LEESBURG, Ga. – A Georgia teen is facing child cruelty charges after an online video showed a young man launching a baby several feet across a room using an inflatable pillow. The video posted on YouTube shows the boy putting a baby on one side of a large yellow pillow …
Read More »Feds Look to Tighten Laws Requiring Truckers to Speak English
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Manuel Castillo was driving a truck through Alabama hauling onions and left with a $500 ticket for something he didn’t think he was doing: speaking English poorly. Castillo, who was stopped on his way back to California, said he knows federal law requires him to be able …
Read More »China Blocks Internet Sites for Foreign Journalists Covering Olympics
Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work. The blocked sites will make it difficult for journalists to retrieve information, particularly on political and human rights stories …
Read More »Iran Won't Accept Any Conditions in Talks With EU
TEHRAN,Iran – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells state TV he will not accept any conditions on his country’s disputed nuclear program during talks with European Union officials this weekend. Major world powers have offered Iran a package of incentives in exchange for a halt to uranium enrichment — a process …
Read More »UN, World Bank Officials Urge G-8 to Address Climate Change, Poverty
RUSUTSU, Japan – Top industrialized nations need to push forward global talks on climate change and demonstrate their commitment to help poorer nations grapple with rising food prices, the U.N. and World Bank chiefs said Monday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Robert Zoellick said rich nations need …
Read More »FOX News Poll: New Hampshire Democratic Primary Voters Want Change in Washington
Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire are looking for change; for many voters this represents not just a change in the party in the White House, but changing the way things work in Washington, according to a FOX News Election Day poll. Sixty percent of voters in the Democratic primary …
Read More »Snake Has Surgery After Swallowing Golf Balls
BRISBANE, Australia – A snake was saved by surgery in Australia after mistaking four golf balls for a meal of chicken eggs, a veterinarian said Wednesday. A couple had placed the balls in their chicken coop in New South Wales state to encourage their hen to nest, the Australian Associated …
Read More »Glowing Green Pig Has Glowing Green Piglets
BEIJING – A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported. Two of the 11 piglets glow fluorescent green …
Read More »Embattled Duke Lacrosse Prosecutor Mike Nifong Files for Bankruptcy
RALEIGH, N.C. – The disgraced former prosecutor who led the debunked Duke lacrosse rape case has filed for bankruptcy. Mike Nifong cited more than $180 million dollars in liabilities and only $243,898 in assets of real and personal property. He filed for protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, the …
Read More »Man Clinically Dead for 40 Minutes Out of Hospital
An Arizona man, who was clinically dead for about 40 minutes while doctors performed a rare surgery, is now out of the hospital and well on his way to recovery, myfoxphoenix.com reported. Robert Langefeld underwent the life-saving surgery at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz. last week, in …
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