A former Texas high school teacher was sentenced to 5 years in prison for having sex with five 18-year-old students at her home. Charges were filed because "18 or not, it's a crime" for a teacher to have sex with her students.
The face of Yemeni deli clerk Mutahar Murshed Ali was slashed nearly in two for committing that most grievous of offenses: refusing to "sell" a Colt 45 to a drunk 20 year-old in exchange for foodstamps
It’s Shark Week on cable TV, and that means any hour of the day you will find some sort of shark programming and learn all sorts of AMAZING shark facts.
Three big intertwined but rival agribusinesses — corn farmers, meat and poultry producers, and biofuel refineries — are in a political fight to protect their interests as a drought ravages corn producers and industrial consumers alike.
Banking tycoon Baron Rothschild is credited with saying that ‘the time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.’ Rothschild took his own advice, making a fortune buying deeply undervalued assets following Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterl
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The once proud British government, now reduced to Washington's servile whore, put on its Gestapo Jackboots and declared that if the Ecuadorean Embassy in London did not hand over WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, British storm troopers would invade the emba
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Lorenzo Arguello
Olympic silver medalist sprinter (4x100 relay) Jeff Demps has signed a contract with the New England Patriots, according to Ian Rappaport of NFL Network.
The Aviationist, citing a Chinese defense forum, reports that a group of Chinese experts may have arrived in Iran to inspect and collect parts of the the RQ-170 Sentinel drone that was commandeered by Iran in December.
Essentially, strikers have been off the job since August 10, when they started demanding more pay, and then this week police used deadly force against them to end the strike.
People of our present era like to believe they are incapable of engaging in the kind of witch hunts that made Salem, Massachusetts, famous, yet in the past 30 years prosecutors have pursued what only could be described as witch hunts
The German military will in future be able to use its weapons on German streets in an extreme situation, the Federal Constitutional Court says. The armed forces can be deployed if Germany faces an assault of "catastrophic proportions",
Chris Rubino, the New Haven cop who arrested a woman in June, then confiscated her phone after she recorded him physically abusing a suspect, received a 15-day unpaid suspension. But only for planting his foot on the suspect’s face.
Declassified diplomatic cables from Australia’s embassy in Washington DC, obtained through freedom of information requests reveal Australian officials have begun laying the groundwork for the USA to pursue charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Ass
Three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail on Friday for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin in a church, a ruling supporters described as his "personal revenge".
Others say the measure doesn't go far enough because it wouldn't allow people to grow their own pot for recreational use, although medical patients still could; it doesn't contemplate the industrial growing of hemp; and it would not allow recreationa
The spindly, six-eyed members of the worldwide arachnid tribe appear to have evolved their fearsome elongated claws over hundreds of millions of years, but how they attack their prey and how and what they eat are still unknown, the scientists say.
A military appeals court indefinitely postponed the court martial for accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan on Friday while it decides if the trial judge can order his beard forcibly shaved, U.S. Army officials said.
Hasan is accused of ope
The government is changing the terms of its bailout agreement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a way that will shrink the holdings of the 2 mortgage giants more quickly and will require payment to the government of all quarterly profits the compani
The first priority in a bomb-related emergency is, of course, to safely dismantle the bomb. If it's a pipe bomb--the basement-built explosive device--a robot could be sent in to do the job.