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The kids are calling it “Two Teachers, One Chair,” and it has all the makings of a YouTube hit. But school administrators and parents are hard pressed to find humour in a graphic lap dance caught on video between two teachers at a spirit rally at Churchill High School in Winnipeg last week.

BOSTON (WBZ) ― The state medical examiner has ruled the death of Nancy Kerrigan's father a homicide. 70-year-old Daniel Kerrigan died last month after what authorities say was a violent struggle with his son, Mark Kerrigan. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said: "The Medical Examiner determined that the cause of death was cardiac dysrhytmia following a physical altercation with neck compression causing injury to the neck in the form of a cartilage fracture to the larynx area, in a person with hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular heart disease." Family members had said he died of...

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The local Fox affiliate in Boston was all over John Kerry who has been claiming to be a die-hard Red Sox fan. I saw Kerry at a Red Sox game about a month ago. The die-hard fan left in the 4th inning. At least when Affleck, Damon, or Couric come to games, they stick around for the whole game. Anyways, Kerry mentioned during a speech today (not sure where) one of the Red Sox players named Manny Ortez. Apparently Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz had a legal gay marriage here in MA and Manny Ortez is their love child. The...

Poll on the right side of the page... Should commercial airline pilots be armed with weapons in the cockpit? YesNoDon't Know

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Trevin Dilfer, the 5-year-old son of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trent Dilfer, died Sunday in California after a 40-day battle with heart disease. The boy's parents and three sisters were at his bedside at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. "Trevin was a very brave young boy and we are comforted in knowing that as a child of God he has returned to his maker,'' the family said in a statement. "We grieve, but not as those without hope.'' The Dilfers thanked supporters and hospital staff while requesting privacy, and a family spokesman said there would be...

Please FReed this Dixie Chicks poll located at the main page linked above. The poll asks... Do you agree or disagree with what the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maine had to say? Do you beleive that the Dixie Chicks music should be boycotted? This is a Boston Country Station. You can't see the results, but the station will get the message.

Smarts Frustrated With Police Progress Brian David Mitchell; his current appearance is unknown. BY KEVIN CANTERAand MICHAEL VIGH THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE     Two divergent theories about who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart -- one advanced by detectives and the other formulated by the girl's family -- have led the missing teenager's family to openly criticize police for the first time.     Since the June 5 abduction, the Smart family has been careful not to fault Salt Lake City police investigators trying to crack the case.     But now Tom Smart, Elizabeth's uncle, says police are dragging their feet in the...

WAAF 107.3FM is a popular rock station here in Boston. This past Friday in Lowell, Massachusetts, WAAF had their "Indoor Beach Party". The Indoor Beach Party is a multi-band concert which included the group Mudvayne. The lead singer of the band compared George Bush to Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden and said "F*** George W. Bush" during their set. So, Greg Hill, the morning show guy at WAAF, decided that he wasn't gonna play music by these Anti-American fools. Matt, the drummer of Mudvayne, did an on-air interview with the morning show guys to tell his side of the story....

Sunday, February 23, 2003 · Last updated 5:44 a.m. PT 1 Dead As Police Car Hits Fla. Sunbathers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A police officer searching for robbery suspects on the beach drove over two tourists Saturday, killing one and critically injuring the other. Miami Beach police officer George Varon was driving a marked sports utility vehicle along the crowded shores, searching for two robbery suspects believed to be on the beach. He apparently didn't see two French sisters lying in the sand, police said. Stephanie and Sandrine Tunc were taken to a hospital, where Stephanie, 27,...

R.J. Reynolds and NASCAR recently announced this year's Winston Cup point fund will be a record $17 million. What they didn't say was that whoever snares the $4,250,000 for first place in 2003 may also be the final Winston Cup champion. ESPN.com has learned that R.J. Reynolds is seriously looking at ending its long and rich association with the stock car world after 33 years. This follows by just a few days Union 76's announcement that it would cease its 50-year relationship as NASCAR's official fuel and oil. A top-level source inside the tobacco industry and another source close to...

NASA STATEMENT ON LOSS OF COMMUNICATIONS WITH COLUMBIA A Space Shuttle contingency has been declared in Mission Control, Houston, as a result of the loss of communication with the Space Shuttle Columbia at approximately 9 a.m. EST Saturday as it descended toward a landing at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. It was scheduled to touchdown at 9:16 a.m. EST. Communication and tracking of the shuttle was lost at 9 a.m. EST at an altitude of about 203,000 feet in the area above north central Texas. At the time communications were lost. The shuttle was traveling approximately 12,500 miles per...

Guns for Tots The New York City Coucil wants to ban water pistols in the Big Apple. The Manhattan Libertarian party is riding to the rescue.by Katherine Mangu-Ward 01/31/2003 12:00:00 AM Katherine Mangu-Ward, editorial assistant THIS WEEK, the Manhattan Libertarian party launched its "Guns for Tots" campaign to protest a bill that would make toy guns illegal in New York City. Worried about the loss of "one of the most cherished rites of childhood," Jim Lesczynski, spokesman for the Manhattan Libertarian party says the party plans to distribute toy guns, including cap guns and water pistols, to New York...

Brady Center Heralds Federal Appeals Court Opinion That Repudiates New Justice Department View of Gun Rights (Washington, D.C.) A remarkable 70-page opinion upholding California's ban on semi-automatic assault weapons, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sharply criticized the "individual rights" view of the Second Amendment recently endorsed by the Ashcroft Justice Department. Even though the Justice Department was not a participant in the case, the federal appeals court, in Silveira v. Lockyer, noted that the "current leadership" of the Department had "recently reversed the decades-old position of the government on the Second Amendment" and that this...

Just a heads up to the Coulter fans... Ann will be on Hannity and Colmes tonight.

Please join NRA President Charlton Heston, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, and NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox at the FREE "Vote Freedom First" rally scheduled for Monday, October 21, in Manchester, NH. With less than three weeks before Election Day -- November 5 -- your attendance at the Manchester "Vote Freedom First" rally will be critical in helping pro-gun candidates make their final push for votes leading up to November 5. With President Heston leading the charge and your attendance at the FREE Manchester "Vote Freedom First" rally, you will help jump start our campaign battle plan to mobilize...

WHDH-TV Channel 7 in Boston (NBC) just did a nice piece on women attending a Braintree, Massachusetts gun club for a introduction to firearms/self defense. Lynne Roberts from the 2nd Amendment Sisters was interviewed. The segment immediately followed news of the sniper shootings in Maryland/DC. The segment was definitely pro-self defense. The woman field reporter for Channel 7 even fired off a few rounds at the pistol range. Nice to see news like this every once in a while from this gun control state.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Tom Gamboa was standing near first base, just as he's done every other night of the season. Hands on his hips, he was watching the next Royals batter come to the plate. The Royals reacted in a hurry to protect Tom Gamboa when the first-base coach was attacked by two fans. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the Kansas City coach was ambushed by a bare-chested father and his juvenile son who ran out of the seats. What seemed "like a football team'' crashed into his back and knocked him to the ground. His left cheek was slammed into...

I found some MP3s of NYPD/FDNY Radio Transmissions from September 11th. Some of them aren't that clear. But the last one really got to me. I feel that it's even more vivid than seeing a video of the tower collapsing. File #1File #2File #3File #4