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A judge convicted one brother and exonerated the other Thursday in the 2010 beating of a black teenager they encountered while responding to a suspicious person report received by an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group. Judge Pamela White ruled from the bench against Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim, 24, and 22, highlighting concerns about the lack […]
A Pennsylvania boy is facing charges of vandalisam and criminal mischief after he destroyed $36,000 of computers by urinating on them at a school. Police said teachers discovered the 30 damaged MacBook computers on a cart in a corridor at Upper Allen Elementary School in Mechanicsburg. The equipment was damaged beyond repair and will cost […]
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, was the message Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed delivered to an audience at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies annual anniversary gala dinner in Washington, D.C. Reed was honored Tuesday with the Joint Center’s 2012 Louis E. Martin Great American Award. The Louis E. Martin […]
The Florida city at the center of the Trayvon Martin case appointed a new interim police chief Tuesday while the current one remains on paid leave after city commissioners rejected his offer to resign last week. Richard Myers was named interim police chief of the Sanford, Fla., department. He is a former police chief of […]
Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama shouldn’t use the killing of Osama bin Laden as fodder for negative campaigning. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke to reporters after visiting a New York City fire house that lost 11 men in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Romney was joined by Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor […]
The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the couple to hide an affair he was having and justified using wealthy donors’ money to do it. Testifying at Edwards’ campaign corruption trial, Cheri Young said she huddled around a phone in […]
“Octomom” Nadya Suleman filed for bankruptcy Monday, saying in a court filing that she has as much as $1 million in debt. Suleman wants a fresh start and said in a statement that filing for bankruptcy is what’s best for her children, according to the Orange County Register. “I have had to make some very […]
After two weeks of disturbing revelations about a tawdry prostitution scandal, the Secret Service and its supporters are circling the wagons to restore the “secret” part of its mission. Retired agents have been instructed to stop talking to reporters. Secret Service agents are dismantling Facebook accounts, hanging up on reporters and notifying headquarters — even […]
Once a moment of national unity, the political battle over Osama bin Laden’s death intensified Monday as presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to minimize the role President Barack Obama has carved out for himself in killing the terrorist leader. The president’s re-election campaign has raised questions about Romney’s willingness to assassinate the mastermind […]
A published report says Apple Inc. uses subsidiaries in Ireland, the Netherlands and other low-tax nations as part of a strategy that enables the technology giant to cut its global tax bill by billions of dollars every year. The New York Times on Sunday outlined legal methods used by Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple to avoid paying […]
President Barack Obama scattered the barbs during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as he poked fun at White House races past and present, the Secret Service and Donald Trump. Even the entrance to his speech Saturday night was part of his schtick. The president walked off stage just before he took the podium […]
An out-of-control SUV barreled across several lanes of traffic on a highway overpass Sunday, then plunged more than 50 feet off the side of the road and landed in a ravine on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo, killing all seven people aboard, including three children, authorities said. The 2004 Honda Pilot apparently flipped over […]
