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Two-thirds of jobs in L.A. County, for example, paid less than $22,000 a year, according to Hasan Ikhrata, who heads the Southern California Association of Governments.

KINGSTON - A Red Hook man who forced a woman to swallow an abortion pill and strangled her is facing felony charges, police say. Thomas Pfeiffer, 44, was arrested Wednesday after Ulster County Sheriff's deputies responded to a 911 call that came in with no voice from a Rosendale home. An investigation found Pfeiffer was having a fight with a woman and during the dispute he strangled her and forced her swallow an abortion pill, police say. The woman had injuries to her back and throat and was sent to HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston, where she was treated and released.

Youngsteadt said that researchers came to their conclusions after putting out measured samples of junk food in street medians and city parks during 2012 and 2013. Some samples were put in cages that only ants could access, while others were put in the open so other animals could eat them. Researchers left the food out for 24 hours and then came back to see how much the ants had taken.

An American family found the deceased mother shark on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa, but noticed that something inside the creature was still moving. Realising there could be baby sharks inside, the gruesome but remarkable footage shows the man using a knife to perform a makeshift C-section on the animal. As the beachgoer cuts into the shark, a witness can be heard saying: 'Err... I don't think there's a baby in there.' But moments later something begins to wriggle inside, causing the good Samaritan to jump back and shout as a baby shark squirms in his hand.

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Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart was talking about Ferguson on “The Daily Show” Monday, and that’s when the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s ears perked up. “They had their facts all wrong,” said DA Michael Ramos.

THE BRONX (PIX11) – Police are looking for a teen who they say violently attacked and robbed a mother while she was carrying her infant in the Bronx. The 24-year-old woman was walking along East Tremont Avenue at about 12:45 p.m. Nov. 28 with her 3-month-old strapped to her chest, police said Monday.

A Ferguson tweet by Planned Parenthood has outraged the producer of the Black Genocide documentary film, Maafa21, who said the organization has done more damage to the Black community than the Klan. Charlie Butts from One News Now interviewed Life Dynamics‘ president Mark Crutcher producer of Maafa21, who said Planned Parenthood has no business camping onto the Ferguson tragedy to promote its agenda of racial targeting in the Black community: VIDEO ON LINK We have republished this interview with permission below. A pro-life group says a series of tweets from Planned Parenthood concerning the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, masks that...

Forecasters say that from Tuesday through tonight, the region will experience its heaviest rainfall since March. Tuesday produced a raft of rainfall records for a December 2.

The mother of murder suspect Brittany Martin said her daughter "had not a clue" about any scheme to kill Reserve couple Kenneth and Lakeitha Joseph, and that she herself played no part in her daughter's reunion with co-defendant Horatio Johnson. Speaking publicly for the first time about her daughter's arrest, Rhonda Martin said she is concerned that media coverage of the highly publicized double-murder has been prejudicial against her daughter. Brittany Martin is a former prison guard who New Orleans police say was caught on video purchasing items with Johnson that police believe were used to murder the Josephs. "I...

Residents in an area of San Bernardino County Wednesday were ordered to shelter in place after an unidentified substance was reported. Chino Valley Fire officials received a call at 7:39 a.m. and responded to the 11500 block of Yorba Avenue. A HazMat team discovered “a small quantity of an unknown substance buried in an open field” behind the neighborhood. Residents between Phillips Boulevard and Francis Avenue and Yorba and Norton avenues were ordered to shelter in place, authorities said. One person was transported to a local hospital in unknown condition. The substance has yet to be identified.

The woman demanded that one of the employees put cash in a plastic bag she was carrying. The worker complied, and the woman left through a back door. "I'm sorry, I have four kids," the woman said as she left, according to deputies.

NDERSON, Ind. (Dec. 1, 2014)– No formal charges have been filed yet in a severe case of child neglect in Madison County, and police are looking at the possibility of additional suspects. Anderson’s trauma team was called to a house Monday in the 3400 block of Forest Terrace Drive on a report of a 15-year-old girl suffering from severe malnutrition. Police say she now only weighs 35 pounds. Police say the teen is mentally disabled and was covered in feces. The girl’s grandfather, Steve Sells, 58, has been arrested and will face preliminary child neglect charges. He is currently on...

BRONX, N.Y. (WABC) -- Police have arrested the man they say brutally kicked and robbed a woman in the Bronx, an incident that was caught on surveillance video. The suspect, 18-year old Alonzo Brown, spoke with Eyewitness News following the arrest Tuesday. "I'm sorry," said Brown. ("Who are you saying that to, the lady?", we asked.) "The lady and the baby, I didn't know it was the baby that was there," he said.

Recently an 18-year-old University of South Alabama student, Gil Collar, was shot and killed by a campus police officer. At the time of the shooting, the student was under the influence of LSD and exhibiting erratic behavior around the campus police station.

Police in St Louis have made a third arrest in connection to Sunday's deadly hammer attack on a Bosnian immigrant, charging a 17-year-old as an adult in the slaying. The arrests of the youths - among them two black teens and one Hispanic - in the death of 32-year-old Zemir Begic came as city officials struggled to tamp down speculations that the killing of the Bosnian man may have been motivated by race or somehow related to the ongoing unrest in Ferguson. 'There is no evidence that this was a crime occasioned by the race or ethnicity of the victim,'...

It took jurors only an hour to find Christian Ferdinand guilty of murdering Shaniesha Forbes in 2013 after she told him she was pregnant and he was the father. ‘I hope he won’t see the light of day again,’ the victim’s mother, Sandra Price, said after the verdict was announced in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Christian Ferdinand was convicted Monday of smothering 14-year-old Shaniesha Forbes to death, shoving her body in a suitcase and setting it aflame on a Brooklyn beach. A subhuman Brooklynite was convicted Monday of killing a 14-year-old girl, burning her body and dumping her in a creek...

Frustrated with a lack of public transportation and in desperate need to reach a certain destination, a homeless man stole an ambulance from a hospital in Pontiac on Sunday. “He told the deputy he was hoping to go to the Booby Trap to see some pole dancing,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. “You can’t make this up.” The man, who hoped to make it to the Detroit strip club but was stopped by police in Sterling Heights, was asked why he took the ambulance. “Apparently he said there was no public transportation available,” Bouchard said. “Again, you can’t make...

(CNSNews.com) – In New York City, 77.56% of the abortions in 2011 were performed on Black and Hispanic babies, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Abortion Surveillance report published by the CDC, for which the latest abortion numbers are for 2011, show there were 76,251 abortions in New York City that year. For that total, 9,550 abortions were of white babies, which is 12.5% of the total; 35,188 babies were black (46.1% of total); 23,959 were Hispanic (31.4%); and another 7,554 “other” abortions, 9.9%, which includes Asians and Native Americans, as...

CHICAGO (AP/ FOX 32 News) - Motorists in Chicago are warned that the city's annual winter overnight parking ban is starting. The city says the ban begins at 3 a.m. on Monday. City officials say this year, 239 cars were towed on the first day of the ban. Last year, the same number of vehicles were towed on the first day of the ban.