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Aurora police officers were trapped inside the District 1 station house for hours July 3 night after protesters chained the doors shut and plotted to storm the building. The incident occurred when protesters demonstrating at a memorial for 23-year-old Elijah McClain marched to the Aurora Police Department’s District 1 station house near Montview and Wheeling just after 8 p.m. on July 3, KDVR reported. Protesters chained the doors of the police station shut from the outside, trapping officers inside. Aurora police have refused to comment on how many officers were locked inside the building for approximately seven hours, KDVR reported. “The unfortunate part is...

It was a day when the lives of 92 schoolchildren were stolen in a place where their parents thought they would be safe: their school. The inferno that consumed Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels on Dec. 1, 1958, opened a pit of sorrow that still seems bottomless. The survivors have replayed those agonizing minutes in their minds countless times -- and all the things that went wrong, increasing the body count. In the strong, silent '50s, survivors, victims' families and rescuers were urged not to dwell on the blaze. God took the good ones, they were told. Get on...

Mexicans Doing Jobs Americans Don't Want: Kicking Iranian Butt! With their exciting 3-1 victory over Iran in the World Cup Sunday, the Mexican national team unwittingly breathed new life into President Bush's amnesty plan, fictitiously called immigration reform. How so? Well, those Mexican fellows proved skilled at kicking Iranian butt----at least on the soccer field. And it's not too much a stretch to assume that that skill set---kicking Iranian butt---is also prevalent among the 20 million or so illegal squatters now in America. President Bush should seize the initiative and use his 'Bully Pulpit' to broker a deal with...