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Too much 'X" and too much "Oh"? This is our own New York City folks, the bastian of liberalism! The envelope continues to br pushed left. Yea, I bet you'd like to see the video on this one! Honestly guys, is this too much? What happens when the guys do this.......with other guys?

A father probably killed his son with a steak knife, uttered Allah's name and dropped the three-year-old down a disused mine shaft, the South Australian Supreme Court has been told Prosecutors in the case involving Aliya Zilic said that he had taken the boy, Imran, 3½, from his mother's Perth home a few days earlier. Mr Zilic is on trial accused of murdering his only son during an access visit in April 2008. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental incompetence. Horrific details of the youngster's final moments emerged in the court, with prosecutor Jim Pearce saying it...

(Oct. 31) -- Police in Cleveland say at least three bodies have been found at the home of a convicted rapist, and they expect to confirm three more. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Anthony Sowell, 50, and a convicted rapist, has been arrested. Police are asking people with missing relatives to bring in items that might offer DNA samples, to help authorities identify the victims. Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Saturday that the bodies were found at the home of 50-year-old Anthony Sowell of Cleveland. He says officers have found three bodies and believe they have discovered three...

A search has been launched for a 50-year-old convicted rapist and suspect in the killings of six people whose bodies were found in and around a house in Cleveland, Ohio, police said Friday.

A series of upsets and close calls in big-city elections is producing the first group of politicians to fall victim to voters' economic frustrations: America's mayors. While political observers are focused on the outcome of the Nov. 3 gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey for early insights into the 2010 midterms, it's in City Hall where the most ominous trend is emerging.

BARTOW, Fla. -- A Central Florida teacher has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having sex with four teenage boys.A Polk County jury in August had found 33-year-old Danielle Jones guilty of five counts of lewd battery and three counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. She was sentenced Tuesday.Prosecutors said the boys were 14 to 16 years old when they had sex with the middle school science teacher. Two of them were her former students.

WINCHESTER, Tenn. -- A young girl was found wandering near a busy road eating wood, said Franklin County police. Now her mother, Sheena Trull, is charged with child abuse, neglect and endangerment. She told police she put her two children in bed, then fell asleep. Police said the 2½-year-old girl climbed out an open window and fell about 5 feet on top of two bicycles. Witnesses said she was cold, wet, wearing a dirty diaper and chewing on a piece of wood. Trull's two children are in state custody.

Police say a 17 year old and 22 year old were shot and killed during an attempted home invasion. It happened in Indianola last night. Officers say two men, armed with a shotgun, entered the home. They were dropped off by a third person. Police say the two men attacked the homeowner who is a retired police officer. He suffered cuts. Police say the homeowner's wife showed the men were the safe was. That's when police say the retired officer grabbed a gun and shot and killed the 17 and 22 year old. Both were killed. A third person was...

More than five years after she was abducted from Oregon State University and presumed killed, the remains of Brooke Wilberger have been found and her suspected killer has pleaded guilty. Joel Patrick Courtney faced a possible death sentence when he went to trial next February in Benton County for aggravated murder in Wilberger's death. But today, after a change of venue to Marion County Circuit Court, Courtney, a 43-year-old native of unincorporated Washington County, entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to prison for life with no possibility of release. As a part of the plea agreement, Benton County...

Matthew Tessier fixes broken schools. Chula Vista's Harborside Elementary was in pieces when he arrived as its principal two years ago. The school next to a mobile-home park in an impoverished neighborhood had failed to reach federal benchmarks for so long that the menu of remedies included shutting it down. But Tessier, 35, is a turnaround specialist. Before he arrived at Harborside, Tessier had done what only a few dozen principals in the county had ever done: He led a school — Loma Verde Elementary — safely out of federal sanctions with two consecutive years of dramatically improved test scores....

NEW CUMBERLAND, W.Va. (AP) - A New Cumberland woman has apologized for leaving her baby alone in a hot car while she went shoplifting at a Wal-Mart. Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Marie Lancaster says she made a huge mistake she'll never forget. After appearing at a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Brooke County, she told a TV station she is mortified by her actions and will accept whatever punishment is necessary. Lancaster is charged with child neglect causing injury and shoplifting. Police say the baby had been left alone in Lancaster's car for at least 20 minutes last month in the Weirton Wal-Mart's...

Nineteen-year-old man is eighth person to die in Glynn County massacre Police to offer $25,000 reward for information in case By Terry Dickson, Jim Schoettler, Teresa Stepzinski Story updated at 7:51 PM on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009 Related Stories » Glynn police chief says he's uncertain if killer of 7 still on loose BRUNSWICK, Ga. - The only survivor among four siblings attacked in a Glynn County mobile home massacre died today, increasing the carnage to eight dead, police said tonight.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. - As cryptic as ever, Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering wouldn't say this afternoon whether the man charged with tampering with evidence and obstructing police in their probe of Saturday's mobile home massacre is tied to the deaths.

Police say the defendants lured the woman, then 35, out of her apartment just a few miles from downtown West Palm Beach by claiming her truck had a flat tire. Three masked gunmen then forced her and her son, then 12, back inside. Others soon joined in the attack. Lawson continued testifying Wednesday, describing the chaotic scene inside the woman's home, with attackers coming and going, raping the woman over and over, sodomizing her, beating the boy and forcing the mother to perform oral sex on her son. Police say Lawson and the other defendants were among as many as...

Here is a video report from Dallas on what appears to be a "cat butcher" on the loose. Four cats have been found killed and sliced apart in front yards in a neighborhood area of Dallas. At first, people thought it might be the work of animals, but now stab wounds have been detected and police believe someone is going after cats. . . . . (Watch Video)

Crook Vs tire iron. This from Today's THV, "Jonesboro police say a man was killed after being beaten by a homeowner during an apparent home invasion. Police say a man armed with a shotgun broke into the home about 11 p.m. Friday. Witnesses told police the homeowner scuffled with the intruder before striking him in the head with a tire iron. The suspected intruder was taken to a local hospital, where he died.

A bouncer at a slick East Village lounge was killed and two revelers wounded during a wild sidewalk shooting that rattled the trendy neighborhood early Sunday, police and witnesses said. Eric "Taz" Pagan was off-duty but hanging out at Forbidden City, a hip Asian-themed bar on Ave. A near E. 13th St., when he took a fatal bullet to the head trying to break up a fight just outside the lounge at 5 a.m., police and witnesses said. Pagan, 42, and other Forbidden City employees ran from the shuttered bar just as a man stepped out of a idling white...

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools bus stop is right in front of a registered sex offender's house, but CMS won't change the bus stop's location despite parents' pleas. That has parents in the Winget Pond neighborhood ticked off. They contacted us after getting their childrens' bus assignments in the mail. His name is Robert Lance Neal. Court records show he's a registered sex offender, convicted for sexually abusing a 10-year-old in Illinois. Now, records show Neal lives on Arrington Heights Place in Charlotte. Out his front door is a CMS bus stop. "Eight to ten that I'm aware of," a mother says...

A Camden, NJ woman has been sentenced to a maximum of 25 years behind bars for beating an elderly, infirm Cherry Hill man to death after she was caught stealing money from him. Yolanda Steele, 34, avoided a possible murder conviction and life prison term by pleading guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated manslaughter. In court on Friday, she sat stonefaced as relatives of the victim, 82-year-old Sidney Wenof, gave heart-wrenching victim impact statements. The victim's daughter, Ellen Sands, asked Superior Court judge Irvin Snyder for the strongest possible punishment: "They are called houses of correction. Unfortunately, there is...

She's admitted to the grisly murder of a disabled man, and now she's talking to FOX 10. Angela Simpson tells Police she stabbed 46 year-old Terry Neely more than 50 times, then cut up his body and burned it in a trash can. Simpson was already in jail, when detectives interviewed her about this crime. They say she was very candid about committing this murder, showing no remorse

CORPUS CHRISTI — Corpus Christi’s cut of federal stimulus dollars will improve city roads, pay the rent for people living in housing projects, train math and science teachers and send more people to trade schools and college on government scholarships. Those projects, along with dozens of others, are part of about $200 million of federal stimulus projects coming to the area. The money should create close to 2,000 jobs, based on White House formulas. Those job creation numbers likely are “severely inflated,” said Jason Alaniz, the city’s intergovernmental relations project manager in charge of stimulus projects.

Samir al-Hadad, (left), chief of staff from the Office of the Iraqi Prime Minister, and Capt. Brian Grey, Battery B commander, 1st Battalion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, sign transfer documents releasing the land and house that was once the American side of Joint Security Station Zubaida back to the Iraqi landowner, Aug. 10. Photo by Sgt. Mary Phillips, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team. BAGHDAD — The U.S. portion of Joint Security Station Zubaida was returned to its original landowners during a ceremony at this small JSS south of Baghdad, Aug. 10. Capt. Brian Grey, commander...

SUNSET HILLS, MO (KTVI - FOX2now.com) - No shoes, no shirt, no service: there is word that the manager of a St. Louis County restaurant threatened to kick out a six-month old baby and her mother because the baby wasn't wearing shoes. The infant's mom says the restaurant is taking the policy too far. Jennifer Frederich said the manager of the Sunset Hills Burger King at 10734 Sunset Hills Plaza cited 'health concerns'. Frederich said her daughter, Kaylin, was too young to even get her feet dirty; she couldn't walk, couldn't crawl, her feet still pretty much too small for...

BRISTOL — Octavious Barnes died Sunday still clutching the $1,100 he took from an 82-year-old bar owner before he was shot. Now, three Blountstown women accused of helping Barnes, 24, face murder charges in connection to his death. “As we were processing the crime scene, it became clearer and clearer he (Barnes) didn’t do everything himself,” Liberty County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Brigham Shuler said Wednesday. Jessica Nicole Long, 19; Heather Marie Ammons, 22; and Mandy Allen, 43, planned and aided Barnes in the robbery of 82-year-old Bradley Harvil, owner and operator of the Slip N’ Slide bar, Shuler said. On...

Excerpted from Yes We Did! An inside look at how social media built the Obama brand (New Riders) Obama's official social network, my.barackobama.com, was at the heart of the campaign’s new media strategy. Affectionately referred to internally as MyBO, the site allowed users to create events, exchange information, raise funds, and connect with voters in their area. MyBO was the digital home base from which the campaign could mobilize its army of supporters. Creating an account required an email address and a password. Users didn’t even have to confirm their email address. This was done to make the sign-up process...

The woman who allegedly 'decapitated' her baby before eating parts of the body has been charged with capital murder. Otty Sanchez's alleged murder of her infant son Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez - born on June 30 - has shocked not just her home-state Texas, but people around the world. Local police say the mother used a knife and two swords to dismember her baby boy before eating parts of the body, including his brain. The woman also decapitated the child before turning a knife onto herself. Investigators are describing the case as the worst they have ever come across. Sanchez has...

Teen blown out of pickup dies Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:20 PM By Holly Zachariah THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Funeral services are scheduled Thursday for a Marion teen who died in what authorities are calling a freak incident. Shawn Fowler, 16, was riding on top of a mattress to keep it secure in the bed of a Ford F-150 pickup truck Friday night. The truck was traveling about 25 mph westbound on Fairground Road just outside of Marion when a sudden storm blew through about 8:15 p.m., said Sgt. Michael Kasler of the Marion Post of the State Highway Patrol. The...

Here is a video report this morning giving new details on the murder of Florida couple Byrd and Melanie Billings, the couple with 16 children - many of them adopted and with special needs. An eight suspect has been arrested, and this report says CBS News has confirmed that the DEA is investigating possible drug ties to the crime. CBS also reports that the Billings may have been having financial problems, and had actually sued their own son for child support after taking in their son's child. No link is made between that and the crime. An interview with the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman accused of killing her four daughters told police in an interview that the girls were possessed by demons and that she got rid of most of the family's possessions to contain the evil spirits. A District of Columbia Superior Court judge spent a second day Tuesday reviewing a recording of a police interrogation of Banita Jacks. The decomposing bodies of Jacks' daughters — ages 5 to 17 — were discovered in January 2008 when U.S. marshals came to evict her from her southeast Washington home. Judge Frederick Weisberg was to decide whether to admit the...

A man who tried to kidnap two 5-year-old girls was beaten Saturday night by two bystanders who witnessed the abduction attempts, Tacoma police said Monday. Officers arrested the 45-year-old man on suspicion of trying to kidnap the girls, who had been playing with some other children in the 500 block of South L Street about 7 p.m. Police said the man, apparently intoxicated, was walking on the sidewalk on L Street when he grabbed the first girl. She kicked her way free, and the man tried to grab another 5-year-old girl, police said. She, too, got away. As the man...

CYPRESS, Calif. -- A local mother is accused of leaving her two children home alone in a house filled with maggots, knee-high trash and overflowing toilets while she smoked pot with a friend.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Police are searching for the masked intruders who kicked in the door of a Bradenton apartment and fatally shot a 19-year-old pregnant woman, causing the death of her baby. Crystal Johnson was seven months pregnant. Authorities said she was shot once in the neck by the intruders who kicked the door down early Sunday and started firing. She died at a hospital. Her baby girl was delivered and lived on a respirator for two hours.

IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) -- It's not what Amy Darby expected when she woke up Friday morning. She thought it was a string or a blade of grass--but then she noticed it start moving. "It looks like a piece of grass that's alive," Darby said outside her place of work Friday. Darby claims at 4:30 a.m., a brown worm came out of her kitchen faucet. She called the city's water department. Darby said she was referred to the health department. "It's beyond creepy," Darby said. "It looks like a tapeworm that would be inside of a human. And this is coming...

NEWPORT BEACH – A female high school athletic trainer pleaded guilty today to having an unlawful sexual relationship for one year with a male high school student. Hope Ashley Jacoby, 24, San Juan Capistrano, faces three years' probation – including 30 days' Caltrans service – at her sentencing July 29 before Superior Court Commissioner Greg Jones. She pleaded guilty to seven felony counts involving sexual contact with a minor. Jacoby admitted that she had an unlawful sexual relationship in 2008 with a male student she met while working as an athletic trainer at Tustin High School.

CATLETTSBURG, KY (WSAZ) -- Elliott County Jailer Charles Howard will spend 12 years in prison after being convicted late Monday afternoon on a charge of 1st degree rape. The sentencing phase of his trial concluded early Monday evening with that decision. Howard was convicted by a jury in Boyd County Monday after a week long trial in which a jail inmate testifed that Howard took her to a remote area and assaulted her.

Charalambos Christodoulides's body was found in a warehouse complex A property developer told a US prostitute he had strangled a man in London because he was "in the way", a court has heard. Rebecca DeFalco told the Old Bailey of her relationship with her client Thanos Papalexis, of Palm Beach, Florida. The body of caretaker Charalambos Christodoulides, 55, was found in 2000 in the warehouse complex where he lived in Kensal Rise, north-west London. Mr Papalexis, 36, and two of his employees have denied murder. Failed Kosovan asylum seekers Ylli Xhelo, 36, unemployed, and Robert Baxhija, 29, a painter of...

HANOVER, Mass. — A Massachusetts prosecutor says a 6-year-old girl was kidnapped by a would-be rapist but managed to escape from his apartment despite being in leg shackles. Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz says the girl was found Saturday afternoon as police searched the apartment complex in Hanover, about 20 miles southeast of Boston, where she and the suspect live. Her mother reported her missing at about 1:30 p.m. Cruz says the girl pointed officers to an apartment where she was taken. They arrested 26-year-old Justin Shine after a struggle.

7-year-old just moved to city for the summer Family members of 7-year-old Nathaniel Turner listen as Leslie G. Schuler and Tiffany Hyman are arraigned in Central District Court. Nathaniel Turner's father, Leslie G. Schuler, right, and Mr. Schuler's girlfriend, Tiffany Hyman, in court yesterday. (T&G Staff / CHRIS CHRISTO) Enlarge photo Apparently the boy had suffered substantial injuries throughout his body. He had recent bruising all over his chest, stomach, neck and face area. The child was unconscious and unresponsive. -- Sgt. Kerry F. Hazelhurst, POLICE SPOKESMAN WORCESTER, MA — A 7-year-old boy whose father allegedly slammed his head into...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — An Arizona man told police he was possessed and sang Eminem songs while stabbing his family to death, MyFOXPhoenix reported. Miller told detectives he visualized his wife, Andreana Miller, as a demon, according to the station. He said just before stabbing her at 4 a.m., he sang lyrics to an Eminem song, saying, “Here comes Satan, I’m the anti-Christ, I’m going to kill you.” Miller told police that when his children woke up to their mother’s screams, he stabbed them, too. He added that he stabbed his son the most because he loved him the most, MyFOXPhoenix...

Keith L. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), of the Cincinnati Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Andrew G. Arena, SAC, of the Detroit Division of the FBI; Randy Person, Chief of Police, Xenia, Ohio Police Department; and Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney, Southern District of Ohio, announce that David Jeremy Zobel, age 32, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, was arrested without incident today by FBI agents and Ann Arbor Police Officers at Ann Arbor. Zobel has been charged in a federal complaint filed at the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, Dayton, with one count of...

Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced James Francis Gobble, age 55, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison, followed by supervised release for life, for using a computer to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. According to Gobble’s plea agreement, on November 21, 2008 an undercover Baltimore County detective posted an ad in an online publicly-available service indicating he was a school girl out of school for the day. Gobble e-mailed the detective, and the detective responded that he was a...

GREENEVILLE, TN—Joseph Wayne Jennings, 53, of New Tazewell, Tennessee, was arrested on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at the Holiday Inn located at 5435 Davy Crockett Parkway in Morristown, Tennessee. Jennings, an educator who is retired from the Claiborne County Board of Education, was a principal at Clairfield Elementary School and a teacher at the Renaissance School. After his retirement, he worked as a teacher for the Cherokee-Douglas Economic Authority and worked part-time for Toys R Us during the Christmas 2008 season. In a four-count complaint presented by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Sandra Farrow, Jennings is charged with...

Does anyone know if this is legal? We just got a parking ticket for parking in the grass in our own yard. The ticket says "can not park on grass or unpaved area(even if your own yard). I swear to god this is what the ticket says and its a $50 ticket that doubles to $100 then doubles to $200 Does anyone know anything about this law????

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today the arrest of MARIO MESCHINO, age 41, of 24950 Madison in Plainfield, Illinois. MESCHINO was arrested yesterday morning at his residence, without incident, by Special Agents assigned to the Chicago FBI's Innocent Images Task Force (IITF). MESCHINO, who is employed by the First Student Transportation Company in Plainfield as a school bus driver, was charged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Chicago with one count of Distribution of Child Pornography, which is a felony offense. According...

Police have identified the two men who lost their lives Friday in the apparent murder-suicide at a restaurant in Columbia County. Cleaning crews were still at Applebee's restaurant along Route 11 in Bloomsburg hours after two men were killed inside. Investigators said 35-year-old Thomas Yurko of the Orangeville area walked in the restaurant just after 4 p.m. Friday and shot and killed Mark Wagner, 38, of Bloomsburg. Yurko then took his own life. Officials said there were many employees and customers inside the restaurant at the time. "When you go in and sit down to dinner, that would probably be...

Cop Kills Suicidal Man An Oakley man who threatened to kill himself was shot by Contra Costa law enforcement officials after he led them on a chase, involved them in a standoff and pulled out a gun. The man called the Contra Costa Sheriff's early in the evening with threats of suicide. Officials found him on Lois Lane at Mallard Court in Oakley. He then took off in a car and led Sheriff's to his home on Almond Drive. Oakley police say he raised a gun to officials and they fired and killed him.

Since the Tax Day Tea Parties on April 15, there has been much discussion on what to do with the Tea Party movement after the big protest. Jim Geraghty of National Review’s Campaign Spot suggested that Conservatives get involved and organized at the local level, starting at local city councils and school boards. Getting 1,000 people to show up at a town council meeting would have real impact, and would begin to push a Conservatism from the bottom up, rather from the top down. It may be a longer-term strategy, but possibly a more effective one over time.

O'FALLON -- News-Democrat Three O'Fallon police officers who responded to a burglary at an apartment building Monday night shot and killed an armed man who met them at the door and found the body of a woman inside. The identities of the man and woman were not being released Monday, and Morrisey said police did not know whether or how the two knew each other. None of the officers was injured. About 9:15 p.m. the three officers responded to the call reporting a burglary, Illinois State Police Lt. Jim Morrisey said. "They were met at the door by a man...

The judge in the Sandra Cantu murder case agreed to seal her autopsy report Friday, saying if the results were released, there would be "public outrage." "We haven't seen anything like this in San Joaquin County," Superior Court Judge Linda L. Loftus said. "A lot of courts have never seen this kind of case." Both prosecution and defense attorneys were in favor of sealing the report. "In the interest of a fair trial, for both sides in this case, that is the only option," Loftus said. "There would be overriding prejudice if the record is unsealed." She said there would...

WINCHESTER, VA. – If you listened to the speeches at the Tax Day tea party held in the courthouse square of this northern Virginia town, population 25,733, you might not have caught the name of the man in the White House. Among many denunciations of high taxes and out-of-control government spending, there were just a couple of mentions of Barack Obama -- one when a local activist criticized the administration's cap-and-trade energy plan, and the other when a city businessman said he prays for the president.