An enormous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, killing at least 51 people, including 20 children Monday. The twister pulverized entire city blocks, left behind miles of mangled cars and splintered wood, and destroyed an elementary school where seven children were found dead. Crews frantically searched the wreckage and were only beginning to get [...]
A Hofstra University student who died during a confrontation between a home invasion suspect and authorities was killed by police gunfire, a Nassau County, New York, police spokeswoman said Saturday. Police fired eight shots at the intruder, who authorities say was holding a gun to the head of 21-year-old Andrea Rebello during a home invasion [...]
Ladies of New York , you are free to walk bare-breasted through the city! New York City’s 34,000 police officers have been instructed that, should they encounter a woman in public who is shirtless but obeying the law, they should not arrest her. This is a good step towards gender parity in public spaces. This [...]
An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq. A military judge, Army Col. David Conn, found Sgt. John Russell guilty of premeditated murder on Monday and imposed the sentence Thursday morning. The only other possible [...]
Bill Gates became the world’s richest person today, the first time he has held the title since 2007. His fortune was valued at $72.7 billion at 4 p.m. in New York, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Gates, 57, was more than $550 million ahead of Carlos Slim, who has a $72.1 billion net worth. [...]
Police in Omaha, Nebraska, said Thursday that they’re looking into whether there’s a connection between the recent killings of a university professor and his wife and two unsolved area homicides. Roger and Mary Brumback, both 65, were found dead at their home early Tuesday by officers responding to a welfare call. Police are saying little [...]
30 MONTHS OF GOVERNMENT UNUSUAL: Osun Vindicated, with lowest unemployment rate (3%) in Nigeria by National Bureau of Statistics Mopping up 40,000 youths off the streets in two years and productively engaging them, thereby pumping 200 Million Naira monthly into the local economy with its attendant multiplier effects in commerce and exchange of goods and [...]
A rebel soldier who cut out and ate the heart of a dead government soldier has posted the video online in a development that shows the extent to which the situation in Syria has degenerated. “The unverified clip, posted by a pro-government campaign group, claims to show a man – believed to be Abu Sakkar, [...]
One of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign co-chairmen used a leaked document from the IRS to attack GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the 2012 election, according to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). NOM, a pro-traditional marriage organization, claims the IRS leaked their 2008 confidential financial documents to the rival Human Rights Campaign. Those [...]
Fighting eagles lock talons and are unable to disengage, but both survive There was a crash landing Sunday at the Duluth International Airport, but it didn’t involve airplanes. Rather, it was two bald eagles, which were fighting in midair when they locked talons. In a rare spectacle of nature, they were unable to disengage in [...]
