Friday, January 18, 2013
Florida professor James Tracy has said the devastating shooting in Newtown, CT, was part of a government and media conspiracy related to gun control.
On Jan. 10, Lakeville Patch brought you the heart-warming story of Holly Ryan, a school psychologist at Kenwood Trail Middle School who traveled back to her hometown of Newtown, CT, to help victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. The story proved that those December events will forever resonate with folks, not only in Lakeville, but around the world. So much so, people on the other side of the fence are sharing their voice, and it's causing a whole new host of problems for Newtown victims. Florida Atlantic University Professor James Tracy has vocally questioned whether Sandy Hook has even happened. Tracy has said he believes that the school shooting could have been a performance by people he called "crisis actors." The reason…
Monday, January 7, 2013
Sen. Al Franken met this afternoon with counselors, safety experts and ISD 196 administrators at Dakota Hills Middle School.
Sen. Al Franken came to Eagan’s Dakota Hills Middle School this afternoon to discuss school safety protocols with counselors, safety experts and ISD 196 administrators in the wake of last month’s Newtown shootings. Franken repeatedly emphasized the importance of early treatment of mental illness and also spoke about lockdown drills and perimeter security in remarks to reporters after the meeting. “You [need to] catch this kind of mental illness early, treat it, so it doesn’t grow into something where you have somebody who becomes a shooter,” he said. ISD 196 superintendent Jane Berenz; the district’s safety director, Mark Parr; and Dakota Hills Middle principal Trevor Johnson were among the 12 participants in the closed-door roundtable …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Theresa Marie Navratil is charged with third-degree assault and making terroristic threats. Police say she stabbed a man in the hand and then announced that she wished she had been the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school.
A Burnsville woman has been charged with stabbing a man through the hand, then telling police officers that she wished she had been the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut school last week because she “understood” him. Theresa Marie Navratil, 52, is charged with two felonies: third-degree assault resulting in substantial bodily harm and making terroristic threats, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Navratil is also charged with two misdemeanor counts of domestic assault, for which the maximum penalty is 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. Police were called to Navratil’s apartment in the 2100 block of Cliff Road just before midnight Dec. 15 after the victim reported that he had been …
Cathy Frazier
9:43 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Nice to hear that Sen. Al Franken (and we're Republicans) is talking sense about mental health care in light of Sandy Hook. It was 'mentioned' the first day and then the President and media used the tragedy to push gun control when the real issue is the lack of mental health care in our country. It's one reason we have such a huge drug abuse problem here, too. Kudos to Al Franken from the Frazier… more ›