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Mike Tyson Building Resort In California As Recreational Marijuana Becomes Legal January 1
Activist Erica Garner, 27, Dies
NEW YORK —-Erica Gar- ner, activist and daughter of Eric Garner, has passed away. She was the mother of two and only 27 years old.
The New York Daily News
reported she suffered an asthma attack on December 23, which caused a heart at- tack. Erica did not know she had heart issues until her last pregnancy in August, “after that pregnancy, Erica suf- fered a first cardiac arrest a few months ago, her mother said. The pregnancy had put a strain on her heart, which doc- tors discovered was enlarged — a condition Erica had not been aware of.”
Sadly, Erica never fully re- covered and passed away.
Erica Garner was the daughter of Eric Garner, who was killed on July 17, 2014, when an NYPD officer restrained him with an illegal chokehold. The killing was caught on camera with Gar- ner repeatedly saying, “I can’t
Erica Garner, 27, never re- covered after suffering a 2nd heart attack following an asthma attack.
breathe.” The officer was never indicted.
Erica was an activist for so- cial justice. She even cam- paigned for Senator Bernie Sanders‘ run for president and blasted the Clinton cam- paign when leaked emails re- vealed her father’s death was being considered as a talking point.
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Florida and other southern states had to brace for hurri- canes and tropical storms, and had some of the worst in his- tory in 2017. Now, other parts of the country are crippled with some of the coldest weather in a century.
Bone-chilling cold has gripped much of the central U.S. as 2018 opens, breaking century-old records and lead- ing to at least two deaths at- tributed to exposure to the dangerously low temperatures according to AP.
The National Weather Serv- ice issued wind chill advisories covering a vast area from south Texas to Canada and from Montana and Wyoming through New England.
The bitter cold wave en- veloped much of the Midwest. Temperatures plunged below zero elsewhere in the Midwest, including in Ab- erdeen, South Dakota, where the mercury dropped to a record-breaking minus 32 (- 36 Celsius). The previous New Year’s Day record had stood
for 99 years.
In Nebraska, temperatures
hit 15 below zero (-26 Celsius) before midnight Sunday in Omaha, breaking a record low dating to 1884.
The temperature in Des Moines, Iowa hit 20 below zero (-29 Celsius) early Mon- day, with the wind chill dip- ping to negative 31 degrees (-35 Celsius).
Indianapolis Public Schools canceled classes for Tuesday on all its campuses due to the predicted sub-zero tempera- tures.
In northeastern Montana, the wind chill readings dipped as low as minus 58 (-50 Cel- sius). And in Duluth, Min- nesota, a city known for its bitter cold winters, the wind chill dipped to 36 below zero (-38 Celsius).
It’s even cold in the Deep South, a region more accus- tomed to brief bursts of arctic air than night after night below zero. Frozen pipes and dead car batteries were con- cerns from Louisiana to Geor- gia as overnight temperatures in the teens were predicted across the region by Monday night.
CALIFORNIA CITY, CA —- Former heavyweight champion of the world, Mike Tyson is having an epic start to 2018.
According to The Blast, Tyson is creating a cannabis resort, which “aims at not only producing high quality strains of THC and CBD, but also im- plementing cutting-edge tech- nology to advance the research on the health benefits of mari- juana.”
On December 20, Tyson began building the resort in California City, which is a desert 60 miles southwest of Death Valley National Park.
The city mayor Jennifer Wood and his business part- ners Robert Hickman and Jay Strommen joined him in breaking the ground.
Hickman said in an inter- view that the “undeveloped lands are primed to be culti- vated” and Tyson Ranch will be an oasis in the desert.
From a pot shop in Santa Cruz that hung a banner pro- claiming “Prohibition is Over!”
Former heavyweight cham- pion of the world Mike Tyson at the resort groundbreaking.
to one in San Diego handing out T-shirts showing the first moon landing and declaring a “giant leap for mankind,” the Golden State turned a shade greener with its first sales of recreational marijuana.
Tyson is ahead of the game too, as California City is expecting a big boom in cannabis production and de- velopment as the “Green Rush” hits California now that mari- juana is officially legal as of midnight.
Tyson Ranch will be dedicat- ing 20 acres of their land for
cultivation facilities that “will allow master growers to have maximum control of their en- vironment.” There will also be a Tyson Cultivation School to teach growers the latest and greatest ways to perfect their own strains.
Along with growing high- grade cannabis, Tyson Ranch will feature:
• Hydro-feed plant and supply store
• Extraction facility
• Edible factory
• Premium “glamping”
campgrounds and cabins • Amphitheater
Tyson has been a longtime believer in the healing proper- ties of marijuana, and his ranch will work to improve the medical research and treat- ment of the plant. CBD — a cannabis compound with no psychoactive properties — has been proven as an anti-inflam- matory, anticonvulsant, an- tioxidant and antipsychotic agent. It has been used to treat PTSD, as well.
Duo Charged For Murder Of Lesbian Couple And Their Children
James White and Justin Mann are being held without bond for the murders of Shanta Myers, 36, her partner, Brandi Wells, 22, and Myers’ children, Jeremiah, 11 and Shanise, 5.
It’s cold for Florida, but other parts of the country are colder than ever in history.
Troy, New York —- Police have arrested two men in the murders of a Black lesbian couple and one of the women’s two children before Christmas.
According to the Washing- ton Post, James W. White and Justin C. Mann were charged with multiple counts of murder in the deaths of 36- year-old Shanta Myers; her 11-year-old son, Jeremiah; her 5-year-old daughter, Shanise; and Myers’ part- ner, 22-year-old Brandi Mells.
White, 38, and Mann, 24, both of Schenectady, N.Y., near Albany, were arrested on Friday night.
Both men have criminal records, according to police chief Tedesco, and Mann was on parole. One of the sus- pects was acquainted with one of the victims.
Mann was sent to prison in 2014 on a robbery charge and was released in June, ac- cording to parole records. White was convicted of manslaughter, sent to prison in 2001 and released in 2010,
public records show.
The arrests came after a
family was found dead on last Tuesday in a basement apart- ment .
A property manager, who had received a call asking him to check on the tenants, en- tered the apartment and found the two women and two children murdered. Ms. Myers also had an older son who was not home when the killings happened.
A GoFundMe page created for the family identified the surviving son as Isaiah, 16.
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