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Sheriffs Deputy: Sailor I shot in her backyard ‘startled me’
A retired U.S. Navy veteran and her family are asking their local sheriffs department to own up to their role in a shooting of the servicewoman in her backyard. According to KSWB-TV, San Diego County Sheriffs Deputy Luke Berhalter shot 36-year-old former Air and Sea rescue team member Jennifer Orey…
Listen: Unheard Martin Luther King Jr. interview uncovered
Previously unheard audio of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. has been discovered by a man in Chattanooga. The Associated Press, which first obtained the audio, reported that Stephon Tull uncovered the audio reel labeled, “Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960″ while searching through his attic several months…
Bryan Fischer: Todd Akin ‘a victim of forcible assault’
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on Tuesday compared embattled Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) to a rape victim. “Everybody is gang tackling Todd Akin,” he said on his radio program, after noting several prominent conservatives had called for Akin to drop his bid for Senate. “Now you can talk…
Oklahoma valedictorian denied diploma for saying ‘hell’ in graduation speech
A high school principal in Oklahoma refused this week to turn over a straight-A student’s diploma because she used the word “hell” in her graduation speech. That’s got the father of 18-year-old Kaitlin Nootbaar mad as hell, insisting to local reporters with Oklahoma’s Own News On 6 that Prague High…
Police: Delaware daycare workers forced kids to fight
Delaware police arrested three Dover daycare workers after they were found to have forced kids in their care to fight each other while one worker recorded it on her cell phone. KYW-TV reported Monday night that three employees at the Hands of Our Future daycare center – Tiana Harris, 19,…
Piers Morgan warns Todd Akin: Don’t be a ‘gutless little twerp’
CNN host Piers Morgan on Monday expressed his disappointment that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) failed to show up for his scheduled interview. “Why would he say yes, then no?” Morgan wondered, showing an empty chair. “We can only speculate. But we can tell you this. Todd Akin has until tomorrow…
Bryan Fischer: Todd Akin right about ‘real, genuine rape’
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on Monday insisted that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) was right to claim women could not become pregnant from “legitimate rape.” “What Todd Akin is talking about is when you’ve got a real, genuine rape. A case of forcible rape, a case of assault,…
Storm chaser films giant waterspouts over Lake Michigan
A storm chaser on Lake Michigan filmed several spectacularly huge waterspouts on Saturday, finding himself near one of the most unusually active patches of the weather phenomenon in years. The National Weather Service said it tracked a total of nine waterspouts over Lake Michigan on Saturday, but storm chaser Eric…
Brazil drug gangs move to ban crack
Crack is whack, and even the most powerful drug gangs in Rio aren’t disputing that fact. Amid a painful and violent uptick in crack-cocaine usage and facing increasingly successful police strategies pushing them out of the favelas, the most powerful drug gang in Brazil’s capital of Rio de Janeiro has…
Georgia woman killed by dogs she was rescuing
Twenty-three-year-old Rebecca Carey of Decatur, Georgia, a young woman who reportedly devoted countless hours to rescuing and finding homes for abandoned and abused dogs, was found dead in her home on Friday, a victim of an attack by dogs she was currently fostering. According to Huffington Post, relatives went to…
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