January 5, 2012 In the ongoing tussle between the executive and legislative branches of government, President Obama stepped over a line and into history Wednesday, appointing four people to agency positions without Senate confirmation.
Though the ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2012 at 12:07AM
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January 5, 2012 An analysis of 20 years’ worth of school suspension rates nationwide shows that the greatest influence on boys’ behavior at school is not the type of school they attend or teacher they have, but the type of home in which they’re be ...
Posted Friday, January 6th 2012 at 12:03AM
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Stop us if you've heard this before: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are on the verge of a divorce.
While this rumor has been out there for months, and while the famous couple has issued a statement saying it is "still together, and our marria ...
Posted Thursday, January 5th 2012 at 2:40PM
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01/05/2012 News agencies are reporting today that a 14-year-old American runaway was mistakenly deported to Colombia by authorities in Texas in May because she gave a fake name that accidentally matched that of another illegal alien. Jakadrien Turn ...
Posted Thursday, January 5th 2012 at 2:35PM
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Jan 04 Green Bay Packers linebacker Brad Jones didn't want to do the job of security on Sunday when a 15-year-old ran onto Lambeau Field but, the way he saw it, he didn't have much choice.
"Really, I was just cold," he told reporters.
The sober ...
Posted Wednesday, January 4th 2012 at 10:37PM
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ASPEN, Colo. (CNN) - Actor Nick Cannon is in the hospital after apparently suffering minor kidney failure. His wife, singer Mariah Carey, posted the news on her Twitter page. She also posted a picture of Cannon in a hospital bed in Aspen, Colo. On ...
Posted Wednesday, January 4th 2012 at 10:04PM
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President David L. Beckley announced today that the College has met the goal of $750,000 in commitments to receive the $3 million gift announced the 1st of December for the endowment fund and several projects. Through the generosity of Kathy and Joe ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 7:53PM
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Definition
Intellectual property is any innovation, commercial or artistic; any new method or formula with economic value; or any unique name, symbol, or logo that is used commercially. Intellectual property is protected by patents on inventions; tr ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 7:26PM
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JANUARY 2012
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Mitterfirmiansreut, Germany
A village located in Bavaria decided to come together an build a church made from snow. It's been a century since a snow church was built in the village as an act o protest. ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 11:06AM
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LEXINGTON, N.C. -- Do you have change for a million-dollar bill? Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart. Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal that 53-yea ...
Posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 at 12:28AM
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MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — An armed Iraq War veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn't, however, escape the cold.
A ...
Posted Monday, January 2nd 2012 at 11:37PM
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Cancer has claimed another life in east Idaho after a local woman loses her fight to brain and spinal cancer. But despite the loss, the family has reason for hope.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/29/jenni-lake-pregnant-teen-cancer_n_1175009.h ...
Posted Monday, January 2nd 2012 at 11:08PM
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Hollywood, CA (Hollywood Today) 12/29/11—Lots of Christmas cheer is spreading as we continue to hear of people getting engaged.
Over Christmas weekend, NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, 48, got engaged to Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto Jordan, ...
Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 10:00PM
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The hippie movement was at its height in 1971, and Stuart Briscoe had just become pastor of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Stuart persuaded a group of 100 counter-culture youth to attend worship one Sunday, and one of the church's leaders ...
Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 7:07PM
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Right from the beginning, we took each other's futures as we planned one together.
"Loyd, I don't need to take my cell phone, do I?" I slipped my purse strap onto my shoulder and looked at my phone in its charger. "No, I have mine." He held it up. ...
Posted Saturday, December 31st 2011 at 4:59PM
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