News You May Have Missed! Beautiful Scotland Pics/Twilight Movie Actor Dead, IRS pays Dead People/Deathbed Confession

It's another blog about news you may have missed over the past week. This is filled with interesting stuff including great photos around Scotland this week, a TWILIGHT actor who died, firing someone for investigating them (sounds like retaliation), Country with a HUGE drug problem that you didn't know about,   the IRS pays dead people, and a Deathbed Confession. Read on, and enjoy the photos from BBC 

1) NOT EVERYONE WHO GETS A STIMULUS CHECK CAN SPEND IT. IRS SENDS PAYMENTS TO THE DEAD. When Judy Eitneier received a $1,200 check from the Internal Revenue Service last month made out to her mother, she was puzzled.

BENJI EYTON-JONES

Image captionSpectacular silhou-pet: Twelve-year-old Benji Eyton-Jones took this shot of his dad Rob and their dog Juno (a two-year-old fox red lab) on the Braid Hills, Edinburgh.

Gregory Tyree Boyce

2) DO YOU REMEMBER THIS GUY IN TWILIGHT? - “TWILIGHT” ACTOR GREGORY TYREE BOYCE HAS DIED AT AGE 30. The actor and his girlfriend, Natalie Adepoju, 27, were found dead in a Las Vegas condo on May 13, the Las Vegas Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to ET and E! News, which first reported the death. He was incredible chef and was chasing his passion and starting a chicken wing business, West Wings. Boyce is survived by his 10-year-old daughter, Alaya. The cause of death has not yet been disclosed.
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gregory-tyree-boyce-death_n_5ec31ec4c5b6b973546ff05e?ncid=newsltushpmgnews

BBC Scotland Pic: Borders patrol: Hume Castle in majestic-looking surroundings, from Brian Turnbull.

STUNNING PHOTOS FROM SCOTLAND THIS WEEK
BBC News picked a selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 May and 15 May
  More here: - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-52600743

4) FIRED WATCHDOG WAS PROBING SAUDI ARMS SALE The State Department inspector general fired by Trump was reportedly investigating why Pompeo fast-tracked more than $8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia and its allies and whether Pompeo made a staffer run personal errands for him. Steve Linick was reportedly probing the arms deal because of lawmakers’ frustration that it was carried out without normal congressional oversight.

 Scotland BBC News  pic - by RONA STEWART

Image captionThe Skye's the limit: "I asked my sister Mara to jump to make it look like she was blowing away", says Rona Stewart in Skye. "But it was a windy day anyway and she got a bit carried away!"

5) WOW- THIS COUNTRY HAS A DRUG PROBLEM- POLICE IN MYANMAR HAVE SEIZED SOUTH EAST ASIA'S BIGGEST EVER HAUL OF SYNTHETIC DRUGS, THE SCALE OF WHICH THEY DESCRIBED AS "OFF THE CHARTS". More than 200m methamphetamine tablets, 500kg of crystal methamphetamine and 300kg of heroin were found in raids in north-east Shan state.Thirty-three people were arrested in the operations, which were carried out between February and April.Myanmar is thought to be the largest global source of methamphetamines.

6) JANE ROE'S DEATHBED CONFESSION: ANTI-ABORTION TURN WAS A PAID SHAM Norma McCorvey, the woman whose fight for abortion rights manifested in Roe v. Wade, makes a shocking admission in an upcoming documentary about her late-in-life conversion into an anti-abortion crusader. In the “deathbed confession,” McCorvey, who died in 2017, revealed to the makers of the FX documentary “AKA Jane Roe” that leaders of the evangelical religious movement paid her to switch sides on the issue. The moment reportedly occurs in the final minutes of the film, which airs Friday