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February 22, 2022

Miss Alabama Zoe Sozo Bethel, 27, dies eight days after suffering head injury in mysterious accident

Miss Alabama Zoe Sozo Bethel, 27, dies eight days after suffering head injury in mysterious accident
Zoe Sozo Bethel, 27, who represented the Cotton State in the 2021 Miss for America Strong pageant died of head injuries
She was a staunch opponent of abortion and worked for several conservative media and non-profit groups, like Project Veritas, RBSN and Students for Life
She died on Friday, February 18 of brain injuries that she suffered on February 14
Funeral arrangements have not been planned

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She was also a political commentator for RBSN, a conservative media company known for covering former President Donald Trump's rallies, according to her family.

According to the family's social media posts, Bethel suffered 'severe damage to her brain/brainstem' on February 10 in an unspecified accident in Miami. She was in a coma until February 18 before she passed away.

The family has not revealed what type of accident caused the injuries and the Miami police have not provided any details.

DailyMail.com reached out to the Miami Police Department for comment.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10536815/Zoe-Sozo-Bethel-dead-Miss-Alabama-dies-eight-days-suffering-horror-injuries-accident.html

February 22, 2022

Woman accidentally killed by 17-year-old hunter. leads to call for stricter regulation (France)

Woman accidentally killed by 17-year-old hunting for wild boar

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/woman-accidentally-killed-by-17-year-old-hunting-for-wild-boar/ar-AAU8bpg

The accidental killing of a hiker by a teenage hunter in central France has rekindled debate among the country's presidential hopefuls over a divisive tradition that critics say needs more strict regulation.

The victim, a 25-year-old woman, was walking with a friend along a marked trail near Aurillac, in the heavily forested Cantal region, when she died after being hit by a stray bullet on Saturday.


The shot came from a 17-year-old girl taking part in a group hunt for wild boar. The teen was initially treated in hospital for shock before being taken into custody for questioning, which continued late Sunday.

Even though France's love of its rural heritage runs deep, the tragedy added to the growing pressure for tougher rules on hunting in a country with the largest number of hunters in Europe.

February 22, 2022

Colombia Decriminalizes Abortion

Colombia Decriminalizes Abortion
The decision by the Constitutional Court comes in the wake of similar moves in Mexico and Argentina.

The ruling opens the door for abortion to become widely accessible in the country.


Abortion rights supporters celebrating in front of Colombia’s Constitutional Court after the ruling in favor of decriminalizing abortion in Bogotá on Monday.Credit...Nathalia Angarita for The New York Times


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/21/world/colombia-court-abortion

Having an abortion is no longer a crime under Colombian law, the country’s top court on constitutional matters ruled on Monday, in a decision that paves the way for the procedure to become widely available across this historically conservative, Catholic country.

The ruling by Colombia’s Constitutional Court follows years of organizing by women across Latin America for greater protections and more rights, including access to abortion, and significant shifts in the legal landscape of some of the region’s most populous countries. Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in a similar decision in September and Argentina’s Congress legalized the procedure in late 2020.

The ruling means that three of the four most populous countries in Latin America have now opened the door to more widespread access to abortion.

It also comes as the United States has been moving in the opposite direction, with abortion restrictions multiplying across the country, and the U.S. Supreme Court considering a case that could overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion
February 22, 2022

Colombia Decriminalizes Abortion

Colombia Decriminalizes Abortion
The decision by the Constitutional Court comes in the wake of similar moves in Mexico and Argentina.

The ruling opens the door for abortion to become widely accessible in the country.


Abortion rights supporters celebrating in front of Colombia’s Constitutional Court after the ruling in favor of decriminalizing abortion in Bogotá on Monday.Credit...Nathalia Angarita for The New York Times


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/21/world/colombia-court-abortion

Having an abortion is no longer a crime under Colombian law, the country’s top court on constitutional matters ruled on Monday, in a decision that paves the way for the procedure to become widely available across this historically conservative, Catholic country.

The ruling by Colombia’s Constitutional Court follows years of organizing by women across Latin America for greater protections and more rights, including access to abortion, and significant shifts in the legal landscape of some of the region’s most populous countries. Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in a similar decision in September and Argentina’s Congress legalized the procedure in late 2020.

The ruling means that three of the four most populous countries in Latin America have now opened the door to more widespread access to abortion.

It also comes as the United States has been moving in the opposite direction, with abortion restrictions multiplying across the country, and the U.S. Supreme Court considering a case that could overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion
February 22, 2022

5 people found dead in Denver-area apartment likely overdosed on fentanyl, D.A. says

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/5-people-found-dead-in-denver-area-apartment-likely-overdosed-on-fentanyl-d-a-says/

Preliminary evidence suggests that five people found dead in an apartment in suburban Denver overdosed on fentanyl while taking what they believed to be cocaine, the district attorney said Monday.

Drug tests done at the apartment in Commerce City, about 7 miles northeast of Denver, found an “overwhelming amount” of fentanyl and cocaine, 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason said. The evidence suggests the victims were snorting the substance, which is a more common way to ingest cocaine than fentanyl, when they died Sunday, he said.

Autopsies and drug testing of each victim still need to be done to confirm how they died, he said.

Mason said he is concerned that there are other people who might have drugs from the same supply as the one used by the victims, potentially putting their lives at risk too.
February 22, 2022

Dem candidate apologizes for meltdown at tween slumber party

Oklahoma candidate for Congress is apologizing for her behavior at a pre-Valentine's Day sleepover for 12- and 13-year-old girls which reportedly turned ugly and alarmed parents.

Abby Broyles, a lawyer and former journalist who is running as a Democrat to represent her state's 5th Congressional District, told local TV station KFOR in a story published last week that too much wine and taking an unfamiliar sleeping medication were to blame for a blackout that caused her to hallucinate, vomit into a laundry hamper and allegedly insult children at a slumber party a friend threw at her home for her daughter and middle school classmates.

Broyles, 32, allegedly called one girl an "acne f---er," causing her to leave the room in tears, according to NonDoc.com, which first reported the story. She is also accused of calling another girl a "Hispanic f---er" and a third a "judgy f---er."

"It was like an attack," Sarah Matthews, whose daughter was at the home where the incident occurred, told KFOR, a station where Broyles once worked. "Like personal, vicious attacks."

Broyles threw up into a laundry basket and on a girl's shoes, according to NoDoc.com.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/oklahoma-candidate-is-deeply-sorry-for-reported-meltdown-around-tween-girls-at-slumber-party/ar-AAU8yHn

February 22, 2022

Indigenous nations sue North Dakota over 'sickening' gerrymandering

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/indigenous-nations-sue-north-dakota-over-sickening-gerrymandering/ar-AAU7ioK

Days before a new legislative map for North Dakota was set to be introduced in the state house, leaders of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Spirit Lake Nation sent a letter to the governor and other state lawmakers urging them to rethink the proposal.

“All citizens deserve to have their voices heard and to be treated fairly and equally under the law,” they wrote, arguing that the proposed map was illegal, diluting the strength of their communities’ voice.

But instead, in early November, the Republican-controlled legislature approved the map, with only minor changes. And the Republican governor, Doug Burgum, quickly signed it.

“Our voice is going to be muffled once again,” the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa chairman, Jamie Azure, told the Guardian. “It’s getting a little sickening, tell you the truth.”

The lawsuit, filed earlier this month, claims the map packs some Indigenous voters into one House subdistrict, while putting other “nearby Native American voters into two other districts dominated by white voters who bloc vote against Native Americans’ preferred candidates”. It adds that complying with the Voting Rights Act would mean placing the two nations in a single district, where they would “comprise an effective, geographically compact majority”.
February 21, 2022

Video captures driver playing cornet at stoplight in Stockton

both paywall, I hope one lets you through

https://www.modbee.com/news/california/article258586893.html

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article258586893.html

BY JOSH HUGHES VIA FACEBOOK FEBRUARY 19, 2022, 3:51 PM Josh Hughes took video of a driver playing the wind instrument in his car in Stockton at Harding and Wilson ways. "We ran into this awesome guy ... Just killing time waiting on the light," he wrote.

Read more at: https://www.modbee.com/news/california/article258586893.html#storylink=cpy

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