The Jim Henson Company announced on Friday that it was ending its relationship with the Christian restaurant chain, Chick-fil-A, and would no longer be offering The Muppets toys in kids’ meals. “The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified…
New York State Police are investigating after a local police officer admitted shooting and killing his own son, who he believed to be an intruder. Village of Perry Officer Michael Leach, 59, was sleeping at around 12:50 a.m. on Saturday morning when he was awakened by someone entering his Old…
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Update: Protesters storm lobby of Anaheim police on Sunday A near-riot broke out in Anaheim, California on Saturday after a police shooting left one man dead and angry witnesses began throwing bottles at police offers. Police responded by firing bean bags and rubber bullets into a crowd of terrified women…
A man claiming to be Jesus Christ in Palm Bay, Florida has been charged with aggravated stalking and aggravated assault for allegedly attacking his neighbor, according to Click Orlando. Kenneth David Peterson, 51, allegedly told his neighbor Fred Padilla he was attacking him because he was the Antichrist. Peterson attacked…
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says there is no proof that gun control leads to less gun violence, but he is willing to “look at everything” following a massacre in Aurora, Colorado that left least 12 dead and 58 wounded. “I don’t know, to tell you the truth, what we can…
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney is calling on presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to not release more than the two years of tax returns that he has made public — even though her father released 10 years worth when he was on the GOP ticket in…
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey on Sunday said gun control was needed in the wake of the mass shooting in Colorado, but was pessimistic about its chances. “For me the question has been, you know, what will change as far as any gun control legislation in the wake of Aurora,…
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) says that there is no doubt in his mind that last week’s shooting at a theater in Aurora was an example of domestic terrorism. “You know, in a funny way this guy is a terrorist,” Hickenlooper said of James Holmes, the man who is suspected…
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on Sunday broke with fellow conservatives and backed restrictions the sales of “assault weapons” like the AR-15 that was allegedly used to kill at least 12 people and wound 58 others in Aurora, Colorado last week. “People have a right to handguns and hunting rifles,”…