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Woman Accused of Drowning her Daughters

Posted on 22 February 2012

On Wednesday in Los Angeles, California,  thirty-two year old Lorna Valle was caught trying to drown her one and five year old daughters in the tub by her husband when he came from the store.  When the firefighters answered the 911 call both of the girls were not breathing and unconscious and did not have [...]

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Million Mustache March Planned for April in DC

Posted on 21 February 2012

In April, the American Mustache Institute (AMI) is planning a march on the capital.  The reason is to try to convince lawmakers to create some type of government incentives to grow facial hair.  They want the government to pass the Stimulus to Allow Critical Hair Expenses (STACHE Act).  This stimulus would give a two hundred fifty dollar tax deduction [...]

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Hepatitis C Deadlier Killer Than HIV

Posted on 21 February 2012

In the United States in the mid-1990s, more than fifty thousand people were dying from HIV and now that number is down to approximately thirteen thousand due in part to condom distribution and education campaigns.  Now there is a new deadlier killer on the horizon and that is Hepatitis C and one that they are [...]

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Elizabeth Smart Is Now A Married Woman

Posted on 21 February 2012

Former kidnapped and sexual victim Elizabeth Smart is now  a married woman. Smart recently got married at a temple in Oahu’s North Shore, Hawaii. The 24-year-old woman married her fiancee Matthew Gilmour at a simple ceremony at the Laie Hawaii Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. According to reports, Smart, a [...]

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Inhalable Caffeine Being Reviewed by FDA

Posted on 19 February 2012

The officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are planning to start an investigation as to whether the inhalable caffeine that is being sold in containers that are the size of a lip stick is safe for consumption.  They are also investigating as to whether the manufacture can label as a dietary supplement.  The name of [...]

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Man in Connecticut Trying to Evict his Mother

Posted on 18 February 2012

In New Haven, Peter Kantorowski, age seventy-one, has been trying to get his mother, ninety-eight year old Mary Kantorowski, to either move to a nursing home or in with him and she refuses.  In December, just before her birthday, he had his mother served with an evection notice.  She has lived in her little home [...]

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Virginia man Suspected of Plotting Attack on Capitol

Posted on 18 February 2012

The FBI arrested a man on Friday who is suspected of planning a suicide attack against the U.S. Capitol.  The man who was identified as Amine El Khalifi, age twenty-nine, is a Moroccan national who lives in Alexandria, Virginia.  He has been the target of a long FBI undercover investigation.  They also stressed that the [...]

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Plane Carrying Strange Cargo Enters President’s Airspace

Posted on 17 February 2012

On Thursday in Los Angles, a small plane that was carrying more than twenty pounds of marijuana strayed into restricted airspace around the President’s helicopter.  This immediately sent out an alert that prompted U.S.F-16 fighters to rush to intercept the small plane.  The planes were scrambled from March Air Reserved Base by the North American Aerospace [...]

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Oxycodone Over Dispensing Ohio Doctor Receives Four Life Terms

Posted on 16 February 2012

Dr. Paul Volkman, age sixty-four and an Illinois physician, has been sentenced by a federal judge in Ohio to four life terms after being convicted in the death of four patients from a drug overdose.  From 2003 to 2005, he had dispensed more Oxycodone painkiller medication that any other physician in the United States.  The [...]

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Man Injured After E-Cigarette Explodes

Posted on 16 February 2012

Tom Holloway, age fifty-seven, of Niceville, Florida, is recovering at a burn center after an electric cigarette exploded in his mouth.  On Monday he was smoking the cigarette when it exploded, sounding like a firecracker had gone off in the house.  They are saying that a faulty battery that was inside the E-cigarette most likely [...]