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Prior to the re-election of President Barack Obama, many USA citizens threatened to leave to Mexico or Canada if he was re-elected. Since then some people have taken it a step further. Instead of moving out of the country, 23 states have filed petitions to secede from the United States. The petitions have been filed […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. left the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday after his second treatment for bipolar disorder there since he took a leave of absence in June. Mayo spokesman Nick Hanson said he did not know where Jackson was going after he left the Minnesota hospital. Jackson returned to the hospital in […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A woman accused in the deaths of four children in a fire at her home day care in Houston was found guilty Tuesday on one count of felony murder. Jessica Tata, 24, faces up to life in prison for the February 2011 death of 16-month-old Elias Castillo. Authorities say Tata left Elias […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a decade ago, federal health inspectors wanted to shut down the pharmacy linked to a recent deadly meningitis outbreak until it cleaned up its operations, according to congressional investigators. About 440 people have been sickened by contaminated steroid shots distributed by New England Compounding Center, and more than 32 deaths have […]
Christian Televangelist Pat Robertson does not understand why women would be into porn. While discussing this year’s most popular read 50 Shades of Grey on his show, Robertson was shocked to find out that women enjoy watching pornography. “The thing that shocks me is we always thought this (pornography) was a male thing,” Robertson said. […]
Darren Vincent was 30 years old before he read his first book. His tough neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y. offered enough real stories to keep him focused on just trying to survive. He was a young man filled with rage who fought other young men every chance he got. “I was a hard-headed, young, black […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The philanthropic arm of shipping giant UPS said it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group discriminates against gays, the second major corporation to recently strip funding from the scouts. The UPS Foundation made the change Thursday after an online petition protesting its […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Tulsa man was arrested after police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage, his naked 4-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol "induced stupor," police said Monday. A neighbor called police after finding the older child outside the […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in the Central American nation of Belize said Monday that they are looking for the founder of the software company McAfee Inc. to question him about the slaying of another U.S. citizen, his neighbor in an island town on the Caribbean. John McAfee lived next door to 52-year-old Gregory Viant […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — With no hint of a problem in advance, in particular no tell-tale smell of a gas leak, authorities and residents in a southern Indianapolis neighborhood are trying to make sense of an enormous blast that obliterated two homes and made dozens more uninhabitable. Fire officials expressed amazement that only two people died […]
A Connecticut man was arrested after police claim he stole a chinese food delivery vehicle and then delivered the food to get the money. Keith Hinds, of Hartford, Conn. stole the car after the driver left the vehicle running while he ran into a nearby school. Hinds then took the car and continued to complete […]
DENVER (AP) — Hit the slopes — and then a bong? Marijuana legalization votes in Colorado and Washington state don't just set up an epic state-federal showdown on drug law for residents. The measures also open the door for marijuana tourism. Both marijuana measures make marijuana possession in small amounts OK for all adults over […]