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WOONSOCKET — The quick-thinking owner of a Social District package store turned the tables on a man who had a knife to his throat and threatened to kill him for money Tuesday, police said. After a violent struggle with the robber, the owner of U-Save Liquors at 399 Clinton St. convinced him that he was too tired to fight anymore and he was giving up. In an attempt to put the robber at ease, John Quinn then offered him the keys to the store and invited him to lock the front doors before he looted the store. As 20-year-old Kevin...

Woman’s silicon breasts burst as she lands in California Front page / Society / Real life stories 01.07.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru A female passenger from Russia had her silicon breasts ruptured as she landed in an airplane in the United States . The 45-year-old woman from Moscow was hospitalized urgently, Life.ru website reports. The woman, identified only as Irena D., decided to spend her holiday on the beautiful beaches of the transatlantic coast. She boarded a Boeing-767 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport with a hope that in about 14 hours she will be enjoying the sun of California.

1. New York: Bernard Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years in Prison Bernard L. Madoff was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 150 years in prison for perpetrating a Ponzi scheme that resulted in billions of dollars of losses to thousands of investor-victims. He was also ordered to forfeit a total of 0,799,000,000. Full Story 2. Philadelphia: Joseph T. Lukas Pleads Guilty to Paying Bribes to Vietnamese Officials Joseph T. Lukas, a former executive of Philadelphia-based Nexus Technologies Inc., pled guilty in connection with his participation in a conspiracy to bribe Vietnamese government officials in exchange for lucrative contracts to supply...

U.S. Marshalls have just taken control of Bernard and Ruth Madoff's posh $7 million Manhattan apartment. Mrs. Madoff has been told to leave the home per a court-approved agreement. Marshals will be changing the locks, but they do not plan to remove any items today, sources tell CBS News. Ruth Madoff is the wife of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, who was sentenced to 150 years in prison for masterminding a decades-long Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of tens of billions of dollars. Developing...

As a Catholic priest and pastor, a great source of sadness for me is the large number of Catholics who do not attend Sunday Mass as they ought. These are not just “fallen-away” Catholics, but even more those who attend Mass on an irregular basis. The excuses given for this sporadic attendance often vary: too busy, overslept, a family gathering, intended to make the evening Mass but were unable to make it, etc. However, what I find more bothersome than their irregular attendance is the attitude that many of these individuals have toward their Sunday obligation. Too often they will...

The Obama administration has just been Woodwarded, as in Bob Woodwarded. If his Washington Post report is accurate, General Jones, the National Security Advisor committed a serious civil-military relations mistake that could haunt the administration over the coming year. Up until now the administration has been nearly pitch-perfect on the issue of how to talk to the military about securing military advice in high command decision making and how to talk about the military advice they get. But this report, which seems authoritative because it reads like a verbatim transcript of the meeting (is Bob Woodward on the trip?), sounds...

July 3, 2009                                Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Eph 2:19-22 Brothers and sisters:You are no longer strangers and sojourners,but you are fellow citizens with the holy onesand members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.Through him the whole structure is held togetherand grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;in him you also are being built togetherinto a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Responsorial PsalmPs 117:1bc, 2 R. (Mark 16:15) Go out to all the world and tell the...

Poll: What is the single BEST way to create jobs in this economy? A Daily Poll.

HOST: Health care. MCCAIN: Needs reform. HOST: That’s two words. [weird laugh] Iraq. MCCAIN: Success. HOST: Arizona. MCCAIN: The best. HOST: US-Mexico Border. McCain: Cartels. HOST: GOP. MCCAIN: Transition. HOST: Sheriff Joe Arpaio:MCCAIN: Umm…

Warren to buy Saints, build Purpose-Driven Field NEW ORLEANS — Pastor and author Rick Warren has signed a deal to purchase the New Orleans Saints football franchise for $320 million from current owner Tom Benson, and has pledged to pour his time and energy into helping the city and team rebuild. "This is the start of the Saints' turnaround," a Warren spokesman said. "America is going to see what a purpose-driven team can accomplish." The Saints have desperately needed a home and a vision since Hurricane Katrina devastated their season. They were keenly disappointed with the NFL's response to their...

More than 200 dancers were performing their version of "Do Re Mi", in the Central Station of Antwerp. with just 2 rehearsals they created this amazing stunt!

"The Defenders of Liberty" Fastened upon our ancestors by the despots of far away lands, the Chains of Tyranny were linked by hereditary bondage, undeserved tribute, and indentured servitude. By exhibiting gallant resolve and courage – in some cases against the face of certain death – our Minutemen forefathers gloriously threw off these chains just 233 short years ago. Much has changed since that time. Yet today, we hear again the rattling and clanking of the Chains of Tyranny. The chains we hear are held not by foreign powers. Dreadfully, it is those among us, many of whom are our...

Strange sighting on Lake Champlain

How would you vote on the proposed bill requiring parental notification or consent before a minor could have an abortion?

Jim Geraghty has some interesting insights about why liberals hate Sarah Palin so much -- in a word (or so), it's because she invalidates the most cherished parts of their world view. I think Jim's right, but I think there's even more to it than that. Governor Palin has been attacked with the kind of ferocity that few people in the public eye have ever experienced -- except, perhaps, for Justice Thomas and (to a lesser extent) Joe the Plumber. Why does the left reserve their most vicious derision for these three, and those like them? As I wrote last...

The Big Picture photography competition: round 57 [See several enchanting pics in URL] This week's Big Picture winner - and recipient of a Nikon CoolPix P6000 camera worth £379.99 - is Martin Brown from London for this picture of girls in traditional dress for a religious festival in Delhi, India. Read on to see this week's other shortlisted entries...

Democracy's forces can’t beat demography's power Even in the age of high-tech warfare, shifts in the world population give a military advantage to ‘underdeveloped’ countries Richard Ehrman The word jingoism originated from a music hall ditty of the Boer War: “We don’t want to fight”, it ran, “but by jingo if we do, we have got the men, we’ve got the guns, we’ve got the money too.” A hundred years later it often seemed that Tony Blair was intent on pursuing the reverse policy — always up for a fight but painfully short of the means to pursue it. The...

With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military force against Tehran's nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever. Iran's nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change. That prospect seems lost for the near future or for at least as long as it will take Iran to finalize a deliverable nuclear weapons capability. Accordingly, with no other timely option, the already compelling logic for an Israeli strike is nearly inexorable. Israel...

Does this this video make you say: A. Sigh, women in the military.... B. Where do I sign up?!!! C. Leave her alone, she's fighting for you!

A scientific investigation seems to confirm the theory that St Paul's bones lie under the basilica bearing his name in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI has announced. The bones, long buried in a sarcophagus under St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, have been carbon-dated to the first or second century AD, the Pope said, adding a dramatic flourish to the close of the Pauline year. Standing in front of the sarcophagus, which is under the main altar and was discovered only three years ago, Pope Benedict said he felt moved to be able to make the announcement. The Holy...