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An eighth-grade history teacher in rural Campobello, S.C. allegedly gave a pop quiz on the Constitution this week that left the parents of one quiz taker highly irate. Specifically, the parents took issue with a quiz question involving gun rights, reports journalist Ben Swann at Benswann.com. They say the unnamed teacher erroneously marked their daughter’s answer wrong. The question was a hypothetical scenario: “Mr. Jones’ gun was confiscated at a police traffic stop, even though he had the proper permit and license of ownership of the gun.” The first sub-part to the question asked: “Is this situation Constitutional?” The second...

People living in one Campobello neighborhood say they'll do whatever it takes to get seventeen-year-old Cory Williamson out of there before someone is seriously hurt. Williamson is in jail accused of raping his neighbor's dog. Sylvia Jones says she wouldn't have believed it had she not seen it with her own eyes. "When I got here we were laying on the deck looking at him and he had his pants down and he was doing sexual activity with the dog like a man would do to a woman." Renee Hulburt says her family is way too familiar with Williamson. She...

Campobello Island, N.B. — New Brunswick's Campobello Island is separated from the state of Maine by a narrow strip of water, but border hassles are creating a growing gulf of irritation and anger between the international neighbours. The roughly 1,500 people who live on the picturesque island in the Bay of Fundy are proud Canadians, but they are cut off from the rest of Canada by the United States and a border that is steadily tightening to the point of strangulation. “We're isolated,” says resident Holly Chute, as she headed into the Campobello Co-Op, the island's only grocery store. “And...