www.abcnews.go.com – A Mississippi high school senior has filed suit to get the school’s prom reinstated after officials canceled it because the young woman, an open lesbian, asked to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
The lawsuit, filed today in U.S. District Court, charges that 18-year-old Constance McMillen’s free speech rights were violated when [...]
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ATLANTA – A Georgia judge barred state authorities from releasing the crime scene and autopsy photos of a 24-year-old University of Georgia graduate who was slain while hiking.
DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Dan Coursey said Wednesday releasing the photos of Meredith Emerson to Hustler Magazine would cause “irreparable harm.”
Authorities had already announced they would refuse [...]
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WASHINGTON (www.nydailynews.com)- President Obama is donating the $1.4 million in Nobel Peace Prize award money to 10 charities as he promised when he was honored last year.
“These organizations do extraordinary work in the U.S. and abroad helping students, veterans and countless others in need,” Obama said. “I’m proud to support their work.”
The biggest single gift [...]
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TAMPA (www.tampabay.com)— The first time Jacqueline Wimbush got into a fight and lost a fingertip, doctors managed to save it.
Not this time.
Wimbush, who has a history of brawling, lost the tip of her left ring finger to another woman at a busy East Tampa meat market Monday, Tampa police say. “Right now it’s gone, and [...]
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BARTOW (www.myfoxtampabay.com)- Evelyn Boyd had fasted many times before — once for up to 40 days. So when she started on a three week fast recently, her husband didn’t think much of it.
But this fast was different: she died.
“Fasting until you die is extreme, but it’s not against the law,” said Polk Sheriff Grady Judd. [...]
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TAMPA (www.myfoxtampabay.com)- We’ve all seen video of people caught on tape playing up their injuries and claiming benefits: people walking with a walker, and later walking just fine, or using or a cane where now you see it, now you don’t.
But there’s nothing funny or phony about the video of Sam McGinnis, a clerk behind [...]
Friday March 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
www.examiner.com — A CNN article reports on the Chinese government’s proposed ban on eating cats and dogs. Eating cats and dogs is common practice in Guangzhou, a city in southern China.
Professor Chang Jiwen at the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences is a top campaigner for the law, and stated that “cats and dogs are [...]
Thursday March 11th, 2010 | No comments »
PENNSBURG, Pa. – The indictment of “Jihad Jane” shows the evolution of terror threats now facing our country and the world.
Now, many are wondering how a local woman allegedly got involved with terrorists in the first place.
If her suburban Philadelphia neighbors had no idea that an accused terrorist was living among them, imagine the man [...]
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www.foxnews.com – Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who is not seeking a new term, decried the war in Afghanistan and the media coverage of the debate in a remarkable display of anger Wednesday on the House floor.
The Rhode Island Democrat — at times shouting himself hoarse in support of a measure pushed by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, [...]
Thursday March 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(CBS/AP) In the months since the arrest of Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the man arrested for the Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound jet, the government’s no-fly list has nearly doubled – from about 3,400 people to about 6,000 people – government officials confirmed to CBS News Wednesday.
Some of the new additions to [...]
Thursday March 11th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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