Underwater construction diver Erick Williamson was convicted in a Virginia court of indecent exposure for walking around nude in his own home. Though he was not fined or handed immediate jail time, Erick...
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The Simpsons turn 20 today. On December 17, 1989, The Simpsons debuted on Fox with the Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie began life as a short cartoon on...
opinion by Jordan Yerman | 4 days ago | updated 4 days ago 115 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Eric Williamson is fighting the indecent exposure charge against him: he was naked when making coffee at home at 5:30 am (updated report says 8:30 am). Police said a woman walking with a 7-year-old boy saw him...
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An Illinois man is in police custody and charged with plotting to bomb federal offices there. He was arrested in Springfield and was conspiring to use "weapons of mass destruction" to kill office...
A 31-year old pregnant woman, Erin Ruth Juarez, fell 4 stories in her car yesterday and survived with only minor injuries. The car fell 40-feet down onto the road after the pregnant woman accidentally pushed reverse in a parking garage in Springfield Massachusets on June 23...
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The 13th Annual National Day of Silence is taking place today in thousands of schools across the United States. Participating students will take a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling,...
During a question-and-answer session Tuesday afternoon with students at Missouri's College of the Ozarks, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich dropped a bombshell: He predicted the rise of a third party by...
Reports of a text message about a gang initiation stunt requiring the random shooting of people at a Walmart are a hoax. (See the comments stream below for a growing list of people in different parts of the...
created by Tina Kells | 39 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago 62255 views | 38 recommendations | 458 comments
The Simpsons is making the jump to HD. I wonder if we'll be able to see the hair on Moe's knuckles, or the fine lines around Lisa's eyes, betraying the fact that she's been in grade-school for, like, 20 years....
created by Jordan Yerman | 44 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago 243 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Eyewitness to History: A Volunteer's Experience with the Obama Campaign
Part One: The Democratic Primary: March-April 2008: Some moments of your life catch you by surprise. You work on Day One and the next thing you know, you are working nonstop and do not stop for seven...
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This morning I woke up to a Flickrmail inviting me to contribute this photo to the NowPublic archive, along with the story behind it, which goes like this: On the morning of 23 August 2008, I was in...
created by Pablo Manriquez | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago 465 views | 54 recommendations | 5 comments
The efforts to impeach Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich have hit a major snag. Authorities have said that such a process would interfere with the investigation against the governor. So far Blagojevich has refused...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 59 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
OK, so day two and we find Blagojevich out on $4,500 bail and back in the Governor's office, having turned his passport over to the court so he can't skip the country. Reading through the transcipts in the affidavit it is difficult to not conclude that the governor of...
opinion by agora | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 87 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
The organisers of the event in which kids played with UZI machine guns, one of which jumped and twisted around in one 8-year old kid's hands and released bullets that killed him, have been indicted with...
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"Fairfax County Registrar Rokey Suleman is disqualifying an overwhelming majority of the military federal write-in absentee ballots received in his county on the basis that no address had been given for those...