Seattle PI: ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Since her release from jail, Casey Anthony has been A) sipping iced coffee and shopping at an Old Navy store near the Ohio State campus, B) camped out in a Florida Panhandle beachfront rental home, C) running from a private jet in Orlando with her head covered by a [...]
WTMJ News: WEST ALLIS – Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY’S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene. Milwaukee Police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair. Witnesses’ accounts claim everything from dozens to [...]
Associated Press: An entire 20-man police force has resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials confirmed. The officers’ resignation on Thursday night left the 13,000 people of Ascension without local police services, Chihuahua state chief prosecutor [...]
NRO: No it has nothing to do with al-Qaeda, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) told a group of liberal bloggers Thursday that she has super-secret plan to combat the GOP’s “hostage-taking” mentality and prevent a repeat of the debt limit debate, during which Republicans got basically everything they wanted by “acting like [...]
Daily Caller: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 512 points Thursday, erasing this year’s market gains, but the White House had little to say besides “markets go up and down.” “I don’t have a specific reaction to the market. Markets go up and down,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. “There is no [...]
MSNBC: KABUL, Afghanistan — In the decrepit buildings that house Afghanistan’s ministries, one office is always new: the minister’s. It is also often where corrupt deals are done, incompetence often reigns and favoritism is the primary currency. It is just such a room that provides the setting for a new television show, “The Ministry,” that [...]
Chicago Tribune: SAN ANGELO, Texas – Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who heads a breakaway Mormon sect, was found guilty on Thursday of child sexual assault for his so-called “spiritual marriages” to two underage girls. A west Texas jury convicted the 55-year-old Jeffs of child sexual assault and aggravated child sexual assault over his relationships with [...]
Your Observer: In researching how best to address the homeless issue in Sarasota, legal consultant Michael Barfield discovered an obscure state law that prompted him to make an unusual suggestion — use Ed Smith Stadium as a homeless shelter. Barfield was among a group of residents who met recently with City Commissioner Paul Caragiulo to [...]
Fox Business: The blue chips nose dived 513 points into correction territory, while the broad S&P 500 shed 4.8%, after anxiety over the economy sent traders racing out stocks and commodities. Today’s Markets The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 513 points, or 4.3%, to 11,384, the S&P 500 tumbled 60.3 points, or 4.8%, to 1,200 [...]
Chicago Business: There’s nothing like a good ol’ Chicago coincidence. I mean, those marvelous situations in which connected people and groups always seem to have a lucky shamrock in their pocket at just the right time are a distinctive part of what makes Chicago, well, Chicago. Which leads to a tale of one particularly wonderful [...]
US News: Many House and Senate conservatives are reviving their battle against federal regulations, claiming that the president hasn’t stopped issuing job-killing rules during the debt ceiling fight. “While Washington and Americans have been focused on the debt ceiling, the Obama administration has continued to roll out more crushing red tape,” said a spokesperson for [...]
Washington Times: U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week’s debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit $14.532 trillion on [...]
It is likely that this is (hopefully) a false alarm; the initial report was filed by children, who only managed a glimpse of a man ‘walking quickly’ with what ‘looked like’ a gun at his side. Police have yet to find any suspect matching the report, or any corroborating witnesses. Associated Press: Virginia Tech was [...]
El Paso Times: U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court. The allegations are part of the defense of Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was extradited to the United [...]
