A video of a tie-clad teacher dressing down two brawling students is being passed around on some hip-hop blogs, where commenters are praising his cool under pressure. “Y’all don’t do that in here,” he roars at the two boys. “Trust me, we can take it to the grass. Trust me, it’s been that kind of
Continue reading …A video of a tie-clad teacher dressing down two brawling students is being passed around on some hip-hop blogs, where commenters are praising his cool under pressure. “Y’all don’t do that in here,” he roars at the two boys. “Trust me, we can take it to the grass. Trust me, it’s been that kind of
Continue reading …An apparent drunk-driving fatality in the small Massachusetts town of Milford has ignited a state-wide campaign to crack down on illegal immigration. Last month, Ecuadoran Nicholas Guaman was charged with vehicular homicide for allegedly running down 23-year-old motorcyclist Matthew Denice in his truck while drunk. Guaman didn’t have a driver’s license. The victim’s family began
Continue reading …The United States faces a “national crisis” thanks to ongoing high joblessness rates, Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke said Wednesday, in perhaps his most strongly worded effort yet to draw attention to the problem. “We’ve had close to 10 percent unemployment now for a number of years and, of the people who are unemployed, about
Continue reading …In two rare glimmers of good news for the economy, first-time claims for jobless benefits dropped significantly last week, and the government said GDP grew faster than previously thought during the second quarter. Initial claims for unemployment benefits sank last week to 391,000, a hefty drop of 37,000 from a revised 428,000, the government said.
Continue reading …U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn sided with the state of Alabama on Wednesday on two key sections of the state’s wide-ranging crackdown on illegal immigrants. Blackburn refused to enjoin a law that will compel elementary and secondary school administrators to demand their students provide birth certificates to prove they were born in the United States,
Continue reading …A 23-year-old woman has come forward with the bombshell claim that she had a fling with Ashton Kutcher at a San Diego club last Friday, the same weekend of his six-year wedding anniversary with wife Demi Moore, according to a report from Radar Online.
Continue reading …A lawsuit filed by a civil liberties group details dozens of instances of alleged physical abuse in the Los Angeles County jail system. One former inmate says that after he protested that guards were harassing a mentally ill prisoner, those same guards took him into another room, slammed his head into a wall and punched
Continue reading …A lawsuit filed by a civil liberties group details dozens of instances of alleged physical abuse in the Los Angeles County jail system. One former inmate says that after he protested that guards were harassing a mentally ill prisoner, those same guards took him into another room, slammed his head into a wall and punched
Continue reading …New York authorities arrested seven former and current students at a top-ranked Long Island high school after charging that one of them, 19-year-old Sam Eshaghoff, collected up to $2,500 a pop to impersonate the others while taking the SAT. Eshagoff, who attends Emory University, is even accused of impersonating a female student in one case,
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