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SAGUACHE COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Seven people with suspected ties to the “Love Has Won” cult are facing charges after the body of the religious group’s leader was found at a home in Colorado. Amy Carlson, 45, who was known as “Mother God” by her followers, was found dead in a home in the small, rural town of Moffat on Wednesday, April 28, according to arrest affidavits for the suspects, who are each charged with abuse of a corpse. The remains were found in a back bedroom lying on a bed wrapped in what appeared to be a sleeping bag. What appeared to be glitter-type makeup was found around the woman’s eyes. The body was decorated with Christmas tree lights and “appeared to be set up in some type of shrine,” the warrant said. A follower told investigators he knew the woman as Lia Carlson, and a Saguache County sheriff’s corporal wrote in the affidavits that Carlson is believed to be the group’s leader. It’s unclear why the follower provided the name Lia. A spokesperson said the...

Last fall, parents at the posh $55,000-per-year Dalton School got wind of their first-graders being taught sex-education lessons that included masturbation. They complained to school administrators, but were told they had simply “misinterpreted” what Dalton’s now-notorious “health and wellness” educator Justine Ang Fonte — who last month led a controversial and explicit “porn literacy” workshop at another elite prep school — was teaching. But after The Post’s exposé last week on the porn class, Dalton parents “bombarded” the school with more complaints about Fonte’s curriculum, sources told The Post. The Post viewed video of a cartoon Fonte used in one of her sex-ed classes for 6-year-olds showing little kids talking about “touching themselves” for pleasure. “Hey, how come sometimes my gets big sometimes and points in the air?” asks the little boy in the cartoon, leading to an explanation of what an “erection” is. The boy nods and says, “Sometimes I touch my ...

A Belgian military intelligence officer told VICE World News Jurgen Conings had been demoted over apparent far-right ties, but still had access to an armoury from which he stole firearms and anti-tank rockets. Belgian police and special forces, backed by armoured vehicles, are hunting for a rogue soldier with ties to violent right-wing groups for a third day. Jurgen Conings, 46, disappeared earlier this week after making a series of social media threats related to COVID restrictions. A former military shooting instructor, Conings stole body armour, an automatic weapon, and at least two anti-tank rockets before disappearing. The search currently centres around a national park in northern Belgium close to the border with the Netherlands. Members of the public have been urged not to approach Conings but to report any sightings to police immediately. Conings had been a top marksmanship instructor for the Belgian military before revelations about his ties to extremist groups came to...

They had a real beef. An Ohio woman has been arrested after using a 10-pound log of ground beef to assault another woman with a protective order against her. Maneka Garner, 25, has been charged with assault and violation of temporary protection after beating Precious Jackson, 36, with the prepackaged meat, according to the South Euclid Police Department’s incident report obtained by The Smoking Gun Thursday. The incident occurred Tuesday in the potato chip aisle of a Walmart in South Euclid, about 15 miles east of Cleveland. Jackson, according to the document, told authorities she and her daughter, 7, “were assaulted” by Garner. Garner told authorities “she thought the protection order was no longer in effect,” according to the document, which noted she had been arrested for violating the order and hitting Garner “a couple of times in the face with a ten pound log of prepackaged ground beef.” The beef was listed as a “blunt object” in the “weapons used” section of the...

Update 9:00pm ET: The US government declared a state of emergency late on Sunday, lifting limits on the transport of fuels by road in a bid to keep gas supply lines open as fears of shortages spiked after the continued shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline. “This Declaration addresses the emergency conditions creating a need for immediate transportation of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other refined petroleum products and provides necessary relief,” the Department of Transportation said. White House Press Sec Jen Psaki added that "as the Administration works to mitigate potential disruptions to supply as a result of the Colonial Pipeline incident, @USDOT is taking action today to allow flexibility for truckers in 17 states." The move lifted limits on the transport of fuels by road to ease the fallout from the continuing closure of the Colonial pipeline, which carries almost half the fuel consumed on the US East Coast, following a ransomware cyber attack on Friday. The decision...