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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man charged with plotting to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol plans to plead guilty to two charges. That's according to court documents filed Tuesday by prosecutors and attorneys for Rezwan Ferdaus. Ferdaus is a Muslim-American from Ashland. He was arrested in September […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Police say an 86-year-old partially blind man who cannot speak English became unruly onboard a Spirit Airlines flight to Florida, compelling the pilot to divert to Houston. Spirit Airlines says Flight 310 from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport early Sunday due to a "disruptive customer." […]
A new federal study revealed that students feels school is way too easy. The Center for American Process evaluated three years’ worth of annual surveys from the Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress. Researchers found that: •37% of fourth-graders say their math work is "often" or "always" too easy; •57% of eighth-graders […]
Three ex-felons are hitting Chicago’s streets to fight against violent crimes. Derrick House, Frederick Seaton and Napoleon English are all too familiar with the city’s violence. Each of them have spent time in prison; two for murder. Instead of working against the system, they’ve joined forces with Ceasefire to help prevent the rise of future […]
A study conducted by Floatingsheep.org found that Americans tweet more about church than beer. Researchers aimed to find a way to demonstrate the cultural divide in America through Twitter based on two keywords: “church” and “beer.” The study findings revealed a regional divide between the two subjects. Tweets about church most often came from the […]
A Colorado man who was admitted to the hospital for a routine procedure of getting kidney stones removed found out some not common results; he learned that he was a woman. Five years later, Steve Crecelius's life has been forever changed. The father of six acknowledges that he has always felt different and the discovery […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Before Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake, dozens of independent hair stylists braided and colored hair in the capital's Iron Market, a soaring steel-framed structure that was the commercial hub of downtown Port-au-Prince. But the earthquake damaged the landmark Iron Market and the hairstylists moved their activities to the streets, where they […]
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee say they raised more than $106 million last month. Romney's campaign on Monday said the likely GOP nominee and his party have about $160 million in cash to spend on campaign efforts. His campaign says he raised $106.1 million in June. About $22.3 […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Tori is a teenager with a bad habit. The 15-year-old orangutan has been smoking cigarettes at an Indonesian zoo for a decade, but she's about to go cold turkey. Zookeepers said Friday that they plan to move Tori away from visitors who regularly throw lit cigarettes into her cage so they […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is launching a push to extend tax cuts for the middle class, as he seeks to shift the election-year economic debate from the dismal jobs market to assertions that Republican rival Mitt Romney protects the rich. Obama, in an address from the White House later Monday, will call on […]
A new survey found that airline passengers are willing to pay additional fees to get off their planes faster. Airfarewatchdog.com, a fare-tracking website, said that 16-percent of passengers are willing to pay extra money to disembark planes quicker. Ten percent of the survey responders said they would pay $10 to be at the front of […]
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man has been ordered to pay more than $32,000 in back child support after being lured back to Pennsylvania with the promise of a bogus role in a Jennifer Aniston movie. Joshua Garlathy pleaded guilty Tuesday to willful failure to pay child support more than a month after he was arrested […]
