, we have experienced increased consumer demand in the New Jersey region for Amarr-distributed garage doors and operators, and as a result recognized the need to have a full-service door center to server our dealer partners in the area," said Richard Brenner, Amarr's CEO. .
BUSTED--THE COMING CREDIT-CARD MELTDOWN
There is little hope for the credit addicted working poor but a '29 style crash.The War on Drugs fights a supposed enemy that is not a 10th as damaging as the deliberate hooking of America on that other drug of choice (now necessity) easy credit.It's note even easy credit--for thirty years it's been necessary credit as real wages and decent jobs shifted underfoot like sand. Every single economic choice during those 30 years, between the welfare of people and the welfare of greed, has been settled in favor of greed.A Congress that will not vote in a decent minimum wage, allows 18% interest on credit purchases that jump to 30% if a single payment is late.A Congress that will not vote in a decent minimum wage, tightens bankruptcy laws in favor of the lender.A Congress that will not vote in a decent minimum wage, votes $3 trillion in tax benefits to the already rich and strips its people of health care, threatens their social security and makes of us a 'temp agency' society.A Congressman who will not and has not voted in a decent minimum wage, answers a query as to why this is possible with a computer-generated response that he 'shares my concern and will take my position into account as economic issues develop.'Meanwhile, our increasing downward spiral into subsistence wages forces an actual wall between America and Mexico, so desperately poor Mexicans do not interfere with the jobs of newly desperately poor Americans.
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