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72-year-old Ilene Henry loves her some “American Idol”. So much so, that Henry devised a way to vote for her favorite “AI” singers over 100 times an hour. She told FOX 5 DC, “I’ve got it down to a science now and instead of counting the calls I keep hitting redial and I timed it […]
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors. The weekend deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike […]
SEATTLE (AP)- One of usually peaceful springtime rituals of childhood – the Easter egg hunt – turned nasty at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Blame the moms. A statement on the Seattle Police Department blotter Monday says the “hard-boiled tale” began Sunday afternoon, “when one woman reportedly pushed a child aside as her own […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb’s worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats against the United States and South Korea. The North’s plutonium reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of international nuclear disarmament […]
Roland Martin is not leaving CNN quietly. Martin’s last appearance on CNN was Friday after the network decided not to renew his contract. But in an interview with the Huffington Post, Martin said that executives at CNN were uncomfortable with hiring black people as hosts and systematically stunted his rise at the network because he […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — An ex-convict charged with killing his father at an Easter Sunday church service in Ohio made rambling comments during an appearance in court. The suspect, 28-year-old Reshad Riddle, appeared Monday in Ashtabula (ash-tuh-BYOO’-luh) Municipal Court in shackles. Riddle made rambling comments about God and said he wanted to be treated fairly. […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas legislators passed a law Monday requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, overriding Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe’s veto of the bill, which he called an expensive solution to a non-existent problem. The Republican-led state House voted 52-45, largely along party lines, to complete an override that started […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Police said Monday they suspect a man was on drugs when he rammed his car through the front of a Wal-Mart in California and began assaulting customers, injuring four people. Haamid Ade Zaid, 33, of Seaside was being held without bail at the Santa Clara County Jail for investigation of […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s presidential spokesman says former President Nelson Mandela spent Monday with family members in the hospital where he is being treated for a fifth day for a recurring lung infection that developed into pneumonia. The 94-year-old who helped free South Africa from white minority rule has had weak lungs ever since […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Panicked witnesses to a fatal Easter service shooting in Ohio feared many might be killed as the victim’s son approached the pulpit, waving a handgun and yelling about God and Allah. Associate Pastor Steve Sargent said Monday at the Hiawatha Church of God in Christ in Ashtabula (ash-tuh-BYOO’-luh) that the shooting […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last year’s movie theater attack that killed 12, wounded 70 and spurred new gun control laws in Colorado. The much-anticipated disclosure came in a court hearing held four days after prosecutors publicly rejected an offer by […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his family are welcoming thousands of children to the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Speaking from the White House’s Truman Balcony, the president noted the sunny springtime day for the crowd below. On a day that kids devote to chocolate and jelly beans, first lady […]
