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(CNN) — It was a bloody Father’s Day weekend in Chicago, but police said murder and shooting rates are significantly below those at the same time last year. Seven people were shot to death and there were 26 “shooting incidents” from Friday to Sunday, according to Chicago Police Department spokesman Adam Collins. But to put […]
Washington (CNN) — A series of blog posts on Monday purportedly by Edward Snowden said he leaked classified details about U.S. surveillance programs because President Barack Obama worsened “abusive” practices instead of curtailing them as he promised as a candidate. In 90 minutes of live online chatting, the person identified as Snowden by Britain’s Guardian […]
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Is Jimmy Hoffa’s body going to be found underneath a cement slab in a large green Oakland County field? Tipster Anthony Zirilli certainly believes that to be the case. Tony Zirilli is 85-years-old and was in jail at the time of Hoffa’s disappearance in 1975. On Monday, his attorney, David Chasnick, was […]
A Long Island dad is now facing drug and child endangerment charges in Suffolk county after cops say he toted along his eight month-old daughter as he sold heroin in Central Islip — all because he could not find a babysitter. Tyreek Langs, 23, was in possession of five bags of heroin, worth about $500, […]
President Barack Obama on Friday defended the government’s secret monitoring of Americans’ phone records, calling it a necessary tool to fight terrorism but said citizens’ privacy remains intact. “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” Obama said. “That’s not what this program’s about.” Instead, he said the intelligence community is “looking at phone numbers and […]
Jesse Daniels, 53, is accused of endangering the welfare of children for the actions he took after catching four boys in the act of vandalizing his father-in-law’s home over the weekend. With extensive damage done to the inside of the house, Daniels and his wife called 911 — and he went inside of the residence […]
For entrepreneur William K. Middlebrooks, the only difference between living an ordinary life and an extraordinary one is your willingness to do the extra in everything that you do. It’s a lesson Middlebrooks says his father instilled in him growing up, and one that served as a source of inspiration for a compilation of wisdom […]
BOSTON (WCVB/CNN) – For one resident, it appears money was no object for some convenient parking spots. She paid $560,000 for two spaces in Boston’s Back Bay in an auction. The IRS had seized the spaces from a tax-delinquent owner. Bidding started at $42,000. The buyer said she owns the property next to the spaces. […]
LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS/CNN) – A California husband accidentally sold his wife’s $23,000 wedding ring for mere dollars at a garage sale. The couple is hoping the buyer realizes the accident and returns the ring. “I feel naked,” wife Racquel Cloutier said. “I don’t know why I keep crying. I just want my ring back.” Before […]
Looks like this guy wasn’t using his noodle. Randy Zipperer, 49, is accused of stabbing his younger brother following an argument about missing macaroni and cheese. A witness told deputies in Volusia County, Fla. that Randy and his brother, 47-year-old Edward Zipperer, started arguing over Randy’s missing macaroni and cheese, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported. […]
CUSTAR, Ohio – The National Weather Service in Cleveland said a tornado touched down in northwest Ohio Thursday morning. According to Meteorologist Gary Garnet with the NWS, a tornado touched down for a brief period just west of the town of Custar along Route 281 at about 12:10 a.m. The strength of the tornado was […]