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Kerry Titus (Andy Matsko/The Republican-Herald via AP)
ORWIGSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A couple who helped steal more than $175,000 from a grocery store where they worked used that money to buy a winning $1 million lottery ticket from the same store, state police said.
Joan Lechleitner, 51, and her fiance, Kerry Titus, 54, both of Pottsville, were charged Tuesday along with two other former employees with stealing from the Agway store in Cressona.
They rang up bogus returns and pocketed the money from May 2011 until March 2016, police said in a criminal complaint.
And some of the stolen money was used to buy lottery tickets, including the Cash 5 ticket worth more than $1 million on Sept. 11.
Four winners split the prize of $1,047,618, with Lechleitner winning $261,904.50, state lottery officials said.
Joan Lechleitner (Andy Matsko/The Republican-Herald via AP)
Lechleitner had previously told the (Pottsville) Republican Herald that Titus bought the ticket. She told the newspaper that they used the money to buy a 2015 Chevy Silverado pickup and planned to honeymoon in Mexico and built a backyard pool.
Online court records list James Conville as the defense attorney for Lechleitner and Titus, who was the store’s manager.
Conville didn’t immediately return a call Wednesday seeking comment on the theft, conspiracy and records tampering charges they face. A preliminary hearing has been set for July 5.
The store’s owner installed hidden cameras in January that showed the suspects stealing the money and buying lottery tickets, police said.
A forensic audit and statements from the defendants helped police determine the amount stolen.
The store’s owner, Ronald Yordy, told police he had to borrow money to keep the store afloat because of the thefts.
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Dr. Kelli Ward thinks Donald Trump could be an asset in 2016.
In fact, the former Arizona state senator believes that Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, could be valuable to her campaign as she seeks to take out Sen. John McCain (R) in the GOP Senate primary — especially when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration, an issue that Ward said cited as one of the most important plaguing Arizonans as well as the rest of the country.
“For me, having Trump at the top of the ticket is going to be advantageous,” Ward told TheBlaze in an interview Tuesday evening. “Now, for Sen. McCain, not so much.”
Dr. Kelli Ward, a candidate vying to unseat GOP Sen. John McCain, speaks with supporters. (Getty Images/Bill Clark)
Ward, who calls herself a “liberty-loving conservative Republican,” argued that illegal immigration and the country’s southernmost border would be the first and foremost issue she’d tackle as a U.S. senator, because “it’s effecting every single aspect of our society — from health care to education to public safety to the economy.”
“We here in Arizona are fed up with hearing John McCain saying ‘build the dang fence’ whenever he’s running for office, and then going straight to an amnesty bill whenever he gets to Washington, D.C.,” she said.
While Ward met with and attended a variety of rallies for GOP presidential contenders as they campaigned in Arizona, she does support Trump for president, Stephen Sebastian, a spokesman for her campaign, confirmed to TheBlaze. She also “hopes to sponsor his ‘Build the Wall’ legislation and looks forward to working alongside Sen. [Ted] Cruz to pass it,” Sebastian said.
Trump soundly won Arizona’s presidential primary in March, garnering more than 47 percent of the vote.
“I think that a lot of people are afraid of Donald Trump; I’m not one,” Ward told TheBlaze. “I think the things he is saying on the campaign trail are resonating with the people. They want secure borders. They want to stop illegal immigration. They want to prioritize America and American citizens. They want to have a strong economy. They want jobs to come back to this country so that they, their families and their friends can have access to employment and the freedom of employment rather than the shackles of welfare.”
Political insiders in the Beltway, Ward said, are concerned that McCain is “the most vulnerable down-ballot Republican from Donald Trump.”
“Here in Arizona, people are really considering which Republican they want to keep down ballot because we want to keep that seat,” she said. “We want to make it a conservative Republican seat. That’s been wonderful for me because they understand that I am that right Republican, so when Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket, they’re going to come out and vote for Kelli Ward as well.”
Multiple Republican politicos with knowledge of the campaign told TheBlaze Wednesday that Ward wasn’t wrong. GOP strategist Noel Fritsch told TheBlaze:
In March, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, two outsider presidential candidates, combined for an astonishing 72 percent of Arizona’s Republican primary vote, a clear indication that Copper State voters will undoubtedly look to replace grumpy John McCain — a politician who repeatedly votes to fund Planned Parenthood and Obamacare, saddles our kids with astronomical debt, supports amnesty and ships American jobs to China — with a proven conservative like Senator Kelli Ward.
Dr. David Woodard, Thurmond professor of political science at Clemons University, said that there is a feeling that the lawmakers have “overstayed their welcome.”
“That may not auger very well for running statewide in November,” Woodard told TheBlaze, adding that other candidates can “bring new, fresh and improved ideas to the race — that’s what most people will vote on.”
But the McCain campaign maintains confidence in the upcoming primary — as well as the general election.
“John McCain has built a strong campaign that is ready for any challenge,” Lorna Romero, McCain’s campaign spokeswoman, told TheBlaze Wednesday. “We are confident that voters will support John McCain, a great Arizona hero whose record of service and sacrifice is unmatched.”
Aside from immigration, Ward said that her background as a physician enables her to tackle the controversial Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as Obamacare.
“There are lots of problems with Obamacare, but one of the biggest is that they didn’t get people who actually take care of patients to weigh in on how we could better provide access to high-quality, cost-effective health care,” she said. “And they came up with a kind of unworkable utopia that will never be able to financially stand on it’s own; it will never provide care to all people.”
“Sen. McCain has said that Obamacare is the law of the land, we just need to accept it. Well, I’m not willing to accept it,” Ward continued, adding that her background in the emergency room, private practice and academia gives her a well-rounded view of the health care system.
Besides policy issues, Ward said there is another stark difference between her and McCain that brings a unique set of challenges on the campaign trail — gender.
“I think it is a little bit different as a female candidate, because people are very judgmental,” Ward said. “You think about Sen. McCain getting ready to go up on the stage. All he has to do is throw a blue blazer on and change his tie, and he’s ready to go. I have people who have no qualms about telling me that my hair is bad, or they don’t like my lipstick, or that I look frumpy. I don’t think a man who is in politics has ever been called ‘frumpy.’”
Ward recalled a time when she wore flats as she was on crutches — and people noticed.
“Those things are definitely a challenge — superficial kinds of things where people make comments and judgments based on what somebody looks like, and that’s harder for a woman,” Ward said. “Also, you have to think as a mom and a wife, it is a big challenge because you’re leaving your family. And men do too, but traditionally a mom is there.”
Thankfully, Ward said, her parents and in-laws are nearby and can help her husband and three children while she’s running for office, which eases her “mommy guilt” and “wife guilt.”
“I try to bring the whole package,” Ward said. “I try to look good, and I try to have great ideas and put sound policies forward because I will take the shallow votes from the people who say, ‘Oh, she looks nice.’ I’ll take those votes just as much as from the policy wonks.”
McCain remains in front of his challengers ahead of the Aug. 30 primary — but not by a landslide, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released last month. The survey found that McCain is polling at 39 percent followed by Ward at 26 percent. Three other challengers are polling at less than 5 percent.
About 27 percent of Arizona Republican primary voters were still undecided.
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We continue our conversation with Dave Zirin, author of the book "Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy," and Jules Boykoff, author of "Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics." In early August, more than 10,000 athletes across the world will convene in Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic City for one of the most widely watched sporting events of the year. This comes as Brazil is battling an economic recession, a massive Zika outbreak and its worst political crisis in over two decades.
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Republican National Committee chief strategist and communications director Sean Spicer used a Fox News appearance to dismiss the potential of a third-party conservative candidate — a hot topic being stoked by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol.
Kristol, a prominent leader in the movement to block Donald Trump from becoming president, is floating the idea of a third-party run by National Review staff writer David French, a constitutional lawyer and Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, calling him an “impressive” potential candidate “with a strong team and a real chance.”
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Former Massachusetts Gov. and 2012 GOP standard-bearer Mitt Romney offered tempered praise in a tweet Tuesday night about French, falling just short of an endorsement. He described the vet as an “honorable, intelligent and patriotic person,” adding that he looks forward to hearing what French has to say.
I know David French to be an honorable, intelligent and patriotic person. I look forward to following what he has to say.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) June 1, 2016
But Spicer was not so quick to offer any support for the potential conservative alternative, telling Fox that anyone challenging Trump would help Hillary Clinton “because there is no path to electability” for a third-party candidate.
“A candidate for president needs three things: a candidate, organization and money. And none of the tweets discuss any of that,” Spicer said. “It is purely a tweet discussion. That’s all it amounts to because there’s no substance there.”
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Billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, questioned Wednesday whether Donald Trump is actually a billionaire, noting that the businessman’s lack of transparency on the issue makes his finances difficult to confirm.
During the interview, Cuban suggested he’s “not so sure” Trump “knows what he’s not good at,” adding that he will admit that the presumptive Republican nominee was good at putting his name on big buildings. However, Cuban said it’s not clear how much money those endeavors made him.
Owner Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks watches as his team takes on the Chicago Bulls in Chicago. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
“He’s good at that. Whether or not that’s made him a billionaire, I don’t know,” Cuban said on WABC-AM’s “Bernie and Sid.” “He’s not transparent enough for us to actually know.”
He said he went over Trump’s Federal Election Commission filings and concluded that he was “horrible” at many aspects of his business: “I think he’s good at real estate, I do give him a lot of credit there. I think he’s good at branding real estate. I don’t think he’s very good at brands for non-real estate products. And, to me, it’s more a reflection of desperation.”
Cuban went on to say that just putting your name on steaks, playing cards and water bottles is “not gonna make big bucks, no matter what.”
“It’s not like Trump Steaks were gonna make him $100 million,” he said. “It’s not like it was gonna make him $5 million. And you know, I asked him, ‘What the hell are you doing? Are you that desperate for money?’ Seriously,” adding Trump couldn’t say no if someone was going to write him a check.
Cuban also asserted that he was wealthier than Trump. “It’s not even close,” he said.
The politically minded entrepreneur clarified — “before all the Trumpians jump on me on who has more money” — that the reason he knows about Trump’s finances is because, when FEC reports are filed, all cash, bonds and liquid securities have to be listed.
“So we know without any question that, as of May 27, Donald doesn’t have more than $165 million in cash and securities and bonds,” Cuban said.
“And trust me, I’ve got a lot more than that in cash, securities, and bonds,” he continued. “And so, you know, I’m willing to bet dimes against dollars that that’s pretty much what he’s got.”
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A Texas teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student turned herself in to police Wednesday, according to KPRC-TV.
Prosecutors said Alexandria Vera, a teacher at Aldine Independent School District Middle School, became pregnant with the eighth-grade student’s child.
Stovall Middle teacher Alexandria Vera has turned herself in after she was allegedly impregnated by 13 y/o #khou11 pic.twitter.com/auWb2hZEmv
— Drew Karedes (@DrewKaredesKHOU) June 1, 2016
According to KPRC, authorities said that Vera, an English teacher, admitted to having a sexual relationship with the student that began in September.
Vera claimed that the student’s parents knew about and approved of their relationship.
According to KPRC, Vera became pregnant as a result of the relationship and later had an abortion “because she got nervous when Child Protective Services showed up at school in February” to investigate her.
Vera faces a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
In a statement to KHOU-TV, school district officials said:
Aldine ISD has been made aware that charges have been filed against a former Stovall Middle School teacher involved in inappropriate behavior with a male student. When the allegation was made in April, the teacher was immediately removed from the school and placed on administrative leave. Aldine ISD Police investigated the incident and turned their findings over to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. The safety and security of Aldine ISD’s students and staff remains a priority of the school district.
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Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano believes the response given by Hillary Clinton’s top aide during a recent deposition regarding the former secretary of state’s private email server could have potentially “devastating” consequences for the Democratic presidential front-runner.
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Napolitano noted Wednesday on Fox’s “America’s Newsroom” that Cheryl Mills, whose recent deposition was made public Tuesday, spoke about who would have had access to Clinton’s account should an email need to be released as part of a FOIA request.
From the transcript, released by Judicial Watch:
Attorney: Okay. Did they have access to the Secretary’s e-mail account so they could search her e-mails in response to the FOIA request?
Mills: To my knowledge, they did not have access to her e-mail account. To my knowledge, the information where her e-mail was — if there was a topic that would have been related, would have been in the communications that she would have either had on paper, communications that she would have had in other materials that she received, or in exchanges that she had with e-mail with individuals on their State account.
Napolitano called the response “devastating” for Clinton, questioning whether Mills and her lawyers really “thought through” that answer.
“It means that Mrs. Clinton, Cheryl Mills and Bryan Pagliano, who’s the next person to be deposed in this case — if he even answers any questions — engaged in a conspiracy to frustrate the operations of the State Department,” he said, noting that the agency is required by law to preserve records so that they may be accessible for FOIA requests.
The published deposition reveals that Mills’ lawyers repeatedly objected to questions on IT specialist Bryan Pagliano’s role in setting Clinton up with the server.
The Fox News senior judicial analyst added that people can be prosecuted if they “conspire to frustrate the operations of the government” and suggested that Clinton created the server with the specific intention of avoiding FOIA requests and used the same setup during her eight-year stint as a U.S. senator for New York.
“She feared the president, the rest of the State Department and the public knowing what she was doing,” Napolitano said.
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The city of Sugar Land, Texas, unveiled a new statue last week outside of its city hall building. The installment, which depicts two girls squatting side-by-side to take a “selfie,” sparked national backlash.
The statue was donated by local artist, Samuel “Sandy” Levin, and is part of a 10-piece collection according to the city’s website. The plan received approval from the City Council in August 2013, and again in September 2014, according the site.
It’s unclear whether Levin intended the selfie piece to be serious, satirical or cynical. What is clear is that it has fueled widespread confusion and outrage:
So is the city of Sugar Land expecting us to take pictures with that statue of 2 girls taking a selfie? I'm embarrassed for everyone.
— Gabby Vera (@GabbyVera3) May 26, 2016
LOL there's a selfie statue in Sugar Land Town Center!!! pic.twitter.com/WXVbYuRtEI
— Muhammad Akhtar (@MoMoneyAkhtar) May 26, 2016
So apparently there's a 'selfie' statue somewhere?
Uh…WHY?!— Beebarb (@BeebarbX) June 1, 2016
If you’re in Texas, you can worship at the feet of a statue celebrating selfies https://t.co/PkDeXOezf4
— Jo Nerinckx (@jonerinckx) June 1, 2016
…..my city erected a selfie statue in its town center…..
— taka (@cencorolling) June 1, 2016
Selfie statue in Texas! Art is supposed to make you feel something and if the artist was trying to piss people off I think he/she #succeeded
— Codee Figueria (@codeeodee) June 1, 2016
If sugar land is gonna have a statue of two girls taking a selfie then can I have a statue of me twerking?
— Ĺéè Dŕøñeś (@RATCHETKING2015) June 1, 2016
Outside a city hall there is a statue of two people taking a selfie. We went from making statues of King David to… pic.twitter.com/6OwNhowmVo
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may be convinced Britain will leave the European Union, but he’s apparently not quite caught up on all the terminology.
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During a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Trump stumbled over a question regarding the so-called “Brexit” — Britain’s exit from the EU. Michael Wolff wrote:
“And Brexit? Your position?” I ask.
“Huh?”
“Brexit.”
“Hmm.”
“The Brits leaving the EU,” I prompt, realizing that his lack of familiarity with one of the most pressing issues in Europe is for him no concern nor liability at all.
“Oh yeah, I think they should leave.”
The Manhattan real estate mogul has been vocal regarding his displeasure over the EU and speculated in March that Britain would leave the organization.
“I think the migration has been a horrible thing for Europe,” Trump also told Fox News last month. “A lot of that was pushed by the EU. I would say that they’re better off without it, personally, but I’m not making that as a recommendation. Just my feeling.”
Trump is expected to travel to the United Kingdom just one day after the country votes on its involvement with the EU.
During the Wolff interview, Trump maintained that he does not see any similarity between himself and any of the anti-immigrant movements in Europe. Wolff also wrote that he asked Trump if he saw any similarities between himself and European nativist leaders such as Marine Le Pen in France and Matteo Salvini in Italy: “And, in sum, he doesn’t particularly see similarities — or at least isn’t interested in them — between those movements and the anti-immigrant nationalism he is promoting in this country.”
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Jeff Bezos has become a household name in the retail and tech industries for his ability to anticipate trends and his willingness to take risks.
When the Amazon CEO spoke at Recode’s Code Conference eight years ago, the online retail giant had just recently launched its Kindle e-reader, which has since proven to be a tremendous success.
Bezos attended that same conference Tuesday evening in Los Angeles, but this time, his goals were even more extravagant and future-focused than ever: In his talk with Recode editor-at-large Walt Mossberg, he discussed artificial intelligence and his ideas for saving the planet.
During their conversation, which was recorded and published by Recode, Bezos claimed that the way to protect the planet is “by going into outer space.”
Bezos told Mossberg that high-energy production should take place in space in order to preserve the Earth as a clean living space.
“Earth will be zoned residential and light industrial,” he explained. “You shouldn’t be doing heavy energy on earth. We can build gigantic chip factories in space.”
He also said that futuristic developments like natural language processing, AI and machine “learning” are going to be “gigantic.”
“It’s probably hard to overstate how big of an impact it’s going to have on society over the next 20 years,” Bezos said.
Sharing his optimism, the CEO told Mossberg, “I think we’re on the edge of a golden era.”
Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, also commented on the importance of protecting the press from moneyed adversaries who don’t like what they publish. Bezos himself has been targeted by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over the paper’s coverage of the Trump campaign.
“The best defense to speech that you don’t like about yourself as a public figure is to develop a thick skin. It’s really the only effective defense, because you can’t stop it,” he said. “If you’re doing anything interesting in the world, you’re going to have critics. If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.”
When asked about PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel’s funding of Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker, Bezos was careful to phrase his response as generally as possible.
“It’s the ugly speech that needs protection,” he noted. And for those who dislike someone’s “ugly speech,” Bezos said, “You don’t have to invite those people to your dinner parties.”
When Amazon launched its Kindle e-reader almost a decade ago, there were rumors that the company, which started off selling only books, was trying to put bookstores and publishing companies out of business. Now, with Amazon’s sophisticated shipping process that offers customers the option free two-hour shipping via drone delivery, there is new speculation that the company is trying to put the U.S. Postal Service out of business.
But Bezos put these fears at ease, saying that Amazon isn’t so much interested in taking over the “last mile” of the delivery trek, as it is in making the process more efficient for the company and its partners.
“We’re growing our business with UPS, we’re growing our business with the U.S. Postal Service and still we’re supplementing it,” he said.
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Turkish-Armenian women searching for the graves of relatives in the Armenian cemetery in Istanbul last year, the 100th anniversary of the genocide. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times. BERLIN — If modern Germany has a mantra, it is that people ...
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