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SIDNEY, Ohio (AP) – Authorities in Ohio say a man who ordered a gun safe online opened it up only to discover 280 pounds of marijuana inside. Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart in western Ohio says the safe was made in Nogales, Mexico and that it was sent by truck to Ohio. He says the […]
ANAKTUVUK PASS, Alaska (AP) — Crews equipped with night-vision goggles and flares staged a middle-of-the-night rescue to reach a hunter more than 36 hours after he was mauled by a brown bear in northern Alaska’s remote Brooks Range, the Alaska Air National Guard said. The man was part of a group on a guided hunting […]
On a hot Sunday afternoon in Detroit, it seems like a day at a brand-new water park could be the perfect solution to beat the heat. Unfortunately, the grand opening at the “Palmer Park Splash” didn’t go as planned. Although the ribbon cutting ceremony went off without mishap, when it was time to turn on […]
James Patrick Andrews, 43, was arrested after he robbed a local Bank of America branch after he asked the teller why he had a negative balance in his checking account. The Huffington Post reports, after asking about the balance. Andrews passed a note to the teller demanding $1,000. He warned her not to walk away […]
BOSTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee, responding to plans by two television networks to air programs about Hillary Rodham Clinton, approved a resolution Friday to block CNN and NBC from hosting GOP presidential primary debates. The unanimous vote affirmed RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’s threat against the networks if they went ahead with programs about […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius will be indicted for premeditated murder on Monday and the double-amputee Olympian will go on trial in early 2014, about a year after shooting dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. In a somber twist, the world-famous athlete will be served with the murder indictment on the day Steenkamp would have celebrated her […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — UFO buffs and believers in space aliens are celebrating the CIA’s clearest acknowledgement yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades. The recently declassified documents have set the tinfoil-hat contingent abuzz on the Internet, though […]
Turns out getting busy in the sheets really pays off in the long run — literally. After surveying 7,500 Greek households for a year, Nick…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana nursing home care ranked second-worst in the nation, failing every staffing measure in a report by Families for Better Care, a nonprofit group whose goal is to improve long-term care. The group scored, ranked and graded states on eight federal quality measures, such as the average number of hours […]
SEATTLE (AP) — A few things will be different at this year’s Hempfest, the 22-year-old summer “protestival” on Seattle’s waterfront where tens of thousands of revelers gather to use dope openly, listen to music and gaze at the Olympic Mountains in the distance. The haze of pot smoke might smell a little more like victory, […]
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt is bracing for more violence after the Muslim Brotherhood called for nationwide marches after Friday prayers and a “day of rage” to denounce this week’s unprecedented bloodshed in the security forces’ assault on the supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president that left more than 600 dead. The government has authorized […]
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…
