#Chief Judge Hershey

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Hershey

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Hi, I was wondering (mainly since I'm still semi new to 2000 AD stuff) do you have a quick summary of the lore around Judge Raul? I picked up a prog a few months ago with him in it where Dredd'N'Friends are visiting a mega city in Africa but I didn't get much context on the Hulking Crime Robot walking around

I'm drawing a blank on Raul specifically, but one of Chief Judge Hershey's last major acts before her death was the launch of the Mechanismo Mark 3 program, to beef up judge numbers after Day of Chaos and other ensuing catastrophes. While Dredd and others expected the project to fail like the last two, the Mark 3's turned out to be a roaring success, and are still being used regularly alongside human judges.

Anyway, you can read all about the origins of the new Mechanismos in the Judge Dredd: Harvey story arc!

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Rebellion Releases: Hershey’s time runs out in this week’s 2000AD

A major death hits the pages of 2000AD in Prog 2349 this week, as the final chapter of “Hershey” by Rob Williams, Simon Fraser and Simon Bowland concludes

A major death hits the pages of 2000AD in Prog 2349 this week, as the final chapter of “Hershey” by Rob Williams, Simon Fraser and Simon Bowland concludes with the death of Former Chief Judge Barbara Hershey. Created by John Wagner and Brian Bolland in 1980, Hershey has been a mainstay of Judge Dredd’s world ever since – a street Judge who attained the city’s highest position, a friend and foe…

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Preview: Hershey: Disease - The Ex-Chief Judge Of Mega-City One - Ella Es La Ley!

Preview: Hershey: Disease – The Ex-Chief Judge Of Mega-City One – Ella Es La Ley!

The return of former Chief Judge Hershey, on a mission to make amends for past failings, one that’s going to take her around the world. First stop, the brutal and dangerous streets of South America’s Comuna…Continue reading

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Prog 2150

The perfect jumping-on point for new & lapsed readers, this bumper-sized Prog is the last of what has been a zarjaz summer of ThrillPower™. Featuring the best of recent and classic Thrills, this landmark issue is a fitting entrée to the Autumn lineup in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic….

JUDGE DREDD // GUATEMALA Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, former Chief Judge Hershey has revealed that she’s dying from a pathogen, and is facing her final days… Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra HOPE // …UNDER FIRE An alternate 1940s USA. WWII is over, victory having been secured by occult means. Now, magic is a part of everyday life, its practitioners commonplace. Mallory HOPE is one such skilled operative, though calling on the dark arts takes its toll on the user. He’s also a private investigator, hired for all manner of down n’ dirty jobs, and now his services have taken him to New York at the behest of an old army colleague… Hope created by Guy Adams & Jimmy Broxton BRINK // HATE BOX The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, with many spilling over into madness — as HSD cop Bridget Kurtis has discovered in her investigations into violent sect crimes… Brink created by Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard FUTURE SHOCKS // RESTRUCTURING Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side, so abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected… Restructuring created by Karl Stock & Will Simpson ANDERSON; PSI-DIVISION // JUDGE DEATH: THE MOVIE Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Psi-Division is a section of Justice Department that specialises in Judges with accentuated psychic talents — from precognition to exorcism, astral projection to pyrokinesis, its operatives deal with all manner of paranormal crimes. Cassandra ANDERSON is Psi-Div’s top telepath, who’s been responsible for saving the city on numerous occasions — not least against the undead superfiend Judge Death… Psi-Judge Anderson created by John Wagner & Brian Bolland DEFOE // THE DIVISOR London, 1668. It is two years since the city was devastated by the Great Fire. From the ashes rose the undead, hungry for the flesh of the living. Protecting the populace are zombie hunters like Titus DEFOE, a former Leveller, who now makes it his mission to rid the capital of the ghouls. In this strange, clockpunk alternate past, supernatural entities have been passing info to humanity, enabling them to build rocketships… Defoe created by Pat Mills & Leigh Gallagher SINISTER DEXTER // WAITING IN CHAIRS Downlode gun-sharks Finnigan SINISTER and Ramone DEXTER are the best triggers money can buy. Having whacked Holy Moses Tanenbaum, a ganglord from an alternate dimension whose presence threatened the fabric of reality, they’ve found killing him reset the continuum, meaning no one knows who they are, apart from hacker Billi Octavo. Now, after a bodyguarding gig went south, Dexter has been badly injured… Sinister Dexter created by Dan Abnett & David Millgate THE FALL OF DEADWORLD // DOOMED The planet that eventually became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a dimension parallel to our own. But the end of days is coming, and creatures known as the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. While the survivors attempt to resist the undead horde, the neighbouring Soviets have seen the chaos as an ideal time to launch an attack on their enemies… The Fall of Deadworld created by Kek-W & Dave Kendall

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Colin MacNeil’s painted art is always impressive, but there’s something especially striking about this portrait of Hershey. Frustratingly, I can’t quite place which artist it reminds me of, but it has that feeling of a portrait from an early 20th century school, with the emphasis on lines- the nose, the hair, the top lip and the chin all seem to be at approximately the same angle, supporting the text’s description of ‘finely cut features’ and, more importantly, ‘a striking woman’.

It’s likely an idealised image, as seen from the perspective of the ‘Chief Judge’s Man’, so echoes of portraiture make perfect sense as a clever short hand for this fantasy aspect, as what is often more idealised that certain styles of portraiture? Thus the image shows off the artist’s skill, in the sense of his talent with a brush as well as his ability to serve the narrative on multiple levels.

From “On The Chief Judge’s Service” by John Wagner & Colin MacNeil, from 2000AD progs 1263-1266, reprinted in The Chief Judge’s Man

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Notes for 2015

My notes from listening to episode 1

Travis laugh count 11 (indicated with 😆)

Tragedy to start 4 min

Wife leaves after six days

Paul Blart is blind sided and comes apart as a human

His mother gets by a milk truck

"My wife left me but at least I got my mom's"

Talking to adorable puppy mum is killed by milktruck

😆1 Kevin James slapped in the face my a kid (maybe between divorce and mom death?)

Chief mall cop wife -ana gasteyer

Checkov gun convention

Paul Blart gets invited to a security officer trade association conference

While in line blart hears rumor that there is a big secret keynote speaker "someone wh9 has gone above and beyond the call of duty" and thinks it's him

😆2 wiggle in Segway showoff

Just before confronted by people who heard he thought he was giving the keynote

Old woman gets kill blow 😆6

Blart says It makes sense that he's going to be the keynote speaker unless RoboCop is there

Donna "RoboCop ain't real"

I know "RoboCop. ain't. real."

A heist is happening in 30 second cuts

A robotic glass cutter to get painting

USB dongle that they plug into front of art pedistiles and take art

Trash can with lid that rises up

Niel mcdonough- big bad

" I want to be out of here in no less than 9 hours"

When they take last art piece big bad gets on walkie talkie

" Okay we are nearly done, get the helicopter ready for three hours time"

They carry out the van Gogh sunflowers painting in translucent black bag

He finds a bean bag gun on show floor and sucks

Later noscoping dudes at distance

Close up of blart and bad yelling at each other

Has problems getting stuff out of pocket

Guy working in warehouse (murtel) eats a very old black banana

Blart says he's from internal affairs and murtel says "do you mind if I eat my lunch" banana crinkles as he opens it. Yuck face by

Guy gets tazed a bunch

😆 3 "Judge blart is now in session" hits a bread plate and it flips in the air. No reaction just still looks at Mia

😆4 bird fight African crane. Blart is stressed about doing the keynote and gets mad at bird giving him the stink eye so he fights the bird. Piano player watching and only nodding occasionally when blart looks at him for help

Scuzzy green room opens "tranquility garden" to beautiful garden

Lots of people shoot at blart

Only one Niel "give me the gun, you take care of them" and bads charge security guards with fists

Nick is chatting up Jackie Sandler in bad and it's going bad because he is very drunk

"Officer needing assistance" "please go away I don't want any part of this"(screaming?)

Blart convinces her she's a bit quick to judge nick

"Maybe I was too harsh on Nick"

Blart gives his daughter road flares and an extra cell phone battery and tracks her movements

When Mia calls and says she's held at gunpoint he says she's maybe over reacting and needs to calm down

😆5 because hypoglycemic as he's talking to bad he passes out and has to slide underneath a little girls dripping ice cream

Takes a sticky pink jiz shot to the face

Lane who is a valay who Mia likes invites her to a party "is this your room?""I'm friends with a bunch of the housekeeping staff and they let me know when a high roller checks out early"

Mia gets a call from blart that goes to voicemail so she goes to listen to it and find a quiet spot opens a door from party into heists room where Niel is pointing a gun at someone.

They capture Mia And five minutes later lane walks in "while this room is compromised"

Timeline on lane. Working checks in the hotel with blart offering to carry his bags but blart doesn't want to tip (blart gambles $150 away 5 min later "the fat guy ruined) meets Mia by the pool, lane is with Mia at the party. Lane gets Mia a gift, a win casino snowglobe from the giftshop "it was either this or sunscreen"

Checkov gun convention. Going table to table and people are showing him stuff he will use later, a gun that shoots marbles, (doesn't work when he uses it later)

When he's with the security he is with his people.

Chemistry between Mia and lane good

Unwraps and eats a Hershey kiss at some point after learning daughter is gone (investigation of room?)

Sneaking through room where he thinks his daughter was kidnapped from and heard a noise and punches a very old housekeeping woman.

She keeps apologising as blart apologizes blaming herself

😆6 "It shifts the focus from my arthritis"

Are you alright

General manager of the hotel brings blart his key and blart insists she is flirting with him (she's not) she goes back to the handsome head of security and tells him and he says "I have heard that sometimes overweight people use humor to achieve affection"

Blart asks for the room key and the guy (Heath) says his room isn't ready blart gets mad and woman manager comes and is apologetic

Ana gastier describes her kid leaving for University "a cold tomb of loneliness" "i just put sehra mcglocklin on blast and opened a drawer smelled her clothes and cried inside it"

In hotel blart finds a nail and deduces that he should go to shipping, banana, a bad chases him so he hides in a not bulletproof suitcase bounces out of a window into water 😆7 bursts out of water "not today death" goes into circ du soleil, guy chases paul blart (for no reason?) Pulls gun on blart after seeing him wet and blart runs stumbling into circ du Sola puts angel wings on and goes on stage. Slams into them swinging on a rope show must go on.

Ana gasteyer sitting with husband. "Is that Paul Blart?" They agree it is "I'd like to see you up there" "I couldn't do it because of my hamstrings""oh I know. I know" patting him on the back

Khan (seli Desai) hugs each person he meets "I am Khan mobi please to meet"

Big fight between security and bads Khan shows up out of nowhere wearing a cape. Niel says "you brought a superhero, why is that guy wearing a cape'' ``I came straight from a haircut"

Paul Blart says "oh your going right I there" "I really needed that" when hugged so khna hugs again"oh you warmed me up for the second one"

Niel points out that blart only has one thing left in his life, his daughter and she's leaving him

Mia sneaks off to hang out with lane and when blart gets back to the room he calls security who calls cop

Do you got kids, just the one she's missing

You gotta a girlfriend. No

Does anyone love this guy

We usually wait 24 hours

Vincent- Niel mcdonough

Blart antagonises Vincent when gun to his daughter's head. All Vincent wants is the painting blart has

Vincent takes Mia and lane to helicopter

I'm so crazy I would play a trombone on you

11 prices of art

Blart gets hit by cars

😆8 gets out of circdesola and stands in front of a giant fan and screams

Running thing where mini kiss is playing at hotel

😆9 in elevator "do you guys play Beth"sheepish"no we don't play Beth" " I told you we should play Beth" " not now Frank"

😆10 third taser out of six

😆11 you should be with him, oh he's full on crying" cuts to crying hotel security guy

Blart sends daughter off to college

Blart is kicked by horse

Blart wants daughter to go to polytechnic

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Take a moment off your day to appreciate how good Patrick Goddard’s Judge Hershey is.

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Judges including Griffin and Chief Justice Fargo, his mentor. Dredd is found guilty as his DNA is found on the bullets used to kill Hammond (a feature of the Lawgiver is imprinting the user's DNA on each bullet, a fact apparently unknown by most Judges). To save Dredd, Fargo steps down as Chief Justice and, for his last request, asks the Council to spare Dredd's life. Dredd is sentenced to life imprisonment while Fargo embarks on the "long walk", in which a retiring Judge ventures into the wasteland "to bring law to the lawless". Griffin, who freed Rico to frame Dredd for the murder, becomes Chief Justice and instructs Rico to cause chaos in the city.Dredd is taken to the Aspen penal colony via airship, where he sits next to Herman. En route, the ship is shot down by the Angel Gang, a family of cannibalistic scavengers and bandits. They bring Dredd and Herman back to their cave. A squad of Judges investigate the crashed ship and get to the cave, intent on killing any survivors, not rescuing them. Fargo arrives in time to save Dredd's life, but is mortally wounded by Mean Machine Angel. A dying Fargo reveals that Dredd and Rico are the result of the Janus project, an experiment in genetic engineering intended to create the perfect Judge. Dredd deduces Rico framed him for the reporter's murder, using their identical DNA. Believing Griffin is trying to reactivate the Janus project, Fargo urges Dredd to stop him.In Mega-City One, Rico terrorizes the city and assassinates Judges in various ways. Griffin uses the situation to convince the Council Judges to unlock the Janus files. He plans to create an army of Judges from his DNA. After the Council Judges unlock the file, Griffin has them killed. Dredd and Herman sneak back into the city and meet with Hershey, who had also discovered the Janus project by herself. They go to the Statue of Liberty where the Janus laboratories are. They encounter the ABC Warrior, which wounds Herman and captures Dredd and Hershey. Rico uses his own DNA as template for the Janus clones, then commands the ABC Warrior to kill Griffin. Herman, despite his wounds, disables the ABC Warrior as Dredd fights Rico, while Hershey fights his assistant, Dr. Ilsa Hayden. Rico activates his clones prematurely, but they fail to stop Dredd, and the swift clone activation ends up destroying the Janus laboratory. Dredd pursues Rico to the top of the Statue of Liberty, and a final struggle sends Rico falling to his death.Central, the city's controlling supercomputer, has recorded the entire event and broadcasts the information, clearing Dredd's name. The remaining Judges ask him to become the new Chief Justice, but he refuses, preferring to remain a street judge on to now 2012 Judge Dredd

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ANTONIA TRIFECTA

Spent yesterday writing. Rewrote 2 chapters of Growing Up Italian. Will I ever be satisfied and complete the book?

My house is being painted. Got a look following the second coat after I left the house on my way downtown. Cleans up good!

My first stop was Aqua for Dueling Bartenders.

Usually crowded with locals. Not last night. Total patrons 3, including me.

The best bargain in town! Rick Dery and a guest singing. The entertainment free. Goes with the price of the drinks.

Rick was especially good last night.

Dinner time. I made my way to Antonia’s.

Nicole bartending. Almost did not recognize her. She has lost 30 pounds in 3 months. KETO diet. A different appearing woman.

Another 30 to go. She will make it. She was gushing with enthusiasm.

The title of today’s blog is Antonia Trifecta. So named because 3 good things occurred while I was at Antonia’s last night. The first seeing the “new” Nicole and sharing her joy.

The second happy occurrence mine.

You recall I lost 62 pounds last year. Not an easy task. As with Nicole last night, I was excited!

The diet was Atkins. I was loyal. It worked.

Five months ago, I got sick. Pancreatitis. Not cancer of the pancreas. Merely a “mad” pancreas as my doctor described it.

Painful! Two months of suffering.

Causes of pancreatitis in order are alcohol, smoking and fatty foods.

Doctor said no more drinking or smoking. I was a 4-6 gin man a night. Smoking bad, too.

I immediately ceased drinking and smoking. The smoking desire has passed. Still miss a drink when out.

The fatty food. The Atkins diet is high protein low carb. High protein means to me fatty foods. Steaks, lamb chops, etc.

My doctor said the Atkins diet probably contributed to the pancreatitis also. He said go on a high carb low fat diet.

I did immediately. As a result, have gained 30 pounds in 5 months. So much for having busted my ass for a year losing 62 pounds.

I cannot keep to the high carb diet. I will be the fattest ever! Ergo, I decided yesterday that I had to add more “fat” to my diet and see what happens.

Last night, I had my first meat meal in 5 months. Lamb chops. To die for! I went to Heaven!

Two down on the trifecta. Nicole’s 30 pounds and my enjoying lamb chops.

The third was meeting the Scarpas. Glenn and Ashley Scarpa. We sat next to each other at the bar. A most enjoyable conversation ensued.

Glenn and Ashley are into 2 businesses. Restaurant and needlepoint design.

Needlepoint is Ashley’s baby. She is an expert in textile arts: needlepoint and quilt making. She and Glenn are in Key West to close on their second needlepoint store. They purchased a needle point design store on Fleming, across from Fausto’s.

The new acquisition has been an established business in Key West for 42 years. Named Needle Point Designs. The recent owner Julie Pischke. Julie will remain as operator of the store. Ashley will oversee from her Boca Grande home.

The Scarpas are also in the restaurant business. Big time! Own 2 Italian restaurants in Florida. Lakeland and Boca Grande. Lakeland is called Scarpa Italian, Boca Grande Scarpa Coastal.

Both restaurants top shelf.

Glenn’s Dad was born in Italy. The family originates from the Salerno area. Cooking first began from his grandmother’s basement in her New York City home. Glenn and Ashley introduced the Italian cooking to Lakeland and Boca Grande.

Both restaurants retain some of the grandmother’s dishes from New York City.

Interesting, enjoyable people.

A great Antonia evening! What more can I say!

My diet problem not sufficiently corrected when I left Antonia’s. One meal fine. Needed some more “fats.” Stopped at Publix on the way home.

What a thrill. Just buying things I have not eaten in several months. Cheeses, cold cuts, rib eye steak, etc. I was like a kid in a candy store!

I hope I can handle the protein. Time will tell. I don’t want to get heavy again. Nor do I want another attack of pancreatitis.

Tonight, Tuesday Talk with Key West Lou. Another crazy week. I will have a lot to rant and rave about. Especially, Trump.

Join me at 9 for a quick moving and interesting half hour. Guaranteed you will enjoy. www.blog talkradio.com/key-west-lou.

Trump will be on the air tonight, also. TV and radio. He is speaking at a rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

The House Judiciary committee is scheduled to vote 2 articles of impeachment this morning.

Pennsylvania is critical in the 2020 election. Trump won the State by a small margin in 2016.

Have to give Trump credit! He will be charged with 2 articles of impeachment this morning and come out swinging tonight in Hershey. Guaranteed to be a wild man!

On this day in 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed formally ending the Spanish-American War. The U.S. acquired the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam as a result.

There is a significant Key West connection to the War. The Battleship Maine was initially docked in Key West when sent to Havana. The trial to determine the cause of the explosion was held in the Custom House in Key West. Many of the U.S. sailors killed in the explosion are buried in the Key West Cemetery.

The Key West Lighted Boat Parade saturday night beginning at 7. An outstanding event each year!

Boats small and large are decorated like the outside of people’s homes. Partying on each boat, of course.

The high today is 80. The weather will be on the warm side saturday night. A light jacket or sweater will be required on the boats.

I have done several Christmas Boat Parades. Not planning on it this year.

I recall one parade when it was sooooo cold! I had pajama bottoms, long pants, shirt, sweatshirt, a heavy winter jacket, gloves and a hat. I was still cold!

Harry Truman loved Key West and Key West loves Harry Truman.

Truman left Key West on this day in 1951 after a one month vacation. His last as President. However, he promised to return the following March when he was no longer President. He actually returned many times.

China is closely monitoring U.S. Air Force activity in the South China Sea.

What does Trump expect. He has defecated on China, embarrassed China, and caused them financial problems. Just as he is responsible for midwest farmers hurting economically and certain manufacturing businesses closing. All because Trump was going to show Xi who was the tougher guy.

I am concerned Trump is pushing too far. Asians are not accustomed to capitulating. It is a “face” thing. And they do not forget. They have memories like elephants.

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because Roosevelt imposed an embargo which deprived Japan of 90 percent of its oil supply. Is Trump doing any different with China? Only the product(s) sanctioned are different.

Two days ago, a Houston police sergeant was shot and killed. A young lady had called in to say her boyfriend was abusing her and he had 2 guns. One of the guns killed the sergeant.

Texas’ 2 U.S. Senators were saying to the Houston Police Chief how terrible it was, something should be done, etc. Senators Cruz and Cronyn. Condolences apparently were also received from Senator McConnell.

The Police Chief expressed himself in no uncertain terms when speaking to Cronyn. Following his comments.

“I’m burying a sergeant…..because they don’t want to piss off the NRA.”

“I don’t want to hear about how much they support law enforcement…..”

“Do something…..you’re either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts or you’re here for the NRA.”

“Whose side are you on? The gun lobby or children getting gunned down every day? Who are you coming to work for?”

Cronyn responded, “Unfortunately, legislation like this falls casualty to impeachment mania. The Chief, “Don’t tell me…..it’s all about impeachment. Because you brag every day, you and McConnell, about getting judges confirmed.”

Cornyn did not respond. The NRA has not commented.

Enjoy your day!

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Washington: Court records inform Total Foods customers helped detain a man accused of filming beneath the skirt of a 13-twelve months-outdated lady standing in a retailer checkout line. Citing D.C. Superior Court records, news outlets say Daniel Izquierdo, 25, was spotted standing “on the total close” to the girl in March. Files inform a conception seen Izquierdo perceived to be filming beneath the girl’s costume and commenced yelling, main customers to detain him until police arrived. Files inform he refused to let police peek any video on his cell phone. Police Chief Peter Newsham acknowledged at a news convention Tuesday that officers acquired search warrants and, with the FBI’s help, learned the upskirting video, alongside side movies of 34 diversified girls folk. Izquierdo was arrested Monday on voyeurism bills.

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Miami: A South Florida eco-gallop park is internet hosting a Chinese lantern competition for the comfort of the twelve months. A Jungle Island news originate says it’s opening Luminosa to the public this Saturday. The 18-acre park, positioned on an island between downtown Miami and Miami Seaside, has partnered with Zigong Lantern Group and China Lantern Global to style a nighttime jungle stuffed with big illuminated lanterns made of vivid silk by Chinese artisans. Luminosa capabilities lanterns formed into animals, vegetation and iconic Miami destinations. Larger than 1 million LED lights are used within the appeal. Luminosa will bolt from 5 to 10 p.m. each day until Jan. 8. Fashioned grownup admission is $35.

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Atlanta: A federal address on Tuesday hasty blocked Georgia’s restrictive original abortion law from taking make, following the lead of diversified judges who beget blocked the same measures in diversified states. The law signed in Can also by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp bans abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is show conceal, with some restricted exceptions. Cardiac exercise also will likely be detected by ultrasound as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, earlier than many girls folk designate they’re ready for, according to a appropriate field. The law had been scheduled to develop to be enforceable Jan. 1. Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights in June filed a constitutional field to the law on behalf of Georgia abortion suppliers and an advocacy crew.

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Honolulu: A park pattern mission has been delayed following the discovery of a doable artifact on the grounds. Mayor Kirk Caldwell halted the mission at Waimanalo Bay Seaside Park on Tuesday while officers stay up for added recordsdata from the Convey Historic Preservation Division and the Oahu Island Burial Council. The discovery of an artifact of historical cost could presumably per chance well extend a $1.43 million pattern at the Oahu park, commonly is called Sherwood Woodland. The deliberate development of a multipurpose self-discipline, 11-stall parking zone and playground has sparked demonstrations and a lawsuit to block the enchancment. Experts determined the article is “basalt of a lava dike.” The burial council is scheduled to discuss the article at its Oct. 9 meeting.

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Boise: Federal officers notion to spherical up almost the total wild horses in a south-central Idaho wild horse space so the inhabitants also will likely be brought down and maintained at about 50 horses. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management acknowledged Tuesday that it has authorized an environmental evaluation that capabilities the exercise of fertility administration on 25 female horses that can presumably per chance well also be launched aid into the wild. The agency estimates the inhabitants at the Saylor Creek Herd Management Space, about 15 miles south of Glenns Ferry, will be about 170 horses by summer season 2020. The agency says if the roundup occurs then, it expects to grab about 150 horses the exercise of a bait and water lure. Horses no longer returned to the wild would be ready for the agency’s adoption program. It’s no longer determined when the roundup could presumably per chance well happen.

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Chicago: Town will utilize $2.7 million to assign certain that extra residents are incorporated within the 2020 census. It’s an effort Mayor Lori Lightfoot says is driven in natty section by an effort to fight fright created by the Trump administration’s immigration raids. At a news convention Tuesday, Lightfoot launched what she says is the superb quantity of funding Chicago has ever dedicated to the census. She says despite a U.S. Supreme Court resolution to block the Trump administration’s push as a way to add a citizenship question to the census originate, instruct linger amongst immigrants and refugees that it is no longer stable to come aid ahead to be counted. Lightfoot moreover says a suitable census is obligatory because for every particular person no longer counted, town stands to lose $1,400 per particular person per twelve months.

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Indianapolis: The Indianapolis Zoo reached a deal final month with the proprietor of the weak GM stamping plant position to originate dozens of acres that will enable the zoo to assign better within the upcoming years. Ambrose Property Group donated 10 acres of land, and the Indianapolis Zoo sold one more 161/2 acres of situation from the weak GM plant position, according to a Wednesday news originate from the zoo. Later Wednesday, town despatched a letter to Ambrose threatening to exercise well-liked domain to make a decision ownership of the comfort of the enchancment position except Ambrose reaches a deal to promote to town. In a switch that insecure officers, Ambrose launched Friday that it plans to promote the position after better than a twelve months of preparations and an total bunch of thousands of bucks of infrastructure improvements made by town.

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Des Moines: The drawl will terminate its 2019 fiscal twelve months with a surplus of better than $289 million in its identical outdated fund, but Republican political leaders had been cautious about discussing the put the money could presumably per chance moreover very effectively be spent. Gov. Kim Reynolds says it’s a reflection of a shiny economy, alongside with in a assertion Monday that the drawl ought to be “mindful of the industrial headwinds in our agricultural economy and be ready for no subject the future could presumably per chance well preserve.” Farmers are facing a advanced twelve months with alternate disruptions consequently of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and insurance policies that beget injury corn and soybean markets, presumably chopping into drawl earnings tax income. The fiscal twelve months resulted in June, however the drawl posted its final budget figures at the terminate of September.

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Topeka: Gov. Laura Kelly is discounting Republican calls to rescind a policy requiring out-of-drawl on-line businesses to amass sales taxes on transactions in Kansas and remit the tax to the drawl. On Monday, Attorney Frequent Derek Schmidt issued a nonbinding notion that Kelly’s administration did no longer beget the suitable authority to impose the policy, which some consultants acknowledged is the nation’s most aggressive policy for accumulating drawl and native taxes on on-line sales. House and Senate GOP leaders then demanded Kelly descend the policy, which the Kansas Division of Earnings issued in August. The tax collections were scheduled to make a decision make Tuesday. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Kelly says the policy reflects existing drawl law and would promote tax fairness.

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Frankfort: Gov. Matt Bevin wants college students to celebrate a holiday Oct. 3 – and he isn’t talking about Imply Girls Day. This Thursday, Bevin wants kids to lift the Holy Scripture to class and decide section in “Bring Your Bible to College Day,” an annual match that encourages college students of all ages to make a decision the non secular text into the school room. “I'd aid you, please, don’t appropriate lift your Bible to college, but be taught your Bible. Bring it, allotment it with others. Whenever you beget an additional Bible, lift it and allotment it with any individual who doesn’t beget one, who presumably has by no manner be taught this e book,” Bevin acknowledged Tuesday in a video posted on social media. “Bring Your Bible to College Day” is backed by Variety out the Family, a nationwide Christian group that has many times come beneath fireplace.

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Shreveport: A planning committee in Caddo Parish has suggested atmosphere aside up to $500,000 to switch a Confederate monument. Files outlets say the Prolonged Vary Planning/Special Projects Committee of the Caddo Parish Commission made the resolution at a gathering Monday. The corpulent commission is expected to vote on the proposal in early December. The monument stands out of doorways the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport. Parish attorney Donna Frazier wrote to the United Daughters of the Confederacy in unhurried August asserting the crew had 90 days to make a decision the monument. In a assertion and letter launched Monday, the UDC acknowledged Frazier hadn’t replied to a Sept. 5 letter from attorney Arthur Carmondy asserting the 90-day observe is invalid. Frazier suggested the Shreveport Times she replied to the letter Monday.

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Portland: The University of Maine Machine says it’s going to duvet the corpulent designate of tuition and charges for better than 1,200 people of the drawl’s graduating excessive college classes next twelve months. The device made the announcement Wednesday as section of its “Maine Values You” outreach program. Machine Chancellor Dannel Malloy says the provide is proof the drawl’s public universities “can proudly provide Maine college students unmatched affordability” and access to elevated education. Machine spokesman Daniel Demeritt says college students will be chosen according to better than one metric and could presumably per chance well first must conform to for financial aid. The drawl coated 1,142 college students this twelve months. Demeritt says the coverage of tuition will be on hand at UMaine campuses across the drawl.

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Baltimore: Property records show conceal weak Mayor Catherine Pugh, who resigned in Can also, has sold her house for only half its assessed cost. The Baltimore Solar reports records show conceal she sold indubitably one of her two Ashburton homes for $75,000 to Boaz Replacement Strength and Technologies LLC in July. Property records listing the house’s assessed cost as $187,700. Pugh resigned in Can also beneath tension amid a flurry of investigations into whether she organized bulk sales of her self-published kids’s books to hide an total bunch of thousands of bucks in kickbacks. She’s quiet being investigated at the drawl and federal level. Pugh listed the house as her main address but lived at a diversified Ashburton house.

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Boston: A federal address has cleared Harvard University of discriminating against Asian American applicants in a ruling that was seen as a essential victory for supporters of affirmative action. In a closely watched lawsuit, a crew known as Students for Gorgeous Admissions accused the Ivy League college of deliberately – and illegally – maintaining down the need of Asian Individuals authorized in account for to eradicate a certain racial steadiness on campus. U.S. District Reflect Allison D. Burroughs, nonetheless, dominated that Harvard’s admissions route of is “no longer best possible” but passes constitutional muster. She acknowledged there could be “no proof of any racial animus in anyway” and no proof that any admission resolution was “negatively stricken by Asian American identity.”

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Detroit: Police are taking a judge into who demolished a house that a drawl lawmaker and her nonprofit crew were planning to rehab for a needy family. Detroit police Sgt. Nicole Kirkwood acknowledged Tuesday that the case is being investigated as malicious destruction of property. Mayor Mike Duggan’s put of enterprise acknowledged recordsdata shows the house on Minock in northwest Detroit was torn down on or around Sept. 20 but was no longer on a listing of properties slated for demolition and was no longer within the pipeline in preparation to be razed. Democratic Procure. Sherry Homosexual-Dagnogo has acknowledged the house was torn down without observe to her or her nonprofit crew, Coalition to Integrate Technology and Education. The property was purchased final twelve months for $1,000 from the Detroit Land Monetary institution Authority.

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Duluth: Some midwives are warning that the drawl’s unregulated midwifery practices pose a hazard to moms and babies as house births upward push. Minnesota Public Radio Files reports that the drawl in 2000 recorded two deliberate house births. In 2018, that number jumped to 721. Minnesota and Utah are the sole states that don’t require midwives to assign a license to lift babies. Licensed house birth midwives must assign their Certified Real Midwife credential from the drawl Board of Clinical Prepare. Tavniah Betts, an authorized midwife, says being licensed advantages families and midwives by providing access to submitting complaints. Tracey Lapointe, an unlicensed midwife and the president of the Minnesota Midwifery Guild, says requiring licensing would diminish the availability of midwives while question is rising.

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Jackson: The U.S. Justice Division says a sheriff fired an employee because he needed to be gone on protection force duty for prolonged classes. Coahoma County Sheriff Charles Jones says the employee was fired for “insubordination,” no longer for taking protection force plod away. The division filed a civil lawsuit Monday against Coahoma County. It says Jason M. Sims Jr. of Batesville is within the Navy Reserve and teaches management classes at Citadel Knox, Kentucky. The suit says Sims began working for the sheriff’s division in 2014 and suggested his bosses he would decide to make a decision protection force plod away. It says the sheriff’s put of enterprise “demonstrated hostility” to that in 2016, then fired him in 2018. Jones says he’s “100% confident” the firing was unrelated to Sims’ protection force provider.

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St. Louis: An inmate was finished Tuesday for killing a man in 1996 in a string of violence that incorporated a total lot of diversified crimes, despite issues that the prisoner’s rare clinical situation would place off a unpleasant deadly injection. Russell Bucklew was put to death at the drawl detention center in Bonne Terre. It was Missouri’s first execution since January 2017. Bucklew had twice previously been interior hours of execution, most effective to beget the U.S. Supreme Court grant final-minute reprieves over issues that he could presumably per chance well undergo all the way in which thru the execution route of. He had a situation known as cavernous hemangioma and had blood-stuffed tumors in his head, neck and throat. He breathed with reduction from a tracheostomy tube. His attorneys acknowledged a throat tumor could presumably per chance well burst, causing him to choke and die painfully and in violation of the constitutional guarantee against cruel and irregular punishment.

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Helena: A address is desirous relating to the U.S. government’s question to throw out a lawsuit by two girls folk who inform they were illegally questioned by border agents for 40 minutes for talking Spanish in a comfort retailer. U.S. District Reflect Brian Morris was scheduled to hear motions to push aside the lawsuit filed by Ana Suda and Martha “Mimi” Hernandez on Wednesday. They are saying U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent Paul O’Neill detained them in a parking zone in Havre final twelve months in violation of constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizures. They are asking Morris to block the agency from detaining anybody according to flee, accent or language alone and to award them an unspecified quantity for damages. Attorneys for the agency inform that it has sovereign immunity against injury claims and that the girls folk are unlikely to be stopped all another time.

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Bellevue: An Air Power colonel says he and diversified officers are paying close attention to resident complaints about residing conditions and repairs at off-atrocious, privatized housing for personnel at Offutt Air Power Grisly appropriate south of Omaha. Col. Gavin Marks, commander of the 55th Hover at Offutt, suggested residents Tuesday at a city hall meeting at a Bellevue college that he’s organize a original hotline to address complaints. The Omaha World-Herald reports native complaints about mold, shoddy development, boring repairs and avenue problems at the Rising Search neighborhood west of the atrocious echo these from diversified bases. At Offutt, inspectors learned 96 homes with what inspectors described as “effectively being and safety” violations, comparable to mold or lead paint. The leasing manager says the total violations had been rectified.

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Carson Metropolis: Convey policymakers beget launched plans to procure possible legislation that can presumably per chance conform to California in allowing drawl college athletes to assign money from endorsement offers. The Las Vegas Overview-Journal reports the Legislature does no longer meet all another time until February 2021, and Democratic drawl Sen. Yvanna Cancela says a formal proposal has no longer yet been created and is quiet within the analysis route of as she seems for “a proposal that fits Nevada.” Cancela says the California invoice is forcing diversified states to resolve out guidelines on how to compete with its recruitment practices. The Mountain West Conference didn’t reply to requests for commentary. A NCAA assertion says authorized guidelines from diversified states would no longer level the playing self-discipline.

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Harmony: Gov. Chris Sununu has made one more take for the drawl’s poet laureate, about a months after he deserted his final desire following rising criticism of the man’s work and the way in which he was chosen. Sununu deliberate to nominate Alexandria Peary, of Londonderry, to be the next poet laureate, at Wednesday’s Govt Council meeting. She’s written six books, alongside with “Adjust Bird Alt Delete.” Her most standard e book, “The Water Draft,” is to be published this month. Even though he by no manner formally nominated him, Sununu firstly chose Daniel Thomas Moran, a retired dentist and weak poet laureate of Suffolk County, Current York, whom some acknowledged wasn’t qualified. The surfacing of a sexually suggestive poem Moran wrote about weak Secretary of Convey Condoleezza Rice most effective intensified the criticism.

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Trenton: A federal address has agreed to block the drawl’s most standard political donor disclosure law according to a lawsuit brought by a judge tank founded by the Koch brothers. U.S. District Reflect Brian Martinotti granted the injunction Wednesday. Individuals for Prosperity challenged the original law, which required political organizations and some nonprofits to advise all spending over $3,000, up from $1,600. The law moreover mandated that contributors giving better than $10,000 would be disclosed. The crew acknowledged the law was unconstitutional on its face and could presumably per chance well extinguish organizations. The drawl argued the invoice was aimed at showing who was “pulling the strings” in politics. A spokesman for Attorney Frequent Gurbir Grewal acknowledged the drawl is reviewing the resolution.

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Albuquerque: A tiny lizard learned amongst the dunes straddling Current Mexico and West Texas in indubitably one of the crucial nation’s richest oil basins is at the heart of a appropriate complaint filed Tuesday. Environmentalists want the U.S. government as a way to add the dunes sagebrush lizard to the endangered species listing as section of a fight that stretches aid to the Bush and Obama administrations and could presumably per chance well have an effect on section of the multibillion-buck energy alternate within the Permian Basin. The Center for Natural Variety and Defenders of Wildlife filed the complaint in federal court docket in Washington. It follows a itemizing petition that the groups submitted in Can also 2018. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Carrier had 90 days to judge the petition and provoke a review of the species if vital, however the groups inform the agency failed to make a decision action.

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Woodstock: The Woodstock Film Competition this twelve months will feature an look by actor Matt Dillon. The 20-twelve months-outdated annual competition runs Wednesday thru Sunday within the Hudson Valley cities of Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Kingston, Saugerties and Rosendale. This twelve months the match will showcase better than 50 capabilities from across the realm, immediate motion photographs, panels and are residing performances. Films being proven this week encompass Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Memoir” and “Portrait of a Girl on Hearth,” which acquired superb screenplay at the Cannes Film Competition. Dillon is to make a decision section in a matter-and-resolution session Saturday.

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Mount Holly: A truck meeting firm has launched this can lay off 900 workers between two Freightliner vegetation within the drawl within the upcoming weeks. Daimler Trucks North America, the parent firm of Freightliner, confirmed Tuesday that about 450 workers would lose their jobs at the manufacturing plant in Mount Holly, and one more 450 would be laid off at Rowan County’s Cleveland plant by Oct. 14. Daimler acknowledged in a assertion the layoffs come because the truck market returns to identical outdated phases after a twelve months of legend sales. Mount Holly employee Robin Jenkins suggested the Gaston Gazette some workers are scared because they don’t judge they’ll be receiving severance, though diversified workers acknowledged they’re used to the “cyclical nature” of truck constructing.

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Bismarck: The proposed presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in western North Dakota now has a CEO. The board of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum voted Tuesday to appoint Edward F. O’Keefe to manual the group. Gov. Doug Burgum calls O’Keefe “the acceptable particular person” to make a decision the proposed library “to the next level.” O’Keefe is a North Dakota native who's writing a e book on Roosevelt, who spent better than three years within the drawl within the 1880s. Burgum has made the library a top precedence of his administration. Convey legislators in April authorized $50 million to operate the library, but that ought to be matched by $100 million in personal money. O’Keefe will join Burgum and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt alongside side Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer on a tour of Medora on Thursday.

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Nelsonville: The federal government says it acquired no bids all the way in which thru a aggressive rent sale for coal beneath about 430 acres of Wayne Nationwide Woodland. The Bureau of Land Management-Jap States launched the implications of ultimate week’s offering on Tuesday. Leases enthusiastic seven tracts in Perry and Morgan counties that have an estimated 1.4 million a kind of subsurface mineable federal coal. The sale came according to a rent application by CCU Coal and Construction, previously Westmoreland Coal Co., which already operates an adjoining privately owned underground coal mine. However the bureau acknowledged no one advise on the leases. Officials acknowledged the public will be notified if an additional question is ever made to give aggressive leases for the tracts.

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Oklahoma Metropolis: A address made a $107 million miscalculation when he ordered user merchandise big Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million to reduction perfect up the drawl’s opioid crisis, attorneys for the firm argue in a court docket submitting. The firm moreover is asking for a superb buy within the judgment according to pretrial settlements totaling $355 million that the drawl reached with Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma and Israeli-owned Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. The firm has separately appealed the court docket’s ruling to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, arguing that Cleveland County District Reflect Thad Balkman’s ruling was an unparalleled interpretation of the drawl’s public nuisance law. A spokesman for Attorney Frequent Mike Hunter declined to commentary on the submitting.

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Salem: Authorities suspect the extraordinary deaths and mutilations of 5 bulls were precipitated by humans, but they have not any leads. The deaths of the bulls buy mutilations of livestock across the West and Midwest within the 1970s that struck fright in rural areas. A weak FBI agent who headed an investigation acknowledged there was no indication that one thing diversified than traditional animal predators were boring the mutilations. Within the weeks for the reason that needless bulls were learned over a total lot of days in July, the Harney County Sheriff’s Situation of enterprise has acquired calls and emails with hypothesis about what, or who, could presumably per chance moreover very effectively be responsible. Colby Marshall, vp of the ranch that owned the bulls, says he suspects a cult is boring the killings. Ranch fingers had been suggested to gallop in pairs and to switch armed.

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Pottsville: Quickly on tap: a original brew featuring Yuengling’s almost 200-twelve months-outdated porter recipe and Hershey’s chocolate. The two Pennsylvania companies are teaming up on a restricted-edition beer known as Yuengling Hershey’s Chocolate Porter. The chocolate-infused brew will be on hand on tap starting in mid-October at bars, restaurants and diversified venues in 13 states. It’s the foremost collaboration for Pottsville-based Yuengling, America’s oldest working brewery. The firm says the beer can beget “effectively off chocolate notes” and recommends pairing it with barbecued and smoked meats, cheeses and cakes. The brew was in pattern for nearly a twelve months. Yuengling expects it to final until February.

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North Windfall: Town has constructed a public safety complex the exercise of its allotment from a settlement with Google. The Windfall Journal reports the $27 million, 58,000-sq.-foot constructing now houses the North Windfall police and fireplace departments. Rhode Island’s allotment of the 2012 settlement, about $230 million, is being dispensed to police departments, the attorney identical outdated’s put of enterprise and the Nationwide Guard. An investigation uncovered Google’s feature within the on-line sale of non-FDA-authorized prescription treatment. The complex recommendations a court docket, offices, dispatch center, training space, bunk rooms, crime laboratory, emergency operations center and cell block.

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Columbia: A weak member of the board that oversees drawl highways will utilize seven months in detention center for attempting to rent a prostitute appropriate hours after he acquired probation for admitting he tried to derail an FBI investigation by destroying proof. John Hardee, 72, was sentenced Wednesday after a psychiatrist hired by his attorney suggested a peaceful originate of dementia could presumably per chance well beget led him to text what became out to be an undercover deputy offering $40 for a intercourse act. Hardee moreover asked for mercy, asserting he has been with hideous criminals and heard sinful language used all the way in which thru his time in jail since his August arrest, according to media outlets. As he handed down the sentence, U.S. Reflect Terry Wooten suggested Hardee he hoped the weak legit learned his lesson this time and identified even with the dementia diagnosis, the psychiatrist quiet testified Hardee knew appropriate from injurious.

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Sioux Falls: A crew of truckers plans a “boring roll” express within the drawl Thursday. Organizer Jeremy Johnson says the demonstration of a line of semi-vans using at diminished plod will loop around Sioux Falls and proceed on to Pierre. He says the crew can beget a “boring roll” on Interstates 29, 229 and 90. The express is a native response to a trucker demonstration deliberate in Washington, D.C., to express federal legislation alongside with proposals to limit truck plod, assign better the minimal personal liability that truckers must lift, and mandate safety gear to preserve vehicles from sliding beneath vans. The line of vans will force about 50 mph interior Sioux Falls city limits and force about 60 mph out of doorways city limits.

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Nashville: The Tennessee Division of Agriculture says a disease that kills sassafras bushes has been detected in Dickson and Bernard Law 1st viscount montgomery of alamein counties. The division is advising residents to be searching for signs of laurel wilt disease. They encompass browning of leaves, leaf loss and staining within the internal bark. Folks who suspect their bushes could presumably per chance moreover very effectively be diseased must quiet contact the drawl Division of Forestry. Laurel wilt is a fungal disease transmitted by the wood-unimaginative redbay ambrosia beetle. It'll have an effect on a range of vegetation, alongside with sassafras and spicebush. Convey Forester David Arnold says in a news originate that sassafras and spicebush are crucial ecological species in Tennessee. He says the disease is “one more unpleasant example of an invasive pest impacting our forests.”

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Dallas: The U.S. government has awarded three contracts rate better than $812.6 million for development of about 65 miles of original border wall alongside the lower Rio Grande in South Texas. In a assertion issued Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Navy Corps of Engineers acknowledged the contracts were awarded Sunday to two contractors. The wall projects are to encompass metallic bollard partitions of 18 to 30 toes in peak, all-climate roads, lighting fixtures, safety cameras and diversified abilities in 19 separate segments in Starr, Hidalgo and Cameron counties. The assertion acknowledged the partitions will plod up, starting early next twelve months, the put none now exist but no longer in areas prohibited beneath the CBP’s 2019 appropriation. The sphere is the CBP’s busiest, accounting for about 40% of its immigrant apprehensions.

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Provo: Gov. Gary Herbert has rescinded an emergency drought account for nearly a twelve months after it went into make. The Day-to-day Herald reports that chronic rain and snowstorm this twelve months beget gradually put an terminate to statewide severe drought conditions. Nearly 99% of Utah was experiencing no longer lower than moderate drought final twelve months when the governor declared a drawl of emergency in October 2018. Herbert acknowledged it was affecting agribusiness, livestock production and flowers and fauna habitats. However with a change within the climate this twelve months, no space of the drawl has severe drought conditions, and the U.S. Drought Video show shows parts facing moderate drought beget dropped to 15%. Grand of that space is within the southern section of the drawl, which has had a barely aloof monsoon season.

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Barre: The drawl Company of Transportation has launched a original instrument that will reduction bus riders song the position of buses and their arrival times as effectively as search bus routes and prevents. The agency launched Tuesday that the Transit app, which is able to be downloaded to cellphones without cost, shows the actual-time bus region on any transit route working in Vermont. Barbara Donovan, the agency’s public transit program manager, says that “our riders deserve this predictability and exact-time recordsdata.” The agency says the app moreover has capabilities for commute planning, navigation, notifications for bus provider disruptions, and departure and extinguish reminders.

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West Level: A excessive college trainer who was fired for refusing to exercise a transgender student’s original pronouns has filed a lawsuit. The Washington Submit reports Peter Vlaming is suing West Level Public Colleges, out of doorways Richmond. Vlaming says his rights to discuss freely and exercise his religion were violated. The suit states that Vlaming “sincerely believes that relating to a female as a male by the exercise of an objectively male pronoun is telling a lie.” The French trainer was fired in December . He had suggested superiors at West Level High College that his religion kept away from him from the exercise of male pronouns for a student who had suggested the faculty of his transition all the way in which thru the summer season.

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Mount Vernon: Convey land officers beget authorized a land switch to reduction conservation groups give protection to recreation areas on Blanchard Mountain. The Skagit-Valley Herald reports that the drawl Board of Natural Sources granted the approval Tuesday for the 2.5-sq.-mile space is called the Blanchard Core, which comprises in style trails, campgrounds and lakes. Land officers inform the switch would be paid for with $10 million allocated by the Legislature in 2018 to develop to be a drawl pure space. The switch would be completed by striking sections of the Blanchard Core into the Frequent College Trust program, then paying this technique the $9.2 million cost of timber on that land. Officials inform the $626,000 cost of the land would be used to eradicate original forest lands every other put within the drawl.

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Morgantown: The U.S. Division of Strength has awarded $5 million to the Water Analysis Institute at West Virginia University for its rare earth restoration mission. The mission comprises constructing a facility at a original acid mine drainage treatment plant reach Mount Storm. Uncommon earth parts come from acid mine drainage sludge and are used to energy things comparable to smartphones and the U.S. missile steerage device. The institute will partner with the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection’s Situation of enterprise of Special Reclamation, Rockwell Automation and TenCate Corp. within the mission. About 15,000 a kind of rare earth parts are used once a year within the U.S., which imports almost all of them. A bench scale pilot plant was opened in 2018 on WVU’s campus to examine the feasibility of extraction and refining abilities.

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Madison: A particular person convicted of rape and homicide when he was a teen whose memoir was documented within the 2015 Netflix series “Making a Assassin” asked the governor for a pardon or commutation of his lifestyles detention center sentence Wednesday. The question from Brendan Dassey came as his advocates launched yet one more strive to free him, this time out of doorways the court docket device. His most standard charm was no longer conception about by the U.S. Supreme Court. Dassey’s potentialities of getting a pardon from Gov. Tony Evers seem far off. “I am writing to ask for a pardon because I am innocent and want to switch house,” Dassey acknowledged in a handwritten show conceal to Evers that accompanied his application. Dassey moreover listed things he enjoys, alongside with Pokemon and hamburgers, and drew a pair of hearts with the observe “hugs” in one and “treasure” within the diversified.

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Jackson: Convey flowers and fauna officers beget launched a detailed notion for review to scale aid elk and bison feeding days by 50%. Jackson Gap Files & Book reports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Carrier officially launched the draft “step-down” notion Monday. Wildlife officers inform the notion was supposed to lower elk numbers and assign the animals extra reliant on native vegetation, alongside with recommendations to wean the animals off alfalfa. Officials inform the notion tiny print feeding the elk later and ending the alfalfa handouts earlier to plan fewer elk to feedgrounds on the Nationwide Elk Refuge north of Jackson. Officials inform the notion isn't any longer open to being altered thru the most standard public review route of, but an accompanying environmental review is. Decrease-off date for feedback are consequently of the refuge by Oct. 30.

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Advance Review: ‘Hershey – Disease’ Is A Blistering And Brutal Final Act For Hershey

Well, we previewed this at Comicon a few weeks ago, but it’s one that I wanted to have a bit of a longer look at here. It’s well worth the time for a book that’s doing great things with a familiar character to all Dredd fans. It was a hell of a surprise to see this one come out when it did, seeing as John Wagner had already said his farewell to ex-Chief Judge Hershey in his Dredd: Guatemala…

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40 Years of Thrillpower - Judge Dredd’s Greatest Epics

Last month, of course, saw our beloved weekly Prog reach the big 40. Cue cliches about life beginning at 40, or how 40 is the new 28, or some other bullstomm, that makes middle-aged people feel better about growing old.

In the case of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic however, similar to the anti-ageing drugs that Dredd himself is occasionally required to take, the mighty mag is regularly infused with youthful talent, keeping it fresh and vital.

But we’re not here to discuss the present roster of top-rate talent, this is a brief history of Dredd’s most memorable multi-part adventures, or as we know them better - the mighty mega-epics! 

Dire, deadly threats to the future metropolis, Mega-City One, and its bizarre, vulnerable citizens, are an unsettlingly frequent occurrence. The only defence to these city-shattering challenges are the Judges, sworn to protect MC-1 and its inhabitants. One such lawman in particular takes this oath incredibly seriously, his name, of course, is Judge Dredd and he will do whatever it takes to ensure that his city remains the pre-eminent superpower of his post-nuclear world.

Unfortunately, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, or should that be heads.., Sadly, this sprawling megalopolis that once housed 800 million citizens, over the years has been decimated, and is presently a shadow of its former self. 

Recent tragic events aside, Mega-City One would have perished many years ago, several times over, if not for the iron will of Justice Department’s legendary lawman, Judge Joseph Dredd. Prepare for a tour-de-force of mega-epic proportions, strap in it’s gonna be a bumpy ride...!

The first multi-part storyline, Robot Wars (Progs 10-17, 30Apr-18Jun’77). John Wagner (w). Carlos Ezquerra, Mick McMahon & Ron Turner (a), deals with an idea, that has now become a science fiction staple: robotic servants rebelling against their human masters. In Mega-City One unemployment makes up over 85% of the human population, a robotic workforce deals with the menial tasks deemed beneath mankind. In reality, it’s a lot cheaper to use machines that don’t require payment, complain about workers’ rights or require time off! In other words; the perfect labour force.. Even robots, though, can apparently be pushed too hard. So when a messianic leader, a lowly carpentry droid (sound familiar?), known as Call-Me-Kenneth), malfunctions, overcoming his programming, he hacks the city’s broadcasting  outlets and urges his fellow robots to turn on their human owners, with the battle cry: “Death to the Fleshy Ones!” The machines rise up. Only one man can stop this crazed robot, but can even Dredd stop an army of messed-up mechanoids?!”

Possibly the most popular and fondly remembered of all of Dredd’s mega-epics, is timeless classic, The Cursed Earth (Progs 61-85, 22Apr-7Oct’78). Pat Mills takes a rare outing into the world of Judge Dredd, but produces a vintage Thrill-powered tour-de-force. On a mercy mission across the atomic wasteland that was once middle America, the future lawman reveals a more heroically humane side by bringing a life-saving serum from Mega-City One to its west coast counterpart, Mega-City Two, where the inhabitants are tearing each other apart due to the 2T (Fru-T) virus. Fighting all sorts of vicious desperadoes, back-stabbing townsfolk, mutant gangs, and even roaming dinosaurs...not to mention the myriad of mutated Cursed Earth fauna! Breathtaking art duties are shared between two Judge Dredd creative legends, Mick McMahon and Brian Bolland, although employing wildly differing styles, the pair are master storytellers even at this early stage of their careers. A must-read true classic.

The Day the Law Died - Having just saved Mega-City Two from certain doom, you’d think that Dredd would be given a hero’s welcome on his return to his own city, however not everyone is pleased to have the legendary lawman back at Justice Department. A certain ambitious senior Judge, head of the infamous Special Judicial Squad (SJS) - the Judges who judge the Judges - Judge Cal, through blackmail, coercion and ultimately murder has managed to seize the reins of power, in Dredd’s absence, and install himself as Chief-Judge. Cal, aware of Dredd’s influence and possible obstacle to his plans for absolute domination over Justice Department and the city, has been plotting the heroic lawman’s downfall.. The twisted despot successfully frames Dredd for murder. Fatigue and some convincing video footage has even Judge Dredd questioning his innocence. Put on the shuttle to the penal colony on Titan, reserved for Judges who break their own rigid laws, Dredd finally snaps out of the haze of confusion fogging his mind, and with almost superhuman strength breaks the cuffs he is wearing. Dredd overpowers the pilot and guards, and escapes from the downed craft, with the help of Judge Giant who also distrusts Cal and believes in his friend’s innocence. Meanwhile the crazed Cal has enlisted the help of an army of reptilian alien mercenaries known as the Kleggs, appointed his pet goldfish as Deputy Chief-Judge and humiliated, bullied or creatively executed anyone who dares to criticise his increasingly bizarre behaviour. But Dredd isn’t the kind of Judge who goes down easily, as Cal rightly feared, and together with a rag-tag rebel army made up of other Judges and citizens, including a gigantic, baseball bat-wielding simpleton, known as Fergee, ‘King of the Big Smelly’, prepares to fight back.Can Judge Dredd succeed against all odds and defeat Judge Cal before he destroys the entire population of Mega-City One? Find the answers in The Day the Law Died.. wth artwork from a plethora of top UK art talent: Brendan McCarthy, Brett Ewins, Brian  Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Garry Leach, Mick McMahon & Ron Smith.

When Judge Feyy, Mega-city One’s oldest pre-cog has a vision of the city being destroyed in 2120, Judge Dredd and a select group of other Judges (including future Chief-Judge Hershey), are sent on a mission to find a boy bearing a birthmark of the Justice Dept. eagle, thereafter referred to as the Judge Child. Apparently, young Owen Krysler may have the power to stop the apocalyptic event from ever happening. It is discovered that an insane 22nd century self-proclaimed pharaoh, Filmore Faro ‘the Garbage God’, has also learned of the child’s alleged psychic powers. In turn, an infamous Texas City badlands family, known as the Angel Gang, steal him away from Faro’s followers and swiftly spirit him off-planet.  With the fate of the ‘Big Meg’ in the balance, Dredd follows the boy’s trail through the irradiated wastelands of the Cursed Earth and venture out into the depths of uncharted space to find him!

Often the most critically acclaimed of the multi-part Dredd epics, The Apocalypse War stands out (and holds up) due to the sheer scope and genuine threat to the survival of Mega-City One, Justice Dept., and even Judge Dredd himself. Moreover, it sees the return of art droid, Carlos Ezquerra, to the strip that he co-created after five years away from his character, single-handedly drawing every panel of this 25 episode, 150 + page classic. Mega-City One has maintained an uneasy peace with it’s eastern European counterpart, East-Meg One, for years. However, the Sov-diktatorat, the ruling, military government of East-Meg One, led by the warmongering Supreme Judge Bulgarin, along with Judges Vlad and Snekov, break this detente by releasing the Block Mania virus on the citizens of the Big Meg. The effects of this contaminant, introduced into the city’s water supply by the Sov’s top agent, Orlok the assassin - a thorn-in-the-side of MC-1 and Dredd’s human nemesis time and again - turned citizen against citizen, driving people into a murderous rage, causing all-out wars between neighbouring citi-blocks. Weakened by this viral attack, East-Meg One press home their advantage by launching a devastating nuclear assault against Mega-City One.  After the missiles have flown, ground forces invade, led by ruthless War Marshall 'Mad Dog' Kazan. Supported by Strato V aircraft, Rad Sweeper tanks and killer robot Sentenoids, overwhelming numbers of Sov troops cause Dredd and the remaining survivors to engage in a desperate guerrilla war to maintain control of the streets. Kazan, mad with power, eliminates the diktatorat, and takes complete control of the Sov forces, setting up base in the captured Grand Hall of Justice. Chief-Judge Griffin is held prisoner, and becomes a victim of Sov psycho-surgery, transforming him into a propaganda tool - forcing Dredd to assassinate him. The lawman, apparently dead by his own hand, pulls off a dramatic escape, assisted by his loyal droid - Walter the Wobot.  Dredd hatches a plan to end the war once and for all, leading a small hand-picked team on a virtual suicide mission. Against all the odds, the squad successfully infiltrate a Sov missile silo and a steely, battle-hardened Dredd, having witnessed 150 million of his citizens die at the hand's of the Sov-Blokkers, destroys East-Meg One along with its population of half a billion people by launching their own nukes at them. Dredd ends the conflict by publicly executing Kazan, and a deflated, dispirited Sov army agrees to unconditional surrender, with remaining survivors fleeing to East-Meg Two. A brutal story, with a massive toll on the population of the ‘Big Meg’, virtually cutting the population from it’s initial 800 million, in half to a more manageable 400 million, and the utter annihilation of another, showing a ruthless, win-at-all-costs side to the heroic lawman, effectively making him the biggest mass murderer in history. One which could come back to haunt him in the decades to come...

The next major mega-epic, Oz (Progs 545-70, 24Oct’88-16Apr’89) focuses on an infamous citizen; serial offender, Marlon Shakespeare aka Chopper, wall-scrawling graffiti artist-turned-illegal World Powerboard Champion, aka the ‘Midnight Surfer’, is a hero to many of the city’s disenfranchised youth. Unfortunately, he is currently serving 18 years in an Iso-cube, for his reckless-but-death defying aerial exploits, in Supersurf 7, that made him the greatest sky surfer of his generation. However, a new, cocky, powerboard protégé, Jug McKenzie, a beer-swilling loudmouth from the Sydney-Melbourne Conurb in Oz, is boasting of his prowess on a ‘board, claiming that Chopper is deliberately avoiding attending the now-legalised Supersurf 10, despite being barely 3 years into his 18 stretch in the most secure detention facilities in the world! The resulting backlash from fans of the ‘Midnight Surfer’ in MC-1 caused a demand for his release to attend the forthcoming world championship on the other side of the planet. Of course, Justice Department were having none of it. But the burgeoning outcry from an outraged populace to silence the mouthy McKenzie and restore the pride of Mega-City One, caused the Judges to move Chopper to an even more secure unit. Somehow, the citizens get wind of this extreme resolution, and when Shakespeare is led from one Iso-cube, carrying his property, including the World Championship-winning powerboard, to a new location, a crowd had formed leading to an unruly mob clamouring for a glance at the high profile prisoner, and perhaps, even a chance to spirit their hero away. In the intervening chaos the ever-expanding horde of highly-charged onlookers burst through the hastily erected Justice Dept. cordons, jostling Chopper’s judicial escorts causing the keys to the prisoner’s cuffs to be dropped. Seizing his opportunity, Shakespeare unlocks his restraints and leaps onto his board, zooming off into the Mega-City skyline. Hiding amidst the towering citi-blocks, avoiding the intense glare of searchlights from Justice Dept. hover-wagons, Chopper makes his way cautiously to his childhood friend, and fellow powerboarder, Flip Tillis’ apartment window. Flip had inherited Chopper’s spare suit, power cells and other paraphernalia associated with their chosen pastime, after Mrs. Shakespeare couldn’t bear to keep them once her son was sent to the isolation cubes for many years. Flip also supplies Chopper with food, whilst informing his friend of the huge clamouring of public support for the Mega-City skysurfing ace to take part in the upcoming Supersurf 10, though it would be held thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean in Oz. The ambitious Shakespeare, ever rebellious with a yearning to be free of MC-1′s harsh laws, has a dawning realisation: give himself up to the authorities and go back to the Iso-cubes - probably for decades, after his daring escape - or make a near-suicidal dash for freedom, cross the Pacific Ocean on a powerboard, win Supersurf 10, in Oz and, most importantly for Chopper, prove that he is the best in the world and, unlike his parents, along with most of MC-1, he is somebody! Meanwhile, as angry as Dredd appears that Chopper got away, it conveniently coincides with a series of attacks on Justice Dept.’s top brass. Mysterious, strange-looking, physically superior assassins, garbed in a twisted version of a Judge’s uniform, have been teleporting straight into the Grand Hall of Justice and targeting important senior Judges. Justice Dept. set up a trap, putting a huge security detail on any vital, veteran Judges, including Dredd himself. They succeed in capturing two of these ruthless killing machines, and killed a third. After interrogating one, who immediately commits suicide by crushing a lethal vial hidden in his tooth, they reverse the controls on the attackers’ teleporters and make the return journey back to a hidden base in the middle of Ayers Rock in Oz. Whilst there, Judge Dredd discovers a hidden race of Judges, cloned and controlled by a former, founding Judge, Morton Judd. Judd was a brilliant, but radical, senior Judge whose cloning programme kick-started the success of Justice Department. The problem was that he wanted to clone the citizens of MC-1, from Justice Dept. material, ensuring a law-abiding, controllable populace. Fortunately, the ‘father of justice’, first Chief-Judge Eustace Fargo vetoes this somewhat sinister solution to crime and public order. A furious Morton Judd storms from the room, but later returns to the Grand Hall, using Judges loyal to him, and attempts to assassinate Fargo. The coup fails, but before he can be captured, Judd flees the city, ending up in Oz, founding a base in Ayers Rock, from which he could build an army of Super-Judges without detection. So, armed with this knowledge, using the cover story that he is there to extradite the fugitive Marlon Shakespeare aka Chopper, should he make the unlikely journey across the Pacific Ocean, Judge Dredd heads to Oz. Fighting muties, giant birdmen, dodging random gunfire and the odd Justice Dept. H-wagon, Chopper has made it across the Cursed Earth to the Pacific Ocean. He looks across the endless horizon and is faced with the sheer enormity of what he has set himself to achieve - crossing the largest body of water on the planet, thousands of miles of hostile conditions, and unknown horrors lurking beneath the waves, on nothing more than a flying plank! After an incredibly eventful journey of stunning wildlife encounters, adverse weather conditions and murderous robotic ship’s cooks, Chopper eventually makes the perilous voyage, barely standing on his board, to a hero’s welcome in Oz. Of course, there is one person who isn’t giving the intrepid skysurfer such a triumphant reception: Judge Dredd.. Immediately, the Mega-City lawman attempts to take Marlon into custody. However in a country where low-level powerboarding is not a crime, and has hosted the last three Supersurf World Championships, the Oz judiciary refuses to cooperate with MC-1, denying any extradition orders, threatening to arrest Judge Dredd himself if he uses any force to bring his fugitive back to Mega-City. A disgruntled Dredd turns his attention back to his primary mission: to capture Morton Judd, destroy his base in Ayers Rock and possibly turn his army of cloned Judges into assets for MC-1′s Justice Dept. Dredd succeeds in destroying the base, but Judd is killed and the brainwashed Judda are too far gone psychologically to be of any use to the Mega-City Judges. Supersurf 10 goes ahead meanwhile, and in a death-defying demonstration of powerboarding mastery, between the ‘Wizard of Oz’, Jug McKenzie, and ‘Midnight Surfer’, Marlon Shakespeare aka Chopper, a nail-biting race for the line ensues. Sadly, for all Mega-City One proud Chopper supporters, the Ozzer, McKenzie pips the ‘Midnight Surfer’ to the post. Fickle fans of the MC-1 man, quickly forget his impossible Pacific Ocean crossing, and no longer want anything to do with the heroic ‘loser’. A begrudgingly respectful Judge Dredd is at the finish line, determined to bring his fugitive to justice, despite Chopper’s fantastic feats, and has a clear shot at his quarry, as Shakespeare turns his back on his nemesis. In an increasingly rare moment for the cynical aging Judge, Dredd hesitates. The previously boastful Jug McKenzie, too, has a newfound respect for his rival surfer, and, ‘accidentally’, flies into Dredd throwing off his aim, as Chopper disappears into the Oz outback, and freedom! An unimpressed Oz Justice Dept. take Dredd into custody, and he leaves the continent empty handed. Back in MC-1 however, there is one of the Judda still alive in custody. Taken from the genetic material of former Chief-Judge Fargo, Judge Kraken, as he is named, is basically a younger version of the aging Judge Dredd. Assigned to Dredd, as his Rookie, Kraken’s future rests in the hands of his older counterpart. Although an outstanding specimen, crackshot, and takes to the streets of the ‘Big Meg’ very quickly, Dredd spots something in this flawed ex-Judda. Others in Justice Dept. disagree, including current Chief-Judge Silver, and overrule the veteran lawman, forcing Dredd to resign and take the ‘Long Walk’ out into the Cursed Earth, but that’s another story... 

Which brings us neatly into our next mega-epic, the terrifying nightmare which would lead to Necropolis (Progs 672-99, 31Mar-6Oct’90)  After Dredd left, Chief-Judge Silver faked Kraken's death, and kept Dredd's resignation secret from the public, to instil Kraken as a replacement for Dredd, regardless of his failed assessment by the departed Dredd. Kraken was easily manipulated by the Sisters of Death, who had attacked and left Dredd for dead in the Cursed Earth in The Dead Man saga, to bring about the Dark Judges; Judge Death, Mortis, Fire and Fear. They would go on to wreak havoc in Mega City One, creating their own Necropolis, with life the ultimate crime. Kraken was also made a Dark Judge for the duration of their reign. Dredd, who had regained his memory, although visibly scarred, returned from the Cursed Earth along with ex-Chief Judge McGruder, as he sensed that something was wrong with the city he had served so loyally. The Dark Judges had soon taken control of the remaining Judges, who were now executing citizens, that were often committing suicide or succumbing to disease or starvation.  Dredd and McGruder met with a group of cadets who were in hiding from the Dark Judges, along with Psi-Judge Anderson, and a plan of action was formed. Firstly, Dredd killed fellow Judge Kit Agee, who had been used as a psychic bridge for the Dark Judges to return. This caused the remaining judges to return to normal, free of the Sisters of Death's control.  With the Judges now together and able to form a unit, they began to capture the Dark Judges. All but Death himself were captured, who had flung himself from a city block down into the city bottom, and vanished among the sixty million dead from the Dark Judges' tenure. Judge Kraken, now free of Death's control, accepted his execution at the hands of Dredd. Among the chaos of the Dark Judges' reign, Chief-Judge Silver was killed and then reanimated as a zombie.

Judgement Day (Progs 786-99, 6Jun-5Sep’92) & (Megs 2.04-09, 13Jun-22Aug’92). This multi-part adventure was significant for a number of reasons. Firstly, this was only the second mega-epic not written by Judge Dredd creator, John Wagner (the other was early classic The Cursed Earth by Pat Mills), scripted instead by future comics superstar, Garth Ennis. Ennis himself, admits that it wasn’t his best writing, citing his closeness and childhood affinity to the strip and character as reasons for his below par storytelling Secondly, this was the first ever crossover event, sharing story arcs with recently-released sister comic, the Judge Dredd Megazine (of which Wagner & Alan Grant had been editing, as well as writing, to ensure its success), essentially meaning regular readers had to buy both comics to keep up with the storyline. Set mainly in 2114 it tells of how the Fourth World War took the lives of three billion people when a powerful necromagus called Sabbat raised all the corpses in the world as zombies. It also killed off most of the supporting cast of Judge Dredd. On top of this. it was the first story to feature Johnny Alpha since he was killed off at the end of the Strontium Dog series (from Alpha's point of view it was set two years before his death). The pair had encountered each once before, leaving Dredd initially distrustful of the future bounty hunter who had transgressed one of Justice Dept.’s minefield of strict laws, and escaped unpunished. Alpha & Dredd resolve their issues, and assemble an elite squad of world Judges to bring the fight to the all-powerful dark sorcerer, Sabbat. Using hi-tec Hondo City combat suits, capable of HALO jumping, whilst protecting the wearer from all-manner of threat, including zombie attack, of course. Many Judges are killed off in their frontal assault, including another former adversary of the mega-city lawman, Hondo’s Judge-Inspector Sadu.  Alpha and Dredd are also captured, but eventually turn the tables, with their usual mixture of cunning, wile and extreme violence! The lodestone, a massive-crystalline object Sabbat was using to tap into the Earth’s leylines, harnessing the power of the planet, finally became his headstone when Dredd decapitates the planetary overlord, skewering his head onto the crystal’s sharpened point. Although Ennis is critical of this mega-epic, read in one volume, Judgement Day is still a drokking good adventure story. it didn’t quite work, mainly because it was split over the two publications (it’s very rare to have Megazine crossovers these days). Artwork is a slight issue, too, as multiple art droids were drafted in to lighten the load of main artists, Carlos Ezquerra and Peter Doherty, including Chris Halls (aka Chris Cunningham, creator of disturbing Aphex Twin videos) and Dean Ormston. Judge Dredd is a notoriously difficult character to pin down, and other than the legendary Pat Mills who played up Dredd’s heroic side, as opposed to Wagner’s grim-faced stickler for the law, it is only the recent crop of Dredd script droids who understand the relationship between the legendary lawman, and the crazy city he loves, laying down his life over and over, again to ensure its survival; let’s be honest life in the ‘Big Meg’ is rarely boring! Ennis, whilst commendably showing us a view of the larger picture of Dredd’s world outside of MC-1, he takes away the main protagonist, the future megalopolis itself. The most memorable scene from this mega-epic, now an iconic image from co-creator, Carlos Ezquerra, comes in the full-page final scene, showing a bruised and bloody Judge Dredd and Johnny Alpha striding side-by-side; Alpha reminds Dredd that they have a long walk through the most dangerous, inhospitable place on the planet, the Cursed Earth. Dredd simply replies: “Who the hell’s gonna mess with us?”! Classic 2000AD! Great fun, with a massive worldwide death toll, Judgement Day is an enjoyable read, showcasing the talents of a young comics writer, who would go on to write some of the best comic books in recent memory.

Origins - The ambitious, epic history of Justice Dept. and the reign of the Judges. A box is delivered to Chief-Judge Hershey, who informs Dredd that it contains a ransom note and a sample of living tissue which matches the DNA of Judge Eustace Fargo, the first Chief-Judge and the revered founder of the Judge System. (Forensic tests establish that toxins in the tissue show that the source lived through the last century, and so the sample must be Fargo's rather than Dredd's.) The note requires payment of a billion credits in exchange for Fargo's body. As required by the terms of the exchange, Dredd leads a small, lightly armed party on a mission across the hostile Cursed Earth to retrieve their esteemed "Father of Justice". Since Fargo was believed to have died in the year 2051, and the mission takes place in 2129, much of the story consists of Dredd explaining to the members of his team how it is that Fargo could still be alive – a secret history which was concealed from the public for decades. The middle chapters of Origins cover Fargo's life history, and how he founded the Judge System in 2031. After serving twenty years as Chief-Judge, however, Fargo succumbed to a moment of weakness and had an illicit affair with a female colleague, something strictly forbidden by the Judges' code of celibacy. Unable to cope with his own lapse in the exacting moral standards he had inflexibly demanded of his subordinates, Fargo tendered his resignation to the President of the United States. Spurning the entreaties of his two deputies, Judge Solomon and Judge Goodman, and of President Pierce, to reconsider his decision and resume his office, Fargo instead chose to commit suicide. However his attempt to take his own life failed, leaving him with significant brain-damage and without the use of his legs.Fearing that their political enemies would use the scandalous circumstances of Fargo's resignation and injuries to destroy Fargo's legacy, Solomon and Goodman covered them up. Using sophisticated video technology, they faked footage of Fargo bravely sacrificing his life in the line of duty, gunned down in a brutal drive-by shooting. This enabled them to present Fargo as a martyr, increasing public support for the Judges. This deception had been conceived while Fargo's doctors had predicted that he would not long survive. However Fargo defied their expectations and began to slowly recover. He was therefore kept in a secret medical facility, isolated from the world so that the cover-up would not be discovered. When his condition began to deteriorate again, Chief-Judge Solomon had him cryogenically frozen in suspended animation until such time as medical science could cure him.By 2070 President Robert Linus Booth was in the White House, having illegally rigged the voting computers to win the 2068 presidential election, and murdered one of his aides who threatened to expose the fraud. Booth pursued an aggressive foreign policy, openly stating that he would begin a nuclear war if the rest of the world did not comply with his demands. The Judges – now led by Chief-Judge Goodman – attempted to dissuade him, but to no avail, and the Third World War laid waste to most of the world. Booth had believed that his new "nuclear screens" would protect America from retaliation, but only Mega-City One on the east coast, Mega-City Two on the west coast, and Texas City survived. The rest of America was virtually annihilated, creating the Cursed Earth which became populated by mutants and outlaws. Consequently another of Booth's aides turned against him and provided Goodman with evidence of Booth's earlier crimes. Goodman made the evidence public, and public opinion turned against Booth. A demonstration outside the White House became a massacre when troops opened fire on the crowd. But the evidence of election fraud was not conclusive, and impeachment proceedings against Booth were too slow for Goodman to protect his position, for Booth had discovered that Fargo was alive and had been revived from suspended animation. Booth sent troops to arrest Fargo, intending to expose the myth of his death and thereby destroy the Judges' reputation for integrity. Joe and Rico Dredd, cadets at the time, managed to rescue Fargo from capture. However Goodman realised that urgent action was needed to defeat Booth, and the constitutional mechanism for trying him and removing him from office could not be completed in time. On Fargo's advice, Goodman deposed Booth, suspended Congress, and usurped the government of the United States. For his crimes Booth was sentenced to 100 years in suspended animation, to let posterity decide his ultimate fate. Goodman became dictator of the United States (which soon split into three sovereign city-states), with Fargo – his existence still a secret – advising him from behind the scenes.However Fargo soon deteriorated again. He also became demoralised, having intended that the overthrow of democratic government should be temporary, and regretting his own part in establishing a lasting dictatorship. Shortly after surviving an assassination attempt by renegade Judge Morton Judd, Fargo was returned to suspended animation once more. However only one month later Fargo's body was stolen by Judd's agents. When Judd was eventually brought to justice and Fargo's body was still not recovered, it was thought lost forever. Thirty years later Booth's cryogenic machinery failed, and he was inadvertently revived. Judge Dredd resentenced him to life working on a farm in the Cursed Earth, to make amends for the destruction he unleashed on America. (This was first portrayed in the The Cursed Earth.) Instead, however, Booth raised an army of mutants, the "New Mutant Army," who he intended to use to overthrow the Judges and become president again. By 2129 he had discovered Fargo's stolen cryogenic unit, which had been lost in the Cursed Earth when Judd's agents' hovership crashed. When Dredd attempted to exchange the ransom for Fargo, Booth double-crossed him and put him on trial for treason, intending to execute him. However Dredd had anticipated this and planned a timely rescue by his comrades. Taken hostage for use as a human shield, Booth was killed by his own side during the ensuing battle.Back in Mega-City One, Fargo was revived again, but this time he did not survive. His final words were spoken to Dredd alone: "We created a monster ... we're the monster!" He told Dredd that the Judges had gone too far and had destroyed America, and urged Dredd to do everything he could to undo it. Dredd's reaction to this plea was not shown, but when Chief-Judge Hershey asked him what Fargo's last words had been, Dredd lied and pretended that Fargo had said something else less controversial. It was speculated at the time that this theme may be followed up in later stories. This speculation was soon proved correct. Origins was indeed expounded upon in a series of stories, starting with "Mutants in Mega-City One", written by John Wagner. In the first episode Dredd admitted to Hershey that he had lied about Fargo's last words. Hershey in turn admitted that Fargo had said the same thing to her, and that she had told the same lie to Dredd! However, whereas Dredd took Fargo's warning seriously, Hershey dismissed it as the ravings of a brain-damaged invalid, adding that she hoped Dredd would not consider resigning over their differences.This story also featured the return of some of the mutant Fargo Clan (who were first seen, briefly, in Origins) – mutant descendants of Fargo, and therefore Dredd's relatives. In this story, Dredd put forward a motion to repeal the anti-mutant laws, beginning a new story arc about mutants.

Tour of Duty - This far-reaching mega-epic will possibly be Dredd’s toughest test to date. Full of intrigue, betrayal and ultimately murder, primarily within the hallowed corridors of power inside Justice Department itself, who can the city’s greatest lawman truly trust? Dredd’s softening on the ‘mutant issue’, largely in part because of his own mutated genetic heritage, causes him to review the harsh laws on mutant’s rights. Dredd’s new stance to repeal the anti-mutant laws, has not gone down well with the citizens, and this is reflected with many of his colleagues in the department, earning him powerful enemies. With only the backing of Chief-Judge Hershey (and precious few others) Dredd knows that other factions within the Grand Hall are vehemently opposed to his proposed legislature, and feel the time is right for a regime change. Enter Judge Dan Francisco, star of his own hit reality TV show, The Streets of Dan Francisco. Having Mega-City One’s top-rated vid show means that he is a familiar face to the citizens, with a massive fan base. Behind the scenes lurks the ambitious desk jockey, Judge Martin Sinfield. Recently promoted from Head of Traffic Division, to re-organise Administration, the shrewd Sinfield notices Hershey’s dramatic fall in popularity. Together with fellow senior Judges, Cardew and Millan, Sinfield just needs a credible figurehead to lead a campaign to remove Hershey from office in a recall election. Heroic street Judge and TV star, Dan Francisco, is the perfect patsy - a good Judge with a high profile, and massive public approval rating. After an on-screen assassination attempt, with Francisco barely surviving, the popular candidate wins the election hands down. With new Chief-Judge Francisco still in critical condition, Sinfield is made Deputy-Chief. However, he easily establishes himself as the real power behind the throne. His first act, realising the necessity to remove any opposition in his rise to power, was to send Judges Dredd and Hershey to oversee the construction of the newly-built work farms out in the Cursed Earth. Having sidelined Judge Dredd into managing the Cursed Earth mutant camps, the manipulative Judge Sinfield’s plan to take over Mega-City One starts to unfold. With the newly appointed Chief-Judge Dan Francisco being too ill to carry out his duties, Sinfield’s inexorable rise seems to go without a hitch; that is until he unknowingly clashes with the wrong man - notorious serial killer PJ Maybe.  Maybe, bored with life of luxury in the corrupt Central American mega-city of Ciudad Barranquilla, concocts an elaborate scheme to install himself as Mayor of Mega-City One, and it turns out he was pretty damn good at it! With his life in danger, Sinfield can only turn to one man for help - Judge Dredd! Mega-City One’s toughest lawman returns to his streets determined to bring Sinfield down and a killer to justice! This hugely significant story arc, is a riveting read, with plot twists galore and a fantastic pay-off. It also reprises Dredd and Alpha’s monumental Cursed Earth crossing, with Joe’s younger clone,  Rico Dredd replacing the mutant bounty hunter - worth the cover price for that iconic final page alone!

There are a few multi-part storylines we’ve missed out, including, City of the Damned, The Pit & the more recent seismic shock of Day of Chaos, but the featured classic mega-epics cover most of the disaster-prone history of Mega-City One. If you haven’t already, do yourself a favour and read them. And even if you have, heck- read ‘em again!