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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock refused to apologize Wednesday for saying that rape resulting in pregnancy is "something God intended." State Republicans and a few congressional leaders defended Mourdock, whose prospects of winning the seat long held by the GOP are unclear. But with female voters critical in the tight presidential […]
Instead of taking a fake sick day, a San Antonio woman chose to fake her kidnapping to skip work. Sheila Bailey Eubank is facing aggravated perjury charges after she claimed a man jumped in her car and held her at knifepoint. Police found the 48-year-old woman tied up with a rope in her car. Investigators […]
New reports say Mitt Romney lied under oath during his friend’s divorce trial. The presidential candidate testified in the 1990s divorce trial of his friend and Staples founder Tom Stemberg. Stemberg’s wife Maureen Sullivan Stemberg claims that Romney lied in order to prevent her from getting what she financially deserved. Romney allegedly downplayed the company’s […]
Click here to listen to President Obama's full interview with the TJMS. — President Obama explains why he was not rude at the debates. — Obama says it will be a close election in every state; there are lawyers deployed in every state to guarantee absentee votes are counted properly. — The president jokes: “Like […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The warden of the prison where Ohio puts inmates to death says the state's execution table can easily hold a condemned inmate who has argued he is so big it might collapse. The table was tested by placing an equally heavy prison employee on it and additionally by placing weights on […]
If President Obama loses this election, it won’t be simply because of the economy, or the deficit or any of the conventional wisdom that many pundits tend to fall back on. It’ll be because white people rioted – in the ways that many of them have always rioted whenever black people or minorities begin to […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaicans stocked up on supplies and reinforced roofs on Tuesday ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Sandy, which is expected to hit the Caribbean island of posh resorts and sprawling shantytowns as a hurricane with lashing rain and wind. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the strengthening storm […]
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says when a woman is impregnated during a rape, "it's something God intended." Mourdock was asked Tuesday during the final minutes of a debate whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest. He replied: "I think even when life begins in […]
IOWA CITY (AP) A 24-year-old female high school teacher in rural Iowa has been charged with having inappropriate sexual relationships with four male students during last school year. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation announced Friday that former Aplington-Parkersburg High School math teacher Ashley Anderson is charged with four counts of sexual exploitation by a […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In Facebook's second quarter as a publicly traded company, the world's largest social media site is juggling the challenge of growing its advertising revenue while maintaining the loyalty of more than 1 billion users. Facebook is expected to report earnings of 11 cents per share on revenue of $1.23 billion after […]
President Barack Obama’s debate comments have rattled the bayonet industry. In the final debate last night, President Obama shot down Mitt Romney’s claims that the military’s artillery needed a facelift. "You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and […]
Civil and voting rights groups commended Clear Channel Corporation for agreeing to take down a number of billboards placed in predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhoods in Cleveland, Columbus, and Milwaukee. The groups had mounted a campaign over the past week to persuade Clear Channel to take down the billboards, which warned of criminal penalties for […]
