memeorandum: AirAsia plane loses contact with traffic control in Indonesia (CNN)

12:10 AM ET, December 28, 2014

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Warner Todd Huston / BREITBART.COM:

Bill De Blasio 2 Hours Late to Wake for Slain Officer Rafael Ramos — On Friday evening, thousands of New Yorkers attended a memorial service for Rafael Ramos, one of the two NYPD officers assassinated a week ago by an Eric Garner protester. The service brought mourners from every corner of the city.

Discussion: New York Post, TPNN, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, NPR and New York Magazine

Associated Press:

Police outside cop funeral turn backs on NY mayor — Associated Press 16 mins ago — NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of officers outside the church where a funeral was held for a policeman killed along with his partner in an ambush shooting turned their backs on the mayor as he spoke during Saturday's service.

Discussion: Gothamist, CANNONFIRE, Balloon Juice, Scared Monkeys, The Mahablog, The Other McCain, Slantpoint and Gawker

New York Post:

Cops turn backs on de Blasio at executed officer's funeral — Law enforcement officers turn their backs on a video monitor as Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during the funeral of slain NYPD officer Rafael Ramos. — As Mayor Bill de Blasio took the podium Saturday at the funeral of P.O. Rafael Ramos …

Discussion: Washington Post, Ed Driscoll and Twitchy

ABC News:

Hundreds Turn Their Back on de Blasio at NYPD Officer's Funeral — Hundreds of police officers turned their backs on a screen showing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke at the funeral of one of two officers killed last week in what has been called an “assassination.”

Discussion: Moe Lane, Raw Story and The Daily Caller

Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:

Hundreds Of NYPD Officers Turn Backs To Bill DeBlasio At Officer's Funeral — Protesting at a funeral? What's next, the New York version of Hillsboro Baptist Church? — You remember that time that Mayor de Blasio asked the protesters standing for Eric Garner and Mike Brown to stand …

Discussion: New York's PIX11 and CBS New York

Mireya Navarro / New York Times:
Mourners From All Corners of New York City Pay Tribute to a Slain Officer

Discussion: BREITBART.COM, Gothamist, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, New York Magazine, NPR, Washington Post, USA Today, Hot Air, DNAinfo New York and CBS New York

CNN:

AirAsia plane loses contact with traffic control in Indonesia — From Jethro Mullen and Larry Register, CNN — (CNN) — The search is on for AirAsia Flight 8501, which lost contact with air traffic control in Indonesia, the airline said Sunday. — Flight QZ 8501 from the Indonesian city …

Discussion: Reuters, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit

Facebook:

[News Update] AIRASIA INDONESIA FLIGHT QZ8501 — AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24hrs this morning. — At the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status …

Discussion: Guardian, BuzzFeed, TPNN, fox13now.com, Mashable, WTVR-TV, New York's PIX11, Slantpoint and FOX6Now.com

Tim Wu / New Yorker:

Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer — This fall, JetBlue airline finally threw in the towel. For years, the company was among the last holdouts in the face of an industry trend toward smaller seats, higher fees, and other forms of unpleasantness. JetBlue distinguished itself by providing decent …

Discussion: View from the Wing, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Outside the Beltway

Christine Byers / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Protester who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT — One of the most frequently quoted and photographed Ferguson protesters was charged Saturday with setting fire to a Berkeley convenience store last week. — St. Louis County police arrested Joshua Williams, 19 …

Discussion: CBS St. Louis, The Daily Caller, TPNN, Scared Monkeys, FOX2now.com and ABC News

KRGV-TV:

Son Shoots Father — The incident started when a father gave his son a Christmas present — BAYVIEW - — A dad is recovering after police said he was shot in the eye by his son. It happened after another son attacked his dad because of a Christmas gift.

Discussion: Liberaland and Raw Story

Jon Palmer / Boston Globe:

Plymouth School Department Payroll Mistake Affects More Than 1,300 Employees — Instead of receiving their paychecks on Friday, Plymouth Public Schools employees who receive their salary via direct deposit found that the amount they were supposed to have been paid had been withdrawn from their bank accounts.

Discussion: Fox News Insider and Associated Press

BBC:

Al-Shabab militant Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi ‘surrenders’ — A top al-Shabab militant, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, has given himself up, Somali officials say. — Mr Hersi, a leading figure in the militant group's intelligence wing, surrendered to police in the Gedo region, they add.

Discussion: Associated Press, CNN, BuzzFeed, The Long War Journal and Hinterland Gazette