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While most people dread taking a driver’s license photo, a new New Jersey restriction can make it worse. The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission is placing minor restrictions on smiles in order to ensure their new facial recognition software works properly. When New Jersey resident Velvet McNeil was told she was not allowed to smile […]
DENVER (AP) — Republican election officials who promised to root out voter fraud so far are finding little evidence of a widespread problem. State officials in key presidential battleground states have found only a tiny fraction of the illegal voters they initially suspected existed. Searches in Colorado and Florida have yielded numbers that amount to […]
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies responding to a burglary call said they found a 20-year-old man asleep on the kitchen floor of an Oregon home. The Washington County sheriff's office said the homeowner discovered the sleeping stranger early Friday. Deputies arrived to find Cristian Villarreal-Castillo, who had in his pockets small electronic devices believed to […]
GARDNER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman says her cat went to the veterinarian for a flea bath and was mistakenly euthanized instead. Colleen Conlon of Gardner is grieving the loss of the cat, 8-year-old Lady, which she attributes to "negligence" by the vet. Her son took Lady to the Broadway Animal Hospital last week […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists reported Sunday that they have completed a major analysis of the genetics of breast cancer, finding four major classes of the disease. They hope their work will lead to more effective treatments, perhaps with some drugs already in use. The new finding offers hints that one type of breast cancer […]
On Tuesday, Americans across the country are hitting the streets to fill the polls in observance of National Voter Registration Day. Civic groups are encouraging citizens to go to their local election offices to ensure they are registered and prepared to vote on November 6. They are hoping citizens will register before the October 6 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Preliminary findings are expected on what killed a week-old giant panda cub at the National Zoo in Washington. The unnamed cub was found dead Sunday. A necropsy was performed and the zoo was set to present preliminary findings Monday on the cause of death. Zoo officials said the 4-ounce cub showed no […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Police are investigating the accidental discharge of a gun inside a flight attendant's handbag at Philadelphia International Airport. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports ( http://bit.ly/RaPodE) that Transportation Security Administration officers noticed the gun when the flight attendant put her handbag on the X-ray machine as she went through a routine security check around 6:30 […]
Emotions are eclipsing fever-pitch levels down in Deep South Selma, Ala., where a growing faction of perturbed citizens have joined forces in voicing raised concerns over plans recently approved by the town city council to allow a neo-Nazi, white supremacy group to re-erect a monument on public land honoring Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford […]
A flight leaving out New York City was delayed 4 hours after a fight broke out between the two flight attendants. According to reports, the fight erupted because one flight attendant was talking on the phone when the plane was initially taking off. In response, the other flight attendant said over the intercom, "Everyone needs […]
EVERETT (AP)– A Washington state woman accused of trying to decapitate her sleeping husband with an electric saw was convicted Thursday of attempted murder. Jurors needed only about three hours to reach a verdict in the trial of Renee Bishop-McKean, of Everett. They also convicted the 44-year-old woman of first-degree assault for hitting the man […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Before his now-infamous tangle with a Bronx Zoo tiger, David Villalobos adorned his Facebook page with New Age odes to Mother Earth and affirmations like, "Be love and fearless." Police said Saturday that Villalobos had told detectives that it was without fear that he leaped from an elevated train into the […]
