" VA BEACH – A convicted sex offender allegedly exposed himself to a group of people at the beach, including a 10-year-old girl. It happened at 74th Street on the afternoon of June 14. According to police,...
A man who was hospitalised for two months after being poisoned by ricin faces the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence and a hefty fine after being charged with possessing the toxin. "LAS VEGAS (AP) — An...
Police say around 3,000-4,000 people were gathered in East Lansing, Michigan on Saturday night after an attempt to re-start the Cedar Fest parties that were shut down in 1987 after the parties got too crazy.People...
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Another potential blow to the image of athletics, with the sentencing of one of its golden girls. "Former sprinter Marion Jones has been sentenced to six months in prison for lying over steroid use and cheque...
"With the NYPD facing difficult challenges such as combating terrorism and stopping the flow of illegal handguns into the city, what are the police arresting people for at a rate ten times greater than before 1997? Marijuana.
But they aren't arresting everyone who possesses...
They don't make rock stars like they used to. With one obvious exception..."LONDON - Police arrested Pete Doherty on Monday in east London on suspicion of drug possession.
A police spokesman confirmed a...
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For some reason I thought this was already a law, but evidently not... Iranian parliament has approved the use of capital punishment against producers of pornographic video."The vote was an overwhelming 148 to five...
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In its first response to entertainment giant Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against it,
Google rejects claims that it enables copyright infringement on its YouTube.com Web site,
In documents filed Monday in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York regarding the...
"WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for...
A woman who went for a horseback ride through town at midnight and
allegedly used the horse to ram a police car was charged with driving
under the influence and drug offenses"Cars were passing by having to avoid it, and almost hitting the horse," said Police Chief Brad...
The blogosphere is heating up over a controversial piece published today in the Wall Street Journal insinuating that the recent arrest of two lobbyists is akin to the holocaust. Here's a sample of the backlash:
"As a Jew, I find Ms Rabinowitz's abuse of the Holocaust...
"Gonads and other doodads won't be banned from Maryland trucks.
State House lawmakers effectively killed a bill to outlaw fake bull testicles and other anatomically explicit vehicle decorations that truckers dangle from the trailer hitches of their pickups.
Delegate LeRoy...
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"Our Sunni Moderate Coalition
Let's review what the American government knows about its exciting new coalition of "Sunni moderates":
Saudi Arabia:
The Basic Law does not provide for freedom of speech or the press, and the government generally did not respect these...
"American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That's according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice...
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"Police and a women's group are warning the public on up to five serial rapists who are on the loose in northern Taiwan and Kaohsiung city.
Among the criminals, the most active has committed sixteen offenses since October of 1997 in Taipei City, Taipei County, Taoyuan County,...