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Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Governor Rod Blogojevich’s choice of Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the US Senate has been blocked by the Secretary of the Illinois Senate.

When Roland Burris decided to play the race card, he put his career on the chopping block.

Did you know that on January 5, 1971, Angela Davis was arraigned on murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy charges in Marin County, CA. Find out more Black history facts for this week inside!

From Michael Saul at NY Daily News: Right-wing flame thrower <a title="Ann Coulter" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Ann+Coulter">Ann Coulter</a> blasts incoming First Lady Michelle Obama as a freakish <a title="Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jacqueline+Kennedy+Onassis">Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis</a> imitator in a book to be published next week.

Danny Platt said he was under a lot of pressure. He apparently owed his estranged wife $4,000 in back child support. Click to see a GALLERY of other people who killed their own children.

The state Canvassing Board was posed to certify the results of the recount in Minnesota‘s grueling Senate election in Al Franken’s favor — but that doesn’t mean the race is definitely over.

Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris plans to have a high-stakes showdown on Capitol Hill this week with Democratic leaders who continue to say he won’t be seated in Congress.

FREEPORT, Bahamas – The Bahamas will use two pathologists to ensure a careful autopsy on John Travolta’s son, who died at the actor’s vacation home in Grand Bahama, the territory’s health minister said Saturday.

DANBURY, Conn. – On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family with a $10 million winning lottery ticket.

More evidence that government-enforced lending to poor people had nothing to with the housing crash or the economic crisis.

“Dealing with a bank? Not me. No respect, they don’t think I’m worth the trouble. And those check cashing places are no better; their fees are outrageous. But what other choice is there?” – Lorene G. Lorene’s situation is similar to so many others. There is just no way she wants to deal with a […]