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Few things scream summer quite like watermelon. Cool, refreshing and – not to mention – light on calories, it’s the perfect guilt-free summertime treat. But how would something so fresh and so watery translate into solid cookie-form?
Convicted former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife Sandi Jackson are going to jail, however, Jesse Jr. would like to serve his time before she serves hers.
The woman who falsely accused football star Brian Banks of r@ping her is being forced to pay big time. A judge has ordered that the woman pay $2.6 million to Banks for ruining his life with false allegations. The lies caused him to lose numerous scholarship offers to college and also led to a prison […]
As someone angry over government fraud and waste, I can understand the need for our elected leaders to tighten their financial belts when it…
There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. How many are near…
(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 […]