PEORIA, Ariz. – An Iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter with his car because she was becoming “too Westernized” was returned to Arizona Saturday to face aggravated assault charges. Faleh Almaleki was arrested Thursday when he arrived at Atlanta’s airport, sent from the United Kingdom after authorities denied …
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CLEVELAND – The man who lived in the house of rotting corpses never gave people a reason to wonder what he was really doing behind closed doors. Anthony Sowell was the guy who liked to sit on his front steps drinking King Cobra Malt Liquor for $1.50 a bottle, sometimes …
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WASHINGTON – The Army will conduct an internal investigation to examine whether it missed warning signs about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people in the Nov. 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, two newspapers reported Monday. Citing anonymous officials, The Wall Street Journal said …
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HINTON, W.Va. – Bad grammar and spelling tripped up a man who was trying to steal Social Security numbers and other information from jobseekers by impersonating West Virginia’s governor, police said. Matthew Don Reed of Hinton is being held on $10,000 bond on charges of impersonating a public official, impersonating …
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JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s top communist is in danger of losing his working-class hero status after treating himself to the latest BMW 750i and using $120,000 in taxpayers’ money to buy it. Blade Nzimande, general secretary of the South African Communist Party, is often seen wearing a Mao cap and …
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The great thing about a-holes is you can see them coming. Whether it’s Sean Penn or Janeane Garofalo calling you a racist or wishing you dead, their essential douchebaggery makes them easy to spot and therefore harmless. I wish I could say that about nice people. See, nice people are …
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It was all very dramatic. An Emirates airliner about to take off from New York’s JFK Airport is called back from the tarmac and three men are removed from the plane by federal officials. One of those men, 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad, has been arrested in connection with the attempted bombing …
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A seasoned reporter who says he was the “conservative wolf” in his Maine newsroom claims he was wrongfully fired after he wrote a harshly critical personal e-mail to a group that supports gay marriage. Larry Grard, 58, was fired from the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, Maine on Nov. 10, less …
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Facing student protests ahead of today’s National Students Day — the anniversary of three student deaths in Tehran in 1953 — the state-owned Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) slowed or blocked completely access to the Internet for most of the state The Internet may be a worldwide superhighway, but it’s …
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Last Thursday was a huge victory for FOX News. “The Factor” at 8:00 p.m. beat CNN by 380 percent, MSNBC by 247 percent and Headline News by 299 percent. Total “Factor” audience for 8 and 11 was 5.4 million folks, more viewers than the “CBS Evening News” averaged last month. …
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