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Rosalynn Carter has died at the age of 96, the Carter Center announced this afternoon. The former First Lady and wife of Jimmy Carter passed away day two days after she entered hospice care and six months after she was diagnosed with dementia. A veteran women's rights campaigner, she was married to President Carter for 77 years and died at 2.10pm with her family at her side at her home in Plains, Georgia. She is survived by her children — Jack, Chip, Jeff and Amy — and 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. A grandson died in 2015. 'Rosalynn was my...

...the seventies... then Governor Brown literally ignored the expeditiously burdensome escalation of property taxes to the point that the common people had to drive an initiative called "Prop 13" through a June 1978 ballot just to save their homes and businesses. 'Then', Governor Brown was quotes as saying that he didn't want to squander the whole state surplus (nearly $7.1 billion in surplus in 1977) on helping homeowners curb their growing residential taxes. Brown's better idea was to spend from the surplus so to own and operate a communications satellite for California. Hence his nickname: "Moonbeam." If you ask Jerry...

The problem with having John Wayne Gacy's brain in your basement is that people want to see it. Or at least they think they want to see it. Certainly, they want to know how you got it and why you keep it there. These are issues facing Helen Morrison, a psychiatrist who has had the serial killer's brain in the basement of her Chicago home for the last decade, resting, more or less, in peace. Gacy was executed after being convicted of murdering 33 young men and boys during the 1970s and burying most of their bodies in the crawl...