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A wheelchair-bound man was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the "It's A Small World" ride broke, stranding him for a half hour while the theme song played continuously, according to an attorney for the plaintiff.Jose Martinez, who suffers from panic attacks and high blood pressure, did not medically stabilize for three hours after the ride broke down in 2009, attorney David Geffen said."He h...
A man who reportedly walked through a Tacoma, Wash. neighborhood spraying gunfire was taken into police custody after a standoff at his residence, Seattle TV station KING 5 reported.Police had surrounded the home Tuesday afternoon, where the man with at least four high-powered weapons was holed up, a sheriff's official told NBC News.No injuries were immediately reported, but Pierce County sheriff'...
In his first speech since the discovery of an extramarital affair, David Petraeus apologized for the events that led to his resignation as the the head of the Central Intelligence Agency last November."I am keenly aware that I am regarded in a different light now" since being invited a year ago to be the keynote speaker before 600 guests at the University of Southern California annual ROTC dinner,...
The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld the nation's broadest school voucher program, which gives poor and middle-class families public funds to help pay private school tuition.Opponents, including the state teachers' union, had sued to block the program on grounds that nearly all the voucher money has been directed to religious schools.Voucher systems have drawn criticism acr...
I have a lot of Facebook friends, most of whom I've never met in real life. Many of whom I both respect and like — at least as much as I do know them. On Tuesday, each time I checked Facebook — I swear that's actually a huge chunk of my job — another bunch of them had turned their profile pics from smiling selfies and family portraits to the red-and-pink equal sign the Human Rights Campaign rolled...
A University of Oregon film student felt compelled to respond to some of the issues surrounding the Steubenville rape case -- and has 1.3 million views on YouTube.Samantha Stendal, 19, directed “A Needed Response” and addressed to “the Stuebenville rapists … or any rapists out there,” in order to show the world how real mean treat women."It is horrifying to me that some people can say that people ...
NEW YORK — A New York police officer was charged on Tuesday with mail fraud for allegedly claiming disability benefits for two years while at the same time performing and touring with his heavy metal band, "Cousin Sleaze," according to court documents.Christopher Inserra, an officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was the lead singer with the Brooklyn band, whose "Sick Mani...
A 4-year-old boy spent nearly a week alone in a New Jersey apartment with his mother's decomposing body before a maintenance worker checking on the stench spied him through a crack in the door and called police, authorities said.Police say they believe the child was alone with his dead mother for five or six days before they removed him from the second-floor apartment in Union Tuesday morning...
Police surrounded a home Tuesday in Tacoma, Wash., where a man with at least four high-powered weapons was holed up after reportedly walking through the neighborhood spraying gunfire, a sheriff's official told NBC News.Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, said it was unknown whether anyone had been injured, although several homes were hit by bullets in the neighborhoo...
The Supreme Court could reshape marriage in the United States with its decision on Proposition 8, the California ban on gay marriage approved by the state's voters in 2008.Here are 13 key moments from the transcript of Tuesday's arguments before the court. 1. Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending the California ban, summarizes his case:“The accepted truth that — that the New York high court observe...
