(Reuters) – Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic went on trial for genocide on Wednesday, accused of leading the slaughter of 8,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two.
Mladic, now 70, appeared confident, flashing a thumbs-up and clapping his hands as he entered the courtroom in The [...]
Wednesday May 16th, 2012 | No comments »
(www.latimes.com) – LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News International and confidant of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is to be charged with obstructing justice in the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked Britain.
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that Brooks would be charged with three counts of “conspiracy to pervert the course of justice,” all of them [...]
Tuesday May 15th, 2012 | No comments »
(chron.com) – MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.
The bodies of 43 men and six women with their heads, hands and [...]
Monday May 14th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
(tampabay.com)
TAMPA — Despite having a full four months until their season opener, the Bucs suffered their first major injury of 2012 on Thursday.
Da’Quan Bowers, the projected starting left defensive end who had been hoping to build on a strong finish to his rookie season last year, tore his right Achilles tendon, the team announced.
Bowers was [...]
Friday May 11th, 2012 | No comments »
President says he had already made the decision to publicly support gay marriage before the Democratic National Convention in September
(nydailynews.com) No hard feelings, Joe!
Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks on gay marriage forced President Obama to move up his announcement in support of same-sex couples’ rights. But the President insists he’s not angry.
Obama told ABC’s “Good [...]
Thursday May 10th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
(wtsp.com) Tampa, Florida – Former 10 News political analyst Bill Ratliff has died. He was 63.
Before joining 10 News, Ratliff spent more than 27 years at WFLA-TV in Tampa as news anchor/reporter and Managing Editor of Morning News coverage. As a reporter, his specialty was covering politics.
In a statement released by WFLA Tuesday afternoon, a [...]
Wednesday May 9th, 2012 | No comments »
(tampabay.com) TAMPA — It’s just the first of many difficult steps in fulfilling his NFL dream, but Jordan Jefferson isn’t going anywhere yet.
The quarterback, who went 24-8 as a starter for LSU, signed a contract with the Bucs on Sunday after impressing coaches during the weekend’s rookie minicamp.
Jefferson is among several players who will be [...]
Monday May 7th, 2012 | No comments »
Junior Seau’s brain will be donated by his family for research into football-related head injuries.
San Diego Chargers chaplain Shawn Mitchell said he didn’t know where the brain will be sent.
“The Seau family really has, almost like Junior, a philanthropic approach, where they always desire to help others,” Mitchell said in a phone interview Friday. “The [...]
Friday May 4th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
(FOXNEWS.COM) ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – One year since U.S. commandos flew into this Pakistani army town and killed Usama bin Laden, Islamabad has failed to answer tough questions over whether its security forces were protecting the world’s most wanted terrorist.
Partly as a result, fallout from the raid still poisons relations between Washington and Pakistan, where anti-American [...]
Tuesday May 1st, 2012 | 1 Comment »
(politico.com) MANCHESTER, N.H. — With the primary campaign essentially over, Mitt Romney has landed on a new strategy to keep him in the headlines: getting in President Barack Obama’s face at every opportunity.
Taking the fight to Obama wherever and whenever he can will help the presumptive Republican nominee, who swept the five northeastern states that [...]
Wednesday April 25th, 2012 | 2 Comments »
