The A&M sports reporter was reported missing Sunday evening by her roommate. The roommate said that Roland sent her a text message about a suspicious man she saw in Walgreens who might be following her.
Police found her car early Monday morning in the parking lot of an Ethan Allen in the Galleria area. Found in the car were her phone and other items. Her purse was found at a nearby business. Roland was later spotted in a Chick-fil-A at 6 in the morning. A customer called police after recognizing her. Source: KPRC
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Michigan Rep. John Conyers says he is stepping aside as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee as he is being investigated for allegations for sexually harassing female staff members. The 88-year-old says he denies the allegations and would like to keep his leadership role on the panel, in a statement on Sunday. However, he says he "cannot in good conscience" allow the charges to be an undue distraction to his House colleagues while the investigation continues. The House Ethics Committee is investigating Conyers after receiving allegations of sexual harassment and age discrimination involving staff members as well as using "official resources for impermissible personal purposes." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi refuses to criticize Conyers, "John Conyers is an icon in our country. He's done a great deal to protect women." Pelosi placed responsibility on the House Ethics Committee to investigate the allegations, and for Conyers to "do the right thing." Sources: www.click2houston.com/news/rep-john-conyers-steps-aside-as-top-democrat-on-house-judiciary-committee http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/26/politics/pelosi-conyers-icon-mtp/index.html CHICAGO - Announcing Friday that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to dedicate himself to physical therapy. He says the diagnosis isn't a sign to stop working, but a signal to make life changes to slow the progression of the chronic neurological disorder that causes movement difficulties. Tremors, stiffness and problems with balancing, walking and coordination can result from the disease. "My family and I began to notice changes about three years ago," Jackson wrote in a statement. "After a battery of tests, my physicians identified the issue as Parkinson's disease, a disease that bested my father." The civil rights leader took to Twitter to post the news today. "Recognition of the effects of this disease on me has been painful, and I have been slow to grasp the gravity of it." Finding it increasingly difficult to perform routine tasks, Jackson says he is dedicating himself to physical therapy, but wants to continue to serve. "This diagnosis is personal but it is more than that," the 76-year-old says, "It is an opportunity for me to use my voice to help in finding a cure for a disease that afflicts 7 to 10 million worldwide." Ending his statement with a positive note, Jackson signs, "KEEP HOPE ALIVE!" The full statement can be read here San Francisco - Google has been investigating different ways hackers are stealing personal information over Google Accounts Google researchers identified 788,000 potential victims of keylogging and 12.4 million potential victims of phishing. Google says on average, the phishing tools they studied collect 234,887 potential valid login credentials, and key logging tools collected 14,879 credentials, each week. It also uncovered billions of usernames and passwords indirectly exposed in third-party breaches.
All of the data has been collected between March 2016 and March 2017, Google publishing the information on Thursday. Google said it is the first study taking a long term and comprehensive look at how criminals steal your data, and what tools are most popular. The most popular method of stealing information is phishing, which is posting as a trustworthy person or entity to trick you into giving up your information. These are the emails you get asking for bank account information, or more recently, the Facebook friend requests from fake accounts of your real friends. Because passwords are often not enough to access online accounts, cyber criminals are trying to collect other data, too. Researchers found that some phishers try and siphon location, phone numbers, or other sensitive data while stealing login credentials. Keylogging, which is recording what you type on your computer, is another popular way of stealing your information. Even with no hacking experience, someone can find these tools on criminal hacker forums. Data breaches, such as the recent Equifax hack, are the most common ways hackers can get your data. In one year, researchers found 1.9 billion usernames and passwords exposed by breaches. The company continued to study this through September 2017 and found a total of 3.3 billion credentials. Google has some precautions already set in place to protect your information, but they are implementing more safety measures after receiving this data. Google can automatically recognize when you're logging in from somewhere unusual. If the company sees you attempting to login from another country when you usually login in from Texas, Google will ask to verify if it's you. As a result of the data, Google has tightened the location radius around what it considers to be usual login areas. Google has also implemented additional layers of email security on its official Gmail app. The company said that applying the research insights to its security protections prevented 67 million Google accounts from being abused. Last month, the company launched a handful of tools for people to further protect themselves, including a personalized account security checkup, new phishing warnings, and the Advanced Protection Program for Google's most at-risk users. Sources: www.click2houston.com/tech/google-says-hackers-steal-almost-250000-logins-each-week Congress released some of the 3,000 Facebook ads and Twitter accounts created by Russian operatives to try and sway American voters in the 2016 Presidential Election. Seen by up to 126 million Americans, the posts raise questions about why social media giants hadn't done more to fight against Russian interference on their sites. U.S. Intelligence services say the Russian use of social media was part of an effort to sway the election in favor of Donald Trump. The ads encouraged protests and demonstrations, exploiting social issues. The Russian operatives used Facebook tools to target people with strong feelings about gun rights, African American political activism, illegal immigration or issues that might affect how Americans cast their vote, according to lawmakers. One ad, aimed at those with an interest in civil rights and their leaders, showed a man claiming to be Bill Clinton's illegitimate son. Advertisements were not only in support for Trump, but also in opposition to his campaign. Another video parodying Trump was targeted towards people interested in BlackNews.com, HuffPost Politics or HuffPost Black Voices. Facebook's top lawyer told Congress on Wednesday the Russian effort was "fairly rudimentary." All kinds of companies use these same tools, targeting potential customers. As Facebook's lawyer was referencing, it's the same idea as when you search for something online and see advertisements for that item everywhere on Facebook. Spreading fake content is another Russian strategy aimed at undermining trust in information sources, Clint Watts, from George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, said. Facebook company executives said that going forward they would verify political ad buyers in federal elections, requiring them to reveal correct names and locations. The site will also create new graphics where users can click on the ads and find out who is really behind them. Below are images from The Washington Post, explaining how these ads worked: Among the advertisements that were released, the targeting options for those posts can also be seen. Some of the posts seemed like they were from trustworthy organizations. The Russian pages paid to promote about 3,000 advertisements, reaching 11.4 million people.
Some Facebook users who saw the ads, liked the pages that promoted them. Other users shared the ads, which caused them to show up on their own or friends' feeds. After users engaging with these ads, the reach of these posts grew to 126 million people. These posts were not only shared by ordinary Americans, but by members of the candidate's campaigns and family members. You might have seen or even shared these posts on Facebook during the campaign. You're not alone. Instances like these show how easily false information can be spread over the Internet. That is why it is important to take verifying information into your own hands. Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/01/how-russian-trolls-got-into-your-facebook-feed/?utm_term=.97874a98c7c3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/russian-ads-facebook-anatomy/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.9ac757785913 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-russian-facebook-ads-20171101-story.html JFK Files: Newly released records reveal anonymous tip to newspaper, link to Soviet Union10/27/2017 Among the 2,891 items declassified by the U.S. Government in Thursday's release are details of Lee Harvey Oswald's links with the Soviet Union and an anonymous tip to a British newspaper 25 minutes before JFK was assassinated.Several key details from the newly declassified files are gaining attention, especially accounts from before the assassination. Weeks before the murder of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald met with a Soviet assignation agent, documents show. The files also show that the U.S. was keeping tabs on him and that Moscow questioned Oswald's mental state. Files also shows a mystery call was made to a senior reporter at the Cambridge News on November 22, 1963, at 6:05 p.m. local time. Kennedy was shot shortly afterwards at 12:30 p.m. central time. "The caller said only that the Cambridge News Reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up," the memo from the CIA's James Angleton to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said. One memo was first released in July, but went unreported until the group of files were released Thursday. The memo, dated November 26, 1963, reads: "After the word of the President's death was received the reporter informed the Cambridge police of the anonymous call, and the police informed MI5. The important point is that the call was made, according to MI5 calculations, about 25 minutes before the President was shot. The Cambridge reporter has never received a call of this kind before, and the MI5 state that he is known to them as a sound and loyal personal with no security record." MI5 is Britain's domestic security agency. The memo was originally discovered by a lawyer, Michael Eddowes, who has spent his life investigating Kennedy's death. Eddowes, who died in 1992, told the Cambridge News in 1981 that he believed the anonymous caller was a British-born Soviet named Albert Osborne. Two months before Kennedy's assassination, Eddowes believed that Osborne, who used the alias John Howard Bowen, had friended Oswald. Sources: www.newsweek.com/lee-harvey-oswald-and-soviet-union-what-jfk-files-reveal-694441 www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/10/27/british-newspaper-got-anonymous-call-25-minutes-before-jfk-assassination/805893001/ Health Services Management Inc., which owns Huntsville Health Care Center, has paid the United States $5 million to resolve claims that the company billed Medicare and Medicaid programs for services that were never provided. An investigation concluded that Huntsville Health Care Center billed for services that were not provided or services that were considered worthless and substandard. The claims for payment to Medicare and Medicaid for those services were deemed to be fraudulent and submitted in violation of federal and state law. The investigation followed a lawsuit filed by a whistle blower at Huntsville Health Care Center. She claimed that during her employment, she witness patient abuse and neglect, inadequate care, physical and verbal abuse and denial of basic services, such as providing food and water. “We take seriously the care of our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and inform,” acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez said. “When providers accept federal funds for reimbursement, they have a duty and responsibility to provide the best care possible to the patient, especially when those patients are elderly and at times incapacitated. The United State’s Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas will aggressively hold those accountable who fail to provide the care that is expected when the failure to do so results in harm to the patients and treasury.” “It’s disturbing when a nursing home company accepts Medicare and Medicaid money to care for vulnerable nursing home residents and in return provides substandard care, as alleged in this case,” said Special Agent in Charge, C.J. Porter, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “We will continue to hold nursing homes accountable to give residents the quality health services, and living conditions, taxpayers pay them to provide.” According to the Huntsville Health Care Center website, “our team of professionals have the real-world experience and resources to help your loved ones regain their highest level of function.” As a part of the settlement, HSM also agreed to enter into a Corporate Integrity Agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Services Office of Inspector General. Health Services Management Inc. is based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and owns and operates nursing home throughout Texas and the United States. Sources: www.kbtx.com/content/news/Huntsville-nursing-home-pays-millions-to-settle-claims-of-poor-quality-of-care--451688493.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/huntsville-nursing-home-pays-united-states-and-state-texas-5-million-settle-claims Las Vegas - A maintenance worker said Wednesday that he told hotel dispatchers to call police to report someone had opened fire inside the Mandalay Bay Resort. Worker Stephen Schuck says he was checking out a report of a jammed fire door on the 32nd floor of the resort when he heard gunshots. That is when a hotel security guard who had been shot in the leg appeared and told him to take cover.
"As soon as I started to go to a door to my left, the rounds started coming down the hallway," Schuck said. "I could feel them pass right behind my head." "As soon as the shooting stopped, we made our way down the hallway and took cover again, and then the shooting started again." Schuck says he then called over the radio to let other staff members know what was going on. The guard who was injured says he used his radio and possibly a hallway phone to also call hotel dispatchers for help. On Monday, police said they believe gunman Stephen Paddock shot a hotel security guard through the door of his suite six minutes before he started spraying bullets into the crowd of a country music festival, killing 58 people and injuring over 500. That account differs from the one police gave last week when they said Paddock fired through the door of his room and injured the guard after shooting into the crowd. The company that owns Mandalay Bay has questioned the new timeline. "We believe what is currently being expressed may not be accurate. This remains an ongoing investigation with a lot of moving parts," said Debra DeShong, a spokeswoman for MGM Resorts International. Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-warned-hotel-before-las-vegas-shooter-opened-fire-on-crowd/ Huntsville - Authorities investigate the bones and prison ID that were found in the grass at the golf course owned by Sam Houston State University. On Wednesday, September 27, a city of Huntsville employee discovered skeletal remains while working in the area around the golf course and alerted the Huntsville Police Department.
"We think we know who it is because a TDCJ identification card was found in the pocket of some pants with the remains," Countz said.
Countz also said that the identity cannot be released due to the nature of the remains. With there only being bones left, the gender of the body could not be determined. Also due to the condition of the remains, the cause of death is pending because there was not enough of the body remaining to do an autopsy. The Sam Houston State University Police Department is handling the investigation with the assistance of state and local law enforcement agencies since the remains were found on university property. Sam Houston State released a statement that Wednesday afternoon to tell students they were not in any danger. "This property is not part of the main campus," read the statement. "There is no threat to students, and the remains appear to have been there for some time." (NBC) - Almost 2 decades later, an arrest has been made in the 1990 killer clown case. Sheila Keen Warren was arrested without incident in Washington County, Virginia, on a charge of first-degree murder with use of a firearm in the killing of Marlene Warren - her current husband's previous wife, officials say. What might be a nightmare to some, was a reality for Marlene.
Warren's son heard the gunshot and found his mother bleeding to death in the doorway. While trying to help his mother, he watched as the clown "calmly" walked back to a white Chrysler LeBaron and drove away, according to reports. Two days later, Marlene Warren died at a Loxahatchee hospital. "This is the strangest thing I've seen in all my nineteen years in law enforcement," Ferrell said the day after the murder. Initially, police suspected Michael Warren, the victim's husband, as family and friends said the couple were having problems in their marriage. Police initially focused on Warren's husband, Michael Warren, as the orchestrator in his wife's killing and suspected that Keen-Warren may have played a role in the murder. At the time of the killing, Keen-Warren worked at Michael Warren's used car dealership, the Sun-Sentinel reported in 1992. Detectives suspected the two were having an affair, but Keen-Warren denied the allegation. She reported that was repossessing cars the day Warren was shot. Costume store employees recalled a woman matching Keen-Warren's description bought a clown outfit hours before Warren's death. Orange fibers matching the clown wig were also found in Keen-Warren's home, detectives said. No arrests or charges were made until dusting off the cold case in 2014. Deputies re-interviewed witnesses and conducted DNA analysis. They also learned that Warren was now married to his mistress from the time of the crime. Warren married Shelia Keen after re-emerging in 2002 after disappearing in 1997 following his release from prison. He served 3 years for 43 counts of odometer tampering, grand theft and racketeering. Keen-Warren had been a suspect in the murder almost from the beginning. However, prosecutors never had enough evidence to charge her until new technology allowed them to retest the DNA. Detectives said they were told as early as four months after the murder that the two had been having an affair and that Warren had paid rent for Keen's apartment.
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