Pat Dollard

UKDailyMail: A hired killer faked the death of his intended victim after falling in love with his target. Hitman Carlos Roberto de Jesus, from Brazil, was paid £345 to murder Iranildes Aguiar Araujo. He was contracted by housewife Maria Nilza Simoes, who was convinced Iranildes was having an affair with her husband. But when he [...]

SMDailyJournal: A Redwood City man convicted of assaulting a police officer who tried to subdue him from waving a frying pan while drunk and nude was sentenced to time served and ordered to enter a residential treatment program. Robert Filipovich, 29, was sentenced to 217 days in jail but given credit for the same amount [...]

Fox News: Businessman Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll Saturday, beating Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the GOP presidential frontrunner who just two days earlier delivered a debate performance that was widely panned. Cain finished with 37 percent of the vote, while Perry trailed with 15 percent. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney followed with 14 [...]

LA Times: Jay Kimbrough, former deputy chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, pulled out a pocket knife and challenged university officials to “bring it on” after being fired this week. Kimbrough “brandished a knife in a nonthreatening manner,” according to a university police report obtained by The Times, and refused to hand over his [...]

U.S. Marine Sgt. Craig Purdy scans the area before setting up a blocking position here, Sept. 5. Purdy, a native of West Salem, Ohio, is an advisor with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment Embedded Training Team. The blocking position was part of the five-day, battalion-sized clearing operation recently conducted in the Northern Battalion Security [...]

Fox News: Even if Congress heeds President Obama’s demands to “pass this bill right away” and enacts his jobs and tax plan in its entirety, the unemployment rate probably still would hover in nosebleed territory for at least three more years. Why? Because the 1.9 million new jobs the White House says the bill would [...]

Medical News Today: A virus that infects humans without causing disease kills breast cancer cells in the laboratory. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) College of Medicine in the US, tested an unaltered form of adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) on three different human breast cancer types representing different stages of cancer and found [...]

Sun Times: President Barack Obama says changing education policy and spending billions to upgrade schools and keep teachers on the job is the right thing to do, not only for America’s schoolchildren but also for the country’s future economic vitality. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to push his $447 billion jobs [...]

Gotta Love a kid who goes toe to toe defending her Mom!

NewsMax: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is reconsidering his decision not to enter the 2012 presidential race — and he says he will let top Republican donors know within days about his plans, Newsmax has learned. During the past few weeks, several leading Republican donors and fundraisers have been urging the popular Republican governor to [...]

NY Times: Hours after it was supposed to have made a fiery plunge back to Earth, a wayward NASA satellite was still in orbit, and space experts were still uncertain when exactly it would fall. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, NASA posted an update that said the satellite, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, was expected to [...]

Defense.gov The nation’s top military officer today presented a posthumous Silver Star to the widow of a heroic Navy officer who was killed in Afghanistan. During a ceremony at the Navy Memorial here, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told the hundreds of people in attendance that Lt. j.g. Francis [...]

Forbes: An emerging, disabling problem with our democracy is that increasingly we cannot even engage in intelligent public discussions of critical issues facing our country. The strategy of central political players today is to calculate what busy voters working hard and taking care of their families do not and will not know, and take advantage [...]