A mother of a 6-year-old boy named Aiden Neely says her son was slapped by each of his classmates twice on the orders of their teacher as a form of discipline. The boy was accused of being a naughty bully at his school, Salinas Elementary School, near San Antonio, Texas. His kindergarten teacher came up […]
Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge David Hittner handed down the sentence during a […]
Scientist Neil Hammerschlag was out cruising the reefs near the Florida Keys, hunting for sharks for research aimed at keeping them out of display cases and in the water. In many places, these iconic predators are becoming extinct. Hammerschlag, a research assistant professor at the University of Miami, and the director of its R. J. […]
CDC’s Colorectal Cancer Control Program (CRCCP) provides funding to 25 states and 4 tribes across the United States for five years. The CRCCP’s goal is to increase colorectal (colon) cancer screening rates among men and women aged 50 years and older from about 64% to 80% in the funded states by 2014. An increase in […]
A Phoenix, Ariz. 19-year-old woman put her 5-week-old baby on top of her car in his car seat and drove away, apparently forgetting he was there, not even noticing when the seat fell off the car and landed in an intersection, police said. Luckily, neighbors discovered the baby on the roadway, still strapped to his […]
The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, who served as a volunteer high school track and field coach in Oregon, was fired on Monday after an investigation proved that she escorted a 17-year-old member of her boys track squad to the school’s prom. As reported by the Associated Press, 41-year-old Melissa Bowerman, the daughter-in-law of […]
Disaster on gas supplies are here again. The lowest May gasoline supplies in the Western U.S. in 20 years have prices skyrocketing again in most places west of the Rocky Mountains. In California, pump prices for regular gas have jumped 13.5 cents since last week. Refinery problems are seen as the culprit for the new […]
The double murder and robbery case of an elderly couple in Waterloo, Iowa, shocked the entire community three decades ago. Due to the absence of evidences, the case remained unsolved until a 66-year-old man walked into a police station and confessed on Wednesday of the grizzly crime. Jack Wendell Pursel, the man who confessed of […]
President Barack Obama’s sudden change of views regarding same sex marriage is now being put in the spotlight. The question is: “How would this affect his candidacy?” A Democratic senator who supports gay marriage as well as Obama’s re-election told Yahoo News that the president would face “significant electoral risk” if his announcement is merely […]
President Barack Obama says he supports civil unions but not civil marriage for same-sex couples, although he has indicated that his views are “evolving.” Recall that when he was a state senator, he supported gay marriage. Some advocates told Yahoo News that Obama deputies endorsing gay marriage is one way to put him in the […]
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