Franklin County Area Expects More Stink Bugs

Bonita Wauls can't control the stink bugs on her front porch. Wauls says "They're bigger and feistier than the first year, they're bolder." Trying common bug traps like fly paper, she had said that "they're so...

Billboards help FBI fight crime in Hampton Roads

" NEWPORT NEWS – A billboard along Interstate 64 is helping authorities take a bite out of crime.  You see the usual ads on the sign between the Jefferson Avenue and Fort Eustis exits, but...

Biden Was Right About Roosevelt, TV and the Crash--Update

The blogs are still aghast at Democratic vice president nominee Joe Biden's recent "gaffe." Yet all he did was inform Katie Couric that, "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the televison...

In gaffe, Biden said FDR led when market crashed

"WASHINGTON - Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt...

America's Worst Counterfeiter Creates Fake $100 Bills With Picture of Abe Lin...

P. Diddy once said that "It's All About the Benjamins", but for one Memphis man it's all about the Lincolns. James Rhyne tried to pay for a meal using a counterfeit $100 bill featuring a portrait of Abraham...

A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the U.S. Constitution

Today, Wednesday, the 17th day of September 2008, marks the 221st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution for the United States of America by the nation's founders, and with the hope of forming a more...

Former KKK Member's Conviction Vacated

James Ford Seale, the former KKK member who was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy last year in the 1964 murder of two black teens was granted an acquittal by the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.The court said...

CIA unveils; star cook was spy

Julia child was decorated in 2000 with the French "legion d'honneur" award for making french cuisine famous. She died in 2004. Spy recipes make the better cooks. France ready to forget, when it comes to french...

Legendary Music Producer Jerry Wexler Dies at 91

RIP and R-E-S-P-E-C-T to the acclaimed music journalist and producer Jerry Wexler who died today at the age of 91. Wexler helped shape the careers and sounds of soul and R&B legends like Aretha Franklin,...

Newly released files show Julia Child was a spy

"By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and RANDY HERSCHAFT, Associated Press Writers 1 hour, 51 minutes ago ...

Judge Won't Lift Gun Ban at the Airport

The city of Atlanta’s ban on guns at the world’s busiest airport will continue despite a new state law easing restrictions on carrying firearms in public. U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob Monday rejected a request for a preliminary injunction against the ban filed by a...

CNN poll: Most say Founding Fathers wouldn't be impressed

"(CNN) -- How would the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin feel about the way the United States has turned out 232 years after declaring its independence? ...

Why We Save Stuff

Ever help a friend move and find yourself asking, why is she keeping that? A new study may have the answer. When people were asked to choose between an iPod and, say, $100, they were more likely to choose the money. But when they were given an iPod and then immediately...

McCain visits evangelist Billy Graham and his son

John McCain, who has had trouble convincing the religious right of his Christian credentials, went to Billy Graham's Blue Ridge mountaintop retreat in western North Carolina to meet with the powerful preacher...

Is the Franklin Templeton MENA Fund a buy? « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

" Personally I would be a buyer of this fund after this correction, and not before. For any downward correction in the oil price will only be temporary as the supply and demand fundamentals will not be changed, and the MENA region, or at least the oil producers, really does...

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