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Mom of Newborn Almost Arrested Only Hours After Giving Birth

TweetShareLas Vegas police threatened to arrest Cecilia Rogers only hours after giving birth. Her husband Lincoln Rogers was also threatened with arrest. The couple tried to take their newborn baby Lilia home from Summerlin Hospital against the will of a nurse.  The nurse called  Child Protective Services, who in turn called the police. “They said, [...]

Sagging Pants Ban in Arkansas Schools

TweetShareOn Wednesday, Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill that requires students to pull up their pants.  The new law bans styles that expose “underwear, buttocks or the breast of a female.” “We feel the bill can improve the learning environment in schools,” said Donna Morey, president of the Arkansas Education Association.  Educators say that [...]

Food Coloring Link to Hyperactivity in Children?

TweetShare Food colors An independent panel of experts advised the Food and Drug Administration Thursday to restrict the use of certain food dyes due to a correlation with hyperactivity in children. In an article on the Center for Science in the Public Interest website titled “Strong FDA Action on Food Dyes Urged,” CSPI Executive Director [...]

Bronx Zoo Cobra Twitter Sensation

TweetShareCobra A highly venomous 50 cm (20 inch) Egyptian cobra escaped from its enclosure at the Bronx Zoo Friday and is still at large. Bronx Zoo Zoo officials are confident that the snake is still near the enclosure, which is in the Reptile House, separate from the public area. They say they are certain that [...]

Hoarding and Panic Buying Grip Japan

TweetShareby Meg Mimura Miyabi Inoue didn’t feel a thing when the monumental earthquake and tsunami hit the Northeastern region of Japan on March 11, 2011. She was working in a well constructed building on a college campus located about 30 miles north of Kobe. She still remembers the Kobe earthquake vividly and the general consensus [...]

Biden Video Embarrasses Administration on Libya

TweetShareImpeach Obama? Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)  accused the Obama administration of bypassing the U.S. Constitution to begin air strikes against Libya.  He questioned whether or not the command to attack might be an impeachable offense. “I asked the question as to whether that was an impeachable offense; that’s different than actually calling for an impeachment [...]

Schoolyard Bully Video Goes Viral

TweetShareCasey Heynes, a 10th Grader in Sydney Australia, fought back against a schoolyard bully Monday and is now a world-wide hero for doing it. A friend of the bully recorded a video of the confrontation to post on YouTube to humiliate Casey, but things didn’t turn out that way.  The video went viral, people from [...]

Cyber Command Blocks High Bandwidth Websites

TweetShareCyber Command The U.S. Cyber Command installed a partial web-block on some commercial websites that use “extraordinary bandwidth,” a Cyber Command spokesman said Thursday.  The cyber-ban was at the request of the U.S. Pacific Command, which wanted to insure that bandwidth was available for military operations. The spokesman told the National Journal that commercial websites [...]

Apple’s Steve Jobs’ iPad 2

TweetShareJobs’ iPad 2 Steve Jobs appeared on stage Wednesday to unveil the new iPad 2.  He was thin, but had bounce to his steps and was in great form.  His presentation lasted over an hour. Everyone wants to see the future, and they perceive that the new iPad will represent it, but the thrill for [...]