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UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn’t sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Instead, 28-year-old Christopher Greer, of Uniontown, tells a judge the phone was in his cargo shorts when he […]
DENVER (AP)— Because of a paperwork error, the suspect in last month’s killing of Colorado’s corrections chief was freed from prison in January – four years earlier than authorities intended. Judicial officials acknowledged Monday that Evan Spencer Ebel‘s previous felony conviction had been inaccurately recorded and his release was a mistake. In 2008, Ebel pleaded […]
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A preliminary investigation supports a father’s account of shooting and killing a dog that bit his 11-year-old son in order to recover the boy’s severed pinky, a Manatee County Sheriff’s report said. The boy was at his home Friday evening when he approached the dog in its cage. As the boy […]
72-year-old Ilene Henry loves her some “American Idol”. So much so, that Henry devised a way to vote for her favorite “AI” singers over 100 times an hour. She told FOX 5 DC, “I’ve got it down to a science now and instead of counting the calls I keep hitting redial and I timed it […]
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors. The weekend deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb’s worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. The North’s plutonium reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of international nuclear disarmament […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Police said Monday they suspect a man was on drugs when he rammed his car through the front of a Wal-Mart in California and began assaulting customers, injuring four people. Haamid Ade Zaid, 33, of Seaside was being held without bail at the Santa Clara County Jail for investigation of […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last year’s movie theater attack that killed 12, wounded 70 and spurred new gun control laws in Colorado. The much-anticipated disclosure came in a court hearing held four days after prosecutors publicly rejected an offer by […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his family are welcoming thousands of children to the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Speaking from the White House’s Truman Balcony, the president noted the sunny springtime day for the crowd below. On a day that kids devote to chocolate and jelly beans, first lady […]
They say everything tastes better with bacon. Well at least the company J&D thinks so. The company is selling bacon-flavored condoms. The condoms are filled with “baconlube” and supposedly smell and taste like bacon. J&D says the condoms have been tested thoroughly and work properly, citing on their website, “every Bacon Condom has been rigorously […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan teenager killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials said Monday. The killing comes as the monthly U.S. death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring fighting season […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — With tears in their eyes and Kevin Ware in their hearts, there was no way Louisville was losing this game. Russ Smith scored 23, Gorgui Dieng had 14 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks, and top-seeded Louisville put aside the shock from Ware’s gruesome leg injury to earn a second straight trip […]
