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A financial portrait of black America in anticipation of the 2010 U.S. Census.
TACOMA, Wash. — A gunman with an infatuation with a Tacoma special education teacher lay in wait and fatally shot the woman as she arrived for school Friday morning, authorities told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. Police later fatally shot the gunman after a chase and confrontation about 10 miles away.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City Community College is lock down after reports of a possible gunman on campus.
via:myfoxhouston SEALY, Texas – Standing side-by-side in Sealy City Hall Wednesday night, city council candidates Mark Stolarski and Wyn McCready put their political platforms aside and let their future be decided with one roll of three dice. The rules were simple: The highest score wins the election. “We’re going down in history, it’s a first […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — A trainer at SeaWorld Orlando died Wednesday after a killer whale attacked her in front of a horrified audience. Orange County Fire Rescue spokesman John Mulhall said paramedics were called to the Shamu Stadium at the theme park resort where they found a worker who could not be revived. Park guest Victoria […]
via:myfoxhouston.com A violent criminal used a spoon to dig her way out of a Dutch prison, officials said on Tuesday. The 35-year-old woman, held for an unspecified “violent crime,” fled Saturday night through a tunnel she had dug with a spoon, prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin, said. The tunnel linked the inside of the prison […]
NEW YORK – A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold Monday for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book. A 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books, was sold from a private seller to a private buyer, neither of […]
Continental Airlines said today it will cut about 600 jobs at its call centers, citing a growing trend for customers to book tickets online, according to several published reports.
A man from Seminole County Fla. who fed a wild bear and was slapped in the face by the animal was given a fine by the county according to The Orlando Sentinel . Forty-nine-year-old Ernest Stamm went to court Tuesday and pleaded no contest to the charges of feeding wildlife. Stamm claims he had left […]
After the media frenzy that surrounded Tiger Woods’ car accident and alleged affairs, he finally speaks publicly to a select group of friends, colleagues and associates at PGA headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. According to CNN.com, a statement on Woods’ Web site elaborated: “While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between […]
