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  • 32 people shot in 3 days of violence (Summer in the City of Brotherly Love)

    06/28/2011 3:49:55 AM PDT · by RU88 · 26 replies
    Philly.com ^ | Jun. 28, 2011 | Mike Newall and Allison Steele
    It was a weekend of violence and mayhem - brutal even by Philadelphia standards. From Friday through Sunday, 32 people were wounded, six fatally, in about 20 shootings across the city, police said, and a seventh person died in a stabbing.
  • Jury selection begins in trial of man charged with impregnating his daughter

    09/14/2010 11:44:59 AM PDT · by RU88 · 18 replies
    The Record ^ | September 14, 2010 | JOHN PETRICK
    Jury selection began in Paterson Tuesday in the trial of a self-declared prophet on charges he raped and purposely impregnated one of his teen-age daughters. Ayinde, seen in a March court hearing, faces two counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of sexual assault, one count of child endangerment, one count of lewdness, one count of criminal sexual contact and one count of aggravated criminal sexual contact. When Aswad Ayinde was arrested in July 2006, prosecutors described him as a “blueblood,” or someone who believes in keeping his bloodlines pure. In all, five of Ayinde's daughters were allegedly raped.
  • White House Plan on Immigration Includes Legal Status

    11/14/2009 3:08:57 AM PST · by RU88 · 41 replies · 1,338+ views
    New York Times ^ | November 14, 2009 | JULIA PRESTON
    The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
  • Woman pleads guilty in sex charge involving boy

    10/27/2009 12:57:27 PM PDT · by RU88 · 74 replies · 4,304+ views
    Dayton Daily News ^ | October 23, 2009 | Lou Grieco
    DAYTON — A woman accused of celebrating her 55th birthday by having sex with a 12-year-old boy pleaded guilty to one count of gross sexual imposition of a person under age 13 on Friday, Oct. 23. Gloria J. Murphy, of 5440 Rawlings Drive, appeared before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Katherine Huffman, who set sentencing for Dec. 2. The charge is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. Gloria J. Murphy, who uses a walker and an oxygen tube, appeared frail.
  • Salem woman arrested for allegedly rubbing feces on boyfriend's door handles

    08/30/2009 4:53:34 AM PDT · by RU88 · 27 replies · 998+ views
    Today's Sunbeam ^ | Wednesday August 26, 2009 | Unknown
    CARNEYS POINT TWP. -- A Salem woman was arrested at a motel here recently after police said she allegedly rubbed human feces on her boyfriend's room and car door handles during a domestic dispute, police said. Tamesha F. Telfair, 34, of Yorke Street in the city, was charged with two counts of criminal mischief as a result, along with burglary and simple assault, police said. Police said Telfair was taken into custody at the Friendship Motor Lodge around 12:38 p.m. on Aug. 20. Authorities said her friend allegedly defecated in a bag, which she allegedly used to wipe on the...
  • Hav-a-Tampa cigars closing Tampa plant

    06/25/2009 4:54:39 AM PDT · by RU88 · 13 replies · 880+ views
    Tampa Tribune ^ | June 23, 2009 | MICHAEL SASSO
    TAMPA - Tampa will lose part of its cigar heritage in August when Hav-A-Tampa shuts its factory near Seffner and lays off about 495 employees, closing a factory that has been operating since 1902. However, the company attributed much of its trouble to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, a federal program that provides health insurance to low-income children. It is funded, in part, by a new federal tax on cigars and cigarettes. McKenzie couldn't say how much sales of Hav-A-Tampa cigars had fallen off, but the numbers have dropped significantly, he said. Previously, federal excise taxes on...
  • British banks revolt against Obama tax plan (Ha Ha!)

    05/24/2009 8:31:23 AM PDT · by RU88 · 19 replies · 1,164+ views
    Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 24 May 2009 | Louise Armitstead
    British banks and stockbrokers may refuse to take on American clients if new international tax proposals outlined by President Obama are passed. By Louise Armitstead Last Updated: 12:02AM BST 24 May 2009 The decision, which would make it hard for Americans in London to open bank accounts and trade shares, is being discussed by executives at Britain's banks and brokers who say it could become too expensive to service American clients. The proposals, which were unveiled as part of the president's first budget, are designed to clamp-down on American tax evaders abroad. However bank bosses say they are being asked...
  • U.S. threatens to rescind stimulus money over wage cuts

    05/09/2009 6:52:10 AM PDT · by RU88 · 28 replies · 958+ views
    LA Slimes ^ | May 8, 2009 | Evan Halper
    The Obama administration is threatening to rescind billions of dollars in federal stimulus money if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to unionized home healthcare workers approved in February as part of the budget. The workers, who collectively contribute millions of dollars in dues each month to the influential Service Employees International Union and the United Domestic Workers The SEIU said in a statement that it had asked the Obama administration for the ruling.
  • Commentary: April 15 is patriots' day (Begala Projectile Alert!!!)

    04/16/2009 3:52:32 AM PDT · by RU88 · 18 replies · 823+ views
    Communist News Network ^ | April 15, 2009 | Paul Begala
    CNN) -- Happy Patriots' Day. April 15 is the one day a year when our country asks something of us -- or at least the vast majority of us. So why are a bunch of Fox News clowns and right-wing cranks hosting "tea parties" all over the country? The Boston Tea Party, in case the clods at Fox didn't know it, protested "taxation without representation." Note the second word: without. The goofballs tossing tea bags today have representation. They voted in the election; they lost.
  • Governor Corzine Receives Immigrant Advisory Panel Report

    03/31/2009 4:05:49 AM PDT · by RU88 · 6 replies · 469+ views
    State of New Jersey ^ | March 30, 2009
    Governor Corzine Receives Immigrant Advisory Panel Report JERSEY CITY - Governor Jon S. Corzine today received a report from the Governor's Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Immigrant Policy, a group charged with developing recommendations to successfully integrate foreign-born New Jersey residents. "New Jersey's strength has always been in its diversity, and within that diversity is amazing opportunity - especially important during these uncertain economic times. And all it takes to tap into this resource is a fundamental change in how we work with the immigrant population," Governor Corzine said. "For the time being, the economy is clearly priority one, priority...
  • Falling Oil Prices Pushing Venezuela to Boost Taxes, Issue Debt

    03/22/2009 4:56:51 AM PDT · by RU88 · 7 replies · 449+ views
    FoxNews.com ^ | Saturday, March 21, 2009 | AP
    CARACAS, Venezuela — Falling oil prices are pushing Venezuela to boost sales taxes, sell debt and revise its 2009 budget to reflect an expected 6.7 percent decrease in income, President Hugo Chavez said Saturday. The socialist leader said he will ask lawmakers to increase sales taxes on goods and services to 12 percent from 9 percent in a bid to make up for plunging state revenue in the oil-rich nation. The government now expects $72.7 billion in income, and the revised budget anticipates crude prices of $40 a barrel, not the $60-a-barrel forecast by lawmakers last year, Chavez said in...
  • Insemination fight ends in wife's arrest

    03/14/2009 4:48:22 AM PDT · by RU88 · 49 replies · 1,701+ views
    Berkshire Eagle ^ | March 12, 2009 | Conor Berry
    PITTSFIELD — A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother's semen has been charged with domestic assault and battery. Pittsfield police responded to a call shortly before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the city's Morningside neighborhood, where the assault allegedly occurred. Stephanie K. Lighten, 26, was released on personal recognizance after denying the allegations in Central Berkshire District Court Wednesday morning. Jennifer A. Lighten, 33, told police that Stephanie Lighten, her wife, was "all liquored up" when she returned to their Lincoln Street apartment, where the defendant then allegedly tried to use a syringe to inseminate...
  • Judge allows lesbian couple married in Canada to divorce in N.J. (Slouching Towards Gomorrah)

    02/07/2009 7:23:38 AM PST · by RU88 · 17 replies · 632+ views
    nj.com ^ | 2/6/09 | AP (Obama)
    Judge allows lesbian couple married in Canada to divorce in N.J. by The Associated Press Friday February 06, 2009, 4:04 PM A judge in Mercer County has broken legal ground by granting permission to a lesbian couple married in Canada to divorce in New Jersey. Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson, sitting in Trenton, said the state has a long history of recognizing marriages that are valid in the country or state where they are performed. Trenton Times file photo Judge Mary Jacobson The state Attorney General's Office has argued that the union of La Kia Hammond of Trenton and Kinyati...
  • Opening act for Congress: raising taxes (Projectile Alert)

    01/09/2009 5:15:01 AM PST · by RU88 · 12 replies · 551+ views
    MSNBC ^ | Jan. 8, 2009 | Tom Curry
    House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Wednesday that the House will vote next week on expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which will be funded by an increased excise tax on cigarettes and cigars. A 156 percent tax increase The legislation would impose a 156 percent tax increase on smokers, raising the 39-cents per pack federal cigarette tax to one dollar.
  • Prayer Request (Vanity)

    11/16/2008 6:47:52 AM PST · by RU88 · 31 replies · 420+ views
    November 16, 2008 | RU88
    I'm writing to ask for everyone's prayers. I'll be undergoing robotic prostatectomy for prostate cancer on Wednesday in New York City and to say that I'm nervous is an understatement. I've tried to prepare myself physically, emotionally, and spiritually for what's to come as best I could. I'm a firm believer in what the power of prayer can do. Thank you.
  • Round 1 in debates goes to Obama, poll says (Projectile hurl alert)

    09/27/2008 6:44:29 AM PDT · by RU88 · 34 replies · 1,453+ views
    CNN ^ | 9/27/08 | Rebecca Sinderbrand
    OXFORD, Mississippi (CNN) -- A national poll of people who watched the first presidential debate suggests that Barack Obama came out on top, but there was overwhelming agreement that both Obama and John McCain would be able to handle the job of president if elected. Fifty-one percent of those polled thought Obama did the better job in Friday night's debate, while 38 percent said John McCain did better. The results may be favoring Obama simply because more Democrats than Republicans tuned in to the debate. Of the debate-watchers questioned in this poll, 41 percent of the respondents identified themselves as...
  • Rendell: Obama coverage was embarrassing

    08/25/2008 4:39:03 AM PDT · by RU88 · 14 replies · 309+ views
    Politico ^ | August 24, 2008 | Michael Calderone
    Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer — but instead, he opened up a can of worms about bias in 2008 election coverage "Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing," said Rendell, in the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. "It was embarrassing." Rendell, an ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter during the primaries, now backs Obama in the general election. Brokaw and Rendell began debating campaign coverage, including the on-air...
  • What if we threw out all the illegal immigrants?

    07/09/2008 4:05:30 AM PDT · by RU88 · 97 replies · 499+ views
    PMSNBC ^ | July 2, 2008 | Shirley Skeel
    At least 12 million illegal immigrants live in the U.S. Most pick crops, wash dishes, build houses, cut lawns and do other jobs for between $6 and $15 an hour. They make up about 5% of the total U.S. work force. But … What if we threw them all out? Lettuce and strawberries would rot in the fields. Dirty dishes would pile up in restaurants. Thousands of farmers and builders would go bust. Predator aircraft drones would prowl the Mexican border. And chunks of Los Angeles and Houston would look like ghost towns. The biggest losers would be middle-class families...
  • Racism alarms Obama's backers

    05/13/2008 5:12:38 AM PDT · by RU88 · 92 replies · 1,237+ views
    Washington Post ^ | May. 13, 2008 | Kevin Merida
    WASHINGTON - Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama. Here's...
  • PA Primary Election Results by County

    04/23/2008 3:41:11 AM PDT · by RU88 · 19 replies · 215+ views
    Click on individual counties for info.