President Barack Obama called Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to extend his condolences after hearing about the tornadoes that hit his state from Dublin, Ireland. Obama is expected to tour the disaster zone when he returns from his trip to the UK. This morning the President spoke about the disaster in Missouri before visiting Buckingham Palace. [...]
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KJ Mullins: Within hours of the devastating tornadoes in Missouri and Minnesota last night emergency agencies like the American Red Cross and AmeriCares were on the scene. The tornado in Joplin has claimed at least 89 lives and left thousands homeless. Relief workers are working to provide help and access damage. Phone lines and other [...]
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KJ Mullins-Buffalo: The Greater Buffalo YMCA is being sued for gross negligence in the case of a young camper last summer. The then 11-year-old girl with special needs was sexually assaulted by a teen camp counselor, 17. She gave birth to a boy this March. The girl claimed to have been assaulted twice by the [...]
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KJ Mullins: A sonogram before abortion law passed in Texas this week is big news. What’s not being talked about are the additional budget cuts to women’s health in that state. In Dallas, Texas the cost of a sonogram is over $300. That cost may put the choice of abortion out of reach for poorer [...]
Continue reading …KJ Mullins: Dominique Strauss-Kahn isn’t having an easy time at New York’s Riker’s Prison reports media saying the head of IMF is now under a suicide watch. Strauss-Kahn has been placed on a suicide watch as a precaution. There are no reports that the 62-year-old has tried to harm himself. The watch means that he [...]
Continue reading …Editorial: Wasilla High School allows “Bohemian Rhapsody” after it was banned
May 16, 2011 No Comment
KJ Mullins: Alaska’s Wasilla High School tried to ban “Bohemian Rhapsody” from this year’s graduation program because it was written by a gay man, the late Freddie Mercury. Wasilla High School is in the same town that Sarah Palin was the mayor before hitting it big. Local paper Frontiersman reports that on a May 6 [...]
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KJ Mullins: No one would argue that Alaina Giordano, 37, is a good mother but she has lost custody of her two children, Sofia, 11, and Bud, 5, because of something she can not control. Giordano has breast cancer. A North Carolina judge has ruled that Alaina Giordano’s estranged husband will be the primary caregiver [...]
Continue reading …KJ Mullins: A New York City paper is questioning if two police officers could be connected to a series of murders involving call girls in long Island. Both of the officials have a past for hiring prostitutes while they were working. The claims are coming from the New York Post about two unnamed officers being [...]
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KJ Mullins-Atlanta: Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed tough immigration enforcement plans into law Friday. The new law will put Georgia in line with the harsh laws already in play in the state of Arizona. Governor Deal’s has had local officials up in arms about where the U.S. is in terms of fixing the illegal immigration [...]
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KJ Mullins: A sailor’s dog is in danger of being left behind and alone in Iraq when the unit she has served returns home. She’s not alone two dozen other animals are facing the same fate. For Navy Lt. John returning home from Iraq later this year could be bittersweet. If the planned animal-travel in [...]
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