Fun Outings At The Casino Become Costly Compulsion
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I were both married previously. We have been together for seven years. When we first started dating, we would sometimes go to one of the casinos after dinner as a fun outing. We never spent much money and went only occasionally. Our game of choice was the slot machine.…
3 children starving, 1 chained to floor
SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Three starving children — including one who was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting food — were found last month in the squalid home of a Northern California couple, authorities said.
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Iran is building a crude mock-up of an American aircraft carrier at a ship yard on its Gulf coast and US officials said Friday the goal of the project remains a mystery. Iran has made no attempt to hide its "curious" construction effort near Bandar Abbas on the Gulf, as commercial satellite imagery…
Is the Big Bang in the Bible?
When a major discovery confirmed the Big Bang this week, some evangelicals ignored it, while others claimed it’s already in the Bible. But the theory’s Catholic history suggests there’s a better way to look at it.
Mom arrested while trying to console special needs son in school
Because she neglected to sign in, the mother was arrested and charged with trespassing.
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: What We Know Now
Australia Leads Search for Plane Parts in Indian Ocean While India Blocks Chinese Ships
Religious Freedom Goes Too Far
Religious conservatives are moving to build protection for discrimination into the law. If the Supreme Court lets them, we could end up with a country that can’t be governed.
Connecticut chimp attack victim seeks right to sue state
By Richard Weizel HARTFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - A woman whose face and hands were ripped off by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009 came to the Connecticut State Capitol on Friday to ask permission to sue the state for $150 million in damages. Charla Nash, who has undergone a face transplant and…
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A young woman from Finland has gone viral with a video in which she pretends to speak several languages.
Driver given red light camera ticket for car he doesn’t own, has never driven, from a city he’s never visited
For weeks, Andrew Rainey of Orlando, Florida has been fighting a red light camera ticket he received for a car he doesn’t own, and never drove, from a camera in a city he’s never been to.
U.N. rights investigator accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing'
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights investigator accused Israel on Friday of "ethnic cleansing" in pushing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem and cast doubt that the Israeli government could accept a Palestinian state in the current climate. He spoke against a backdrop of…
Special Report: Girl harbored dark secret, fearing she'd be sent away
Starting at age 14, Nita Dittenber was passed among four families over two years through a practice called "private re-homing." In September, Reuters exposed an underground market in which desperate parents use online bulletin boards to offer adoptees to strangers, often illegally and with no…
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West cover Vogue magazine
NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West's campaign to get fiancee Kim Kardashian on the cover of Vogue magazine has finally paid off. They appear in a photo by Annie Leibovitz on the April issue.
Missing plane: 'objects sighted'
Australia's prime minister says objects sighted in the southern Indian Ocean during search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
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Sergei Nakonechniy was sitting in a cafe in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk when a middle-aged woman rose from a nearby table and stormed toward him. She pointed to his camouflage jacket, which bore the insignia of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army – a controversial World War II anti-Soviet…
Obese Texas girl who had tumor has surgery in Ohio
CINCINNATI (AP) — A 12-year-old girl with a rare case of medically induced obesity that pushed her weight past 200 pounds is recovering after weight-loss surgery.
Couple in U.S. lived on yacht, collected welfare: prosecutor
A couple who collected food stamps and other public assistance from Minnesota while living on a yacht in Florida were being sought on fraud charges, prosecutors said on Friday. Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Andrea Chisholm, accepted more than $165,000 in public assistance between 2005 and 2012…
Jets sign Vick and release Sanchez
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Vick is switching green jerseys — and maybe trading his clipboard for a starting job.
Missing Jet Search: French Satellite Finds Possible Objects
New satellite images from the French show objects that could be related to the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, according to the Malaysian Ministry of Transport.
Washington state man who put infant in freezer gets 16 years
By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Wash (Reuters) - A Washington state man who prosecutors said beat his crying infant daughter and put her in a freezer for 90 minutes so he could take a nap was sentenced on Friday to 16 years in prison, authorities said. Tyler Deutsch, 26, wanted to take a nap in May,…
