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“It was pandemonium,” said Hay, who had traveled to the District from Charles County with her husband, sister-in-law, 25-year-old niece with special needs and two grandnieces, 11 and 14. “We were pushing our kids out of the way, trying to plaster ourselves against the wall so nobody would hurt us. There were five fights right […]
Clint O’Connor, The Plain Dealer Filmmakers are fascinated by Cleveland’s legendary thugs. Especially if their deaths were triggered by exploding automobiles in the 1970s. A new movie and two new documentaries will arrive in 2011, feeding America’s unending appetite for mob stories with a grisly slice of Cleveland’s criminal past. “The Irishman” out next March, spotlights […]
During one of the worst national recessions the government has decided to cut $12 billion from the Food Stamp fund, potentially effecting 41 million Americans. In the midst of Michelle Obama’s campaign to eat well, the Government has decided to help its citizens do just the opposite. House members convened Tuesday to pass the multibillion-dollar […]
Hal Turner, an online radio “shock jock” and blogger, was convicted on Friday of threatening to kill three federal judges in Chicago, Illinois, in retaliation for a ruling they made that upheld handgun bans, government officials said. Turner was arrested and charged in June 2009 for posting incendiary comments that said the judges involved […]
US retail sales rose in July after two months of declines, largely due to an increase in car sales, figures show. Total sales climbed 0.4% from the previous month, when sales dropped by a revised 0.3%, the Commerce Department said. Without the impact of car sales, overall retail sales rose by 0.2%. US retail sales […]
A judge has awarded a US exhibition company $110m for salvaging artefacts from the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The US federal judge ruled that RMS Titanic Inc, which displays the artefacts in museums across the world, is entitled to their full market value. The court will decide whether to grant the company ownership of […]
Everdeen Mason, The Plain Dealer YORK TOWNSHIP, Ohio — It’s a scenario no one believes will happen to them: A child dying of heat stroke in a car. But it happens. Every summer. Thursday, 2-year-old Justina Lyon died of probable heat exposure in a car, said Medina County Coroner Neil Grabenstetter. She would be the 32nd child […]
It’s close to midnight in a Manhattan recording studio, and a songwriter is listening to a work in progress, one that he hopes millions will soon know by heart. He’d recently improvised the lyrics in the vocal booth, including the chorus: “If you’re the country, I’m your new citizen.” Now, he sings along with the […]
GEORGETOWN (August 11, 2010)—A state district judge in Georgetown has sentenced Bobby Joe Stovall, 52, of Round Rock to life in prison after Stovall’s ninth conviction for driving while intoxicated.
A mother hoping to hit a lucky streak at a Bucks County casino is now facing child endangerment charges after she allegedly left her kids in the car while gambling.
Never one to mince words, NBA analyst and former All-Star player Charles Barkley has called out LeBron James for some of the things he has done this offseason.