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.. NAGGING QUESTIONS ABOUT GUILT SHADOW DEATH ROW INMATE By Cynthia Tucker WASHINGTON -- Perhaps Troy Davis is the violent thug who senselessly gunned down an off-duty police officer in a dimly lit Savannah, Ga., parking lot on Aug. 19, 1989. He was convicted of the crime two years later...

.. U.S. blames BP for Gulf spill By Ayesha Rascoe and Anna Driver | Reuters WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) - The United States heaped the lion's share of blame for the country's biggest ever offshore oil spill on BP on Wednesday as the government issued its final assessment of last year's...

Cherokees expel descendants of slaves from tribe By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS - Associated Press Okla. (AP) — One of the nation's largest American Indian tribes has sent letters to about 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by its members, revoking their citizenship and cutting their medical...

Indiana college to not play national anthem Indiana college not playing the national anthem sparks debate - The Dagger - NCAAB*Blog - Yahoo! Sports Thu Aug 25 07:07pm EDT Indiana college not playing the national anthem sparks debate By Jeff Eisenberg Visiting fans who attend a...

Bar, restaurant owners angry over smoking ban plan to exclude lawmakers Aug 24, 2011 LANSING -- Bar and restaurant owners upset about Michigan's workplace smoking ban have a ban of their own in the works. Protect Private Property Rights in Michigan said Tuesday that about 500 bars...

USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable? By Kristina Cooke | Reuters – Mon, Aug 22, 2011 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son. Saucedo, who earns...

Rick Perry faces new flak from the right for suggesting Bernanke is ‘treasonous’ By Rachel Rose Hartman Political Reporter (Charles Dharapak/AP) Republicans across the country are cheering Rick Perry's entry into the 2012 presidential race, regarding him as a candidate with innate star...

That was fast. Ex-Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty ends White House bid - Yahoo! News

Pregnant San Francisco woman killed by pit bull By Dan Whitcomb and Greg McCune | Reuters – Fri, Aug 12, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A pregnant San Francisco area woman was killed by one of her pit bulls, her mauled body found by her husband, police said on Friday. The 32-year-old...

Jon Stewart rips Newsweek's Bachmann cover By Tim Molloy | Reuters – 5 hrs ago NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Jon Stewart says the worst part about conservative complaints of media bias is when they contain "a kernel of truth" -- and that conservatives have a point about Newsweek's unflattering...

US Tea Party at crossroads after debt deal By Olivier Knox | AFP – Tue, Aug 2, 2011 The US Tea Party stood at a political crossroads Tuesday, split by a vote on raising the US debt limit after fractious negotiations that saw them declared both the big winners and losers. At issue was the...

FBI checking 'our most promising' lead in D.B. Cooper case - seattlepi.com FBI checking 'our most promising' lead in D.B. Cooper case Case from 1971 is nation's only unsolved commercial airline hijacking By CASEY MCNERTHNEY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 11:05 p.m., Saturday, July 30, 2011...

Chinese Rhino Cups Set 'Antiques Roadshow' Record By Jill Serjeant, Reuters | Monday, July 25, 2011, 1:21 PM Chinese cups carved from rhinoceros horns WGBH/PBSA collection of Chinese cups carved from rhinoceros horns has become the most valuable find in the 16-year history of the...

Brian Dickerson: This is no time to cut off the free flow of hypocrisy Jul 14, 2011 Detroit Free Press Afew days from now, unless the two major parties transcend their petty differences and adjust the statutory limit on one of our nation's most vital commodities, much of what we Americans...

Piper Weiss, Shine Staff, Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:41am PDT At McDain's Restaurant, in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, kids don't eat free. And starting next week, they don't get to eat at all. Mike Vuick, owner of the Pittsburgh area eatery has just announced a ban on children under 6 at his casual...

Who should this be awarded to and why? :p

..Jury convicts ex-Ill. Gov. Blagojevich at retrial By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A jury convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday of nearly all the corruption charges against him, including that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old...

Texas man dies while raping elderly woman Tue Jun 14, 2:46 pm ET CHICAGO (AFP) – A Texas man died while raping a 77-year-old woman, local media reported. Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez, 53, broke into the woman's rural home armed with a knife and attacked her. But in the midst of the rape he...

Remains Of Korean War POW Identified June 13, 2011 6:30 PM SOUTHFIELD (WWJ)- A Detroit man missing in action from the Korean War has been identified and will be buried with full military honors. The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced Monday that the remains of...

40 years after leak, Pentagon Papers coming out Associated Press Calvin Woodward And Richard Lardner. WASHINGTON – Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is...