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A source on the Rick Perry campaign tells Hot Air that the Texas governor conducted some Texas-size fundraising in the third quarter. Coming in just a little over halfway through, Perry raised $17.1 million. That number would put Perry somewhere between $4-6 million ahead of Mitt Romney’s rumored total for Q3, according to this report last week from the Boston Globe. It’s also likely to far outpace Herman Cain’s fundraising or that of the other Republicans currently in the race. The pace is even more impressive. Perry had 49 days in which to raise funds, rather than the full 92...

Former Playboy Playmate Shoots Husband, Feeds Him Plastic Baggie, Goes to JailBy Lauren Lloyd in News on September 7, 2011 4:20 PM Victoria Rathgeb, also and probably better known as Angela Dorian, pleaded no contest today to attempted voluntary manslaughter. The 1968 Playboy Playmate of the Year shot and wounded her husband in their Hollywood apartment complex in October 2010. **SNIP** The 66-year-old vicious vixen has been sentenced to nine years in jail by L.A. Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson. Her husband of 25 years, Bruce, has since recovered from the incident. It went down like this. Bruce left the...

A South Carolina megachurch pastor has chosen to press through the awkwardness and talk about what an increasing number of churches have been addressing from the pulpit – sex. Pastor Perry Noble of NewSpring Church made it clear to his congregation that when it comes to sex, the church has a lot to learn. "Let's just be honest. Sexual immorality is in the house," he told his congregation, adding that he has seen sexual immorality at each of the three churches he has served. "We can't get mad at people that aren't Christians because they act like they're not Christians....

'Hit husband' introduced wife to mistress who allegedly killed her: familyBy ERIN CALABRESE, KEVIN SHEEHAN and HEATHER HADDON Last Updated: 5:38 PM, August 20, 2011 The young mom gunned down in a New Jersey street earlier this week knew the woman her husband allegedly hired to kill her, relatives of the dead woman told The Post today. Beautiful Nazish Nooranii met her husband’s mistress, Antoinette Stephen, during a Boston trip, with the philanderer going so far as to introduce the alleged hit-woman as his "fiance," according to Noorani’s sister, Lubna Choudry. Kashif Parvaiz told his wife at the time that...

A survivor of the attacks Thursday near Eilat feigned death for an hour after she and her husband were hit by terrorist gunfire. Her husband was killed. Yosef and Esther Levy of Holon were driving on Highway 12 when they were ambushed by terrorists with guns and bomb belts. The terrorists sprayed the car with fire, hitting both passengers and causing the vehicle to overturn. “There was blood on the floor, and I heard my husband moaning,” Esther later told Yediot Aharonot. “I saw that his shirt was covered in blood.” Esther was hit in the shoulder and suffered additional...

As a tornado tore his Joplin, Mo., home apart, Don Lansaw did what came naturally: He threw himself on top of his wife Bethany to protect her. And in doing so, he gave his life for her. Lansaw's is just one of several tales of heroism, heartbreak, and amazing escapes that have emerged from the spate of violent weather events that swept the center of the country this week. As many as 125 people are thought to have been killed by the Joplin tornado alone. "The house was ripping apart, it all happened so fast," Bethany Lansaw told NBC News....

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The husband of a woman who disappeared in March is getting married this weekend, according to KKTV-TV. Deborah Ann Heriford, 51, has been missing since March 31. She was last seen walking her dog. The dog was found roaming by a business close to her house.

After 20 years and two children together, Laura Munson’s husband told her that he wanted to leave their farmhouse home. Laura suppressed the urge to rage at his selfishness – and her restraint had surprising consequences…

A batty Brooklyn mom who admitted to inducing the abortion of her two-timing husband's love child was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison. Kisha Jones, 40, who has already been jailed for 17 months following her diabolical deed, has about two more years to spend in the clink when factoring time off for good behavior. The mother-of-five tricked her hubby's mistress Monique Hunter, 26, to take cytotec, causing early labor on October 2009. When the baby was born alive, she tried to deceive hospital workers into taking the premature newborn off the respirator. Both Hunter and her child are...

Why marrying a good speller is important. This is short but soooo funny.

What exactly is the temperment of Russian men and what sort of spouses do they make?

Great moments in Democrat Party History: Genesis edition. Satan was like the first "community organizer", just ask Eve, the first liberal useful idiot! Dumb broad and her damn apples.

A woman who wrote President Barack Obama, asking for help resolving her husband's immigration problem got a response she didn't expect: Federal agents turned up at her New York City home and took her husband to jail.

It used to be that the definition of chutzpah was a man who had murdered his parents pleading for mercy from the court because he was an orphan. We have for our delectation an update on this definition out of Sacramento, California, in a story about a woman – the wife of a police detective, to add spice to the narrative — who, disgruntled over the loss of custody of her children to the husband (and going by the stats on this subject, she must be a piece of work to begin with to have lost custody in today’s mother-friendly...

In a complex case that has drawn the attention of the family of Terri Schiavo, a Vietnam veteran's wife claims a Catholic hospital has tried to end her husband's life by starving him to death, placing him under a "do-not-resuscitate" order and refusing to allow him to return home. Gary Harvey, 60, a Vietnam veteran in Horseheads, N.Y., fell down a flight of stairs on Jan. 21, 2006 and suffered a traumatic brain injury that put him in a vegetative state. Gary, an only child who is estranged from his two adult children, did not have a living will.

Jack's bride Vi sent this prayer request in the E-mail today: "Hello all: Finally Jack's urine sample passed the scruntiny of those who make the decision to proceed or not with surgery. Jack is scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning at 0730 at Upstate. I will keep you posted. This is my first attempt at a multiple e-mail. Hope it works. Vi" Please hold our dear brother up in prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ. May He guide the care givers hands and heal his body. TO GOD ALONE THE GLORY!

An HIV-positive husband injected his wife with his contaminated blood while she slept, infecting her with the virus so that they would be 'equals' and she would start having sex with him again. The 35-year-old man wanted to give her the disease because she had refused to have sex with him, fearing she would be infected. But he took things into his own hands and pricked her twice with a sewing needle laced with his infected blood while she slept.

Question: Who was Gretchen Carlson's guest on FOX and Friends this morning 11/23/09? Gretchen had an author on the show this morning discussing his new book about marriage and relationships. I don't recall the book title or the author name, but the book sounded like it was funny. I think the book had something in the title like; how to get a good husband?

cheating wife was caught by her husband after he spotted their faithful Yorkshire terrier tied up outside a bar. The 40-year-old man was out with the couple's two young children when he spotted the dog tethered to a lamp post. The pet happily started barking when he spotted his master.

6/30/2009 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- A former commanding general of the Washington, D.C., National Guard who was killed June 22 in a subway accident along with his wife was remembered in a June 29 ceremony celebrating his life and accomplishments. Retired Maj. Gen. David Wherley and his wife, Ann, a mortgage banker, both 62, were returning from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where they were learning how to counsel servicemembers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their Metro train car collided with another train, killing nine people. It was a sudden event that shocked Guard members and civilians alike, and drawing...