Air America, the talk-radio network that helped boost the careers of liberals Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, said Thursday it was going out of business.
In a statement to employees of the New York-based network, Air America’s chairman, Charlie Kireker, wrote: “It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce [...]
January 21, 2010 | Posted in
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VINELAND, N.J. (AP) – Hardcore bowlers don’t just call their main alley their lanes—it’s their house.
A beloved house burned down last week after 50 years on the edge of Vineland, a city in a part of New Jersey far from the historical home of the mob and the teeming chaos of the shore, a place [...]
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A grand jury indicted a former executive of Milwaukee-based Koss Corp. on six charges Wednesday, accusing her of embezzling $31 million from the headphone manufacturer and buying furs, purses, shoes, jewelry and airline tickets.
Sujata “Sue” Sachdeva, of Mequon was charged with six counts of wire fraud. The 46-year-old is Koss’ former vice [...]
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Eight people – all of them adults – have been shot and killed by a lone gunman in the US state of Virginia.
Police say seven bodies were found at one home, while an eighth shooting victim was found at the side of the road and died on the way to hospital.
Officers say they have surrounded [...]
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By Sarah Lison, Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Date: January 19, 2010
A Jackson man pleaded guilty to his 10th DUI charge Thursday and was sentenced to three years on probation and ordered to enter substance-abuse treatment immediately.
Ty Watson, 46, was charged with driving under the influence in July. The charge rose to the felony level because he had [...]
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Mike Greenberg is under heavy scrutiny today for saying what appears to be, “Martin Luther Coon King Day,” on his highly popular ESPN radio show, Mike & Mike In The Morning. Some people are even calling for his job.
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SAN ANTONIO —
Three people have been wounded when gunfire erupted near crowds attending Martin Luther King Jr. holiday activities in San Antonio.
The shooting happened about 4 p.m. Monday outside a Church’s Fried Chicken restaurant in a commercial and retail strip along South New Braunfels Avenue, east of downtown San Antonio.
WOAI-TV in San Antonio quotes witnesses as [...]
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Solar-powered Bibles sent to Haiti
As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a United States group is sending Bibles.
But these aren’t just any Bibles; they’re solar-powered audible Bibles that can broadcast the holy scriptures in Haitian Creole to 300 people at a time.
The Faith Comes By Hearing organisation says its [...]
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Muslim question persists in Army shooting
Bill Gertz
Fear of offending Muslims or being insensitive to religion was likely a key factor to why Army supervisors missed signs that the suspect in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage was a Muslim extremist, according to national security experts.
Senior Pentagon officials last week sought to play down or sidestep [...]
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Chai Feldblum, the Georgetown University law professor nominated by President obama to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has written that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, that may negatively affect homosexual “equality.”
Feldblum, whose nomination was advanced in a closed session of the Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on December [...]
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