Police Scotland chief says hate crime 'absolute priority'

Edit BBC News 09 Oct 2016
Speaking at the start of Hate Crime Awareness Week, Phil Gormley said he was determined to eradicate all forms of hatred in Scotland. A new network of LGBTI liaison officers has been established in a bid to improve the reporting of hate crimes ... Mr Gormley called on all victims of hate crime to report every incident to police ... "Tackling all forms of hate crime remains an absolute priority for Police Scotland....

Expert's double-secret tips for visiting Disney World

Edit Detroit Free Press 09 Oct 2016
“They do such a good and seamless job of taking you out of your everyday experience. You actually feel you are in a different world," says Neal, author of “The Complete Walt Disney World 2017” (10th Edition, Coconut Press, $24.95) ... “A lot of things at Disney World you can tell were designed in California by people who don’t understand what‘s it’s like to be here in Florida in the summer,” she says....

Traffic Stop in Cobleskill Results in Drug Charges (New York State Division of State Police)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Oct 2016
New York State Division of State Police) PRESS RELEASE ... The subjects were stopped after the operator of a green Plymouth Neon passed a red signal on Main Street in Cobleskill. While interviewing the operator Michelle Fleming, age 21, of Bay Shore, an odor of Marijuana was detected inside the vehicle. A search of the vehicle led ......

A long journey from Arkansas to a presidential endorsement

Edit Denver Post 09 Oct 2016
At the time, I worked on The Denver Post’s investigative projects desk but I wanted a piece of the convention coverage and the editors let me make the switch ... And in the Good Ole Boy world of the Bible Belt in the late 1970s, they reacted ... One of Clintons’ ideas led to the creation a summer program for gifted high school juniors. Friends of mine, and the woman I ended up marrying, took part in it....

Collected Wisdom: College football analyst Kirk Herbstreit

Edit The Oklahoman 09 Oct 2016
THE COLLECTED WISDOM OF KIRK HERBSTREIT ... Sports were kind of my outlet. That's kind of where I got my salvation and kind of my peace. It's kind of ironic that I ended up doing this for a living, because I still feel like I'm that same guy that was messing around as a 12-year-old kid just loving sports ... I would keep score of the games ... Some days, and I hate to say it, guys were throwing up. A lot of guys quit....

Radio: What do AM stations have to lose but go back to music formats?

Edit Daily Breeze 09 Oct 2016
As a longtime cheerleader of AM radio, much as I hate to say it, AM is dead. It's not even on life support here in Los Angeles any more, it's dead. In the most recent monthly ratings released in mid-September by Nielsen, only nine AM stations made the list out of 41 stations total, accounting for 10 ... ....

NLDS Gm 2 postponed to Sun., 10 a.m. PT on FS1 (Los Angeles Dodgers)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Oct 2016
'We hate to cancel. We hate to make travel worse on the players than it was originally intended to be ... Though Hurricane Matthew did not hit Washington directly, the system on Saturday extended as far south as South Carolina and as far north as parts of New England ... Around mid-afternoon, Manfred met with representatives from both clubs, who concluded the best course of action was to postpone the game....

Tale of the Tape: Award winners square off (Chicago Cubs)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Oct 2016
Hates to face ... Arrieta has been the model of efficiency in his three seasons with Chicago ... He surrendered four or more runs in nine of his 31 starts, and he recorded a 4.60 ERA in September ... Hates to face ... Bumgarner continued to build a case for why he may be the best postseason pitcher of all time in the NL Wild Card Game, pitching a shutout in a 3-0 victory over the Mets....

Dodgers-Nats rained out in Game 2 of NLDS; will play Sunday

Edit Deseret News 09 Oct 2016
Game 2 of the NL Division Series between the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Dodgers still had to wait ... But rain that intensified as Hurricane Matthew moved up the coast and a forecast of "100 percent certainty" for precipitation until at least 8 p.m ... "We hate to cancel," said Manfred, who arrived Saturday afternoon after a flight from New York. "We hate to make travel worse on the players than it was originally intended to be....

Rutgers 5 observations: Don't blame Jim Harbaugh for this humiliating score | Politi

Edit NJ dot com 09 Oct 2016
Rutgers wouldn't have scored 29 points if these two teams played until the end of time ... Harbaugh is easy to hate, and this 78-0 drubbing made that much, much easier. Please, hate away ... This was a conference game in the middle of the season, not some Division 1-AA patsy in late August ... It could have been worse. Jabrill Peppers scored his second touchdown of the game with 2.10 left to make it 43-0 ... It was that kind of night....

NOW to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell: Un-endorse Trump NOW! (National Organization for Women)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Oct 2016
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell should be ashamed of themselves ... semblance of leadership ... They're letting the GOP down by surrendering every scrap of principle and moral authority represented by the party of Lincoln for fear of losing votes energized by Donald Trump's hate speech....

Festival travel beats summer rush

Edit The Times of India 09 Oct 2016
"The demand for short-haul international destinations such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand have gone up by 26 per cent compared to the same period last year, while the demand for domestic destinations have gone up by 35 per cent.This is even better than what we witness during summer holidays," said Karan Anand of Cox & Kings, adding that a few ......

Corbyn and Khan to join march remembering Battle of Cable Street

Edit Belfast Telegraph 09 Oct 2016
Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan will join members of the Jewish community in a march commemorating the anti-fascist battle of Cable Street 80 years ago ... The number of hate crimes reported in the capital has risen to 50 a day since the EU referendum in June ... Tens of thousands of anti-fascist protesters clashed with police in Cable Street on Sunday October 4 1936....
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