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<p>They seemed such a normal couple - until they built a pagan stone circle in the garden...</p> <p>You'd think milkmen would be used to pre-dawn doorstep encounters with all manner of 'unconventional' folk, wouldn't you? Well, not in leafy Dorchester.</p>

Neighbor to Neighbor: Reach Out to Voters in your Community This campaign is built on the belief that everyday Americans, when organized and focused, can change their country. Now you can have an even greater impact on your community. Start today by logging in to our new voter contact tool to find voters near you, or in a critical battleground state, to reach out to. You can go door to door or make calls at any time that’s convenient for you. Ordinary Americans reaching out to ordinary Americans is going to make the real impact in this election, and we're...

The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the US government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country. Several of the senior leaders of the organization are believed to be based in Mexico, although they enter the US occasionally to oversee the operations of lieutenants of the crime family. The organization is alleged to be involved in the manufacture and distribution of high-quality counterfeit identity documents, including social security...

Hate preacher Abu Qatada has moved into an £800,000 home funded by the taxpayer following his release from jail. New neighbours of the cleric once described as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand in Europe said: “He could not be less welcome.” One resident, who served in the Navy during the Gulf War, said: “The fact that he is in my country, let alone around my neighbourhood, makes me mad. We are losing men in Afghanistan and now this man is allowed to live here.” Qatada arrived at the house in London on Tuesday after a court granted him bail. He is...

A Milwaukee County Circuit Court jury got a disturbing view Wednesday into the secret world of murder defendant Rene Stermole, a malevolent world of plotting terrorists, hidden assassins and nefarious gangs. Stermole, 58, wept, yelled, whispered and laughed during his daylong testimony. Despite efforts by his attorney, the prosecutor and the judge, that testimony ranged near and far as he tried to explain why, on June 13, 2007, he shot his neighbor, Mark Wright, six times as Wright prepared to grill dinner for his wife and 7-year-old daughter. “I have been framed for murder,” Stermole yelled to the jury more...

15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever Back when I was in 7th grade I stood up in front of my English class and delivered a tongue-in-cheek, poorly researched presentation on why I thought Mister Rogers should be the next President. I ate up the first few minutes zipping up my cardigan, and putting on some sneakers, and then I proceeded to mock him roundly. It was a riotous success. Fourteen years later, I’m using this post to repent. The following are 15 things everyone should know about Fred Rogers: 1. Even Koko the Gorilla loved him...

Stone Age cave in central Vietnam has neighbor Vietnamese researchers, studying a grotto discovered a decade ago in which Paleolithic period tools were found, a few days ago stumbled upon another nearby also containing ancient tools. Experts from the Vietnam Archaeology Institute and the Quang Tri Museum in central Vietnam were researching the Hang Doi (bat) cave in Cam Lo district’s Dragon mountain when they found “Hang Doi 2”. The grotto is 65 meters underground and its vault is 10-20 meter high. They found 11 stone tools inside. Hang Doi was acknowledged as a provincial relic in 1996 and recently...

MELVIN, Ky. -- Barry Collins' neighbors don't say 'here Kitty Kitty' when they see his pet cat prowling around. Maybe that's because his Kitty is a 400-plus-pound adult lion who roams a 300-square-foot cage in the family's back yard in Melvin. While Collins said Kitty is just a family pet, some Floyd County, Ky., residents disagree. Collins' neighbors in Kentucky don't like the idea of a backyard lion. County officials may try to force the Collins family to find a new home for Kitty soon. A county ordinance that would bar animals deemed "inherently dangerous" by the state is up...

TORONTO: Like many Canadians, Ghazanfar Khan feels his country is far too much under US influence. The 24-year-old man of Pakistani origin, standing for next week's general election, wants to do something to change things. A debut candidate in the January 23 ballot, Khan has a definite agenda for Canada and feels that his country should carve out its own identity that is separate from its superpower neighbour to the south. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon of major parties like the Liberals or the Conservatives, Khan is with the Canadian Action Party, a little-known entity but one he believes...

Home > News & Policies > Radio Address Archives For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryNovember 26, 2005 President's Radio Address      Audio      THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, we gather with our loved ones to give thanks for the many blessings in our lives. Each family has its own traditions, yet we are united as a nation in setting aside a day of gratitude. We are thankful for our family and friends, who fill our lives with joy and love. We are thankful for the abundance of this prosperous land. We are thankful for the freedom that makes possible...

The state government continues to spend beyond its means, with Republicans calling for cuts in government, or at least cuts in its rate of growth, and Democrats pushing for tax and fee increases to make up the difference. But apparently there is one area of agreement between members of both parties: They would like to cut down on so-called tax cheats who are estimated to cost the state $6.5 billion a year. A particularly dismaying plan now being pushed by Controller Steve Westly would encourage Californians to snitch on people who might not be paying their proper amount of taxes....

Anti-Semitism may seem to be a static, unchanging phenomenon but in fact the obsessive hatred of Jews has a history that goes back millennia and continues to evolve.Developments since World War II and the Holocaust have been especially fast-paced and portentous. Here are four of the most significant shifts: From right to left: For centuries, anti-Semitism was the hallmark of the right and merely episodic on the left. To take the ultimate examples of these trends, Stalin's Judeophobia was peripheral to his monstrous project, but Hitler's was central to his. Even a decade ago, this pattern still basically held true....

BATH, Pa. (AP) - A 70-year-old woman was charged with criminal homicide Tuesday, accused of bludgeoning her 84-year-old neighbor to death with a hammer. Police declined to say if they had ascertained a motive. Killed was Marguerite "Tutti" Eyer; her alleged assailant, Kathy MacClellan, was being held without bail in the Northampton County Prison. Eyer's personal medical alert device was activated Monday evening, sending police to her home. They asked the gravely wounded Eyer who had struck her. She replied: "Kathy Mc ... she did it with a hammer," according to court records. Eyer died at a hospital. It was...

The man nicknamed “Mister DWI” is in trouble again. 63–year–old Jerry Zeller was arrested Saturday by police for failure to appear in court for an October drunk driving charge. This is Zeller's 34th DWI arrest. Prosecutors have not been able to charge Zeller as an habitual offender in the past, since a former state law would restart the DWI conviction count after five years. Zeller's last DWI conviction was in June of 1997, therefore Zeller only faces a misdemeanor for his recent arrest with a maximum sentence of one year in jail. The state law was changed in July of...

When is it “OK” for an innocent bystander to be brutalized at the whim of a common thug? Amid the collection of worldviews we endeavor to rationalize in our pluralistic cultural, brutalizing ones neighbor and stranger alike is still repugnant to most. Who among us, whether atheist, Christian, or secular humanist will praise and commend the actions of a judge who in the name of love and understanding does not penalize the lawbreaking thief, rapist, and murderer. Why is it so difficult for the average person to apply this simple example of reality to God? If the Creator God...

<p>Belgrade -- A former senior military official and pro-democracy activist went on trial in Serbia Tuesday accused of spying for the United States.</p> <p>Gen. Momcilo Perisic is accused of handing over classified material between 2001 and 2002 to John Neighbor, the former first secretary of the U.S. embassy in Belgrade.</p>

The Outback, a subdivision in rural Pickens County that advertises "Mountain Living at Its Best," has turned into a neighborhood at its worst. Former friends and acquaintances have fallen out bitterly over the neighborhood covenants, the rules governing what residents can or cannot build on their multi-acre, forested lots. The building in question is a garage. But it's not just any garage, housing the family sport utility vehicle and a sedan. It's an industrial-looking metal building that any monster truck would be proud to call home. It covers 5,000 square feet and sports roll-up doors 12 feet tall. "I'm like...

When you live in a gated community, you take a few things for granted as part of the fees you pay to your HOA. In casual neighborhood disputes (unless, of course, you live in one of the warring Summerlin communities), you can expect that you'll have an open forum on the second Tuesday of every month to discuss how Mr. Jones has kept his Christmas lights up a week too long, how Mrs. Luvalle continues to put her garbage out two days early, thus giving the neighborhood cats and rats the opportunity to fill the streets with her half-filled bottles...

<p>Each morning, as a Quincy mother and her severely autistic 11-year-old son waited for a school van, a neighbor walked past with a barking dog, knowing it frightened the boy and made him shriek and wet his pants, according to the attorney general's office.</p>

<p>The New York Times Magazine had a lively cover story in its Sept. 28 issue about the recall election, and it started with an equally lively anecdote about how Gov. Gray Davis' next-door neighbor disliked Davis' un-neighborly behavior so much she gave $2,000 to the recall campaign.</p>