Detroit — When Torya Blanchard was a child, she was caught shoplifting from a local store on the eve of a family trip to Paris. Given the timing of the transgression, her immediate grounding was all the more painful. Only good girls get to go to Paris, her mother told her. Crushed, Torya quickly cleaned […]
Newark hit the jackpot with a $100 million donation from the Facebook founder to aid its ailing schools. Now the country will be watching for results—and mistakes.
In recent weeks there has been growing vocal anger regarding the Transportation Security Administration’s procedures relating to pat downs and the use of full-body scanners. But amid all of the noise, what are the real complaints, and how much of the outrage is simply that – a growing chorus of bandwagon anger. There certainly has […]
MINNEAPOLIS — When the girl now identified as Jane Doe 2 came under their control in 2006, at age 12, the Somali Outlaws and the Somali Mafia gangs set a firm rule: Their members could have sex with her free; others must pay with money or drugs. Repeatedly over the next three years, in apartments, […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 28 Minutes. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden visited Kokomo Indiana Tuesday. The President highlighted the positive impact his Administration’s economic policies have had in helping bring jobs and development to Kokomo and how those policies helped save and stabilize the American automotive industry. The President also announced that […]
When you think of Thanksgiving dinner, the turkey is probably the first thing that comes to mind. At least for people who eat meat. However, the vegetarian mind has other items that will be first on their list. Being a vegetarian during the holidays can be just as delicious and tasty without meat.Â
There is a good opinion piece in the Washington Post about Sarah Palin’s recent racially tinged criticism of Michelle Obama in her book. It’s appalling that Palin and too many others fail to understand that fact – indeed so many facts of American history. They don’t offer the slightest hint that they can appreciate the […]
Washington (CNN) – Illinois Sen. Roland Burris is considering running for mayor of Chicago, potentially joining a crowded field of candidates that includes an ex-senator, current congressman and President Obama’s former chief of staff.
New York — He shot a man eight times, then clocked in for his day job — driving a bus for the MTA, police said.
New York — Michael Brea, an actor who has appeared on the TV show “Ugly Betty” and the movie, “Step Up: 3D” was arrested for killing his mother, Yannick Brea with a freemason sword, the New York Post reports. “I heard a shriek and a woman yelling ‘help me’,” Vernal Bent said. “We called 911 […]
Kentucky — Soon-to-be-Kentucky Senator Rand Paul once appeared to express anxiety that the state of affairs in America was opening a path for President Obama to grow into a Hitler-like leader who would snatch up civil liberties in the name of security.
World — A revolution in the fight against HIV/AIDS might be around the corner, according to a new study, which found a daily pill, made of two commonly used HIV medications, lowered the risk of infection by 73 percent.
