For Immediate Release PERMIT APPROVED BY NATIONAL PARK POLICE!!!
June 11, 2010
2nd Restore The Constitution Rally
Time: August 14, 2010 from 1pm to 4pm
Location: Guilford Courthouse Battleground Park
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SEDALIA, Mo. – It's 7:19 p.m., yet Rep. Ike Skelton appears hard at work. "I just voted against the repeal of DADT," Skelton tweets via BlackBerry to alert a few hundred followers to his stance against gays openly serving in the military.
This from a man who doesn't have a personal computer in his office and displays photos of himself with former President Harry Truman.
Now at age 78, after more than three decades in Congress, Skelton is going modern.
Facing what may be the most difficult electi…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on June 15, 2010 at 7:58pm —
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NEW YORK – About 100 tons of garbage piled high at the nation's biggest cooperative housing complex was removed by the city Sanitation Department early Friday, though a labor dispute continued there.
The trash at Co-op City was picked up on the overnight shift after the Health Department declared it a health hazard, said Sanitation Department spokesman Keith Mellis.
Garbage piles had risen as high as 5 feet, and health officials worried that the rodent population could blossom in the heat. Almos…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on June 4, 2010 at 10:38am —
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – The words "bomb on the bus" heard from a cell phone set it all off: Downtown Portsmouth shut down, businesses and homes evacuated, sharpshooters and an armored vehicle rolling in.
The parked, New York City-bound Greyhound was surrounded for nine hours Thursday, until the man who took the call, an immigrant from the African nation of Burundi, finally emerged. Police now say their "appropriate" show of force so frightened the passenger that he refused to leave the bus until a fa…
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NEW YORK – Police cleared streets around Times Square on Friday and called in the bomb squad after finding a cooler and a shopping bag left on a sidewalk about a block from where a failed car bomb was found over the weekend. They opened streets to traffic after finding out the cooler contained only water bottles.
A nearby shopping bag had books and a gift wrapped in pink tissue paper.
Police had earlier cordoned off a pedestrian mall and nearby streets with yellow tape around 1:15 p.m., while ye…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on May 7, 2010 at 6:20pm —
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NEW YORK – A day before driving an SUV with a rigged homemade bomb into Times Square, a Pakistani-American made a test drive into the heart of the city, dropped off a getaway car blocks from his target and took a train home to Connecticut, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The official's account of Faisal Shahzad, who took no visitors in the shabby apartment where he hoarded a gun and low-grade fireworks for months, bolsters a growing theory that he prepared a terrorist attac…
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WASHINGTON – Law enforcement officials decided not to call all airlines directly on Monday to tell them an important name had been added to the government's "no-fly" list, even as investigators pursued the man they suspected was the Times Square bomber.
Emirates airlines apparently didn't notice the notification from the Transportation Security Administration that there was an addition to the list, and Faisal Shahzad boarded a Mideast-bound jetliner before federal authorities pulled him off and…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on May 5, 2010 at 8:26pm —
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CONCORD, N.H. – The mummified body of a baby, kept by a family for nearly a century before a judge ordered the remains to be buried, has been removed from a cemetery, police said Tuesday.
A cemetery visitor on Monday reported that a grave appeared to have been unearthed, police Sgt. John Thomas said. The corpse of "Baby John" has not been recovered, he said.
The mummified body had been kept for years by Charles Peavey. He had said the family had the mummy, possibly the stillborn son of a great-g…
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NEW YORK – The registered owner of an SUV that was parked in Times Square and rigged with a crude propane-and-gasoline bomb told investigators he sold the vehicle to a stranger for cash three weeks ago, a law enforcement official said Monday.
The owner, who lives in Connecticut, was questioned Sunday about his sale of the dark-colored 1993 Nissan Pathfinder to a man he did not know, the official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation int…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on May 3, 2010 at 7:52pm —
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ATLANTA – Fears of swine flu helped boost vaccination for ordinary seasonal flu last year, with a record 40 percent of adults and children getting the vaccine, federal health officials said Thursday.
The jump was most dramatic in children, but vaccinations also increased in healthy adults under 50, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers.
For all ages, the highest seasonal flu vaccination rate previously was about 33 percent, in the 2008-2009 season.
Flu shots have be…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on April 29, 2010 at 4:58pm —
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – A sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus should be locked up indefinitely under a civil law meant to keep the most dangerous offenders out of communities even after they complete prison sentences, the state said Wednesday.
The attorney general's office described 33-year-old Nushawn Williams in court papers as a mentally disturbed, sex-obsessed drug user who was unruly and sometimes violent during his 12 years in prison and would likely infect more women i…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on April 28, 2010 at 7:15pm —
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SAN FRANCISCO – EBay Inc. said Wednesday its first-quarter profit rose 11 percent as consumers spent more on its main website, but a disappointing forecast for the current quarter pushed the company's shares down sharply in after-hours trading.
EBay said it earned $397.7 million, or 30 cents per share in the first quarter, compared with $357.1 million, or 28 cents per share in the same period of 2009.
Excluding one-time items, the company earned 42 cents per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reu…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on April 21, 2010 at 6:30pm —
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LOS ANGELES – The phone rang around 2 a.m., waking Teeida Townsend. "My homie got killed," the caller said.
Townsend knew how the cycle plays out here in the gang heartland of south Los Angeles: a killing, a revenge shooting, and then another. He rushed to the crime scene. Gang members were growing agitated. Beyond the yellow police tape, the bullet-riddled body of their teenage homeboy lay beneath a white sheet.
"'We have to keep calm, we don't want no retaliation, don't pick up those guns'," h…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on April 17, 2010 at 7:16pm —
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MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the government cannot call for religious action.
Congress established the day in 1952 and in 1988 set the first Thursday in May as the day for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans to pray. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison-based group of atheists and agnostics, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2008 arguing the day violated the separation of…
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PHILADELPHIA – Massive steel remnants of the fallen World Trade Center towers returned Wednesday to the Pennsylvania city where they were made more than four decades ago, in a solemn homecoming that was never meant to be.
A mile-long procession of 28 flatbed trucks arrived in Coatesville carrying 500 tons of structural supports, referred to as "steel trees" because of their upward branching shape.
Forged in 1969 by Lukens Steel Co., the supports framed the perimeter of the twin towers' first nin…
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – The president of Kyrgyzstan declared from hiding Thursday that he would not surrender to a violent uprising that put the opposition in control of much of the country, home to a U.S. air base key to the war in nearby Afghanistan.
Just after he spoke, automatic weapons fire broke out in the capital miles from the Manas facility, where flights were at least temporarily halted and troops were confined to the base.
It was not clear if Kyrgyz forces controlled by the opposition i…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on April 8, 2010 at 6:34pm —
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WASHINGTON – Scientists may have found a way to tell which smokers are at highest risk of developing lung cancer: measuring a telltale genetic change inside their windpipes.
A test based on the research is being developed in hopes of detecting this deadly cancer earlier, when it's more treatable.
And if the work pans out, the next big question is: Might it even be possible to reverse this genetic chain reaction before it ends in full-blown cancer? The researchers found a tantalizing early hint a…
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LOS ANGELES – Archbishop Jose Gomez was named Tuesday to succeed the archbishop of Los Angeles, the Holy See's most significant acknowledgment to date of the growing importance of Latinos in the American church.
The appointment also was evidence that Pope Benedict XVI wants a strong defender of orthodoxy leading the largest diocese in the nation. Gomez, 58, is an archbishop of Opus Dei, the conservative movement favored by the Vatican.
The Mexican-born Gomez was named coadjutor for Los Angeles,…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on April 6, 2010 at 7:22pm —
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HADDONFIELD, N.J. – The grandmother of a boy brought from Brazil to his father's New Jersey home to resolve an international abduction case is complaining that she's not allowed to see the child.
Silvana Bianchi told Brazil's Globo TV on Sunday night that her grandson's human rights are being violated.
The Brazilian woman and her husband arrived in New Jersey last month with hopes of visiting 9-year-old Sean Goldman.
His father, David Goldman, brought him home on Dec. 24 after a five-year intern…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – An eastern Missouri lawmaker is facing an election challenge from her own husband, whom she accuses him of physical violence. He denies the allegations.
Democratic Rep. Linda Fischer obtained a protection order against John Fischer last week. Three days later, he filed as a Republican candidate for his wife's state House seat, becoming her only challenger in the November election a day before the filing deadline passed.
Linda Fischer said Wednesday that she was not going to…
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Added by Jonathon Rush on April 1, 2010 at 2:05am —
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PRESS RELEASE…2nd Peaceful Armed Open Carry “Restore the Constitution” rally Greensboro NC National Park August 14th
Old-timers go modern in quest to stay in Congress
