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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The discovery of a man’s body Sunday in the stable area of Churchill Downs was being investigated as a homicide, but there appears to be no connection to the race track or the Kentucky Derby, police said. “At this point we don’t have anything pointing to the fact that this had […]
Move over Ohio and Florida. Virginia is becoming the hottest new battleground in this year’s race for the White House. Shifting demographics have President Barack Obama fighting for another win in this Southern state four years after he became the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry Virginia in more than four decades. Republican rival Mitt […]
How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. Yet here it is: Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have endured oppression to carve out a place in […]
Vice President Joe Biden says the latest job numbers show an economy still struggling to recover, but not one where hiring suddenly has stalled, which he says just might if Mitt Romney is elected. “How is he gonna create jobs?” Biden asked in an interview broadcast Sunday. “He talks about another $2 trillion in tax […]
Lee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and co-defendants tried to undermine their arraignment on 3,000 counts of murder at a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hanson’s son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter, the youngest 9/11 victim, were killed in the terror attacks over a decade ago. All […]
Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements for the general election in competitive states. And that’s providing political cover against President Barack Obama’s well-financed campaign while Republican Romney works to rebound from a bruising and expensive nomination fight. Some conservative organizations also are planning expensive get-out-the-vote efforts to benefit Romney in key […]
A little more than a year after her lifeless body was pulled from the icy waters of the Susquehanna River, prosecutors say North Carolina teen Phylicia Barnes was asphyxiated by her half sister’s ex-boyfriend in December 2010. Michael Maurice Johnson was indicted on April 26 and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Barnes. […]
A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his suburban Denver school for three days after school officials said he told a girl “I’m sexy and I know it,” a line from a popular song. D’Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, is accused of sexual harassment and disrupting other students, according to a […]
The same “Stand Your Ground Law” that’s been said to be George Zimmerman’s–Trayvon Martin’s killer–saving grace from conviction doesn’t quite hold up for Marissa Alexander. Alexander was abused by her husband and finally fought back–with force, in Florida–the place where the “Stand Your Ground” Law seemingly protects cold blooded murderers. Go to Hellobeautiful to read […]
A New Jersey mother accused of causing skin burns to her young daughter by taking her into a tanning booth pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a child endangerment charge, and the tanning salon’s owner appeared to corroborate her story. Patricia Krentcil faces a second-degree child endangerment charge. Through her attorney, she pleaded not guilty in […]
The diplomatic disarray deepened Thursday after a blind activist reversed course and asked to leave China with his family, abandoning an arduously negotiated agreement even though he had left the protection of the U.S. Embassy and was in a Beijing hospital ringed by Chinese police. Bewildered and alone with his wife and children, Chen Guangcheng […]
A teenager testified Thursday that he was trying to surrender to Houston police officers when they repeatedly kicked and hit him, causing him to briefly lose consciousness, during his 2010 arrest on suspicion of burglary. An attorney for Andrew Blomberg, one of the four since-fired officers accused of participating in the beating, countered his client […]
