NASHVILLE (AP) - A Clarksville mother charged with disorderly conduct after she berated Transportation Security Administration officers who were trying to pat down her teenage daughter is defending her conduct. In a statement provided to The Tennessean, Andrea Abbott, 41, said a …
A fast growing right-wing politico-religious presence plans to implement an end-times, Christian theocracy in the US.
Women must obtain ultrasounds, state-mandated counseling, and wait 24 hours before abortions under new requirements the state approved today. The state Senate voted 29-19 to cancel Gov.
The FBI has launched a criminal probe into a January incident where Tennessee police stripped a man naked, then kicked and beat him while he lay handcuffed in the snow. The incident, recorded by a patrol car's dashboard camera, also reveals police repeatedly shocking the man, Da …
One man may be responsible for slashing at least five women on the butt, according to Fairfax County police. In the most recent attack, an 18-year-old woman was shopping at Forever 21 inside the Fair Oaks Mall at 5:30 p.m. Monday when she was distracted by clothing falling over.
The Rutgers University student accused of causing his roommate to leap from a bridge and kill himself never bullied the gay teen, his lawyers said today. Dharun Ravi, 19, is charged with 15 criminal counts in connection with Tyler Clementi's widely-publicised suicide in Septembe …
PHOENIX - A valley woman knows all too well the issues you can encounter with social media.
BONNEAU -- A woman pulled her pickup truck into a gas station in a small town in Berkeley County recently, with big red fake testicles dangling from the trailer hitch. Bonneau Police Chief Franco Fuda pulled up and wrote her a $445 ticket.
The California Milk Processor Board abruptly ended an ad campaign that promotes drinking milk as a way to combat premenstrual syndrome after much controversy this week.
Many of us have noticed, and remarked about, the sudden rash of glitches on Newsvine over the past few days. It began, for me, when my tracker drop-down failed to function. First, the failure was on my Windows 7 netbook, combined with an inability to send a friend req …
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Johnny and Lisa Bonta, a Native family from the Reno Sparks Indian Colony, became the latest victims of an apparent hate crime on May 24 when they were allegedly attacked at a gas station along I-80 in Fernley, Nevada, a border town between the Fallon and Pyramid Lake Indian …
A PENNSYLVANIA restaurant has ignited a local controversy after banning children under the age of six. "This is not a kid-oriented place," said Mike Vuick, owner of McDain's, a restaurant and driving range in Monroeville, 22km east of Pittsburgh.
A federal investigation into a potential war crime committed at Abu Ghraib is closing in on the man who ran the CIA’s “ghosting” program.
Massachusetts school children will no longer be able to buy soda or chips from the vending machine. On Wednesday, the state's Public Health Council passed new regulations banning fried food, sugary drinks and artificial sweeteners from public schools.
Yesterday, we reported on the initial reaction to the changes, and by last night we'd seen more than 9,000 comments on the Netflix Facebook page, which has 1.5 million fans. (There are 23.6 million Netflix members in the U.S.
Could the recession turn The Most Dangerous Game into reality? Mork Encino hopes so. The 28-year-old unemployed Utah man is offering “hearty gentlemen who fancy themselves sportsmen” the chance to hunt him down and even kill him for $10,000.
Two months after American special forces killed Osama bin Laden and buried his body at sea, California-based explorer Bill Warren has announced the goal of his newest expedition: To find the body.
Fly JetBlue for the DirecTV, stay for the free tasers. The cleaning crew for JetBlue flight 1179 found a stun gun in the backseat pocket of the plane that landed in Newark, New Jersey Friday night. It had come from Boston.
Google+ is requiring that everyone have a public profile on the network after July 31st, and some people are having a fit about that already, especially on Twitter. But what does that mean? All the people who are screaming about privacy issues seem to be overreacting.
When asked about his young passenger, Mecklenborg said, "I understand the interest in the DUI part, I guess, but the rest is a personal matter." A personal matter? Perhaps this is Rep.
The Great White Spot on Saturn has been imaged in unprecedented detail and is now yielding clues to how this titanic storm may have formed far earlier than scientists expected. The staggeringly powerful thunderstorm is approximately 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) wide, nearly …
The Philadelphia District Attorney's office estimates that it saved the city two million dollars in revenue through a new program designed to deal with individuals arrested with less than 30 grams (slightly more than one ounce) of marijuana.
No sooner had Casey Anthony been acquitted on charges of killing her daughter than her attorneys lashed out against cable news coverage that they said unfairly cast the verdict as shocking. Shortly after the jury's decision was announced, one of Anthony's lawyers, Cheney Maso …
Betty Ford, a self-proclaimed “ordinary” woman who never cared for political life but made a liberating adventure out her 30 months as first lady, died Friday at age 93. [...]
Diggers at an excavation in west-central Colorado turned up almost 5,000 large bones in seven weeks from mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, bison, horses, deer and camels.
NASHVILLE (AP) - A Clarksville mother charged with disorderly conduct after she berated Transportation Security Administration officers who were trying to pat down her teenage daughter is defending her conduct. In a statement provided to The Tennessean, Andrea Abbott, 41, said a …
A fast growing right-wing politico-religious presence plans to implement an end-times, Christian theocracy in the US.
Women must obtain ultrasounds, state-mandated counseling, and wait 24 hours before abortions under new requirements the state approved today. The state Senate voted 29-19 to cancel Gov.
The FBI has launched a criminal probe into a January incident where Tennessee police stripped a man naked, then kicked and beat him while he lay handcuffed in the snow. The incident, recorded by a patrol car's dashboard camera, also reveals police repeatedly shocking the man, Da …
One man may be responsible for slashing at least five women on the butt, according to Fairfax County police. In the most recent attack, an 18-year-old woman was shopping at Forever 21 inside the Fair Oaks Mall at 5:30 p.m. Monday when she was distracted by clothing falling over.
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