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Country singer Blake Shelton kicked off Wednesday night's "Healing in the Heartland" concert with a gentle performance of "God Gave Me You.""He gave me people like you all," Shelton called to a responsive audience.After a massive tornado ripped through parts of his home state of Oklahoma on May 20, killing 24 people and leaving thousands of homes damaged, Shelton decided to use his voice — and his...
A tea kettle that eerily reminded some observers of Adolph Hitler got JC Penney in hot water this week, but the retailer is only the most recent addition to a long list of advertising blunders.Take car ads, for example. There was an outcry in April after car maker Hyundai posted an online ad showing a man attempting to commit suicide in his garage with a pipe coming from the exhaust and into the c...
BANGOR, Maine -- A man used a fake Facebook account to lure a teenage girl out of her house in an attempt to stage her kidnapping and rescue so he could look like a hero but ended up killing her, a state police affidavit released Wednesday said.Kyle Dube was indicted Wednesday on charges of murder and kidnapping in the death of 15-year-old Nichole Cable, whose body was found in a wooded area ...
An Arizona woman remained in a Mexican jail Wednesday accused of smuggling drugs after no decision was reached at a hearing, but her family was cautiously optimistic that she could be freed soon.Yanira Maldonado, 42, and her husband, Gary, were on a bus home to the Phoenix area from Mexico a week ago after a funeral for Maldonado's aunt when Mexican soldiers staffing a checkpoint stopped the bus i...
