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A store clerk was fatally shot at an Exxon station in Garland during a robbery about midnight Saturday, police said. A pedestrian alerted officers on Broadway Boulevard near Oates Road that there was a gunshot victim inside the station, police said. Inside, officers found the clerk, 35-year-old Manish Panday, dead of a gunshot wound. Surveillance video shows two men entered the station with guns drawn. Panday was shot during a struggle.

Porn star August Ames was found dead of an apparent suicide Wednesday, one day after the adult actress was apparently bullied by social justice warriors on social media for explaining she would not perform in scenes alongside male actors who also perform in gay porn, due to health concerns. Ames, whose real name is Mercedes Grabowski, “died of asphyxia due to hanging” in what has been ruled as a suicide, according to Ventura County, California officials. She was 23 years old. Grabowski was bullied on Twitter after she announced her refusal to do porn scenes with gay porn actors, citing...

Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews. Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks...

At least three possible bidders have emerged to purchase the Miami Marlins baseball team including one representing the country’s most prominent political family, and one representing a future Hall of Famer, the FOX Business Network has learned. Former New York Yankees star shortstop Derek Jeter has expressed interest in bidding for the team, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. He is being represented in talks with Marlins president David Samson by veteran Wall Street executive and former Morgan Stanley (MS) brokerage chief Gregory Fleming, who now runs his own investment banking boutique, the people say. Another major...

The Last Man on Earth is a show I loved. For those who don't know, it's set a few years in the future after a virus wiped out most of the people of earth. Looking at Wikipedia, it appears the virus hit in 2019. So, last night, they had a flashback episode to the start of the virus. The first sign of trouble is when Kristen Wiig had Alexa read the headlines and one of them involved President Pence. Leftist fantasy #1: Donald Trump didn't serve out his full first term. Then, it gets really disturbing. Images of a motorcade...

A Grand Prairie woman who was found guilty on two counts of illegal voting has been sentenced to eight years in prison along with a $5,000 fine on Thursday. Rosa Maria Ortega was arrested in 2015. She is a legal U.S. resident, but is not a citizen and therefore, not qualified to vote. *snip* Prosecutors say Ortega applied to vote in Tarrant County and acknowledged on the application form that she was not a citizen. The county rejected her application and notified her she was not qualified to vote. But five months later, she applied again and this time claimed...

During TCA’s winter press tour, FX CEO John Langraf revealed that Ronald Reagan will figure into the second season of the network’s hit anthology series. “It covers something that was referenced in the first installment by Lou Solverson, Molly Solverson’s [Allison Tolman] father,” Langraf said. “It’s a big sprawling, in some ways, more comedic [season], though at times, a very serious show. It’s set in the late ’70s against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for President of the United States. Reagan is a character in it.” After the panel, Landgraf confided to EW that Fargo will actually be...

Police to pursue capital murder charge against suspect Friday, May 25, 2012 | Updated 10:57 PM CDT A 76-year-old convenience store clerk who was set on fire during a robbery at the Garland gas station where she worked has died. Nancy Harris died at Parkland Hospital on Friday evening, Garland police said in a statement. Harris had burns on more than 40 percent of her body. Police said Harris, a clerk at a Fina station in the 3300 block of Broadway Boulevard, was attacked at about 7 a.m. Sunday. Two officers saw her emerge from the gas station with the...

WASHINGTON – Rep. Joe Barton failed Tuesday in his bid to lead one of the House’s most powerful committees despite an aggressive campaign that involved mobilizing the support of tea party groups. *snip* Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., won a vote of the GOP Steering Committee, a panel composed of party leaders. The appointment must be ratified by the full Republican conference on Wednesday. Barton, R-Arlington, could challenge the decision by seeking a vote of the entire conference. It remained unclear Tuesday night whether he would do that. *snip*

MELBOURNE, Australia – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Congress should act quickly, before new members take their seats, to repeal the military's ban on gays serving openly in the military. He, however, did not sound optimistic that the current Congress would use a brief postelection session to get rid of the law known as "don't ask, don't tell." "I would like to see the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" but I'm not sure what the prospects for that are," Gates said Saturday, as he traveled to defense and diplomatic meetings in Australia. Unless the lame-duck Congress acts, the...

ALBANY -- Two key officials with the Malaysian company that won the rights to build an Aqueduct racino were slapped with fines by the state Racing & Wagering Board late Friday. Following the completion of an investigation stemming from their actions as board members of the Empire Resorts' Monticello track and racino operation, G. Michael Brown and Au Fook Yew were each assessed $1,000 fines.

U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions will be holding a health care town hall meeting at Richardson's Eisemann Center next Monday, March 29, 2010. From Sessions' email invitation: Richardson Town Hall Meeting This month, I will be returning from Washington, DC for a District Work Period to meet with North Texans and to discuss your views about the work of Congress and the direction of America. As your Member of Congress, I invite you to join me for a Town Hall Meeting to discuss the future of health care in America. Richardson Town Hall Meeting Monday, March 29, 2010 7:00pm – 8:30pm...

Seth MacFarlane marked the five-year-anniversary of Terri Schiavo's court-ordered death by staging a preschool musical about it in his crass FOX cartoon, "Family Guy." MacFarlane denied Schiavo human dignity in the March 21 episode by referring to her in lyrics sung by cartoon preschoolers as "the most expensive plant you'll ever see" and a "vegetable," and noted "her mashed potato brains." The child who played the role of Schiavo's husband, Michael, ultimately concluded, "There's only one solution, it's in the Constitution, we've got to pull the plug." Schiavo died on March 31, 2005, after her parents fought numerous legal battles,...

RVING – Joyful Iraqi citizens from across the Southwest lined up at an Irving hotel Saturday to vote in their national election. "I feel free," said Asaad Alsaaidi of Arlington. "I feel I have the choice to vote for anybody I want. I feel freedom in Iraq." . . . Children accompanied their parents wearing the colorful clothing of their heritage and reflecting the festivity of the occasion. Some proudly displayed the adult accessory of the day – the ink-stained finger of an Iraqi voter. "I vote, my wife vote, and my children put their finger in ink," said Alsaaidi,...

Less than a week after controversy erupted over what some interpreted as an unflattering depiction of Tea Party protesters in last month's “Captain America #602”, independent comic book publisher BOOM! Studios has announced "Repuglicans!", a project apparently aimed squarely at riling the political right. "Repuglicans!" is an upcoming 128-page, digest-sized original graphic novel by artist Pete Von Sholly with “wry commentary” by writer Steve Tatham. The publisher calls it a “completely unfair and not balanced take on Republican Party leaders and apparatchiks,” in an obvious satire of the Fox News slogan. The cover art depicts Wacky Packages-esque “creatures of the...

Lloyd White Jr., a World War II veteran and retired Dallas educator, became the force behind creating the Veterans Memorial Garden outside the Dallas Convention Center. Mr. White, 83, died of complications of cancer at the Heritage Place of Mesquite. ... Mr. White was passionate, patriotic and persistent in his effort to get the first of the veteran monuments set up in 1996, said his wife, Pat. ... His calling to recognize war veterans, perhaps, was foreshadowed on Nov. 25, 1940. Several of Mr. White's friends at Crozier Tech High School had joined the National Guard's Texas 36th Infantry Division...

WASHINGTON – Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

Roland Emmerich has admitted that he feared a fatwa would be placed on him if he filmed a scrapped scene for 2012. The filmmaker is well known for decimating famed landmarks on movies including The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. He stated that while he decided to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro because he is "against organised religion", he was fearful of the Islamic religious decree for a sequence that was planned but not shot. The 53-year-old wanted to demolish the Kaaba, which is a cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca and is...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on HBO to apologize for an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in which the main character splattered urine on a painting of Jesus. snip “It is beyond tasteless to insult the religious sensibilities of billions of people in America and around the world with such a cheap and vulgar publicity stunt. Jesus, peace be upon him, is loved and revered by both Christians and Muslims. Muslims view him as one of God’s greatest messengers to mankind. snip “We understand the drive for ratings, but...

Headline from 2014, as related on the TV show "Supernatural": "President Palin Defends Bombing Houston"