Wednesday, January 9, 2013
A West St. Louis County mother spoke out this week about a dangerous new synthetic drug called N-Bomb that she believes nearly killed her 15-year-old daughter.
A Chesterfield mom is speaking out about a dangerous new synthetic drug that she said nearly took the life of her daughter during a party on New Year's Eve. St. Louis County police are also issuing a warning Tuesday about the hallucinogenic N-Bomb, a potent, LSD-like substance, which authorities say has been purchased by undercover detectives in the St. Louis Metro area. Carley Alves told Chesterfield's City Council she learned about N-Bomb after her 15-year-old daughter and Ursuline Academy freshman was brought home from the party in an incoherent state. "Every time she would open her eyes she would see bright lights, so she had to keep her eyes closed," Alves said. "Her perception of sound changed. She thought she was whispering, but …
Friday, December 21, 2012
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.
In an amazing Friday morning press conference in Washington DC, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, CT and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the …
Monday, September 17, 2012
The St. Louis County Police Department is hosting it first ever Citizen Police Academy at a St. Louis area Muslim mosque.
The St. Louis County Police West County Precinct and the Islamic Foundation are working to together to offer the first ever Citizen Police Academy at the Daar-ul-Islam Mosque located near Weidman and Manchester road in West St. Louis County. This is the first time the course has been offered by St. Louis County Police at a mosque and the first time the mosque has had such a course available to members. Adil Imdad is the outreach and community relations program coordinator for the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis. He is also the chairman of social services for the foundation. "I'm going to encourage everybody to attend. This is something that is for extra knowledge," Imdad tells Patch. He said the course will teach area Muslims about…
