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- The Poconos, Pennsylvania~~ Former UN Weapons Inspector, Scott Ritter, couldn't find WMDs in Iraq
but had no problem finding what he thought was a 15 year old girl to have sexual conversations with
over the Internet...Ritter, 48, turned himself in to Barrett Township Police in November after he was
charged with having a sexual conversation with a police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl and
masturbating on a Web camera....
- Albany, New York~~Governor David Paterson said Tuesday that the days of
profligate spending in Albany are over...Paterson: Budget Has $1 Bil In New
Taxes...Under Plan, NYC Aid Would Be Slashed By $800 Million; New Soda And
Cigarette Tax Proposals Already Angering Masses....$1 billion in new taxes and
nearly $800 million in cuts for New York City
| Here's a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly...doesn't matter where the sitting takes place... |
| What you talkin bout Willis...Former Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman was arrested in Utah accused of domestic assault...He was picked up because of a warrant... |
| Obama directly condemned the U.S. Supreme Court during his State of the Union address to Congress.... |
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania~~A former top-ranking House Democratic staff aide
testified Wednesday about the variety of ways caucus leaders tapped into the
public treasury to run campaigns, from funding a blast e-mail program to
dispatching state workers to go door-to-door...Mike Manzo told jurors in the
public corruption trial of former Rep. Mike Veon and three former House
Democratic aides that he conferred regularly with Veon about campaign matters,
often during work hours at the Capitol...
- Greenville, South Carolina~~South Carolina, with high unemployment,
was fifth in the nation for families undergoing food hardship in 2009......
She has a degree in education. Her husband has an MBA. But he lost his
job sometime back and can’t find another....the family who lives in a nice
house in a nice subdivision on the Eastside of Greenville. The dad is
another who lost his job a while back and is still unemployed....They are
part of what Vickie Brannen, area director for Harvest of Hope, calls the
changing face of hunger....
- Oconee, South Carolina~~A 26-year-old Oconee County deputy was killed early
Sunday morning just moments after he made a call to his pregnant wife...Deputy
William Frederick Schuck III was pinned between his patrol car and a tree off
Highway 11 North near Walhalla....Highway Patrol officer, who was part of a
search for the deputy, found him dead at about 3 a.m....
- Queens, New York~~Exiled Queens teacher on payroll despite knocking up student....At the beginning
of his 32-year career as a math teacher in Queens, Francisco Olivares allegedly im pregnated and
married a 16-year-old girl he had met when she was a 13-year-old student at his Corona junior high, IS
61...He is alleged to have sexually molested two 12-year-old pupils a decade later and another student
four years after that...But none of it kept Olivares, 60, from collecting his $94,154 salary
- Mobile, Alabama~~Man has been to jail 97 times in 29 years, records show...In fact, the 47-year-old has
been booked into Mobile County Metro Jail on freshly filed charges more times than anyone else in the
modern era of record-keeping there...He's passed through the Canal Street jail on at least 97 occasions
in 29 years. At least three-quarters if those bookings followed drinking bouts and public displays of
drunkenness, records reflect....
- Long Island, New York~~Body found in landing gear of N.Y.-to-Tokyo flight...A body was found inside a
wheel well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities
Monday were trying to identify the man.....Similar cases have occurred in the past. In 2007, a man was
found dead in the nose gear wheel well on a United Airlines flight that arrived in San Francisco from
Shanghai
| Strip club hosts 'Lap dances for Haiti'...strip club in Ohio has raised $1,000 for Haitian earthquake relief during what was billed as “Lap dances for Haiti.”... |
| Obama Hits Lowest Approval Mark... Independent voters see Pres. Obama in a negative light by a nearly 2-1 margin... |
If there's one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans – and everybody in between – it's that
we all hated the bank bailout. I hated it. You hated it.
– President Barack Obama, Jan. 27, 2010
I don't oppose all wars. ... What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
– Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, Oct. 2, 2002
This week the watchdog of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Neil Barofsky, submitted his quarterly
review and testified before Congress. In England, former Prime Minister Tony Blair also testified – for
six hours under cross-examination – at a widely anticipated inquiry into the Iraq War....TARP and the
war in Iraq, begun with bipartisan congressional support, are now unpopular. In both cases,
proponents argued that without action, we risked greater danger. President Obama defends TARP,
which he voted for in the Senate and has expanded as president. But he bemoans having inherited a
war he called "dumb." ....
we all hated the bank bailout. I hated it. You hated it.
– President Barack Obama, Jan. 27, 2010
I don't oppose all wars. ... What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
– Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, Oct. 2, 2002
This week the watchdog of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Neil Barofsky, submitted his quarterly
review and testified before Congress. In England, former Prime Minister Tony Blair also testified – for
six hours under cross-examination – at a widely anticipated inquiry into the Iraq War....TARP and the
war in Iraq, begun with bipartisan congressional support, are now unpopular. In both cases,
proponents argued that without action, we risked greater danger. President Obama defends TARP,
which he voted for in the Senate and has expanded as president. But he bemoans having inherited a
war he called "dumb." ....