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While browsing the election for the PA district 4 house seat, something quite odd showed up. I began a facebook thread to document it. That thread is recreated here: FB USER (ME) Something fishy in Beaver County, PA ALTMIRE, JASON (DEM) 1,858 100.0% ROTHFUS, KEITH (REP). 0. 0.0% A little later: FB USER (ME) Thought so. Now it's back to 0% each. A little later: FB USER (ME) Perhaps SEIE needed to train the voting machine techs a little better to at least count SOME of the Republicsn votes. A little later: FB USER (ME) Woops! It's back to 100%...

obama message booed at the boy scout national jamboree 2010

Storms on Jupiter For more than 300 years, Jupiter’s gaseous atmosphere has hosted a gigantic storm known has the Giant Red Spot. Then in 2006, another red storm appeared and produced what appeared to be a few other whitish storm spots. When Hubble snapped this image in 2008, astronomers were surprised to discover that a third red storm spot had appeared. They speculate that this storm outbreak is due to a large climate shift on Jupiter . What's being sucked up into these storms or what causes them is still unknown.

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GRAYSON COUNTY, TX – Samuel Dewayne Delamast pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 16 years in jail for tampering with physical evidence last Thursday. When police officers made the arrest, they noticed Delamast was acting strange, but they didn't realize how strange things would get. When Delamast arrived at the jail he was searched for contraband. It was in the process of this search officers say they noticed a powdery substance on his pants. The powder then spilled from the suspects pant legs pouring on to the floor. Authorities say Delamast then dropped to the ground, and began licking the...

PARIS, TX -- Racial tensions are running high in Paris after two white men were released and all charges were dropped against them for the murder of 24-year-old Brandon McClelland. The New Black Panther Party is holding a press conference and a community rally at the lamar County Courthouse Monday at noon for what they say is unjust. Initially, McClelland’s murder was being prosecuted as a hate crime. This all sparked again late last week when Shannon Findlay and Charles Crostley were released from jail. The case against them had been unraveling due to lack of eye witnesses and physical...

SHERMAN -- April Fool's Day started off without much laughter for a man whose car got smashed by a train at around 3 a.m. Wednesday. Bruce Dawsey of the Sherman Police Department said dispatchers received a call seeking assistance at about that time from a man who said his car was stuck on the track and he didn't know what to do. "I am scared and I am lost and I am stranded on a railroad track," the man could be heard telling the dispatcher on a recording of the 911 call. "I took the wrong turn somewhere and I...

APOLLO — Volunteer fire departments are hurting from the state smoking ban, which has driven players away from the bingo games that raise cash for training firefighters and paying bills, representatives of seven Westmoreland and Armstrong county departments said Sunday.

HUNTSVILLE, TX ― A Grayson County man sentenced to die for killing his wife, her daughter and their son, gouged out his other eye in prison last month. According to the warden at the state prison in Huntsville, death row inmate Andre Thomas gouged out his left eye in early December and then ate it. Five days after the murders in March 2004, Thomas gouged out his right eye inside a Grayson County jail cell after reading a Bible verse. The state's top Criminal Appeals Court upheld Thomas' conviction and death sentence back in October of 2008. Thomas is now...

CELINA -- One who says Celina football is like religion isn't all that far off the mark. At the end of last Saturday's state semifinal playoff game against Liberty Hill, football players from both schools formed a circle at midfield, held hands, and recited the Lord's Prayer. And nobody blinked an eye about it. Acts of faith such as this in a public-school setting is considered taboo in a lot of places. But not so in Celina, where players, coaches and fans talk openly about their Christianity and churches still outnumber gas stations by about a 4-to-1 ratio. "In our...

Congressman John Peterson praises decision. HARRISBURG - Federal regulators on Thursday rejected Pennsylvania's plan to impose tolls on Interstate 80, reigniting a sticky debate over where to find billions of dollars to fix roads, repair bridges and subsidize mass transit systems. Congressman John Peterson (R-5th) of Pleasantville, a leading opponent of the I-80 tolls, praised the decision and said "the 'closed for business' sign has been removed from Pennsylvania." "I'm excited for Pennsylvania...it's a good day for the economy of Pennsylvania," Peterson said Thursday in a telephone interview with The Derrick and The News-Herald. Gov. Ed Rendell urged lawmakers to...

The company whose bus crashed early Friday in Sherman was operating illegally, and federal authorities are urging state and local police to intercept any tour bus associated with its owner. Iguala BusMex was formed just two months ago after another bus company, operated by the same owner, was barred from making out-of-state tours after a long history of safety violations. Those two companies both list addresses on Telephone Road in Houston and are led by Angel De la Torre.

Dallas lawyer Fred Baron told The Dallas Morning News today that he made regular payments to the woman that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards has confessed to having an affair with. Mr. Baron, who was chairman of Mr. Edwards’ presidential campaign finance committee, said he paid money to Rielle Hunter to move from North Carolina to another location.

She believes women will vote for Obama even if Clinton doesn’t get the much-mooted consolation prize of the vice-president’s spot on the Democratic ticket – a job Steinem doesn’t think is good enough for her anyway. Why? “It’s not an independent position, to put it mildly. I would rather see her as the president of the Senate.”

That's how much Demarius Cummings said he found in the pockets of two Christian-music producers whom his cousin James Broadnax, speaking in a separate jailhouse interview, admitted gunning down early Thursday in Garland. The 19-year-old suspects gave interviews Monday at the Dallas County Jail, where each is being held on $1 million bail.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (KDKA) ― An independent panel investigating the Master's Degree that West Virginia University awarded to Mylan Inc. Executive Heather Bresch, has unanimously ruled that Bresch did not earn the degree, according to our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The five-member panel was formed after the PG reported that Bresch had not completed all of the course work required to receive a master's of business administration degree. The controversy was heightened by the fact that Bresch is the daughter of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin and a childhood friend of WVU's president. Over the past few weeks, Bresch...

Oil is cause of downturn Exxon-Mobil earned $81 billion in profits in the last two years. Are we surprised? Supply and demand — that's what they say. So Exxon-Mobil could reduce the price of a gallon of gasoline to $1.50 and the company still could earn $40 billion in profits in two years. Am I wrong on my math? I predicted a recession two years ago when the price of gasoline hit the ceiling. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that if we suck all the extra dollars from our citizens and force them to put...

After the War (Tim Irvine) My name is Billy Johnson. Indiana's my state. I turned 21 back in '68. Drafted into the army, sent to Fort Leonard Wood. When I left my hometown, I prayed it wasn't for good. His name was Hector Gonzalez, from San Jose. We got stuck with KP the very first day. After peelin' potatoes for hours on end, Hector and I were the closest of friends. When they put us on a troop jet, and flew us to 'Nam, Some guy stood up in the back and read the twenty-third psalm. He talked about walkin'...

The teen then broke into tears and recounted that she had been beaten and kept against her will by a Greensburg family for more than six months, said Williams, who invited the teen inside and contacted authorities.

BONHAM — The death of 28-year-old Michael Lee Williams Saturday morning is believed by law enforcement to have been caused by electrocution from copper wires he was allegedly stealing. In a Fannin County Sheriff’s Office report by Investigator Wayne Walker, he said that law enforcement and ambulance service were called to Private Road 155, off FM 1550, and what was originally called in was a four-wheeler accident. Mr. Williams had already been taken to Red River Regional Medical Center in Bonham, and Walker began interviewing others still at the scene. A 30-year-old woman said she and Mr. Williams had been...