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  • Becca Tilley Says She Didn’t Love Chris Soules, Didn’t Get Picked

    In the finale of The Bachelor, Chris Soules picked Whitney Bischoff over Becca Tilley. However, Tilley admits that she’s perfectly fine with Soules’ decision. “I knew going into the day that I wasn’t going to be able to say what Chris needed to hear for him to choose me,” Tilley says. “I was preparing myself the night before for what was going to happen.” It’s the most drama-free break-up in The Bachelor history. According to Tilley, she can’t just lie and tell Soules that she loved him. She did admit that she could’ve fallen for the farmer from Iowa if she had more time to know him better.

    “I haven’t been in love before,” Tilley told Us Weekly. “I don’t have anything to compare it to, but I knew in my gut that it wasn’t right and that it wasn’t there yet. I think that’s where my head was at the end, that if I had more time I could get there, but I didn’t know that.”

    And since Tilley likes to get to know the guys she is dating first before starting a serious relationship, it seems we won’t be seeing her in The Bachelor spinoff show, Bachelor in Paradise. Tilley seems to be as old-fashioned as they come when it comes to relationships, which is why some people are wondering why she signed up for The Bachelor in the first place.

    Tilley explained her decision in an Instagram post.

    I’ve had the question asked: ‘why did you go on this show?’….Why not? I had the time of my life. Met some amazing girls who will be in my life forever and met an amazing guy who showed me that there are good guys out there- the kind who are patient and genuine.

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    While Tilley didn’t find love in the show, it’s good to see that it was still a rewarding experience for her.

  • Drone Farmer Arrest Results in 3-Year Sentence

    A North Dakota man has become the first American sentenced to jail time due, in part, to the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (a.k.a. “drone” or UAV).

    The story goes back to 2011, when half a dozen wayward cows wandered onto the property of Rodney Brossart. When asked to return the cattle, he refused and a SWAT team out of Grand Forks, ND, was dispatched to arrest him. But Brossart wouldn’t have it. He and his three sons grabbed guns and hunkered down on the farm, keeping the SWAT team at bay for 16 hours. The authorities had to call in a favor from Homeland Security, which loaned the local police a Predator drone that enabled them to gather information on the Brossarts’ position and eventually subdue them.

    While Brossart was exonerated of the original allegations of cattle theft, he was eventually charged with terroristic threatening of police. He contested the charges on the grounds that use of the drone constituted a warrantless search of his property. Brossart attorney Bruce Quick claimed that the drone was “dispatched without judicial approval or a warrant” and that the further tasing of Brossart in the course of the arrest constituted “guerrilla-like police tactics.” A federal district court disagreed with the drone argument, citing that the UAV had no direct bearing on the charges that Brossart had terrorized police.

    The federal government has owned up to using drones regularly for border patrol and drug enforcement purposes. Even so, a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that opposes drone use for domestic criminal investigations, released a report earlier this month that revealed that the federal government has used the vehicles hundreds of times more than what has gone on the official record. Brossart’s case was the first in which a UAV has been used for municipal law enforcement.

    Brossart was sentenced to three years with only six months of the sentence suspended. His sons were each convicted of misdemeanor charges and sentenced to a year of probation.

    Now we turn to the real question: how did four farmers hold off an entire SWAT team for 16 hours?

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  • Cesar Chavez: Civil Rights Leader Celebrated Today

    Cesar Chavez, the famed civil rights and labor leader who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (now called United Farm Workers), is being honored this week all across the country. Schools and public offices in several states were closed today in recognition of Chavez and his activism for laborers everywhere.

    There is also an annual Cesar Chavez March For Justice in San Antonio, which takes place on Saturday and will, for the first time, begin on a street named after the activist.

    The name change caused quite a stir when the San Antonio Conservation Society sued the city over it, claiming it infringed on their mission to preserve certain historic elements of the city.

    Chavez’s son, Paul F. Chavez, will act as grand marshall in the march; he’s currently president of the Cesar Chavez Foundation, which provides affordable housing in the Southwest. When asked what his father’s legacy means to him, he replied, “That the lessons learned in the rural parts of the country apply to people of all walks of life. He went and rallied and got people to believe they were important, that the poorest among us could take on and beat the most powerful industry in California. My father’s work transcends the farm workers’ movement.”

    People are encouraged to celebrate his day by volunteering and learning about his work.

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