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On the heels of the first of three presidential debates, national polls continue to fan the flames on who will be the likely choice. The most recent national poll shows that President Barack Obama takes the lead over Republican candidate Mitt Romney 49 percent to 45 percent. The Quinnipiac University survey also found that President […]
U.S. Rep. Allen West (R-FL) is the latest politician to be caught in a sex scandal over a letter he sent his wife nine years ago during his tour as an Army lieutenant colonel in Iraq. In the hand-written letter, West asked that his wife, Dr. Angela West, be his own personal “porn star,” and […]
A new study finds that men who shave their heads appear more masculine. The study conducted by Alfred Mannes, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the shaved head club, was recently published in the Journal of Social Psychology and Personality Science. Mannes asked his 60 participants to compare photos of […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As her family mourned her death, the friends of a college freshman who police say was beaten to death in her dorm room by her boyfriend have rallied people to wear purple to raise awareness of domestic violence. Alexandra Kogut’s body was found early Saturday at the State University of New […]
A Chinese restaurant in Kentucky has been shut down after customers witnessed two employees wheeling a dead deer into the back of the restaurant, The son of the restaurant's owner admitted to bringing the road kill into the kitchen with the plan of cleaning it and preparing it to be cooked. The Red Flower Chinese […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A Virginia man accused of driving hundreds of miles to upstate New York to kill the superintendent of a small school district believed the man was having an affair with his wife, a person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press on Saturday. Anthony Robert Taglianetti II made the more-than-six-hour […]
MIAMI (AP) — It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation. Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of "souls […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine's campaign disclosure law requiring it to release its donor list. The high court turned aside an appeal from the National Organization for Marriage, which donated $1.9 million to a political action […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a cameraman who was accompanying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) to the U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly in New York says his client has defected. Paul O'Dwyer, a New York City-based lawyer who is representing Hassan Gol Khanban, confirmed Sunday that his client is seeking asylum […]
A Philadelphia drug dealer gets busted selling a popular street drug named after an NBA champion. Marlon Guess was arrested after he was caught selling 140 packets of heroin to an undercover cop that were branded with LeBron James’ name. He tried to sell each packet named after the Miami Heat champion for $750. Naming […]
A bulky Queens, New York gym teacher is claiming that he was violently attacked by a six-year-old 1st-grader back in April. John Webster told The New York Post that six-year-old Rodrigo Carpio “fractured his ankle, injured his knee and forced him to go to a shrink for stress.” The kid was only 50 pounds at the time. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is designating the California home of labor leader Cesar Chavez as a national monument, a move likely to shore up support from Hispanic and progressive voters just five weeks before the election. The White House said Monday that Obama will establish the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in Keene, […]
