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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama used the unique power of the nation’s highest office Tuesday to correct a typo. The error was made in a report used to sentence convicted drug dealer Ceasar Cantu of Katy, Texas, and resulted in 3 1/2 extra years being added to his prison term. Obama took the extraordinary […]
Atlanta police are searching for a missing teenager last seen in southwest Atlanta. CBS46 reports: Janese Carthon, 14, was reported missing by her family, according to Office John Chafee with Atlanta police. Carthon was last seen Saturday around 8 a.m. near McDaniel Street SW and Roy Street SW. Police say Carthon has a diminished mental […]
Some high school students are skipping lunch period to pack in something else — another academic class. Reports show: “Most often these students want to take an additional honors or AP course, or an elective like a foreign language, band or choir,” Jim Szczepaniak, a community relations director at Niles Township High Schools District 219 […]
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Police in the Netherlands have arrested a 14-year-old girl on suspicion of threatening American Airlines in a tweet. Police spokesman Roland Ekkers said the girl, who has not been identified for privacy reasons, turned herself in to Rotterdam police in the company of a parent Monday and is now being interrogated. The […]
Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts is the cover girl for this month’s “Good Housekeeping” magazine. Inside, she opens up about some of the reactions after coming out as gay, and revealing the identity of her longtime girlfriend Amber. Roberts said she was overjoyed by many of the responses, but there was also some criticism […]
A 46 year old man is appealing a judge’s orders to spend six months behind bars for noisy sex. In Italy, loud sexual screams and moans are defined as “stalking”, especially if a dozen of your neighbors complain about it. The neighbors took issue with, “screams and moans” that “disturbed the peace in the condominium and […]
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio – An Ohio man who spent hours on a street corner Sunday with a sign declaring he’s a bully says that the…
This is something to celebrate! The class of 2018 at Harvard University has already broken records. The ivy league school has accepted a record-high percentage of black students. According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 11.9% are black, the highest ever for the university. The journal estimates that nearly 170 black students will […]
A Queens, N.Y., man is suing the New York Police Department after surveillance video captures officers pepper-spraying him for apparently no reason and hurling a…
PERTH, Australia (AP) — A robotic submarine hunting for the missing Malaysian jet aborted its first mission after only six hours, surfacing with no new clues when it exceeded its maximum depth along the floor of the Indian Ocean, officials said Tuesday. Search crews sent the U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21 into the depths Monday to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A quick candy bar may stave off more than hunger. It could prevent major fights between husbands and wives, at least if a new study that used voodoo dolls is right. That’s because low blood sugar can make spouses touchy, researchers propose. In fact, it can make them “hangry,” a combination of […]
US Airways has apologized after a pornographic image was mistakenly sent out from its Twitter account. USA Today reports: The image was tweeted at least once in response to a customer who complained to US Airways in a tweet saying: “You ruined my spring break, I want some free stuff.” American Airlines, which is in […]
