Random News and Notes 9 August

We kick off todays edition of RNN in Beantown. Suffolk county MA sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested in Florida for extorting the owner of a national weed retailer. Allegedly.

The good sheriff wanted money from his vic so the retailer could operate in Boston, which is part of Suffolk county. Allegedly.

Roll that beautiful bean footage. . .

I reeaaalllyyyy need to get my calendar reminder app set up. I missed another important anniversary yesterday. The 8th of August marked the three year anniversary of the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

That event is one of the top 5 things that led to Trump’s historic re-election.

There was an ‘active shooter’ incident in Atlanta yesterday. Initial reports were confused, some saying it was on the campus of Emory university. It was not on campus. Instead it was the CDC building and a nearby CVS that was in the line of fire.  DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was shot and killed while responding to the incident.

The shooter has been identified, but we will not give him the publicity. There has been no word on motive.

A peace deal was announced in the White House yesterday. The historic agreement ends the 35 year long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed the deal in the State Dining room.

The key point of the agreement was a deal to grant a 99 year lease of lands in a stretch of Armenian territory between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave. That is the kind of thing that only Trump could pull off; peace and a business deal all wrapped up into one.

A Georgia angler caught a potential IGFA line-class record grass carp. Paden Reese of Adairsville, Georgia caught the 61.4 pounds 46.4-inch monster in 55-acre Paris Lake, located on the campus of Georgia Highlands college near the town of Rome.

Reese brought the fish to Georgia’s Region One headquarters in the nearby town of Armuchee where office staff weighed and measured the fish.