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Conservative Hollywood star dies at 74

R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” has died. Ermey’s longtime manager Bill Rogin says he died Sunday morning from pneumonia-related complications. He was 74. The Kanas native was nominated for… Read More

Holocaust survivors reunite 76 years later

When Alice Gerstel bid an emotional farewell to her family’s closest friends in October 1941, she was hopeful she’d see “Little Simon” Gronowski again. And she did — 76 years later and half a world away from where they were separated in Brussels. Gerstel and her Jewish family had hidden… Read More

Trump to investigate postal service waste

After weeks of railing against online shopping giant Amazon, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday creating a task force to study the United States Postal Service. In the surprise move, Trump said that USPS is on “an unsustainable financial path” and “must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded… Read More

Career criminal heads to court for charges of murdering cop

A man described by authorities as a career criminal is heading to court to face a murder charge in the shooting death of a Massachusetts police officer. Prosecutors say 29-year-old Thomas Latanowich is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Barnstable District Court in the death of Yarmouth dog officer Sean… Read More

Fatou the gorilla celebrates her 60th birthday with cake [pics!]

Fatou the gorilla, believed to be one of the world’s oldest, is celebrating her 61st birthday at Berlin’s zoo — nearly six decades after she found her way to Germany from a French bar. Zookeepers on Friday presented Fatou a rice cake decorated with the number 61 in fruit. The… Read More

This obituary helped locate a 1981 prison escapee

Investigators say a woman’s obituary helped federal agents capture her fugitive son nearly four decades after he escaped from an Oklahoma prison. The U.S. Marshals Service says 58-year-old Stephen Michael Paris was arrested without incident Thursday at an office in Houston where he worked under a pseudonym. The agency says… Read More

Gun rights activists to march across the U.S.

Organizers are encouraging gun rights supporters to bring unloaded rifles to rallies at state capitols across the U.S. this weekend, pushing back against a wave of student-led gun violence protests that some see as a threat to the Second Amendment. A group called the National Constitutional Coalition of Patriotic Americans… Read More

Revealed! Trump’s new presidential limousine debuts [pics]

When President Donald Trump took office last year, many expected that he would be presented with the keys to a new version of the presidential limousine. Instead, Trump kept the fleet that debuted on former President Barack Obama’s first Inauguration Day in 2009. Observers did not know that Trump was… Read More

Prosecutors review sexual allegations against Hollywood liberal

Los Angeles County prosecutors are reviewing sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey for possible criminal charges, authorities said Wednesday. Sheriff’s investigators presented the allegations on April 5 to the district attorney’s task force on sex crimes in the entertainment industry, a sheriff’s statement said. District attorney’s spokesman Greg Risling confirmed… Read More