Philly Cops Savagely Beat Teen To Bloody Pulp, Reportedly Splits Head Open [VIDEO]

Four Philadelphia police officers are on desk duty, after savagely beating 18-year-old Marcus Warryton last week. The incident took place when Warryton was stopped for allegedly running a stop sign, NBC 10 Philadelphia reports. The violent arrest was captured on cellphone video.

One of the officers strike the young man in the head so hard that a blood splatter shoots to the ground. “Hey, yo, he’s bleeding,” someone outside of the camera’s view yells at the officers who still continue their savage beating of the young man who is clearly not resisting at this point.

“You split his f***king head,” the same voice shouts.

New state law asks you to call before you dig

SOCASTEE, SC (WMBF) Before you pick up a shovel and start digging in your yard, the state now has a law that could get you in trouble if you don't make a call first.

This law affects yard work like planting any trees or shrubs, putting in a new sprinkler system or a swimming pool. Anything that involves digging in your yard means you now have to pick up the phone and call 8-1-1. SC811 is the state's call center that notifies utility companies when you plan to dig. 

This is how it works, you dial the number and give your information to an operator, and tell them the type of project you want to do. Then utility crews have to come out and mark all the places underneath your yard where utility lines are running. Once you have the "all clear," then you can start digging. 

When it comes to breaking utility lines while doing yard work, officials say it happens more often than they like. WMBF News talked with Santee Cooper about the law, and representatives say it's something they've asked you to do before, but with this law, it's now something you have to do.

"It's extremely important," said Nicole Aiello with Santee Cooper. "We always at Santee Cooper have partnered with SC Pups, or SC811, and have done this as a service. But now that it's a law it's even more important. Utilities need to follow the law, contractors need to follow the law, and homeowners too."

‘It’s not even close,’ CTU source says about strike authorization vote

The union concluded three days of voting Friday and a weekend of ballot counting by meeting its tougher new strike threshold “easily” and “overwhelmingly,’’ sources told the Sun-Times.

Although the vote moves the CTU one step closer to its first strike since 1987, union officials have repeatedly cautioned that they hope to use any strike authorization vote to catalyze movement at the bargaining table and resolve talks before the opening day of next school year.

In addition, before the nation’s third-largest school system goes on strike, the union’s House of Delegates would have to set a strike date.

A new Chicago-only law backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Stand for Children and others switched the margin needed for any CTU strike authorization from a simple majority of all those who voted to 75 percent of all eligible CTU voters. That meant failure to vote amounted to a “no’’ vote. As a result, several schools reported 100 percent of their CTU members had cast ballots.

The Geography of Abortion

Few issues divide Americans more severely than abortion. Even accounting for changes in the nation's political climate over time, polling numbers consistently show a close to even split in the percent of the population who identify as pro-life or pro-choice. And given the variation in abortion laws across the 50 states, that divide has a definite geographic dimension as well.



 With the help of my Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI) colleagues Charlotta Mellander and Zara Matheson, I took a detailed look at abortion rates across the 50 states and the District of Columbia as well as the economic, cultural, and political factors that bear on them. We used two systematic data sets, one from a report released in late 2011 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and another from a 2011 paper from the Guttmacher Institute, the pro-choice women's reproductive health advocacy organization. These data cover both where abortions occurred and the states of residence of the women who obtained them.