COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann lost her campaign chief Monday, along with his close deputy, in a campaign shake-up that the Minnesota congresswoman’s aides sought to downplay. Citing health reasons, veteran GOP strategist Ed Rollins stepped down as campaign manager. Bachmann said one of her strategists would take over on an […]
Competing factions, bounty hunters and Libyan commandos are struggling in their hunt to find deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. Without help from NATO, those involved in the hunt have thus far had to rely on human intelligence. Conflicting reports of Gaddafi’s whereabout have surfaced, but none have been confirmed. The manhunt for Gaddafi is an […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — At churches, shopping centers, schools, and local tea party meetings in California, fired-up volunteers have started gathering signatures for a ballot referendum that would repeal the nation’s first law requiring public schools to include prominent gay people and gay rights’ milestones in school lessons. Organizers of the Stop SB48 campaign— Senate […]
In a weekend in which 47 people were shot, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that he blamed illegal handguns for the rise in violence and a shooting that killed three people and wounded two police officers a few blocks from the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. He called out federal […]
A Brooklyn councilman was arrested after a dustup with the NYPD at the West Indian Day Parade yesterday afternoon. The councilman, Jumaane Williams, was detained by police after walking in a “frozen zone” near the Brooklyn Museum. An argument ensued and fists started flying when a police captain was punched by an unknown bystander. An […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Parole Board on Friday recommended that the governor not pardon a woman who was jailed for using her father’s address to enroll her children in a neighboring school district. Kelley Williams-Bolar, of Akron, served nine days in jail earlier this year for falsifying information on records that she used to […]
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer that has spread to other organs and was urged by his physician to step down in 2008, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. In the cable dated June 2008 and written by James D. McGee, the former U.S. ambassador in Harare, Zimbabwe’s Central […]
An unemployed Cincinnati man died last week when a minor tooth infection spread all the way to his brain and he had no healthcare to treat it. Kyle Willis, only 24-years-old and the nephew of the famed Bootsy Collins, became another example of the healthcare problem in America. Willis was told he needed his wisdom […]
