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The replacement NFL referees involved in Monday night’s frenzy are not new to league criticism or reprimand. Officials from the Lingerie Football League revealed that the refs involved in Monday’s Seattle Seahawks game were fired from their league. "Due to several on-field occurrences of incompetent officiating, we chose to part ways with a crew which […]

The housing market is starting to pick up speed again. New reports released on Tuesday show home prices rose for the sixth month straight. In July, the prices rose while home resales and groundbreakings on new properties increased in August. Economists believe that the housing market is showing promise after experiencing a major collapse six […]

One of America’s favorite breakfast meats may be unavailable in 2013. The National Pig Association issued a public statement saying “a world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable." The British trade group reported that the drought conditions have limited the corn and soybean crop causing a decline in pig herds across […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Barack Obama is condemning an anti-Muslim film and the violence in the Middle East that has followed its release, saying there is "no speech that justifies mindless violence." Obama says in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "there are no words that excuse the killing of innocent" […]

Activists in Selma, Alabama are set to march a historic route through the city today (Tuesday) and present more than 325,000 signatures to the Selma City Council opposing the placement of a monument to controversial Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The original Selma monument to the man recognized as the first Grand Wizard of the […]

There are better meals in school cafeterias this year, thanks to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, designed to fight child hunger, combat obesity and improve the health and nutrition of the nation’s students. Schools are phasing in new nutrition standards over a three-year period, starting with lunches in this first year and moving […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that a new world order needs to emerge, away from years of American "bullying" and domination. Ahmadinejad spoke to The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly — his last as president of Iran. He also discussed solutions […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Embattled GOP Congressman Todd Akin has made good on his promise to stay in Missouri's U.S. Senate race despite calls by top Republicans to quit following his comments about rape. The final deadline for candidates to remove their names from the Missouri ballot passed Tuesday as Akin began a statewide […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court has denied an Arizona sheriff's request to reverse a lower-court decision barring his deputies from detaining people solely on the suspicion that they're illegal immigrants. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 23-page ruling Tuesday. The San Francisco court considered the narrow question of a preliminary injunction […]

SPRINGTOWN, Texas (AP) — Like many schools in Texas, "spare the rod and spoil the child" might be considered the motto at Springtown High School. But when two teenage girls there reportedly suffered bruises after being paddled by male assistant principals, some parents complained. They weren't upset about the punishment itself, but instead that the […]

GENEVA (AP) — The NAACP is taking to the U.N. its effort to ensure that all former convicted felons in the United States can vote. A delegation from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was holding meetings Tuesday at the United Nation's Geneva office in part to press the world body to […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A surprise ruling by a federal appeals court that lets the Army Corps of Engineers off the hook for paying compensation for Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic flooding isn't going over well on the streets of New Orleans. People in southern Louisiana have long taken for granted that the flooding in the wake […]