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(CNSNews.com) – Less than a week after the Environmental Protection Agency restarted a controversial dredging project on the Hudson River, dredgers operated by the General Electric Company dislodged wooden beams that are the last remnants of one of the largest British forts in the American colonies. The EPA now says that the beams are contaminated with potential carcinogens known as PCBs and therefore must be buried in a landfill. The dredging operation is being conducted to remove sediments containing PCBs from the river about 40 miles north of Albany, N.Y. Fort Edward, where the dredging damage occurred, was one of...

A fast spinning windmill appeared "out of control," and threatened traffic on the highway between Los Angeles County's high desert and the San Joaquin Valley, a CHP dispatcher in Bakersfield said today. The CHP dispatcher said the windmill is spinning too fast and might fly apart, which is why Highway 58 in the Tehachapi Pass was closed down both directions between Mojave and about 45 miles north of Lancaster and Tehachapi. The malfunctioning electric generator is one of thousands of windmills installed along both sides of Highway 58 in Tehachapi Pass. Traffic was being detoured onto parallel county roads. Traffic...

WASHINGTON – The Democratic-controlled House approved $410 billion legislation Wednesday that boosted domestic programs, bristled with earmarks and chipped away at policies left behind by the Bush administration. The vote was 245-178, largely along party lines.

Republican members of the House and Senate yesterday held a rare joint press conference to make a statement of solidarity and to give an update on the state of the “stimulus” spending bill that is being rushed through the Senate as if on roller skates. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) co-hosted the presser with Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee. DeMint reamed the Obama administration and Democrat leadership for the hasty process and the bill’s content. “Americans are outraged that the Democrat majority has used our economic troubles in this country as an excuse to pass...

Las Vegas police officers served a search warrant at the Seven Hills home of Emmanuel Dozier on Panorama Ridge Drive in Henderson at about 9:30 last Sunday evening. The officers say they announced themselves, got no response, and opened fire to break the lock off the metal front door. At that point, the suspect, a 32-year-old sheet-metal worker, also opened fire. Three police officers were wounded. Mr. Dozier, who was suspected of cocaine trafficking and is now held in lieu of $3 million bail, says he thought it was a home invasion. "I want you to know something in your...

SACRAMENTO – From a base camp at Fort Hunter Liggett where he plots maps for strike teams battling infernos in the Big Sur wilderness, Cal Fire Capt. Allan Lippe struggles with the fatigue of nonstop 15-hour shifts and the knowledge that firefighters are staring at a 2008 fire year that threatens to grow into one of the most drawn-out and dangerous ever. “When it starts this early, you talk to the wife and warn her that it will be a long summer,” said Lippe, one of more than 300 firefighters from the San Diego region now on fire lines from...

A 15-year-old girl who stopped her out-of-control school bus was hit with a Saturday detention because she was supposed to be in class when the accident happened. Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head. Rouse jumped up and applied the brakes, bringing the bus to a halt after striking two parked cars. No one was injured. But Rouse said she was punished because she wasn't supposed to be on the bus in the first place....

PHOENIX (AP) — A woman who died in police custody during an airport layover was intoxicated on a potent mix of alcohol and antidepressants and accidentally strangled herself on her shackles, an autopsy released Friday concludes.

Last week, Congress allowed itself to continue overspending by raising the maximum national debt. The new debt limit, $9,815,000,000,000, is $850,000,000,000 larger than it was before. A Heritage chart puts this mind-boggling figure in perspective. Nine trillion dollars in one dollar bills would: Fill the Empire State Building nine times; Cover the entire state of Maine (35,387 square miles, including water); or Stretch 218 times longer than the total length of every road and highway in the U.S. To put it another way, this $9 trillion could buy: A quarter of the nation's 125 million homes at last year's average...

BENTONVILLE -- The father of a 17-year-old girl found his daughter's boyfriend hiding inside her bedroom closet Tuesday, beat him bloody with a pool stick, then left the room to fetch a gun. The daughter and boyfriend blocked the door with a dresser, so the father shot through the closed door, hitting the boyfriend in the back and paralyzing him, police said. George David Reed, 48, posted a $150,000 bond and was freed from jail Wednesday afternoon as Michael Austin Guzman, 19, underwent surgery to treat a bullet lodged in his spinal cord. Three of Guzman's vertebrae are fractured and...

Mark O'Hara clutches his only belongings, his legal papers, as he uses a borrowed cell phone Wednesday in an attempt to get a ride home to Dunedin from the Orient Road Jail in Tampa. [Ken Helle | Times] ADVERTISEMENT Breaking News Video TAMPA - Mark O'Hara left jail without handcuffs Wednesday, two years after he went to prison and one week since an appeals court ordered him a new trial. He was serving a 25-year sentence for having 58 Vicodin pills in his bread truck. Jurors weren't told that it is legal to possess the drug with a prescription, which...

District Attorney Berry told reporter Susan Goldsmith of the Oregonian that his department "aggressively" pursues sex crimes. "These cases are devastating to children," he said. "They are life-altering cases." No, sir. The only one devastating children's lives is you. If you "win," and these "criminals" are convicted, 20, 30 years from now – applying for a job, volunteering for a community program, heading north for a weekend in Vancouver and watching the Customs guard swipe the driver's license through the computer – there'll be a blip, something will come up on the screen, and for the umpteenth time two middle-age...

SAN DIEGO – A La Jolla man who attacked a local television reporter who was investigating his real estate dealings was sentenced Friday to probation and a year in county jail.

MIDI - SING A SONG (scroll down to June) Ha ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Mike, Mike Nifong, what you did was so wrong Now it's time that you pay...we hope you're put away Mike, Mike Nifong...you did damage that lasts a whole life long Apologies are not good enough...it's meaningless words you say Bye, bye...Mike Nifong Ha ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...

Britney Spears' hair is now being auctioned off to the highest bidder. Access Hollywood spoke with the owner of Esther's Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, Esther Tognozzi, who said she is planning to sell the singer's hair on eBay. "They will donate a portion of the hair collected from the crop to the Britney Spears Foundation." Seriously, couldn't Britney have just donated it to Locks of Love? C'mon now! Esther told Us that after Brit shaved her hair, "She just looked in the mirror and said with tears in her eyes, 'Oh, my God, I shaved it all off. My mom...

MADRID (Reuters) - Organized crime is running out of control in Mexico, Mexican President Felipe Calderon told the Spanish newspaper El Pais in an interview published on Sunday. "Organized crime is getting out of control and is causing serious worries in some regions of the country, like Michoacan," Calderon said. "Murder rates were exceeding those of Colombia at one point." On Friday Mexico extradited four drug kingpins to the United States, striking a blow against warring cartels that killed 2,000 people last year and have turned large areas into lawless badlands. President Calderon took office in December and has sent...

IXMIQUILPAN, Hidalgo — On a misty, moonless night, the group scurried down the canyon wall, their feet slipping in the an kle-high mud. The sirens grew louder as their guide, clad in a ski mask and known only as Poncho, urged them to run faster. “Hurry up! The Border Pa trol is coming!” A couple in matching de signer tennis outfits loped awkwardly along, the boyfriend clutching a digi tal video camera and strug gling to keep the pop-out screen steady. The 20 or so people flee ing the Border Patrol aren’t undocumented immi grants — they’re tourists about 700...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

"The air force is ready for any operation that will be necessary during the current military campaign against Lebanon," Brig.-Gen. Yohanan Locker, Commander of the IAF's Air Division, told The Jerusalem Post Thursday night. The officer revealed that IAF fighter jets, helicopters, and AWACs had participated in hundreds of airborne operations over Lebanon since two soldiers were kidnapped and eight others killed in a Hizbullah attack along the northern border on Wednesday. He said that the IAF F-15Is, F-16s, Apache helicopters, and other surveillance aircraft were participating in Operation Just Reward against Lebanon. The air force, he said, has struck...

Managua, May 21 (EFE).- One Chinese national died and two others were injured when a boat sank in the Kukra Hill River, in Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, a police spokesman said Sunday. Nine people, all also apparently from China, survived the mishap without being injured on Saturday. Capt. Rolando Coulson, a police spokesman in the Caribbean city of Bluefields, told EFE that the small boat carrying the Asians collided with a cargo ship about 150 meters (some 492 feet) from the port of Kukra Hill. The boat was being operated by a local man, who fled after the incident but has...

MIDI - RHODE ISLAND'S IT FOR MEWe have a representative...who knows not where he's been Perhaps it was cocaine or pills...or a fifth of daddy's gin He drives his convertible...along our pretty shores He is a good liberal guy...we couldn't ask for more We really love the Kennedys...although they're often drunk Well, at least they didn't find a dead girl in his trunk Godspeed, Patrick...Godspeed, Patrick...may rehab work this time Rhode Island is forgiving you for each and every crime He stands up for all causes Green...although we all can see His car has a big V-8 with not...

Out of Control AIDS and the corruption of medical science Posted on Friday, April 7, 2006. Originally from Harper's Magazine, March 2006. By Celia Farber. Joyce Ann Hafford was a single mother living alone with her thirteen-year-old son, Jermal, in Memphis, Tennessee, when she learned that she was pregnant with her second child. She worked as a customer service representative at a company called CMC Call Center; her son was a top student, an athlete and musician. In April 2003, Hafford, four months pregnant, was urged by her obstetrician to take an HIV test. She agreed, even though she...

I have refrained from commenting on California’s budget because it is still uncertain exactly what is going to happen in this year’s budget debate. This, however, is what we know up to this point in time. Last year, the Legislature approved, and the Governor signed, a budget that increased state spending by $11 billion. The government employee unions complained that it wasn’t enough. This year, the Governor proposed a budget that increased spending by an additional $7 billion. The government employee unions are complaining that it is not enough. The Governor’s budget spends $6 billion more than projected revenue. The...

UNDOCUMENTED migrants are rushing to Mexico's border with Arizona, encouraged by the prospect of a guest-worker programme in the United States and anticipating a toughening of border security that would make a dangerous journey even more perilous.Detentions by the US border patrol in south-central Arizona, the busiest migrant-smuggling area, are up by more than 26 per cent since 1 October - 105,803, compared with 78,024 for the same period last year. Along the entire US- Mexico border, arrests have risen by 9 per cent. Many migrants say they are being encouraged by relatives in the US, who are betting on...

ADA SMITH Weight remark set her off. ALBANY - The woman who accused state Sen. Ada Smith of scalding her with hot coffee said her out-of-control boss threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the incident, an explosive new court document shows. In a deposition filed in Albany City Court yesterday, Jennifer Jackson said she was working at her job as an aide on the morning of March 21 when Smith came into the office carrying a cup of coffee and bragging she had lost 4.3 pounds. According to the deposition, when Jackson said she thought Smith...

NEA Education Insider: March 31, 2006 March 31, 2006 House Budget Up for Vote Next Week; Your Call Can Defeat Painful Ed Cuts The full House is expected to vote next week on a budget that would take away vital education and health services from schoolchildren, college students, and poor and working-class families in communities nationwide. The budget blueprint, passed by the House Budget Committee late Wednesday on a party line vote of 22-17, closely tracks President Bush’s budget proposal by cutting Education Department funding by $4.6 billion next year and a staggering $45.3 billion over the next five years....

Observing the pro-immigration demonstrations in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Atlanta and elsewhere in recent days, I wondered: whose country is this? Why are many illegal aliens who broke our laws to get here and who continue to break our laws to stay here, demanding that the United States not only allow them to remain, but support them with the taxes of law-abiding citizens? Have we gone mad?

Palestinian Authority officials on Saturday expressed deep concern over the growing state of anarchy and lawlessness in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, warning that the PA was rapidly losing control. Some Palestinians compared the situation to what's happening in Somalia, which is divided by fiefdoms run by clan leaders and warlords. "The situation in the Palestinian territories is very dangerous because we are no longer in control," a senior PA official here admitted. He said the latest cycle of internal violence, including the kidnapping of foreigners, attacks on public buildings and installations, and gun battles between rival gangs and...

White Supremacist Wants To Bankrupt N.Y. TownPOSTED: 6:22 pm EST November 19, 2005 KINGSTON, N.Y. -- A white supremacist radio talk-show host said he wants to bankrupt the city of Kingston, N.Y. Hal Turner organized a rally Saturday that drew about 50 supporters, 100 counter demonstrators -- and as many as 200 police officers. Turner invited the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups to help protest recent attacks on white students by black students at Kingston High School. Police have said the attacks were not motivated by race. Turner figures the city would have to pay $100,000 in overtime for...

A set-up? Two years ago Seymour Hersh ,in a usual anti-Bush article, offered up this interesting nugget about the “forged documents” which I think are the true target of the Wilson/Plame investigation. I give his report no particular credence but thought it might be of interest to readers: Another explanation was provided by a former senior C.I.A. officer. He had begun talking to me about the Niger papers in March, when I first wrote about the forgery, and said, “Somebody deliberately let something false get in there.” He became more forthcoming in subsequent months, eventually saying that a small group...

September 30, 2005--On the second evening following the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a growing number of Americans believe the charges against the powerful Republican are politically motivated. On Wednesday night, 43% said the charges were based upon the facts involved while 31% said they were politically motivated.On Thursday, following a full day of news coverage, 37% said the charges were based upon the facts while 39% said they were politically motivated.The rest of the data changed little from night to night. Seventeen percent (17%) had a favorable opinion of DeLay on both nights. Overall, 38% had an...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A landmark decision has been made in the fight for the Daytona Beach boardwalk. Late Friday afternoon, a judge ruled that the city had the right to take away property from three business owners. They were holding out from a developer that wants to turn the area into condos and hotels. However, the judge also decided that the developer will have to pay two or three times the amount he originally offered for the properties. The judge believes tearing down the old properties and redeveloping falls under the area of "public use."

As we all know, over the last few days, the MSM has been giving Scott McClellan a hard time about Karl Rove. The MSM is now so over the top with anger, they can no longer contain themselves. In the process they have proven to EVERYONE what they long denied, which is they are far left liberals. Lintening to the anger coming from these people like David Gregory is no different than watching out of control children throwing a temper tantrum. What I find so humorous is that for all their stupid questions and anger at President Bush and Karl...

/Vanity Alert On/ I know we sometimes get on the Canadians about getting the motes out of their own eyes before they look in our direction. Here's a good example. I sell a business opportunity. (Doesn't matter which one.) Today I was making sales calls by phone, and one of them was to an attorney in Quebec. He liked the opportunity, but he had to stop me. He recognized it could make him a fairly good amount of money, but he said that he could not take advantage of the offer because the government of Quebec would in effect smash...

Take a moment to consider all of the pressing issues facing America today. There is a war we are waging, and rightfully so, to rid the threat of Islamo-Fascist terror. That might rightfully, be placed right at the very top of our national concerns. After all tax-cuts, spending, education, and Social Security reform will take a back seat very quickly if terrorists were to strike here in America. So let us agree, for the purpose of this column, to assume the war on terror is the pre-eminent issue facing America. Now let us examine how the Bush administration has handled...

EPA Clean Air rules take effect in EastRule mandates cuts in emissions over next decade By Stephanie I. Cohen, MarketWatch Last Update: 12:19 PM ET May 12, 2005 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - New federal air rules took effect Thursday that require eastern states to reduce harmful emissions from coal-burning power plants that dirty the air of other states located "downwind" of the pollution sources. The Clean Air Interstate Rule, or CAIR rule, was published in the Federal Register Thursday, kicking off a timeline to clean up the air in 28 states and the District of Columbia by making permanent cuts in...

Wednesday May 11, 2005 By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) A federal judge has tossed out the state's law barring distribution of sexually explicit pictures to minors over the Internet, saying it violates the First Amendment and Congress' authority over interstate commerce.U.S. District Judge Patrick Duffy said in his ruling Monday that Internet filters are an equally effective and less restrictive alternative to keep such material from minors.The challenge was brought by booksellers and publishers, some of whom operate Web sites with material on topics like obstetrics, sexual health, visual art and poetry. They argued the law...

A Monster on the Loose Beijing wanted to shake up Tokyo?but not like this. China Photos-Getty Images Unrest: Did protests start with the leadership's silent backing? By Melinda Liu Newsweek April 25 issue - If there was a script, this wasn't in it. China's president, Hu Jintao, convened an emergency session of the Politburo's powerful Standing Committee two weekends ago, just hours after anti-Japanese protests in the capital first turned violent. Thousands of marchers had converged on the Japanese Embassy, breaking windows and chanting "Kill the Japanese!" and "Come out, Japanese pigs!" Diplomacy aside, Hu's big worry was the...

Anti-Japan protests raise doubts over Chinese government's control By Geoff Dyer in Shanghai Published: April 17 2005 16:53 | Last updated: April 17 2005 16:53Large political protests in China are a rarity and even planning a march can lead to jail-time. As a result, the series of anti-Japan demonstrations in China over the last two weeks has prompted suspicion the government was working behind the scenes to promote the protests. Yet with the latest round of marches over the weekend, including an occasionally violent, 20,000-strong demonstration in Shanghai, the perception is growing that the anti-Japanese sentiment might be slipping...

When Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore refused a federal court order to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from that state’s Supreme Court building, he became the central figure in a firestorm of criticism from the left. But his liberal critics weren’t alone. Conservatives also chided Moore, contending that his defiance of the order undermined the “rule of law” in America. Throughout history, the law has served several functions. In a free and morally upright society, it provides a framework within which the people can safely live their lives and pursue their dreams. In a dictatorship, however, it devolves...

As an owner/operator of a state-licensed board and care home for the elderly, I can tell you that contrary to what state insurance commissioner John Garamendi is telling the press, we have been hard-hit, once again, with double-digit increases in the cost of workers' compensation ["Rates for workers' comp are dropping," News, Jan. 19]. I have been in business more than 10 years and have never once had a claim. My rates have gone from under 6 percent to more than 23 percent of payroll. And since 2003, when Garamendi claims business owners have seen average cuts totaling 13.9 percent...

SANFORD, Fla. - Eleven people directed to the wrong courtroom in the Seminole County Courthouse were arrested and jailed when they didn't appear before the proper judge, who was in an adjoining courtroom less than 100 feet away. The six men and five women spent eight hours Friday in a Seminole County Jail cell before everything was straightened out. "I'm hungry, I'm tired and I'm disgusted," said Frantarshia Coleman, after she was released from jail. "This is ridiculous. This is disgusting." Coleman, 33, of Orlando was in court on a ticket for not having her registration and proof of insurance....

As an American, I have always been inspired by the fact that my country welcomes those who seek refuge. And as long as our government officials maintain our borders and ensure that those coming from other countries are screened in order to protect those who legally live here, the concept of welcoming immigrants is a noble one. However, something has gone awry. Indeed, illegal immigration into the U.S. has become an immense problem and a clear and present danger. Documented illegal immigration has more than doubled in the last decade. It has grown, by conservative counts, from 3.5 million in...

A pair of baby-faced Whitman boys, busted on a public street for illegal skateboarding, were arrested, booked and shackled before being hauled into a Brockton juvenile court to face charges, the children's irate parents said yesterday. ``It's absurd,'' mother Stephanie Saltzman said. ``My son is 12 years old and all he was doing is skateboarding. I mean, you gotta be kidding me.'' Saltzman's son, Josh, and 14-year-old neighbor, Ryan Maxwell, were arrested Aug. 3 when a Whitman police officer caught them skateboading on South Avenue. A town bylaw prohibits using skateboards or other devices to ``coast or slide'' along public...

<p>April 21, 2004 -- I 'M seriously considering suing the Justice Department, specifically the Eastern and Southern districts of New York, for restraint of trade. In a nutshell, they have ended the careers of a lot of old mobsters with a promise they will pass on in a clean, controlled environment - the slam.</p>

Twenty-three years ago, Eva Tinoco left everything she had and most everyone she knew for the sake of her children. Neither fear nor immigration laws were on her mind when she left her little Mexican village bound for the United States, she said. After entering the country illegally in 1981, she and her six children were among the 2.7 million immigrants who became lawful residents under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The law was supposed to be the solution to growing concerns about illegal immigration. It proposed a two-pronged approach: First, legalizing immigrants who were already in...

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) said Wednesday he was "troubled" by gay weddings in San Francisco and by legal decisions in Massachusetts that could clear the way for same-sex marriage. But he declined to say whether he is any closer to backing a constitutional ban on such vows. "I have watched carefully what's happening in San Francisco, where licenses were being issued, even though the law states otherwise," Bush said. "I have consistently stated that I'll support law to protect marriage between a man and a woman. Obviously these events are influencing my decision." "I am watching...

California Appeals Court - Recall should be blocked!!!

It's rare to hear a politician say his goal is to get a crowd of more than 500 people worked up. But Jim Coletta said he wasn't a politician on Wednesday night. He said he was, and is, a civic activist. The Collier County commissioner and other county officials are enraged by the new flood maps proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. They say the maps aren't based on historical data and are inaccurate, such as incorrect names for city roads and streets. It's rare to hear a politician say his goal is to get a crowd of more...