COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A middle school teacher in South Carolina has been accused of dragging a student under a table during class, telling the boy “this is what the Nazis do to Jews,” police said Monday.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A flyer recently placed on parking meters in downtown Grand Rapids pictures President Barack Obama next to a Nazi swastika, threatening that a “Holocaust is coming.”
Two people have been arrested in the massive assault on a Deltona, Florida home. Damien Grooms, 19, and Tracey Legos, 34 have been arrested. They are accused of leading the second assault that involved damaging six cars, smashing the windows of an apartment, and shooting a man in the leg.
Whitney Houston’s relatives are planning to encase her body in concrete to stop people stealing the ($750,000) worth of jewellery she is buried with.
At the moment the legendary singer’s grave is under 24-hour guard at Fairview Cemetery in New Jersey but it is thought her mother Cissy can’t afford to keep up the security.
Barack Obama’s mother was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without the future president’s knowledge, a new book claims.
Ann Dunham gave Barack Obama Sr regular updates about his life during the 1960s and 70s and even sent him school reports.
It was not until the 1980s that Mr Obama became aware of the contact between the two – but he still did not forgive his father for being an absent dad.
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It is well-known that using a mobile while driving can lead to car crashes, but new research has shown how even expecting a call or text can cause motorists to be driven to distraction.
With more and more younger drivers continuing to use their iPhone or BlackBerry while behind the wheel, regardless of the risk, researchers wanted to see if compulsive mobile use could contribute to car crashes.
Last Thursday in Los Angeles Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson led a march and protest in South L.A in honor of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Celebrities and citizens came from all corners to walk with Martin’s parents and hear Sharpton and others speak at West Angeles Church of God in Christ. However, there was another name being spoken among the protesters; a name those following the Trayvon Martin case may not be very familiar with…Kendrec McDade. McDade- a 19 year old Black man from Pasadena, CA- was gunned down by (white) Pasadena police officers on the evening of March 24th, 2012. Police were responding to a 911 call that identified McDade and one other teenager as possible suspects in a robbery.
Liberal commentator and online media entrepreneur Ariana Huffington appeared on CBS “This Morning” Monday, where she took a surprising stance on the so-called “spiking the football” ad focusing on the death of Osama bin Laden, released by the Obama campaign over the weekend.
Author Stephen King is known for his horror stories that hold the potential to scare the pants off of readers. But now, he’s using his fame and editorial talents to target more specific subsets of the American public — the so-called 1 percent and conservatives who tout small-government tax policies. In a new article for The Daily Beast on Monday entitled, “Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!,” the famed author sounds off on his penchant for increased taxes for the wealthy.
A new study has found that in addition to unintended consequences like killing some flying wildlife, wind farming may also be influencing the environment in other ways. For the first time, research has shown that this renewable form of energy can have a localized warming effect.
