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Top Official at NJEA (New Jersey Education Association) discussing what he describes as a rigged election in Hudson County, NJ. www.theprojectveritas.com

Maurice Clemmons was shot and wounded in South Seattle and has been taken to Harborview Medical Center, according to a law enforcement source.

Dr. Denis Mukwege jokes with patients outside the surgical ward of Panzi hospital in Bukavu, DRC. On this photo's date, Dr Mukwege had treated 21,000 women suffering from devastating gynecological injuries as a result of rape in Congo's brutal war. He is the only gynecologist treating these wounds in the country. Oct. 14, 2008 Seeing pregnant women arrive at the hospital on a donkey and dying during childbirth encouraged Mukwege to study gynaecology and obstetrics. Noticing that so many women had been sexually abused, he later founded the Panzi hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of...

SAN DIEGO -- There was a surprise in a downtown San Diego courtroom Thursday, as an illegal immigrant changed his plea and admitted to luring a boy into a canyon near a school and raping him. [...] Nava pleaded guilty to committing a lewd act by force on a child under 14, admitted to being a stranger to the child when the crime was committed, and acknowledged that the act involved force and or fear to the child, prosecutors said.

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- A man is under arrest on suspicion of being one of up to four people who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl near Noblesville last week. Miguel Gutierrez, 20, who authorities say is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, faces two counts of rape. Authorities said the 14-year-old was among three girls who visited an acquaintance at a party at a Noblesville area home. At the party, the 14-year-old was given alcohol and was taken to a garage area, where she was raped by up to four people early Thursday, authorities said.

A 13-year-old girl who slashed a classmate across the face with a razor blade has been given a two-year supervision order. The girl was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday after being found guilty of unlawful wounding. She was cleared of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Her victim, Shanni Naylor, needed 30 stitches after being attacked during an English lesson at Myrtle Springs School in Sheffield in October last year. Speaking outside court, the Naylor family's solicitor, Garry Dickinson, said his clients had begun civil proceedings against the school, alleging a breach of its duty...

FLORENCE, S.C. - Two Hartsville men who pleaded guilty to federal carjacking charges in an incident in which a man was chained to a pickup truck and dragged through a field were sentenced to prison Wednesday. Kenneth Smith, 41, was sentenced to 14 years in prison by U.S. District Judge R. Bryan Harwell, and Lamont McKay, 27 was sentenced to 7 years. Prosecutors sought the reduced sentence for McKay, because they said he cooperated in the case. Each man had faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The two men began arguing with the victim...

APRIL 07, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - BANGALORE, India -- Former employees of a call center in Pune, India, were arrested this week on charges of defrauding four Citibank account holders in New York, to the tune of $300,000, a police official said. The three former employees of Mphasis BPO, the business process outsourcing operation of Bangalore software and services company Mphasis BFL Group, are charged with collecting and misusing account information from customers they dealt with as part of their work at the call center, according to Sanjay Jadhav, chief of the cybercrime cell of the Pune police. "Either...

Later this week, the spotlight will be on Southeastern Arizona. Starting Friday, the month-long Minuteman Project will have volunteers, some armed, watching and waiting for illegal border crossers. It's gaining international attention. Tuesday, Mexican officials met with the Mayor of Douglas to discus how they will handle potential violence. Angela Castillo Lopez and her 10-year-old granddaughter live in Agua Prieta Sonora. They cross daily into Douglas to visit family and to buy groceries. But with word of the Minuteman Project, Lopez says she won't be crossing after April 1st. She feels its too dangerous. That concerns Agua Prieta Mayor David...

Illegal aliens using false Social Security numbers were able to enter and work as contract painters at a power plant in Florida, including work near one nuclear reactor.Officials at Progress Energy, which runs the Crystal River Energy Complex in Citrus County, say they followed federal regulations and that the contractor should have better vetted its employees.Now a congresswoman is calling for hearings on how the lapse could have happened and calling for the Senate to pass a bill cracking down on illegal aliens' ability to obtain government identification."We certainly don't want to have one illegal alien at a nuclear power...

Some white students at a South Jersey Catholic school walked out of classes Tuesday in protest over a speech by the New Jersey Secretary of State Regina Thomas. Tensions have been building up at Paul VI High School since Thomas' speech on racial justice last week.

New Jersey's first lady went public with details of her struggles with depression yesterday, telling a television interviewer that she once thought about putting her "baby in my microwave."

Jan 23, 2003 -- The federal joint terrorism task force this morning raided a Leesburg home, loading numerous items from the house into a Ryder moving van. Leesburg Police assisted in serving the search warrant on the single family home located on a cul-de-sac in the Foxridge community in northwest Leesburg. An FBI spokesman confirmed that the exercise was carried out by the terrorism task force and said that no arrests were made. The search is part of an ongoing investigation and details of the search are not being publicly released. Some neighbors reported being told by agents that the...