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WPTV | Relatives of a mentally ill West Boca Raton man are upset. They say their cousin, who suffers from a paranoia disorder, was taken advantage of. They claim he handed over the deed of his house to his neighbors for $10.
The Newspaper.com | After a year of use, red light cameras have failed to deliver the promised safety benefits in Baytown, Texas. The Houston suburb activated the majority of its cameras on July 13, 2008. Since then, the number of accidents at eight camera locations has increased 40 percent, con...
Wake Up From Your Slumber | This is disturbing. A Yale University center that purports to study anti-Semitism is holding a three-day conference on "the crisis" of global anti-Semitism (ending tomorrow) that is dedicated to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.
FOX | Don Adams speaks clearly and concisely when describing the events of November 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was killed, and he doesn’t waiver from his position that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
Al Jazeera | Michael Enright, who slashed Ahmed Sharif with a folding knife, was detained by police on Tuesday night on charges including attempted murder as a hate crime. Sharif, who has been a Yellow Cab driver for 15 years, told police that when he answered "yes" to Enright's...
Gothamist | Earlier this year, Officer Adrian Schoolcraft of Brooklyn's 81st Precinct made headlines when he accused commanding officers of massively under-reporting crime statsEarlier this year, Officer Adrian Schoolcraft of Brooklyn's 81st Precinct made headlines when he accused commanding of...
KTLA | Los Angeles Police Department officials came across the family's white van around 5:45 a.m. Friday, which came back as a stolen vehicle.
Indy Star | One victim's family called the dismissal a "travesty." A legal expert said the police ineptness leaves the public with little choice but to wonder whether the bungled case was more than an accident. And Mayor Greg Ballard has become increasingly frustrated as he seeks answers, as wel...
WFAE | Attorney General Roy Cooper ordered the review in March, not long after the state's Innocence Inquiry Commission ruled that Wake County resident Greg Taylor did not commit a murder for which he served 17 years in prison.
KDVR | What started as a walk to the park with his dogs ended with a trip to the hospital for a Denver dog owner. 32-year-old Mark Ashford says he was beaten black and blue by two Denver Police officers.
Rolling Stone | The essence of this deal is that Bennet arranged for the Denver school system to raise $750 million for its pension fund using an exotic transaction that involved interest rate swaps. Had the schools raised money using traditional fixed-rate bond issues, the debt would have feat...
Denver 7 ABC | Denver's Office of the Independent Monitor and Denver Police are clashing over whether officers should be fired in the apparent beating of two men in Lodo -- an incident captured on police video. The video was obtained by CALL7 Investigators.
Washington Spectator | Marvin P. Bush, the youngest brother of George W. Bush and a director of Stratesec, was reelected annually to his directorship there, near the Saudi Arabian Airlines offices. In 2002, the companies moved their shareholders meetings to the Watergate's Suite 500, held by the...
Bloomberg | Simmons started Houston-based Simmons & Co. in May 1974 with a focus on the oil-services industry, according to the company’s website. The firm expanded to offer research, institutional sales and investment banking in the energy industry.
Associated Press | A plane carrying nine people — including former Sen. Ted Stevens and former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe — crashed in southwest Alaska, killing five people on board, authorities said Tuesday.
Reason | Some guy's friend gets killed by a drunk driver and he decides to do something about it. He starts a service to keep drunks off the road by offering free rides home. It turns out that Quincy, Illinois, is well stocked with semi-responsible drunks, so "business" booms.
The guest for this episode of the show is Congressional Candidate Rob McNealy. He is the Libertarian candidate for the 6th Congressional district of Colorado encompassing much of southern part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area, including the cities of Littleton, Centennial and porti...
If you haven't read it yet, one of Martin Luther King's friends and the King Family attorney, William Pepper, wrote the incredible book "Act of State." In the book, William Pepper establishes, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the FBI, the Memphis Police, the Secret Service and some other...
FOX Phoenix | On the day parts of Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070, went into effect, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in the news for another reason: there's a price on his head - allegedly offered by a Mexican drug cartel.
KTLA | A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months was sentenced to life in prison Friday after changing her plea to guilty in the middle of her trial.
Women's Rights | If a high school student goes to administrators to report that she and another teenage girl were raped by a boy at the school, you might think that the immediate course of action would be to keep the survivors safe while investigating the allegations.
NPR | The report said the U.S. has a serious problem with human trafficking — a practice they call the equivalent of modern-day slavery, including commercial sex exploitation and forced labor — as a source country, and as a destination for victims.
eWorldWire | Wilburn was represented at the appellate level by Angelucci. NCFM is a nonprofit organization that addresses how sex discrimination affects men and boys and that helped change California law in 2005 to help protect men from false paternity claims.
Chron | A Houston man expected to be freed Thursday after being imprisoned 27 years for a rape he did not commit had to wait at least one more day after shouting from a holding cell and threatening bailiffs and jailers.
Global Post | The United States consumes more oil than any other country in the world: 18.7 million barrels of oil per day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) short-term energy outlook.
Icky People | There are many fascinating pieces of U.S. history that have been forgotten. One such moment in history happened 78 years ago today. On July 28, 1932, the United States Army attacked and killed U.S. World War I veterans in Washington, D.C.
Alternet | Raised in Montana and a resident of Alaska for 18 years, Robin Rae Brown, 48, always made time to explore in the wilderness. On March 20, 2009, she parked her pickup truck outside Weston, Florida, and hiked off the beaten path along a remote canal and into the woods to bird watch and ...
Haaretz | In the Sunday interview, Stone reportedly said U.S. public opinion was focused on the Holocaust as a result of the "Jewish domination of the media," adding that an upcoming film of him aims to put Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin "in context."
BBC | Former Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan has pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge for helping put juvenile defendants behind bars in exchange for bribes.
Associated Press | Residents in this modest blue-collar Los Angeles suburb where one in six lives in poverty were angry: Their city manager was getting paid more than President Barack Obama and the police chief more than the commander of the nearly 13,000-member LAPD.
National Geographic | Formally called Moorehead Circle but nicknamed "Woodhenge" by non-archaeologists, the site was once a leafless forest of wooden posts. Laid out in a peculiar pattern of concentric, but incomplete, rings, the site is about 200 feet (57 meters) wide.
FOX 6 Now | Ava Hernandez got a disturbing voicemail message from the Assistant Principal of Shorewood High School in March. Her 15-year-old brother Adam has been taken into police custody. She says, "It was because his friend had shared a lunch with him and he was accused of stealing was re...
ABC | Those already outraged by the president's health care legislation now have a new bone of contention -- a scarcely noticed tack-on provision to the law that puts gold coin buyers and sellers under closer government scrutiny.
Science Magazine | A new analysis suggests that by 2050 climate change will raise the risk of water shortages in one-third of U.S. counties. The report was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which is calling for Congress to pass climate legislation to re...
From the Department of Justice Website: "On February 15, 1933, Guiseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate Franklin Delano Roosevelt while the then President-elect was giving a speech in Miami, Florida. The United States Secret Service was r...
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WTOP | Richards was a Marine reservist and sheriff's detective in 2003 and 2004 when he allegedly helped leak Marine intelligence information from Camp Pendleton to an anti-terrorism task force he helped organize. He was later recalled to active Marine duty and was awaiting a military hearing.
Fostors | Volunteers and staff at the Dover Public Library spent 30 hours in May collecting more than 5,000 bookmarks secretly placed inside books at the library sometime before May. The bookmarks contained information about the beliefs of two organizations, the School Sucks Project and F...
Video | The officers backed down and called for additional resources," said OPD Lt. David Elzey.
Officers searched the building after the shooting stopped but they did not find the shooter or any weapons.
ABC | That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indisputable. He raced his Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph, popping a wheelie, roaring past cars and swerving across traffic lanes.
Forensic Colleges | Escalating violence has been a legitimate concern in US border cities as the war on drugs, smuggling, and organized crimes grows increasingly more dangerous and threatens the lives of US citizens across the US-Mexico border.
Video | Police brutality when meanwhile she had called .What the hell is going on with the police these days.It looks like we are turning into a police state. A couple of sicko's with badges thats about it!
Jews United Against Zionism | Masses of Anti Zionist Orthodox Jews demonstrate outside the White House in protest against the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is directly involved with the decision to desecrate the ce...
Chicago Sun-Times | Being in a street gang is now forbidden for members of the U.S. armed forces. But you might not guess that if you were to visit U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to soldiers who have recently served there.
People Press | An overwhelming proportion of Americans are familiar with Twitter, the online information-sharing network. Perhaps more surprisingly, a large majority also knows that children who are born to illegal immigrants in the United States are automatically U.S. citizens.
Alternet | Too-big-to-fail is a much bigger problem than you thought. We’ve all read damning accounts of the government saving banks from their risky subprime bets, but it turns out that the Wall Street privilege problem is far more deeply ingrained in the U.S. legal system than the simple bailo...
ABC | Those four officers and two others are accused of gunning down citizens and trying to cover it up. Five other former police officers have already pleaded guilty to helping cover up the killings , bringing the total to 11 charged so far.
NBC Philadelphia | Officers Robert Snyder, Mark Williams and James Venziale allegedly used their positions in the police department to steal and then resell 300 grams of heroin from known drug dealer Miguel Santiago, says U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger.
Gazette Online | A billboard ordered and paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party shows President Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, left and Vladimir Lenin, on South Federal Avenue in Mason City, Iowa, July 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Globe Gazette, Deb Nicklay)
WXYZ | He’s on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in back child support. But he says the boy is not his son—and has the DNA test to prove it. So why might the state send a local man to jail for failing to pay up for a child that isn’t his?