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Former Fort Worth high school teacher, Brittni Colleps, is accused of having group sex with four teenagers while another student videotaped the group. Brittni Colleps, 28, used text messages to develop sexual relationships with five male students which lead to group sex. The teens are considered adults but Colleps is charged with "deviate sex and […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Colorado's movie theater shooting hasn't rekindled the gun control debate in Congress. But Democratic leaders in three of the nation's most populous states are pushing weapons and ammunitions bans. California and New York lawmakers have proposed legislation that would make it more difficult to buy and use guns. Illinois Gov. Pat […]
CHARLEROI, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man is accused of stealing a small bag of marijuana held as evidence because he allegedly couldn't resist the drug's aroma. Authorities say that 27-year-old David Allan Thompson of Charleroi stopped at a police station Saturday night to offer police some unspecified information. Police tell the Observer-Reporter newspaper […]
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Lawyers for Drew Peterson withdrew a motion for a mistrial Wednesday, saying the former Illinois police officer did not want a new jury to decide if he killed his third wife. The defense attorneys also asked Judge Edward Burmila to declare all hearsay evidence in the murder trial inadmissible — a […]
San Francisco (AP)- Several computers and personal items worth more than $60,000 were stolen from the Northern California home of the late Steve Jobs in what authorities insist was a run of the mill burglary. "I've never gotten this many calls from people," supervising Santa Clara County deputy district attorney Scott Tsui said of the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Young illegal immigrants are scrambling to get passports and other records in order as the Homeland Security Department starts accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get work permits. Homeland Security announced the details Tuesday of what documents illegal immigrants would need to prove that they are eligible for the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston's Logan International Airport are alleging that a program intended to help flag possible terrorists based on passengers' mannerisms has led to rampant racial profiling, a newspaper reported Saturday. According to the New York Times, interviews and internal complaints found that more than 30 officers involved […]
Elijah Earnheart, a 6-foot tall, 300-pound seventh grader out of Mesquite, Texas, has been banned from playing Pee Wee football because of his size. Earnheart had been practicing with the Mesquite Vikings, a Mesquite Pee Wee Football Association team, for three weeks. During a Sunday pre-season weigh-in, however, the pre-teen was told he was too […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has been one of the harshest critics of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. But months after Congress approved the nearly $800 billion package, the Wisconsin lawmaker was trying to steer money under the program to companies in his home state. Rep. Ryan wrote letters in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney dug in Wednesday on his charge that President Barack Obama's campaign is driven by "division and attack and hatred," criticism aimed at cutting into Obama's likeability and personal appeal with voters. In some of his harshest words yet against the president, Romney said Obama was "running just to hang […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A fugitive doctor charged in the nation's largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there's just too much evidence in his case: more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data that federal authorities say is expensive to maintain. Armando Angulo was indicted in 2007 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The recession that ended three years ago this summer has been followed by the feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression. Since World War II, 10 U.S. recessions have been followed by a recovery that lasted at least three years. An Associated Press analysis shows that by just about any measure, the […]
