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| Pa. Mother Guilty for Helping Son to Build Weapons Cache |
A 14-year-old boy planned a school attack with the help of his mother. Even if the police still don’t know if the woman knew what he was helping her son for, she was pleaded guilty for helping him build a weapon cache and of having bought a rifle and gunpowder for his troubled son. On Tuesday in Montgomery County Court, Michele... |
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 Virginia Hasn’t Always
Been for Lovers, the book written by Phyl Newbeck, resumes the case of Mildred Loving, a black woman whose battle
through the courts to marry a white man and to be able to live where they
wanted changed the Supreme Court’s position over interracial marriages. She
died on May 2 at her home in Central
Point,...
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 After the debate on capital punishment and the Supreme Court’s
moratorium on death penalty, Georgia
may be the first state in the nation to execute an inmate. The US Supreme Court
decided to uphold Kentucky’s
lethal injection protocol, although there were voices claiming that lethal injection
violates the ban on “cruel an unusual...
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 New pieces of information came up regarding the six sea
lions shot dead in Columbia River traps.
According to The Associated Press, investigators think the
killers managed to get through the tricky waters into the restricted area,
dropped the doors of two metal cages and then began shooting with a
high-powered rifle at the six...
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Ted Key, the magazine cartoonist who created maid Hazel in
the 1940s, died. He was 95. Key was diagnosed with bladder cancer in late 2006
and suffered a stroke in September. He died Saturday at his home in Tredyffrin Township, Pa.,
his son Peter said, according to the Associated Press.
The bossy yet lovable maid “Hazel” was...
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 Cinco de Mayo, “fifth of May,” is a regional holiday in Mexico, commemorating the Mexican victory over
the French army on May 5th, 1862, at Puebla,
east of Mexico City.
Although the Mexican army was badly trained and poor equipped it defeated one
of the most powerful armies in the world.
The city of Puebla
became the national...
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 A school bus driver and amateur artist in the northern Chicago suburb of Zion
filed a petition in order to change his name legally in Lake County Circuit
Court. The 57-year-old Steve Kreuscher wants to be known as “In God We Trust,”
the Associated Press reports. The man’s first name would be “In God” and his
last name “We...
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 Cheryl Rowe is the driver that took the wrong way. Her mistake
killed herself and also an 8-month pregnant woman south of Roseburg on Interstate-5. Rowe from Albany was driving a 2002
white Pontiac Grand Am. She was going northbound in the southbound lanes when
she hit the car which had Chanthea Prak of Fresno the 20-year-old pregnant...
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 U.S. President George W. Bush saluted a graduating high
school class and its small town on Sunday, one year after a killer tornado ripped
apart its homes, churches and businesses, Reuters reports.
“We celebrate the resurgence of a town that stood tall when its buildings
and homes were laid low,” Bush said in commencement address to...
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 The proposed United States Airlines Flight 93 memorial was
criticized by some opponents who said the design included Islamic symbols.
The temporary memorial is located on a hillside 500 yards from
the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked in the
September 11, 2001 attacks, in Stonycreek...
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 Bill Bramanti really likes beer. In fact, he loves it so
much that he plans spending eternity close to his favorite beer brand, Pabst
Blue Ribbon.
Some may consider this freaky, but Bramanti decided to order
a coffin shaped as a Pabst Blue Ribbon can-beer, designed to fit his body:
5-feet-9 inches tall and 280 pounds weight....
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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