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DONALDSONVILLE, La. (AP) — One worker was killed and seven others were injured Friday night in an explosion at a south Louisiana chemical plant, only miles from where a blast the previous day led to the deaths of two workers, authorities said. Louisiana State Police Trooper Jared Sandifer said seven people were injured, some severely, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago, which plans to close dozens of schools this summer to save money, has received 11,000 requests for help getting children to their new schools along safe-passage routes. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday that 600 adults will be hired next month to work along the routes, which are being […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela‘s health has improved, his grandson said Saturday as the 94-year-old spent his eighth day in the hospital recovering from a lung infection. Mandla Mandela said that when he left his grandfather in Pretoria, before heading to Qunu for a family memorial, “we saw the improvement in […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A defense attorney in George Zimmerman‘s murder trial said at the end of the first week of jury selection that he thinks a jury could be seated by the middle of next week. After five days of the selection process, 29 potential jurors have passed through an initial round of questioning […]
Focus on the details, and the cases seem very different. One was killed by virulent white racists, the other by a part-Hispanic neighborhood watchman who insists he faced a vicious attack. One was weighted down and dumped in a river; in the other case, police were called by the shooter himself. Six decades and myriad […]
Instead of taking a page from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and slut-shaming teen girls into abstinence, the Chicago Department of Public Health has reframed the conversation to focus on potential teen fathers who — in keeping with the gender double standard in this patriarchal society — tend to dodge the stigma of early parenthood. […]
Video performer Pebbelz Da Model, real name Natasha Stewart, was arrested in January in connection to a homicide in Mississippi. Pebbelz, known for videos and photos featuring her 48-inch backside, was wanted for questioning in the death of a Mississippi woman Karima Gordon who had her buttocks injected with concrete. Today Stewart appeared in court […]
Never let your grandmother drink and drive would be a good piece of advice to give a designated driver…if he’s not 10-years-old. Police officers in Kenner, Louisiana pulled over a vehicle traveling recklessly down I-10 westbound, only to discover that a 10-year-old boy was behind the wheel, along with his grandmother Brenda Byrd, 54 (left), […]
What the what? No we did not just see this picture of a Wendy’s employee eating Frosty soft serve ice cream straight out of the machine! We’re refusing to believe this happened (mostly because some of us have had a Frosty in the last few days)! But we digress. You mean to tell us this […]
Don’t you just love it when people do studies to reach conclusions that should be pretty darned obvious? If you’ve surmised that I’m referring to the recent American Civil Liberties Union study about marijuana, then pat yourselves on the back and go to the head of the class. Yes, our ACLU friends did a study […]
The naked BART gymnast has been identified as Yeiner Garaizabalo, 24. He goes by the name of Yeiner Perez, a former circus acrobat who is believed to have suffered a nervous breakdown. According to Slim Chance, a friend of Perez’s who leads the Berkeley circus troupe ClownSnotBombs, he had been going through tough times and […]
Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona is apologizing for the repugnant behavior of his son Tanner according to Yahoo News. Tanner in February and March was seen posting various anti-Semitic, homophobic and racist posts on both his Twitter and Facebook accounts. Check out examples below: “To the f—-t who stole my dirt bike from the church […]
