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PHILADELPHIA (AP)— A belt buckle saved a supermarket employee by stopping a stray bullet from a shootout outside a Philadelphia grocery store, police said. Bienvenido Reynoso, 38, said he was about to take a hand truck outside late Wednesday afternoon when shots started flying, so he hit the ground inside the store, WPVI reported. Surveillance […]
RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — Three men have been accused of stealing items that include a samurai sword — but according to central Wyoming police the suspects weren’t exactly ninjas. Authorities in Riverton say they tracked the men down by simply following a series of footprints in the snow leading away from a home where the […]
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in southwest Oregon say two burglars took silver ingots, collectible coins, electronics and jewelry in a break-in last fall. They also took a carton of orange juice from the refrigerator, shared it and left the carton on the garage floor. Uh, oh. The Jackson County sheriff’s office says the state […]
Jeri L. Wright, the daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was indicted Wednesday for misusing $1.25 million of grant money in Illinois. Her case is part of a growing investigation. A grand jury in Springfield returned three indictments, including one that claims Jeri L. Wright, of Hazel Crest, took $28,000 in state money. The funds were […]
A Baltimore family is upset after they were kicked off a United Airlines flight after complaining about the movie being played. According to the family, they were on a flight from Denver to Baltimore on February 2, when they asked the flight attendant if they could turn off the “Alex Cross” film being played. The […]
Anna Pierre (pictured), who is one of eight candidates running for mayor of North Miami, claims that someone is hellbent on pushing her out of the race with voodoo, reports the Miami Herald. Pierre believes the signs of sorcery rituals originate from Haiti’s voodoo religion. What are the “signs”? Thus far, the politico says she has stumbled […]
If National Zoo giant panda Mei Xiang gets pregnant and gives birth to a cub this year, the zoo will be forced to run a paternity test to find out which of two male giant pandas is the father. Mei Xiang is expected to give birth in the next couple of months, pandas’ pregnancies last […]
DETROIT (AP) — A man identified by employees as a former maintenance worker opened fire inside a Detroit medical facility, sending screaming workers and visitors rushing for the doors just moments before the building erupted in flames. Crews digging through the gutted Park Medical Centers building recovered the remains of a man and woman hours […]
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — A man charged with fatally stabbing his wife and adult son in their suburban Phoenix home told investigators he carried out the killings out of a fear he had given his wife HIV from prostitutes he used to frequent and out of concern about what would become of his jobless son […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that Republicans face long odds in connecting with black voters and are often cast as unsympathetic to the needs of blacks and minorities — something he says the party needs to change. Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, said in a speech at Howard University that […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The lone survivor of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls said Wednesday she wants millions in compensation for her injuries and won’t accept a top congressional award proposed to honor the victims. Sarah Collins Rudolph, in an interview with The Associated Press, said she feels forgotten 50 […]
We all run out to get our tickets when the lottery jackpots get high. We figure we’ll take a chance and maybe our couple dollars will turn into something we always dreamed of; even if it’s only the consolation prize of a few thousand or a couple dollars for getting some of the numbers. Well […]
