A man with a long history of pretending to be a transit worker and commandeering New York City subway trains for joy rides was arrested Wednesday after stealing a commercial passenger bus from New Jersey, police said. Darius McCollum was arrested by officers who spotted the bus traveling down a… Read More
Veterans Day: How a nation celebrated its heroes
A single yellow rose at a 9/11 memorial. A wreath in remembrance. A promise to do better in caring for those who have served. Parades of thousands. Across the United States on Wednesday, Americans found ways big and small to honor and remember members of all branches of the U.S…. Read More
GOP debate breaks viewership records. Here’s how many people tuned in…
It was the least watched of the four debates, but it still set records. An estimated 13.5 million people watched the fourth Republican presidential debate of the season, making it the most-watched program in Fox Business Network’s history. Focused primarily on economic issues, it last among the GOP debates, behind… Read More
[Must see] The video on political correctness that’s going viral
“Some just want to shut you up and that’s when you have to speak the loudest.” Amen!
Hundreds of mourners come out to honor hero cop at funeral
Hundreds of civilians and police attended the funeral service of a central Kentucky police officer who was gunned down last week while investigating a robbery. The service for 33-year-old Daniel Ellis began Wednesday morning with three officers saluting his flag-draped coffin at Eastern Kentucky University’s Alumni Coliseum. Ellis died Friday,… Read More
Good grief! “Charlie Brown” enters guilty plea for…
What a blockhead. The former child actor who was the voice of Charlie Brown in beloved “Peanuts” TV specials has pleaded guilty to making criminal threats. Fifty-nine-year-old Peter Robbins of Oceanside entered pleas Tuesday. He’s facing four years and eight months in prison. Authorities say Robbins threatened to harm a… Read More
More young adults refuse to move out of Mom and Dad’s house
The percentage of young women living at home with parents or relatives has risen to its highest level since 1940 as more millennial women put off marriage, attend college and face high living expenses. A Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found that 36.4 percent of women… Read More
Justice! Liberal professor that attacked journalist OUT
University of Missouri Professor Melissa Click resigned her courtesy title with the School of Journalism Tuesday night after video surfaced of her asking for “more muscle” to remove an MU student journalist from a protest. The resignation came as the school’s famed journalism program was already apparently taking steps to rescind… Read More
Elephants fight forest fire (you’ve got to see this!)
Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol. Officials in Indonesia are using trained elephants outfitted with water pumps and hoses to help control fires that have claimed vast amounts of forest while sending thick haze into neighboring countries. For nearly three months, Riau province in East Sumatra… Read More
New York says NO to ‘Daily Fantasy Sports’
New York’s attorney general on Tuesday ordered the daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel to stop accepting bets in the state, saying their operations amount to illegal gambling. In a pair of letters sent to the companies, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that after a one-month investigation, his office… Read More