A political supporter who mailed a gag grenade to a newly elected county sheriff in Pennsylvania won’t be charged with a crime. Beaver County District Attorney David Lozier said Thursday that the man meant no harm. He says the grenade was a disarmed World War II device and wasn’t intended… Read More
Federal judge puts end to PETA’s monkey business
A macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos, a federal judge said. U.S. District Judge William Orrick said in federal court in San Francisco Wednesday that “while Congress and the president can extend the protection of law to animals as well… Read More
Busted! Obama gun speech a lie
When announcing his unilateral and likely unconstitutional executive orders on gun control Tuesday, a tearful President Barack Obama said it was the nation’s responsibility to prevent the next mass shooting. The only problem? Any assertion that Obama’s gun control measures could have prevented — or will prevent — mass shootings is… Read More
Supreme Court showdown? Judge says no gay marriage in Alabama
Alabama may be rocketing toward a confrontation with the U.S. Supreme Court after a state judge seemingly threw the brakes on gay marriage. Controversial Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday said state probate judges remain under a court order to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples even though a… Read More
Hillary pal faces 30 years for fraud, money laundering
A former union chief and backer of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may be spending the rest of his life behind bars. The trial of former Broward Teachers Union President Patrick Santeramo began in a Florida courtroom yesterday, and promises to be a major headache for the Clinton campaign. Santeramo, 68, is… Read More
Voters demand top Democrat be forced from office
Hillary Clinton crony and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has got to go. That’s the message that thousands of American voters are sending in a new online movement designed to force Wasserman Schultz out of office. An online petition on RootsAction, an grassroots political action website, has quickly… Read More
NY races to free 17 trapped miners
Seventeen miners stuck 900 feet underground at the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemisphere were rescued Thursday morning, ending a frantic ordeal that officials said began about 10 hours earlier when an elevator got stuck on its way to the mine’s floor. Mark Klein, a spokesman for Cargill… Read More
Baby giraffe dies after freak zoo accident
Officials at Zoo Miami say a young giraffe has been euthanized after suffering an apparent spinal injury. Zoo spokesman Ron Magill told The Miami Herald that the 9-month-old giraffe, Wesley, poked his head between two posts Tuesday to look into an area where another giraffe was being examined by keepers. Officials… Read More
Bill Cosby escapes charges in California
Los Angeles County prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge Bill Cosby with sexually abusing two teenagers in 1965 and 2008, citing time limits and a lack of evidence. The decision comes about a week after Cosby, 78, was charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 inside his home near… Read More
Shower curtain call! NYC play to be set in hotel room
A play that imagines what it might have been like had Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Sen. Joe McCarthy met in a hotel room in 1953 will make its New York debut next month — in a hotel room. The innovative theater company Defibrillator, based in Britain, will… Read More