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Prosecutors: Lululemon Killer Should Never Be Free
The Washington Post is reporting that prosecutors contend that Brittany Norwood is beyond rehabilitation and are asking that she never be set free. She was convicted of murdering a co-worker last year at a popular Bethesda, Md., yoga store and frightening a community with an elaborate hoax about a roving band of masked killers. Norwood,…
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Petition Pushes Feds to Probe Wall Street Banks
ColorOfChange.org recently made headlines when it pushed MSNBC to remove Pat Buchanan from the air for promulgating white-supremacist ideology as political commentary. Now it has turned its attention to Wall Street. Part of a coalition of advocacy and public-interest organizations, the group recently delivered more than 360,000 petition signatures to the Obama administration, calling for…
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LL Cool J to Host 54th Annual Grammy Awards
LL Cool J just keeps on “Doin’ it.” CBS Los Angeles is reporting that he will be the official host of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Feb. 12 for the first time in seven years. He should be a major draw for the show. The fomer rapper is a star on CBS’ NCIS:…
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Microsoft's 'Avoid Ghetto' App Continues to Draw Fire
The Dallas NAACP president told CBS during an interview that she willl be up in arms if Microsoft’s so-called avoid-ghetto app is made available. She says it could hurt businesses in black communities, which have already been hit hard by the economic downturn. “It’s almost like gerrymandering,” Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace told CBS Dallas-Fort…
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1 Million Signatures to Recall Wis. Governor
John Nichols at the Nation is reporting that Wisconsin activists submitted petitions with 1 million signatures to state officials on Tuesday — almost twice the number of eligible voters needed to force the notorious anti-labor Gov. Scott Walker to face a new election. A total of 540,208 valid signatures are required to recall Scott Walker,…
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Slow Recovery Means Poverty Will Keep Rising
The Raw Story is reporting that nearly 10 million more Americans have fallen into poverty since the recession began in 2007-2009, and the number is expected to continue to rise because of the plodding pace of the recovery, according to a study released on Wednesday by Indiana University. The study found the number of Americans…
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