Here’s a roundup of a few news stories you may have missed.
According to AM New York:
Police are on the hunt for a Tesla Cybertruck driver who threatened another motorist and their passengers in a Midtown road rage incident early on Monday morning, authorities said.
According to police sources, the incident unfolded at around 3:57 a.m. on Oct. 14 outside of 150 Central Park South.
Cops say the lime green Cybertruck driver collided with a Lexus four-door Sedan. They confirmed that the Cybertruck driver then exited his vehicle and pointed a gun at the Lexus driver and two passengers.
Oklahoma grand jury blames Ryan Walters, Gov. Stitt for COVID relief misspending:
The state’s multicounty grand jury on Tuesday blamed Gov. Kevin Stitt and state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, without specifically naming them, for the misspending of pandemic relief funds, calling it “grossly negligent.”
Grand jurors issued a 31-page report after hearing testimony in September and October about the GEER Fund programs in Oklahoma.
Grand jurors did not issue any indictments, saying they found insufficient evident to establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a crime was committed. They did say their investigation “uncovered deeply troubling practices.”
After the report became public, Stitt alleged the grand jury had been weaponized. Walters denied blame.
GEER stands for Governor’s Emergency Education Relief. During the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education awarded grants under the GEER Fund to governors to provide emergency assistance for learning. Oklahoma got $39.9 million.
Ryan Walters, you may recall, wants to spend $6 million to put 55,000 Trump bibles, you know the ones that are made in China, into every school in Oklahoma.
Meanwhile, in LA…
Archdiocese of Los Angeles agrees to pay $880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse:
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades, in what an attorney said was the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese, it was announced Wednesday.
After the announcement of the agreement in principle, Archbishop José H. Gomez said in a statement, “I am sorry for every one of these incidents, from the bottom of my heart.”
“My hope is that this settlement will provide some measure of healing for what these men and women have suffered,” the archbishop added. “I believe that we have come to a resolution of these claims that will provide just compensation to the survivor-victims of these past abuses.”
Dare I say it? The only thing that Archbishop is sorry about is that the sex abuse was discovered. He thought he had been doing such a good job of covering it up for so many years.
But sex scandals aren’t just for Catholics any more.
Christian High School Coach Produced Child Porn Of Teen Boys, Sold Their Dirty Underwear Online:
After a lengthy investigation by San José police and the FBI, a former staffer at a private San Jose Christian high school now faces federal charges for allegedly soliciting pornography and dirty underwear from teen students.
According to the San Jose Police Department, detectives with the Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received a report in August 2023 that a staffer at Valley Christian Schools had “explicit digital media” involving minors. The next day, they arrested Todd Baldwin, 44, and searched his office and home.
Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San José brought a criminal complaint against Baldwin, accusing him of enticing two male teens, age 16 and 17, to provide pornographic images and videos between October 2022 and August 2023. According to court records, Baldwin has yet to enter a plea.