Bruce Lisker, who was accused of killing his mother in 1985, should be sent back to prison because the U.S. 9th Cir­cuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in another case that inmates should not be allowed to file late peti­tions for release even if they can prove they are inno­cent, accord­ing to the attor­ney...
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By Jeff Riven­bark STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) — A man who was with about a dozen peo­ple who were look­ing for a leg­endary “ghost train” in Iredell County was hit by a loco­mo­tive and killed early Fri­day morning. Christo­pher Kaiser, 29, died at the scene and two more peo­ple were injured, accord­ing to Iredell County...
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By John Lauinger, Jonathan Lemire, Melissa Grace and Bill Hutchin­son (NY Daily News) Michael Enright, 21, of upstate Brew­ster, was charged with felony attempted mur­der as a hate crime — among other crimes — after the sick attack on Ahmed Sharif, 43, Tues­day night. Enright slashed Sharif across the face, arm and hand after ask­ing...
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A survey conducted with 6,000 Britons by Travelodge revealed 35% of adults admitted they sleep with their teddy because they found cuddling their bear comforting. Also the calming feeling of a bear hug also helps them to de-stress after a hard day -- which aids sleep. Research findings also revealed 25% of male respondents...
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By David Weigel (Slate) One rea­son that oppo­nents are going to have trou­ble legally pre­vent­ing Park51 from build­ing its Mus­lim cul­tural cen­ter is that, in 2000, a Repub­li­can Con­gress passed the Reli­gious Land Use and Insti­tu­tion­al­ized Per­sons Act. The goal of the leg­is­la­tion, sup­ported by a coali­tion of reli­gious groups, was to respond to...
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By Paul McDougall (Infor­ma­tion­Week) Despite Pres­i­dent Obama’s pledge to retain more hi-​​tech jobs in the U.S., a fed­eral agency run by a hand-​​picked Obama appointee has launched a $36 mil­lion pro­gram to train work­ers, includ­ing 3,000 spe­cial­ists in IT and related func­tions, in South Asia. Fol­low­ing their train­ing, the tech work­ers will be placed with...
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By Cenk Uygur As we can all see now, when Fox says jump, the Obama admin­is­tra­tion asks how high? (Then jumps one inch less and con­sid­ers it a pro­gres­sive vic­tory). Is there any­one Obama won’t fire or throw under the bus if Fox asks him to? What if they ask Obama to fire him­self?...
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By Julie Cart (LA Times) BP offi­cials knew about a prob­lem on a cru­cial well safety device at least three months before the cat­a­strophic April 20 explo­sion in the Gulf of Mex­ico but failed to repair it, accord­ing to tes­ti­mony Tues­day from the company’s well manager. Ronald Sepul­vado tes­ti­fied that he was aware of a...
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(Wahing­ton Post) Cathryn Wash­ing­ton, 67, left 14-​​year-​​old Delta in the vehi­cle as she ran in to buy some pet prod­ucts on an after­noon when the tem­per­a­ture hit 104 degrees, Sgt. David Luck­en­baugh of Fred­er­ick Ani­mal Con­trol said. She intended to just be 15 min­utes or so, she later told her estranged hus­band Charles Wash­ing­ton. She...
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“For Wash­ing­ton con­sul­tants to sit around and per­son­ally dis­par­age the gov­er­nor anony­mously to reporters is unfor­tu­nate and coun­ter­pro­duc­tive and frankly imma­ture,” said the aide, who spoke on con­di­tion of anonymity. Read the rest: Palin aide swats Rom­ney team — Andy Barr — POLITICO​.com.
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