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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — After taking less than a week to call 18 witnesses, George Zimmerman‘s defense attorneys rested their case Wednesday in the neighborhood watch volunteer’s second-degree murder trial. Prosecutors called their first rebuttal witness immediately afterward— Adam Pollock, the gym owner who had trained Zimmerman. Following rebuttal witnesses, prosecutors and defense attorneys will […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge ruled Wednesday that Trayvon Martin‘s cellphone text messages about fighting and a defense animation depicting the struggle between Martin and George Zimmerman won’t be introduced as evidence at Zimmerman’s trial. Judge Debra Nelson made her ruling a day after she heard arguments on the matter. Prosecutors had claimed […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House on Tuesday night provisionally approved tough new abortion restrictions, making good on a third attempt to pass the measure this year. Activists on both sides of the issue from across the state and nation descended on the Capitol building, and the demonstrators erupted into screams, cheers and chants […]
Mexicans are all about taking things away from Americans. First they take our low-level jobs, then they make tacos more popular than apple pie and…
People are outraged over a mobile game app named “Angry Trayvon” which was available through various app stores before it was finally pulled off the market. The game’s main character is a man in a hooded sweatshirt who walks through different parts of the country getting revenge on “bad” people. The game was made by […]
ALBION, N.Y. (AP) — A Roman Catholic nun has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for stealing nearly $130,000 from two western New York parishes to support a gambling addiction. Sister Mary Anne Rapp also was ordered at Monday’s sentencing to perform 100 hours of community service and repay $128,000. Rapp pleaded guilty to […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman‘s attorneys are finishing up their defense of the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Trayvon Martin, though the judge first must rule on two requests by defense attorneys. Zimmerman, so far, hasn’t testified. But jurors saw repeated video recordings of Zimmerman telling his side of the story to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — First, Anthony Weiner vaulted back from an embarrassing sexting scandal to become a top mayoral contender. Now, Eliot Spitzer has sprinted onto the comeback campaign trail in New York City, where this fall’s races are turning into a mini-Olympics of political redemption. So Weiner, just two years after a tweeted underwear […]
MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has found for the second time in a decade that the Miami Police Department engaged in a pattern of excessive use of force in shootings of suspects, including seven black men fatally shot by officers over an eight-month period ending in 2011. The department’s Civil Rights Division released […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black lawmakers are urging President Barack Obama to do something about changes to a college loan program that they say make it tougher for students at historically black schools to finance their education. Congressional Black Caucus members say the PLUS loan was the first topic discussed in their meeting with Obama on […]
Sybrina Martin couldn’t listen to another word. Overwhelmed with emotion, she walked out of the courtroom Tuesday while famed forensic pathologist Dr. Vincent Di Maio told the jury that he believes Trayvon Martin was on top of George Zimmerman when Zimmerman shot Trayvon, confirming Zimmerman’s story that he was being beaten by Trayvon and was […]
In a very shocking display of animal cruelty, cops in Marietta, Ga., allege that a man has been captured on video brutally abusing his dog…
