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[20 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
“Largest” Single Day FBI Mob Arrests Net Over 100

The FBI arrested more than 100 suspected mob members on Thursday in what is considered the largest single-day operation against organized crime in recent history.

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[20 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
Carlina White, Kidnapped as a Baby, Solves Own Case 23 Years Later

Carlina White has done what usually happens only in the movies, she solved her own kidnapping case more than two decades since she was abducted as an infant.

Headline, US News »

[20 Jan 2011 | One Comment | ]
US House Repeals Obama Health Care Law

As expected, the GOP-led House of Representatives moved to repeal US President Barack Obama’s health care reform law approved last year.

US News, World News »

[18 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
Sargent Shriver, First Peace Corps Director, Dies

Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps and a former Democratic vice-presidential candidate, has died.

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[18 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
Starbucks to offer 31 ounce iced drinks

In an effort to satisfy America’s love of coffee and super-sized drinks, Starbucks will be adding a new size to their menu – the Trenta. It’s a bigger sized beverage than the Venti, 31 ounces to be exact, just an ounce shy of a 7-Eleven Big Gulp!

Entertainment, US News »

[17 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
Miss Nebraska is New Miss America

A 17-year-old high school student from Nebraska was crowned the new Miss America on Saturday in Las Vegas.

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[14 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
90 girls pregnant at one Memphis high school

That translates to about 11 percent of the school’s current population of 800!

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[11 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
Tom DeLay Gets 3 Years for Money Laundering, Conspiracy

Former Texas Rep. Tom DeLay has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in funneling corporate contributions to several Republican state legislature candidates in 2002.

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[10 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
Skip law school, impersonate a lawyer

Okay. That’s probably not a good advise to give. But according to a report from the Chicago Sun-Times, a man from Illinois has posed as a lawyer for years, taking cash to represent defendants in dozens of cases, and almost got away with it.

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[7 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
Appeals Court Rules Cross-Gender Inmate Strip Search as Unconstitutional

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that cross-gender searches among inmates to be unreasonable and unconstitutional.

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