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Civil War-era cannonball found in backyard of Virginia home: 'Could still be a live ordnance'

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A mysterious bit of history was unearthed in the backyard of a Virginia home recently — which led to a call to bomb technicians.

While working on a home’s curb appeal, a landscaper discovered something that resembled a rock. He had been digging a hole for a shrub next to the home, as Perry Weller, deputy chief of community risk and reduction with the City of Staunton Fire and Rescue, told Fox News Digital.

The home’s real estate agent then called in the professionals once he realized what it was: a cannonball.

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Weller and his team arrived on the scene and quickly identified the object.

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“We knew it was some sort of projectile, like a cannonball,” the deputy chief noted.

A Civil War-era cannonball was discovered in the yard of a Virginia home by a landscaper who was digging a hole near the residence. (Perry Weller)

The cannonball was still found in the ground when Weller showed up — and he encouraged those who found it not to handle the item until it had been carefully assessed.

Due to the location of the discovery and the history of Staunton, Virginia, Weller and his team believe the cannonball dates back to the Civil War-era.

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“Once we determine an item is a potential ordnance, we do not handle it more than necessary,” he added.

Weller called in the Virginia State Police Bomb Technicians for support because the projectile still had the possibility of being active or live.

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Due to the history of Staunton and the city’s location, Weller said he and his team were able to date the cannonball back to Civil War times. (iStock)

This is not the first time the deputy chief has come across a stray cannonball on a Virginia property.

In the past six years, this is his second Civil War-era projectile encounter, he said.

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When assessing these sorts of objects, one must be careful not to move the projectile, no matter how old it might be, he suggested.

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For anyone who comes in contact with an odd or unknown object buried in the ground, it is best to contact emergency services for assistance in identifying and removing the item. (Perry Weller; iStock)

“Leave them where they discover them. Even though the item could be hundreds of years old, it could still be an active or live ordnance. Call the police department or fire department immediately,” Weller said.

“Remember, not all cannon projectiles were round. If someone discovers something odd [that’s] buried in the ground, it’s best to contact emergency services to evaluate it.”

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Lara Trump, Kevin Sorbo tout traditional values in new children's books at Florida story hours

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Lara Trump and Kevin Sorbo have joined the Herculean effort to offer lessons to kids in traditional values amid a current culture that appears to reject them. 

Each celebrity is the author of a new children’s title published by Brave Books of Texas. 

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Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee and daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, is the author of “The Never-Give-Up Pup.”

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The book offers lessons in determination and the American Dream. She is scheduled to bring the book to Elisabeth Lahti Library in Indiantown, Florida on Friday, May 17.

Sorbo rose to fame as the musclebound Greek god in 1990s television series “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.”

Lara Trump is the author of “The Never-Give-Up Pup,” published by Brave Books. It teaches children the values of hard work and the American Dream. (Brave Books)

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He flexes his muscles on behalf of male role models in his new book, “The Bear Essentials of Fatherhood.”

The actor and producer is sharing tales from his title on Saturday at Northeast Dade-Aventura Library in Aventura, Florida.

“I’m spreading a message of masculinity and the importance of fatherhood in our culture to local families who love God and America,” Sorbo said via email to Fox News Digital. 

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His effort comes, he said, “while men are dressing in women’s clothing and reading inappropriate books to kids.”

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Both books and story hours arrive from publisher Brave Books. 

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Kirk Cameron, Christian actor, producer and children’s book author, leads the Pledge of Allegiance at a library story hour in August 2023 in Taylor, Texas.  (Courtesy Kirk Cameron/Brave Books)

The company has been at the forefront of the culture wars since it was founded in 2021 to team with “people of moral integrity and influence to write a new children’s book every month that teaches different traditional biblical and American values,” the company said.

Christian actor, author and producer Kirk Cameron has been its most notable writer and messenger.

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He and the publisher have alleged that public schools and libraries have been hostile to traditional values even as they allow events and story hours for children with sexualized and inappropriate content.

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“Now is the perfect moment to teach our next generations the value and joy of working hard toward our goals.”

“We obtained reports of the government-funded American Library Association circulating guidance to sabotage conservative (and Christian) parent groups from gathering in libraries on Aug. 5, 2023,” Cameron and Brave Books told Fox News Digital last year.

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Cameron, the former teen-idol star of TV sitcom “Growing Pains,” believes that Lara Trump and Kevin Sorbo represent a rebirth of faith and freedom in the United States.

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Actor and producer Kevin Sorbo is the author of “The Bear Essentials of Fatherhood,” a new children’s title from publisher Brave Books that promotes the values of dads and masculinity. It’s his second book with the publisher. (Brave Books)

“False systems eventually fail,” Cameron said in a statement this week to Fox News Digital. 

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“And I can already feel the rumblings of spiritual revival happening in libraries, schools, churches and homes all across this nation.” 

For her part, Lara Trump hopes the movement is a harbinger of victory for father-in-law, Donald Trump. 

The 45th president is attempting to unseat President Joe Biden in November and regain the White House.

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“It will take the hard work and perseverance of every patriot to ensure victory this November,” Trump told Fox News Digital.

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Kevin Sorbo and Lara Trump are the authors of values-oriented new children’s books, both published by Brave Books. “The Bears Essentials of Fatherhood” by Sorbo touts masculinity and the importance of dads; “The Never-Give-Up Pup” by Trump offers lessons in determination. (Brave Books)

“Now is the perfect moment to teach our next generations the value and joy of working hard toward our goals,” she said.

Anyone can learn more about the many “pro-God, pro-America” publications by Brave Books by visiting its website.

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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett's cause of death revealed as coroner releases official findings

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Charleston, South Carolina, investigators have released their findings in the death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, who was found dead in his truck in March after he failed to show up for his second day of depositions in a lawsuit against the aerospace manufacturer.

After Barnett failed to arrive for the proceedings, his lawyers called for a wellness check, and he was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the parking lot of his hotel, according to authorities.

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He had a pistol in his right hand, and investigators later confirmed gunshot residue on his hand. They found a single shell casing in the truck and a suicide note on his passenger seat.

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“All findings were consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the report from Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal reads.

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His official cause of death is the gunshot wound. The manner “is best deemed, ‘Suicide.’” the coroner concluded.

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Additionally, police said he was locked inside his vehicle alone when they found him, along with the key fob. They found no signs of unusual travel patterns or communications in his phone records, and hotel surveillance video showed him leaving the hotel by himself before he reversed into a parking spot a few minutes later. 

No one came or went from the vehicle until the grim discovery the following morning.

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Police said records showed Barnett bought the handgun legally in 2000, and they found his fingerprints on the notebook containing his suicide letter.

He was suing Boeing, claiming that he had been retaliated against, harassed and spied on by the company.

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Signage outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, on Feb. 5. (David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

One of Barnett’s lawyers, Robert Turkewitz, previously told Fox News that he didn’t think the aerospace giant had played a role in his client’s death. However, he added that “it just didn’t make sense” that he would kill himself.

Barnett’s legal team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the coroner’s findings.

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Barnett worked for Boeing for over three decades before retiring in 2017 as a quality-control engineer. In 2019, he told the BBC that Boeing would rush to get its 787 Dreamliner jets off the production line, compromising safety.  

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Boeing 787 Dreamliners are built at the aviation company’s North Charleston, South Carolina, assembly plant on May 30, 2023. (Juliette Michel/AFP via Getty Images)

In January, Barnett told TMZ that he was concerned that Boeing was returning its 737 Max 9 jets to the sky too quickly, after an incident in which an Alaska Airlines jet’s door panel blew off mid-flight.

Unrelated to Barnett’s lawsuit, Boeing’s CEO Dave Calhoun announced he would be resigning by the end of the year amid the company’s ongoing struggles.

This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.

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Alito says wife displayed upside-down flag after argument with insulting neighbor

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday spoke to Fox News about the upside-down American flag seen flying outside his home in the days following the Jan. 6 Capitol protests, saying his wife displayed it in response to insults directed at her from a neighbor. 

Alito weighed in after The New York Times first reported on the story Thursday, in which it said the upside-down flag — a symbol adopted by some Trump supporters disputing the results of the 2020 presidential election — appeared outside Alito’s home in Alexandria, Virginia, on Jan. 17, 2021. 

Alito said the saga in his neighborhood began in the days around Jan. 6, 2021, when a neighbor living down the street put up a sign that read “F— Trump” about 50 feet away from a children’s bus stop. 

He said his wife, Martha-Ann, then spoke with those neighbors about the sign and the conversation was not well received. 

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Associate Justice Samuel Alito joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a group portrait in October 2022. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Alito told Fox News those neighbors then put up a sign directly attacking his wife and personally blaming her for the events that transpired on Jan. 6 at the nation’s capital. 

He said that during a walk in the neighborhood with his wife, one person who lived at the property with the signage then got into an argument with her — at one point calling her derogatory language “including the C-word.” 

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife Martha-Ann attend a ceremonial swearing-in at the East Room of the White House in February 2006. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Following that incident, Alito said Martha-Ann was distraught and decided to make some sort of statement by hanging the American flag upside down outside their home. 

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Alito told Fox News he had no role in the flag decision, and it was flying outside their property only “for a short time.” 

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Justice Samuel Alito delivers a commencement speech at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio on Saturday. (Franciscan University of Steubenville)

 

He added that he felt he had no right or ability to control or order around his wife and that some neighbors on his street have been “very political.” 

The story surrounding the flag outside Alito’s home comes as the Supreme Court is deciding on former President Trump’s immunity case. 

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