Articles Posted by Spaghetti Man
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HELSINKI, April 2 (Reuters) - One child was killed and two others seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack taken into custody. At the school, a building had been cordoned off by police. Parents were picking up their children from another school building hundreds of metres (yards) away.
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ATLANTA, Ga. - Stacey Abrams' campaign and legal team is preparing an unprecedented legal challenge in the unresolved Georgia governor's race that could leave the state's Supreme Court deciding whether to force another round of voting.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Corrine Brown will have to appeal her conviction and sentence from behind bars, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan denied a motion from Brown's attorney, James Smith, requesting a bond pending appeal. Corrigan said Brown must start her prison sentence as scheduled.
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Has anyone seen this ad running in Florida?
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Commercial fishing boat owners and groups are reacting to the executive action taken by President Obama that created a marine national preserve in the North Atlantic on Sept. 15. They say that banning commercial fishing there is unnecessary, since the fishing industry has already been working with government agencies on conservation measures.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A longtime consultant of U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, said she declined to talk to federal investigators who came to her door this week, and Politico is reporting that the congresswoman was served with a subpoena.
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TRENTON – Mayor Tony Mack’s city-owned SUV was parked behind the fire department’s repair garage last night, with no sign of the mayor. Firefighters said the SUV appeared on the apron in front of fire headquarters on Perry Street Wednesday evening, and was parked in the lot later on. No one from the city had come to claim it. Late Thursday night, Mack sent a letter to City Clerk Leona Baylor designating Business Administrator Sam Hutchinson as acting mayor “during such time as I may be unavailable.” Civic watchdog Jim Carlucci says this is likely a pro forma move to...
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It's a classic David and Goliath story: A white-shoe law firm staffed with hundreds of D.C.'s most-powerful lawyers has moved to shutter a hamburger eatery on the grounds that the lawyers didn't like the aroma of cooking meat wafting into their offices. So far, Goliath is winning. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Prestigious-law-firm-sues-burger-joint-over-smell-1214765-104991844.html#ixzz12WXlxPvw
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MYFOXNY.COM - A passenger was reportedly pulled off of an Emirates Airlines aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens on Thursday morning. The passenger was reportedly discovered to be on the no-fly list, according to Breaking News Network.
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OCOEE, Fla. -- A man shot and killed a suspected robber during an attack on a clerk at a convenience store late Monday night. The man said he saw the armed robber beating the clerk with what he believed was a gun and when the robber turned toward him he opened fire.
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“His presence isn’t what I expected it to be. He’s not big. He’s thin, like a waif. Maybe a hair taller than me. And his handshake — like this ...” He reached and shook my hand, lightly and quickly, as if he suspected I had cooties. “Your new tax plan is gonna tax me more, isn’t it?” Wurzelbacher asked. “He got this look in his eyes,” Wurzelbacher recalled. “I could tell I had thrown him off.”
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Judge grants him the time, fails to notify state of extension. Johnny Lee Lunford is facing 20 years in prison for robbery, but a judge agreed to let him leave the Duval County jail unescorted and unmonitored Saturday to attend his grandmother's funeral.
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Deputy Assembly Speaker Neil Cohen is being investigated for alleged possession of child pornography, according to two of his Democratic colleagues who said they brought the matter to the attention of law enforcement.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A federal jury has convicted former Newark Mayor Sharpe James and his ex-mistress of corruption stemming from the cut-rate sale of city land. James was convicted on all five charges he faced, including fraud and conspiracy. His former girlfriend, Tamika Riley, was convicted on those charges and the eight others she faced, including evading taxes and cheating to obtain subsidized housing assistance for herself.
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1. Ginger or Marianne? 2. Peggy Bundy or Kelly Bundy? 3. Dr. Crusher or Counselor Troi? 4. 7 of 9 or Capt Janeway? 5. Carla, Diane or Rebecca? 6. Wilma or Betty? 7. Morticia Adams or Lilly Munster? 8. Mary Richards or Rhoda Morgenstern? 9. Lois Lane or Lana Lang 10. Hillary or Laura?
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CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Democratic City Councilman Rick Mariano was threatening to jump from the top of City Hall Thursday evening. The councilman climbed to the top of the north tower just before 6 p.m. and refused to come down. Mayor Street and several other representatives went up to the tower to reason with the Councilman.
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(TRENTON, NJ) – Gubernatorial candidate Doug Forrester today called on Jon Corzine to fully disclose the details surrounding a vote in the Senate that earned Corzine millions of dollars. “Jon Corzine voted to bail out Japanese bank underwriters at a cost of millions of dollars to U.S. taxpayers. It’s disturbing to learn he was one of a tiny handful who made millions of dollars of the vote.” Despite extensive briefing by the Department of Treasury and Committee on Taxations, Corzine claims that he had no knowledge that he stood to earn approximately $5 million by casting a vote to give...
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TRENTON — Oh, to have friends in high places. Take Carla Katz, union president and former gal pal of Sen. Jon Corzine. She used Corzine's money to buy a 10-acre farm in a region now protected by the Highlands Act.
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No Fourth Spacewalk Needed Mission control radioed the Discovery crew today with news that they will not need to make a fourth spacewalk to fix a thermal blanket near the Commander's left window. Discovery Commander Eileen Collins and her STS-114 crewmates are set to undock from the orbital outpost early Saturday and return to Earth on Monday.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jon S. Corzine loaned the president of New Jersey's largest state workers union $470,000 when the two were romantically involved about three years ago, then forgave the debt late last year, according to two published reports. Corzine, New Jersey's senior U.S. senator, turned the 10-year mortgage into a gift to Carla Katz just a week after kicking off his campaign for governor and several months after the two stopped dating, The Star-Ledger of Newark and The New York Times reported in Thursday's newspapers. Katz is president of the Communications Workers of America, Local...
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