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National
Bottle Water Recall: E. Coli Detected
Young Father Is
After Church Massacre: Gov. Of S.C. Calls For Removal Of Confederate Flag
Protesters stand around the Confederate Flag that flies over the state capitol in Columbia, S.C.
Wegmans, a supermarket chain with devoted shoppers, and several other chains in- cluding Giant Food Stores, Shaws, and 7-Eleven, recalled their branded bottled water due to potential E. coli con- tamination.
Niagara Bottling, a lead- ing private-label water bot- tling company in the United States, has reported that E. coli bacteria was found in one of its spring water sources on June 10, 2015.
“These bacteria can make you sick, and are a particular concern for people with weakened immune systems,”
the company wrote in a state- ment.
Niagara Bottling said no reports of illness have been found, nor has anyone sub- mitted a formal complaint, but that voluntary recall is still in effect.
Other brands affected be- sides Wegmans include Aca- dia (the store brand of Giant Food Stores), Acme, Big Y, Best Yet, 7-Eleven, Niagara, Nature’s Place, Pricerite, Su- perchill, Morning Fresh, Shaws, Shoprite, and West- ern Beef Blue. Niagara Bot- tling’s consumer notice provides more details.
Person Of Interest
In Deaths Of His
Girlfriend And Baby
ANA- HEIM, CA -- A 24-year- old man is being sought for question- ing in the murder of his
KWAME 6-month-old CARPENTER
Nigeria’s New President Says Country’s Treasury Is ‘Virtually Empty’
son and his
girlfriend in Anaheim. Police say Kwame Carpenter may be driving a 2001 black Lincoln Town Car Signature with Cali- fornia license plate 19990N1.
Officers found Carpen- ter’s girlfriend and baby son with serious injuries that left them dead Monday.
A 911 call brought officers to a report of a felony assault in progress. The door of an apart- ment was open, and the woman and baby were found. After paramedics responded, the woman was pronounced dead on the scene, and the in- fant was transported to a local trauma center, and later died.
Police do not know Car- penter’s involvement, but in- vestigators believe he was in the home at the time of the in- cident.
CHARLESTON, S.C. – A group of political and reli- gious leaders from Charleston, S.C., are headed to the state's capitol, Colum- bia, to call on lawmakers to remove the Confederate bat- tle flag flying on the State House grounds. But even if they manage to gain the needed votes, it may be months before the flag actu- ally comes down.
Across the nation there has been a growing outcry for the flag to be removed after nine Black worshipers were killed by a gunman with al- leged white supremacist views during a prayer meeting in a Charleston church last week.
The push to take down the flag is the latest chapter in a heated debate that has roiled the Palmetto State for more than 50 years, and several po- litical obstacles make any quick resolution of the argu- ment unlikely.
Prominent voices within South Carolina have joined in the call for the flag's removal, including Gov. Nikki Haley. "It's time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds," she said during a press conference Monday.
The state legislature is set
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday slammed the state of the country's finances, claim- ing his predecessor had left Africa's biggest economy deep in debt and the treasury "vir- tually empty".
There are high expecta- tions that Buhari, who de- feated Goodluck Jonathan in March elections, will turn around Nigeria's fortunes, with the country riddled with corruption and the crude-de- pendent economy reeling from global oil shocks.
But the 72-year-old, elected on a promise of clean- ing up Nigeria's dirty politics and ending Boko Haram's Is- lamist insurgency, indicated the funds to deliver were not immediately available to do so.
Nigeria, which is Africa's leading oil producer and de-
Nigeria’s President Muham- madu Buhari says former presi- dent Goodluck Jonathan left the country in deep debt.
pendent on crude for a mas- sive 90 percent of foreign earnings, was already feeling the effect of the halving of global oil prices from mid- 2014 even before Buhari took over.
Squeezed government rev- enues forced this year's budget to be revised and fed- eral projects scrapped or halted while state employees have gone months without being paid.
Cousin Of S.C.
GOV. NIKKI HALEY
to meet Tuesday to discuss the budget, and officials, in- cluding Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley and local State Sen. Marlon Kimp- son, have called on the legis- lators to stay in session and vote on removing the flag.
The Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III of the National Action Network is calling for the flag to be taken down be- fore State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, who also was chief pastor of the Emmanuel AME Church, where the at- tack took place, lies in state at the South Carolina Capitol on Wednesday.
Winning a vote to remove the flag will be no small feat, however, and it almost cer- tainly won't happen by Wednesday. As part of a deal reached 15 years ago, two- thirds of both chambers of the state legislature must vote to remove the flag.
Walmart Pulling All Confederate Merchandise From Stores
Dylann
Roof’s ha-
tred for Black people—in
horrific dis-
play during
his shooting
spree last DYLANN week inside a ROOF historically
black church—may have been stoked by jealousy when a girl he liked began to date a Black guy, the Intercept reports.
Scoff Roof told the Inter- cept that his cousin “went over the edge when a girl [Dylann] liked starting dating a Black guy two years back.”
In this classic scenario of one guy ending up with the ro- mantic crush of another, Dy- lann's ego was particularly bruised because he lost out to an African American, accord- ing to the cousin.
“Dylann liked her,” Scott said. “The Black guy got her. He changed.”
Scott remarks might sug- gest to some that Dylann might not have carried out the massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. if he hadn’t felt slighted by a Black guy. “I don’t know if we would be here if not ...” Scott said, before abruptly hanging up the phone and ending the interview.
Walmart is putting its money into the national de- bate currently going on sur- rounding the use of the Confederate flag, telling CNN that all merchandise bearing the controversial symbol will be removed from its stores.
The announcement comes hours after Republican South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced her support of re- moving the flag from state capitol grounds. The recent massacre in Charleston, S.C. at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church has brought nationwide dis- cussion about the flag and its use to the forefront after the accused killer, Dylann Storm Roof, was seen across social media in an old photo posing with the flag.
"We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer. We have taken steps to remove all items promoting
Walmart is removing Confederate merchandise from its shelves.
the confederate flag from our assortment -- whether in our stores or on our web site," Walmart spokesman Brian Nick told CNN. "We have a process in place to help lead us to the right decisions when it comes to the merchandise we sell. Still, at times, items make their way into our as- sortment improperly -- this is one of those instances."
According to the report, the major retailer sells the flag itself, as well as T-shirts and belt buckles featuring the flag.
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