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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape, officials said Monday. Nigerian security forces and federal government officials had denied reports of the mass abduction from three villages in the northeast state of Borno on June 22. Chibok local government chairman […]
NEW YORK (AP) — High-ranking chowhound Joey “Jaws” Chestnut dropped to one knee and proposed to his longtime girlfriend before Friday’s annual hot dog eating contest, then packed away 61 franks and buns to hold onto his coveted mustard yellow winner’s belt. The San Jose, California, resident fell far short of his record last year […]
Angelo Grayson Smith, Jr. has reportedly confessed to the murder of his girlfriend Bianca Tanner, the Charlotte schoolteacher who’d been missing since June 7. On the night she disappeared, Smith told police she was intoxicated and the couple argued, but Tanner’s 3-year-old son told police that he’d witnessed Tanner being hit by Smith. Smith was […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The fatal shooting of a decorated police officer this holiday weekend and a gun battle that wounded seven people the same day in a popular nightlife district have underscored what so far has been a violent year in Indianapolis. Mourners left flowers Sunday on the patrol car of 51-year-old Officer Perry Renn, […]
Joan Rivers, 81, told a reporter that President Barack Obama is the first gay president and that First Lady Michelle Obama is a “tranny.” After…
Welp! For all of those who were looking for that check that was supposed to be in the mail or the papers they were supposed…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California chicken producer has issued its first recall since being linked to an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella that has been making people sick for more than a year, company and federal food officials said Thursday night. The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture said it has found […]
PARIS (AP) — Police say the mother of a pupil at a French pre-school stabbed a teacher to death in front of her class Friday, the last day of the school year. French President Francois Hollande expressed outrage at “this abominable drama” and sent the education minister to the school in Albi in southern France. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers accelerated their hiring last month, adding a robust 288,000 jobs and helping drive the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, the lowest since September 2008. It was the fifth straight monthly job gain above 200,000 — the best such stretch since the late 1990s tech boom. In the past 12 months, […]
As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 this week, a new fight for voting rights…
Terri Hymes, 30, was charged with disorderly conduct, public drunkeness, endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering another person after leaving her 2-year-old son in…
A tragic story in the case of missing school teacher, Bianca Tanner, is closer than ever to ending. Early this morning the Charlotte police department found human remains in a wooded area. While police have yet to confirm if the body found is Tanner, they have re-arrested Angelo Smith and charged him with murder. WCNC reports: Police […]
