Miami Police Beat Man With Down Syndrome | News One

Miami Police Beat Man With Down Syndrome | News One: "A twenty-two-year-old man with down syndrome is recovering from his injuries nearly a week after Miami-Dade police officers beat him outside his home.

According to police reports, a violent confrontation ensued after officers tried to handcuff Gilberto Powell to investigate a bulge they spotted in his pants.

After he was detained they realized the bulge in his waistband was a colostomy bag."

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TRENDING: Cain: Black community ‘brainwashed’ into voting for Dems – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

TRENDING: Cain: Black community ‘brainwashed’ into voting for Dems – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs: "Washington (CNN) - The one African-American running for the GOP presidential nomination said Wednesday the black community was 'brainwashed' for traditionally siding with liberal politicians.
"African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view," Cain said on CNN's "The Situation Room" in an interview airing Wednesday between 5-7 p.m. ET. "I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple."

Cain went on to explain that his interactions with African Americans led him to be optimistic about his own chances with the demographic.
"This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true," Cain said.
He continued, "I believe a third [of African-Americans] would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.""

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Rezwan Ferdaus Terror Plot: 26-Year-Old U.S. Citizen, Charged With Plotting Attack On Pentagon, U.S. Capitol

Rezwan Ferdaus Terror Plot: 26-Year-Old U.S. Citizen, Charged With Plotting Attack On Pentagon, U.S. Capitol: "A 26-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested in connection with a plot to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol using an aircraft filled with C-4 explosives.

The Boston Globe reveals the name of the suspect as Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen who was charged with "attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically to al Qaeda...""

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He was 14 yrs. 6mos. and 5 days old --- and the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th Century | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

He was 14 yrs. 6mos. and 5 days old --- and the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th Century | Flickr - Photo Sharing!: "n a South Carolina prison sixty-six years ago, guards walked a 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 5' 1" and 95 pounds, the straps didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.

The switch was pulled and the adult sized death mask fell from George Stinney’s face. Tears streamed from his eyes. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they watched the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century die."

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what-it-takes-become-millionaire-cnbc: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

what-it-takes-become-millionaire-cnbc: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance: "When it comes to retirement, most Americans doubt they've saved or invested enough to retire comfortably, let alone reach that million-dollar milestone. A new AP-CNBC poll finds nearly one-third (31 percent) of U.S. residents believe they would need a minimum savings of $100,000 to $500,000 if retiring this year in order to be confident of living comfortably in retirement, and 22 percent believe the minimum is $1 million or more to retire comfortably.

Only one-fifth of U.S. respondents think it's likely that their net worth will total at least one million dollars in the next 10 years, while 62 percent said that is "very unlikely." The consensus from the majority of respondents (61 percent): It is "extremely" or "very difficult" to become a millionaire in the United States today."

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Koppel on Discovery : Program Highlights : Discovery Channel

Koppel on Discovery : Program Highlights : Discovery Channel: "Part 1: Joined at the Hip
The American and Chinese economies are irreversibly intertwined. The common complaint that the Chinese are taking jobs away from American workers is in many cases true. China's cheap and abundant labor attracts manufacturing from all over the world. Still, American economists estimate that the U.S. is as much as $70 billion richer each year because of its relationship with China —something must be going right.

Wal-Mart, America's largest retailer, is able to maintain low prices in part because of cheap Chinese labor. And when Apple sells a $299 iPod (designed in California and assembled in China), the American computer company makes an $80 profit, while the Chinese assembly plant makes just $4."

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Koppel on Discovery : Program Highlights : Discovery Channel

Koppel on Discovery : Program Highlights : Discovery Channel: "The American and Chinese economies are irreversibly intertwined. The common complaint that the Chinese are taking jobs away from American workers is in many cases true. China's cheap and abundant labor attracts manufacturing from all over the world. Still, American economists estimate that the U.S. is as much as $70 billion richer each year because of its relationship with China —something must be going right.

Wal-Mart, America's largest retailer, is able to maintain low prices in part because of cheap Chinese labor. And when Apple sells a $299 iPod (designed in California and assembled in China), the American computer company makes an $80 profit, while the Chinese assembly plant makes just $4."

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Crack: A cheap and deadly cocaine is a fast-spreading menace - TIME

Crack: A cheap and deadly cocaine is a fast-spreading menace - TIME: "In New York City, the sleazy dealers peddling dope in Manhattan's Washington Heights call it "crack." In the south central part of Los Angeles, the desperate addicts chasing an ever more elusive high know it as "rock." On both coasts, and in Chicago, Detroit and other cities throughout the U.S., the drug by either name is an inexpensive yet highly potent, highly addictive form of cocaine that is rapidly becoming a scourge. Pushers sell pellet-size "rocks" in tiny plastic vials for as little as $10. Smoked rather than snorted, a single hit of crack provides an intense, wrenching rush in a matter of seconds. "It goes straight to the head. It's immediate speed," says a former addict. "It feels like the top of your head is going to blow off.""

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Alabama Town Gives Offenders a Choice: Jesus or Jail - TIME NewsFeed

Alabama Town Gives Offenders a Choice: Jesus or Jail - TIME NewsFeed: "Given the choice between jail and church, which would you choose?

The small southern Alabama town of Bay Minette is giving non-violent offenders a chance to pick between lockup and the Lord.

Beginning next week, Operation ROC (Restore Our Community) will have a city judge offer those found guilty of misdemeanors the choice between working off their offenses in jail and paying a fine or attending the church of their choice every week for a year. WKRG-TV in Mobile, Ala., reported 56 churches in North Baldwin County are participating in the program."

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'Flawed' new rape law roils military justice system | McClatchy

'Flawed' new rape law roils military justice system | McClatchy: "WASHINGTON _ Six years ago, Congress tried cracking down on rape in the military. Prompted by disturbing reports of sexual assaults in military academies and war zones, lawmakers rewrote the rules. They wanted to protect victims and help prosecutors.

Now it’s clear that the effort backfired.

The politically attractive but poorly understood legal changes have incited courtroom confusion, judicial frustration and constitutional conflict. Extensive interviews and a McClatchy review of thousands of pages of court documents and internal studies find a congressionally caused crisis of military justice that few civilians know anything about.

The rewritten sexual assault law puts judges “in an impossible position,” the top military appellate court warned. Military lawyers find it “cumbersome and confusing,” a Pentagon task force noted. It leads to “unwarranted acquittals,” Defense Department officials added. And some judges call it unconstitutional."

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Slavery Footprint: How Many Forced Laborers Work For You?

Slavery Footprint: How Many Forced Laborers Work For You?: "If you're a 20-something renter who owns a laptop, a bike and a fair amount of shoes, you probably have close to 100 slaves working for you.

Slavery Footprint launched a lifestyle survey Thursday to show consumers how many forced laborers--of the 27 million worldwide--have contributed to making their possessions. The organization crafted the questionnaire after investigating what goes into making about 400 everyday items, from grains to gym bags.

The results aim to inform customers and put pressure on companies to disclose their labor practices.

"[Slavery] is in everything," Justin Dillon, chief executive of Slavery Footprint, told the Huffington Post. "It's in every product. It's not just tracing one element on the periodic table.""

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Ga. executes Davis; supporters claim injustice - Yahoo! News

Ga. executes Davis; supporters claim injustice - Yahoo! News: "JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Strapped to a gurney in Georgia's death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail. Just a few feet away behind a glass window, MacPhail's son and brother watched in silence.
Outside the prison, a crowd of more than 500 demonstrators cried, hugged, prayed and held candles. They represented hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide who took up the anti-death penalty cause as Davis' final days ticked away.
"I am innocent," Davis said moments before he was executed Wednesday night. "All I can ask ... is that you look deeper into this case so that you really can finally see the truth. I ask my family and friends to continue to fight this fight.""

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Florida Legislature Makes Stealth Move to Privatize Prisons

Florida Legislature Makes Stealth Move to Privatize Prisons: "The Miami Herald is reporting that the Florida Senate quietly slipped language into its newly proposed budget Monday that seeks to give corporations the chance to run correctional facilities and probation services in 18 counties, in what could signal a massive private takeover of public prisons.

The move -- which could shift nearly $600 million to private firms -- surprised prison guards, their unions and even the head of the state Senate's Criminal Justice Appropriations Committee, Mike Fasano, who said that his committee was opposed to the idea of privatizing prisons when it was proposed by Gov. Rick Scott's aides. "We made it clear that we weren't interested. We moved on without doing it," said Fasano. "And now it appears in the budget. I'm not pleased. It is a huge, substantive issue. It's a major policy change, and it should have at least been discussed publicly.”"

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Lawrence Brewer Executed: White Supremacist Executed For Texas Dragging Murder

Lawrence Brewer Executed: White Supremacist Executed For Texas Dragging Murder: "HUNTSVILLE, Texas — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.

Byrd, 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road in one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history.

Brewer, 44, was asked if he had any final words, to which he replied: "No. I have no final statement."

He glanced at his parents watching through a nearby window, took several deep breaths and closed his eyes. A single tear hung on the edge of his right eye as he was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., 10 minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing into his arms, both covered with intricate black tattoos."

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Troy Davis Execution Approaches As Calls For Clemency Continue

Troy Davis Execution Approaches As Calls For Clemency Continue: "JACKSON, Ga. -- Behind razor wire and thick concrete walls, Troy Davis spent what may be his final hours Wednesday with friends and family, awaiting his execution at 7 p.m. for the murder of a police officer over 20 years ago, a crime he maintains was committed by another man.

"Troy is in good spirits," said Amnesty International spokeswoman Wende Gozan Brown, who visited with Davis on Tuesday, after he received news that a final plea for clemency to a state pardons board had been rejected. "He is steadfastly maintaining his innocence, as he always has.""

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Troy Davis Execution: Former FBI Chief William S. Sessions Calls On Georgia To Stay Order

Troy Davis Execution: Former FBI Chief William S. Sessions Calls On Georgia To Stay Order: "The execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die in less than a week, should be halted because of "pervasive, persistent doubts" about his guilt, said William S. Sessions, a former federal district judge in Texas and FBI director under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, in a sharply-worded editorial on Thursday.

"Serious questions about Mr. Davis' guilt, highlighted by witness recantations, allegations of police coercion, and a lack of relevant physical evidence, continue to plague his conviction," Sessions wrote. He urged a state pardons board to commute the sentence to life in prison."

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Death-row inmate Troy Davis loses clemency appeal | The Raw Story

Death-row inmate Troy Davis loses clemency appeal | The Raw Story: "Georgia death-row inmate Troy Davis has lost his final appeal and will face the death sentence on Wednesday, human rights groups said Tuesday morning.

Davis was convicted of murdering Georgia police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. Since his conviction, seven of the nine people who testified against him have recanted or changed their testimonies.

"I am utterly shocked and disappointed at the failure of our justice system at all levels to correct a miscarriage of justice," Brian Kammer, an attorney for Davis, said following the decision."

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Could "Obamacare" be working? - CBS News

Could "Obamacare" be working? - CBS News: "(The New Republic) Need a reason to believe the Affordable Care Act is starting to work? The Census Bureau just gave you a half million of them.
That’s how many young adults had health insurance in 2010, as compared to 2009, according to the official estimates. Or, to put it another way, the proportion of 18- to 24-year olds without health insurance fell, by roughly two percentage points, last year.

It's pretty remarkable, given what was happening in the rest of the population. For every other group of non-elderly adults, from 35 through 64 years of age, the proportion without health insurance increased.

You expect that sort of data, given economic conditions: When people lose jobs, they also lose access to employer-sponsored insurance. When their incomes fall or their debts rise, they have a harder time keeping up with premiums. "

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Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds | The Nation

Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds | The Nation: "We are in a food emergency. Speculation and diversion of food to biofuel has contributed to an uncontrolled price rise, adding more to the billion already denied their right to food. Industrial agriculture is pushing species to extinction through the use of toxic chemicals that kill our bees and butterflies, our earthworms and soil organisms that create soil fertility. Plant and animal varieties are disappearing as monocultures displace biodiversity. Industrial, globalized agriculture is responsible for 40 percent of greenhouse gases, which then destabilize agriculture by causing climate chaos, creating new threats to food security."

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Colbert Mocks Bachmann's HPV Vaccine Claims (VIDEO)

Colbert Mocks Bachmann's HPV Vaccine Claims (VIDEO): "During Monday's CNN Tea Party debate, one of the most memorable exchanges occurred between frontrunners Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann over the HPV vaccine Perry mandated in Texas.

While the other candidates did their fair share of attacking Perry, Bachmann insisted that Perry's mandate, which called for girls aged 11 and 12 to get the vaccine to prevent an STD that causes cancer, is morally "flat out wrong" and said she was told it causes mental retardation."

Jacqueline Kennedy Tapes ‘Horrified’ Her Granddaughters - TIME NewsFeed

Jacqueline Kennedy Tapes ‘Horrified’ Her Granddaughters - TIME NewsFeed: "In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's Good Morning America, Caroline Kennedy admitted her daughters were "horrified" by the American icon's description of her marriage.

Jacqueline Kennedy characterized her relationship as "rather terribly Victorian or Asiatic" and said her opinions mostly derived from her husband.

After listening to portions of the tapes, her daughters asked, "Did she really think that?"

But Caroline Kennedy emphasized that the interview is a part of an oral history and is more like a diary. She called the tapes a "snapshot of a world we barely recognize.""

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Sexist Shirts and Bimbo Barbies: Six Products That Caused Outcries Over Gender - TIME NewsFeed

Sexist Shirts and Bimbo Barbies: Six Products That Caused Outcries Over Gender - TIME NewsFeed: "Believe it or not, girls actually can do math. Yet retailers continue to commit offensive gaffes by insulting their target audience’s intelligence with stereotypical merchandise. Though many of these items have sparked an outcry from the public, stores continue to conceptualize, market and sell products promoting the idea that girls are not as smart as boys and shouldn’t bother to apply themselves in school."

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USPS: Postal Service Proposes End To Overnight Mail Delivery, Cuts To Processing Centers

USPS: Postal Service Proposes End To Overnight Mail Delivery, Cuts To Processing Centers: "WASHINGTON -- The financially troubled Postal Service said Thursday it may close more than 250 mail processing facilities across the country and plans to reduce service standards for first-class mail in an effort to cut costs.

The steps are part of a broad effort to cut costs for the agency that lost $8.5 billion last year and is facing ever more red ink this year as the Internet siphons off the lucrative first-class mail and the stagnant economy holds down the growth of advertising mail. Over the last five years mail volume has declined by more than 43 billion items..

"We are radically realigning the way we process and deliver the mail," said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. "With the dramatic decline in mail volume and the resulting excess capacity, maintaining a vast national infrastructure is no longer realistic.""

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Duane Buck Case: U.S. Supreme Court Stays Execution Of Texas Inmate

Duane Buck Case: U.S. Supreme Court Stays Execution Of Texas Inmate: "HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution Thursday of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial.

Duane Buck, 48, was spared from lethal injection when the justices, without extensive comment, said they would review an appeal in his case. Two appeals, both related to a psychologist's testimony that black people were more likely to commit violence, were before the court. One was granted; the other was denied."

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Breaking Headline News

Breaking Headline News: "HBS Rogue Trader; UN Faces Showdown with Palestine; Mass. Lawmakers Want Gambling; Sarah Powell Update; Todd Palin is Papa Bear"

Vietnamese Drug Rehab Labor

Vietnamese Drug Rehab Labor: "Drug rehabilitation centres in Vietnam are nothing more than forced labour camps according to Human Rights Watch."

Sex Worker Parking Meter

Sex Worker Parking Meter: " city in Germany has introduced special metered parking places for prostitutes to use with clients"

NATO Taliban Twitter Fight

NATO Taliban Twitter Fight: "During the 20-hour fight in Kabul, NATO and the Taliban took their fight to Twitter."

Sarah Palin Glen Rice

Sarah Palin Glen Rice: "A new book set to be released soon claims Sarah Palin used drugs, slept with Glen Rice and engaged in other infidelity."

Ga. Man in Spotlight as Execution Nears - TIME

Ga. Man in Spotlight as Execution Nears - TIME: "(ATLANTA) — Hundreds of thousands of people are rallying behind Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis — not just because they oppose capital punishment but because they believe the state could put an innocent man to death. The case is fraught with drama: The murder of an off-duty police officer. Conflicting eyewitness testimony. Last-minute court decisions sparing a condemned man's life and global dignitaries who say they fear an innocent man could die."

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Young: Hoover Lied to Kennedy About MLK

Young: Hoover Lied to Kennedy About MLK: "Ill feelings expressed about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by former first lady Jackie Kennedy in interviews released earlier this week are a direct result of lies about the civil rights leader spread by longtime FBI head J.Edgar Hoover, said Andrew Young, one of King’s lieutenants in the movement.

In an exclusive interview Tuesday on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," Young, a former United Nations ambassador and King confidant, detailed the great effort taken by Hoover to discredit King and undermine the civil rights movement.

Two Congressional committees in the 1970s investigated the tapes of Jackie Kennedy recorded in 1964, not long after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. “There were FBI agents who said they felt they had to come back with dirt on Dr. King because if they did not, they could lose their job or be sent to faraway places,” Young said."

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Life and Debt | A Film By Stephanie Black

Life and Debt | A Film By Stephanie Black: "Life and Debt is a feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica. More on Life and Debt..."

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The upcoming Palestinian vote | The World Around You

The upcoming Palestinian vote | The World Around You: "It appears that Tuesday September 20, 2011 will not just be the annual opening of the UN General Assembly. It will be the day that Palestine will officially ask the international community to recognize it as a sovereign state.
“Abbas will personally present the request to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon… at the opening of the sixty-sixth session,” according to Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki. “[Abbas] will insist on this historic initiative and Ban Ki-moon will present the request to the Security Council.”"

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Eel Swims Up Man's Penis, Has To Be Surgically Removed

Eel Swims Up Man's Penis, Has To Be Surgically Removed: "It's every man's worst nightmare.

Zhang Nan, of China, was bathing with live eels in order to cleanse his skin when things went horribly wrong. According to Metro, one of the small eels managed to not only swim up his urethra, but actually made it all the way to his bladder.

"I climbed into the bath and I could feel the eels nibbling my body. But then suddenly I felt a severe pain and realized a small eel had gone into the end of my penis," the 56-year-old told the British paper.

The eel bath is similar to more common "fish pedicures" in which small sea creatures remove layers of dead skin."

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French Woman Sues Husband for Lack of Sex - Yahoo! News

French Woman Sues Husband for Lack of Sex - Yahoo! News: "Husbands and wives, take note: The phrase, "Not tonight, honey," could end up costing quite a bit more than a bruised ego and grumbled acceptance.
A French wife sued her husband and won about $14,000 because he didn't have sex with her enough, according to Time.
The wife sued her husband about two years ago for the waning bedroom activity over 21 years of marriage, and now the Nice, France, judge has ruled that a lack of copulation is indeed a violation of the marital contract.
"A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other, and in this case it was absent," the judge ruled, according to the Telegraph. "By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other."
Of course, some men also take extreme measures in dissolving relationships."

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Trucker on cell phone at time of crash that killed 11 - Yahoo! News

Trucker on cell phone at time of crash that killed 11 - Yahoo! News: "(Reuters) - The truck driver involved in a 2010 Kentucky crash that killed 11 people was on his cell phone when the accident occurred, federal officials said on Tuesday, and they called for a national ban barring commercial drivers from calling or texting behind the wheel.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board said Kenneth Laymon, the 45-year-old driver of the truck, had just initiated a call when his vehicle and the 53-foot-long trailer it was hauling crossed a median on Interstate 65 near Munfordville, Kentucky and plowed into a van carrying 12 people."

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U.K. police rescue 24 'slavery' victims, arrest 5 suspects - CNN.com

U.K. police rescue 24 'slavery' victims, arrest 5 suspects - CNN.com: "London (CNN) -- British investigators were questioning suspects Monday after police rescued 24 men that they said were kept as slaves -- some for as long as 15 years.
Police in Bedfordshire, northwest of London, arrested five suspects under a new anti-slavery law passed last year, alleging that they lured the men to a trailer park with promises of food and shelter, then threatened them with violence and forced them into hard labor.
The men, from England and parts of Eastern Europe, are "all believed to be victims of slavery," police said. Living in squalid conditions in the town of Leighton Buzzard, many of the men were on the verge of starvation, police said."

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Ashley Jessup, Ohio Mom, Accused Of Raping 10-Month-Old Son

Ashley Jessup, Ohio Mom, Accused Of Raping 10-Month-Old Son: "A 24-year-old Ohio woman charged with raping her 10-month-old son and sharing the videotaped assault with her boyfriend is being held behind bars tonight on a $1 million bond.

Ashley Jessup of Dublin, a city about 20 miles northwest of Columbus, was arrested on Aug. 31 on two counts of rape of a child under 13 years old, one count of endangering children and one count of pandering sexually-oriented matter involving a minor.

A Franklin County grand jury indicted Jessup on the charges. She is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.

According to Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Ron O'Brien, Jessup sexually abused her baby at her Camden Circle home on Aug. 30. She allegedly performed sexual acts on the baby, which she videotaped and emailed to a boyfriend in Battle Creek, Mich."

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Maurice And Toni Johnson Accused Of Sexually Torturing Mentally Disabled Woman

Maurice And Toni Johnson Accused Of Sexually Torturing Mentally Disabled Woman: "A northeast Alabama couple has been arrested for allegedly torturing and sexually abusing a mentally disabled woman who was recently found naked and handcuffed to a bed.

Maurice Rex Johnson, 52, and Toni Renea Johnson, 40, have been charged with sodomy, sexual torture and unlawful imprisonment. The couple is accused of abusing a 23-year-old woman with profound mental disabilities inside their Attalla home for months, according to police.

The alleged abuse and sexual cruelty came to light on Aug. 27.

"[The victim's] boyfriend, who is somewhat mentally challenged himself, found her," Gadsden Police Capt. Regina May told The Huffington Post. "She was laying on the floor nude. They had shaved her head and handcuffed her to a bedframe and left her.""

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Serial Killer Anthony Sowell's 'House Of Horrors' Condemned

Serial Killer Anthony Sowell's 'House Of Horrors' Condemned: "CLEVELAND -- The city has condemned the killing ground dubbed the "House of Horrors," a home where 11 women were murdered by a man who dumped their remains around his house and property.

The owner has until Oct. 2 to make repairs or face having the house demolished, mayoral press secretary Andrea Taylor said Friday in an email to The Associated Press.

The three-story frame house in an impoverished Cleveland neighborhood was the home of Anthony Sowell, who was convicted and sentenced to death last month for killing the 11 women, many of whom were living on the street and dealing with addiction problems."

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Regulations, taxes aren't killing small business, owners say | McClatchy

Regulations, taxes aren't killing small business, owners say | McClatchy: "WASHINGTON — Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation.

"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business, the hospitality business," Bernard Wolfson, the president of Hospitality Operations in Miami, told The Miami Herald. "In order to do business in today's environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them. The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order.""

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Police: Teen loses legs as she tries to hop train - Yahoo! News

Police: Teen loses legs as she tries to hop train - Yahoo! News: "LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A 17-year-old Colorado State University student lost both her legs when she tried to hop aboard a freight train and slipped underneath the moving train on Monday, police said.
One of three males with the student was briefly dragged by the train but suffered only minor injuries. The accident occurred in the northern Colorado town of Longmont shortly after 1 p.m. when the group tried to board the northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train, police said.
Train speed limits through Longmont are 25 mph. It wasn't known exactly how fast the train was going at the time of the accident.
The student was taken to Longmont United Hospital by ambulance and then flown to Denver Health Medical Center. Denver Health officials said they couldn't release any information about her, but Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said he believed she was conscious and able to talk."

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It Wasn't Just Neanderthals: Ancient Humans Had Sex with Other Hominids - Yahoo! News

It Wasn't Just Neanderthals: Ancient Humans Had Sex with Other Hominids - Yahoo! News: "cientists have collected evidence for years that modern humans interbred with our ridge-browed Neanderthal ancestors in Eurasia. But in Africa, where the homo sapien species is said to have emerged, a lack of genetic evidence has left researchers scratching their heads about exactly how we came to beat out not only the Neanderthals, or homo neanderthalis, but other archaic species like homo erectus and homo habilus. A new paper published by Michael Hammer from the University of Arizona, however, provides evidence that homo sapiens not only interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia, they also had sex with several species of our ancestors across the African continent. And they did it often. "We think there were probably thousands of interbreeding events," said Hammer. "It happened relatively extensively and regularly."
Related: How Long It Takes Stephen Hawking to Answer a Question
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Sheriff: Gunman used AK-47 in IHOP shooting - Yahoo! News

Sheriff: Gunman used AK-47 in IHOP shooting - Yahoo! News: "CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A man with an AK-47 assault rifle shot an entire group of five uniformed National Guard members eating breakfast at a Nevada IHOP on Tuesday, killing two of them and another person in a hail of gunfire.
The suspect, 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion of Carson City, also shot himself and later died at a hospital. Seven people were wounded in the attack at a strip mall near a casino and department store in the state's capital.
The gunman's motive was unclear, but authorities are investigating whether the military members were targeted. The two Guardsmen killed were men; another woman also was shot and killed.
Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong said Sencion entered the front doors of the IHOP and traveled "all the way through the restaurant to the back area" before opening fire."

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Family files lawsuit over alleged Miss. hate crime - Yahoo! News

Family files lawsuit over alleged Miss. hate crime - Yahoo! News: "JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The family of a black man who authorities say was run over by a white teenager in a truck filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday over the alleged hate crime.
The lawsuit accuses seven white teenagers of setting out on June 26 after a night of partying to find a random black man to harass. The accusation tracks with police allegations that a group of teens were out looking for a black man to "mess with" when they found 49-year-old James Craig Anderson before dawn in the parking lot of a Jackson hotel.
Investigators have said two of the teens attacked Anderson before one of them climbed into a green Ford F-250 and ran the man down near the hotel on Ellis Avenue."

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Pat Robertson Blames Mild Earthquake on People Who Seem Kind of Gay « Borowitz Report

Pat Robertson Blames Mild Earthquake on People Who Seem Kind of Gay « Borowitz Report: "VIRGINIA BEACH (The Borowitz Report) – Evangelist Pat Robertson sparked controversy in today’s broadcast of his 700 Club program by saying that yesterday’s mild East Coast earthquake was God’s revenge on people “who act kind of gay.”

“All across the Eastern seaboard, there are men who get manicures, wear designer eyewear and know about thread counts,” Rev. Robertson. “God finds this somewhat gay-like behavior confusing, and He responded by getting mildly peeved.”"

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Footage Of United 93 Aftermath Surfaces (Video)

Footage Of United 93 Aftermath Surfaces (Video): "On Sunday night, CNN anchor Susan Hendricks introduced new footage from the immediate aftermath of United Flight 93, which crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania on 9/11. The clip was recorded by an unnamed man —apparently now dead — who watched smoke rise from the crash site about 15 miles from the point of impact. In it, the narrator/cameraman calmly describes the scene unfolding in front of him, and says that he is already watching TV coverage of the Pentagon and World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Only now has the man's family authorized the video to be released. Via CNN, watch below:"

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Footage Of United 93 Aftermath Surfaces (Video)

Footage Of United 93 Aftermath Surfaces (Video): "On Sunday night, CNN anchor Susan Hendricks introduced new footage from the immediate aftermath of United Flight 93, which crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania on 9/11. The clip was recorded by an unnamed man —apparently now dead — who watched smoke rise from the crash site about 15 miles from the point of impact. In it, the narrator/cameraman calmly describes the scene unfolding in front of him, and says that he is already watching TV coverage of the Pentagon and World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Only now has the man's family authorized the video to be released. Via CNN, watch below:"

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IHOP Shooting: Multiple People Reportedly Shot In Carson City, Nevada

IHOP Shooting: Multiple People Reportedly Shot In Carson City, Nevada: "Multiple people have been shot at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nevada, according to local media reports.

According to KOLO-TV, initial details are sketchy but the shooting took place on the 3800 block of Carson Street.

At least eight were shot and the gunman was carrying a semi-automatic weapon, The Record-Courier reports. "Several people were killed," according to the Carson City Sheriff's Department."

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