Oklahoma City police officer shoots, wounds man after crash
May 3, 2021
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) An Oklahoma City police officer is recovering after a car accident and a shootout with a suspect on the city’s northeast side, police said Monday.
Officer Samuel Flowers was responding to a call early Saturday when a vehicle driven by Quinton Edward Pace, 37, crashed into Flowers’ patrol car several times, ultimately disabling both vehicles, police said.
While Flowers was trapped inside his vehicle, police say Pace exited his vehicle with a gun and began firing. Police say Flowers returned fire through his patrol car s windshield and driver s side window, wounding Pace, who was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. Flowers was also treated for minor injuries suffered in the crash.
Floward covers entire GCC with launch in Oman
By: Times News Service
Muscat: Floward, the go-to online flowers and gifts delivery store in the region launched its services in Muscat, Oman on Sunday, May 2, 2021, making it the first expansion of the year for the company. With this expansion, the company now operates in 19 cities across seven countries.
As part of its expansion strategy, Floward will gradually launch in different cities in the Sultanate with plans to operate in Dhofar Governorate in the next four months, and Al Batinah Governorate in the next six months; thus, covering the largest cities in the country by the end of the year.
Christine Flowers
When the Nazis wanted to march through Skokie, Ill., many of the residents were horrified. A large percentage were Jewish, and some had been interned in concentration camps. The memory of those camps was still vivid, since this was 1978, a mere three decades after World War II had ended.
I was in high school when the controversy erupted. At the time, the ACLU defended the Nazi group, which never ended up marching. But the fact that the storied civil rights organization swooped in to uphold the rights of evil men seemed to me, at the time, incredibly honorable. No one would ever call me a card-carrying member of the ACLU, but the fact that it was able to see beyond the vile character of its client to the larger principle of free speech, assembly and expression taught this high school senior a valuable lesson in civics.
Concern grows over toxic foreign flowers Unsuspecting Aussies could be decorating their homes or wedding and birthday cakes with flowers dipped in toxic chemicals, industry insiders have warned.
Crime by Debra Bela and James MacSmith 30th Apr 2021 12:32 PM Unsuspecting Aussies could be decorating their homes or wedding and birthday cakes with flowers dipped in toxic chemicals, industry insiders have warned. Flowers are currently the only perishable product sold in Australia that does not require Country of Origin labelling, a potentially dangerous loophole that could exposure consumers to serious health issues. The flower industry s leading body is ramping up calls for Country of Origin labelling with Australians unknowingly buying native flowers, such as Kangaroo Paw, that have been grown overseas and dipped in toxic chemicals for up to 20 minutes before sale.
Kevin Doyle, the program’s coordinator, describes it as a fairy slipper.
“It has a lady slipper-like flower, an inflated pouch that kind of looks like a moccasin or a slipper. Then there’s light magenta petals that hang above it like a sun umbrella,” he said.
Doyle said one volunteer thought she had seen calypso orchids while working as a private contractor in 2017, so she and another volunteer returned to the site on a search mission.
“They got back there and they found one and it wasn’t in flower, but then as they were walking out they found about five flowering orchids and these ones were in flower,” he said.