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Texas authorities are beginning a sweeping review this week of the state's dominant public school curriculum under pressure from critics who charge that it indoctrinates the children of Texas with communist, pro-terrorist propaganda from behind a shield of secrecy.The State Board of Education will hold the first of a series of public meetings to organize the review in Dallas on Friday, three days ...
John Doe is believed to have produced some of the most widely viewed child porn but authorities have only one image of him."Once that image is taken of the child and the abuse that's occurring, it's on the Internet forever,” Child Exploitation Investigation Unit Chief Patrick Redling said.Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Crimes Center have been after the man for more ...
A human head discovered on a New Jersey golf course 24 years ago has been identified and is believed to be the first victim of serial killer Joel Rifkin, according to police.The head belonged to Heidi Balch, who was murdered and dismembered at age 25 in New York, according to a statement issued on Monday by the Hopewell Township, New Jersey police. Detectives had long suspected a link between ...
New Jersey state troopers have arrested four men for allegedly smoking marijuana in the back of a police station parking lot Tuesday. A state trooper was preparing for a night on patrol at the Totowa station when he noticed a strong marijuana scent, state police said.He walked toward a 2002 Oldsmobile Intrigue and found three men with small bags of marijuana allegedly in the open. They were ...
Promoting safe sex could be dangerous for some Boston College students after school officials threatened them with disciplinary action for distributing condoms on campus, a practice administrators say violates the mission of the Catholic institution.The email warning — which has spurred outrage and threats of legal action from the ACLU foundation of Massachusetts — was sent to students who desig...
An Eritrean man who joined Somali guerrillas was sentenced Wednesday in New York City to more than nine years in prison for assisting a U.S.-designated terrorist group, federal authorities said. Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, 38, had been living in Sweden when he traveled to Somalia to join al-Shabaab militants in their war against the Somali government, according to court records.The State Department has...
An 8-year-old girl on a school field trip to the University of California science museum in Berkeley was hit by an arrow while she played on a whale sculpture.The girl, who was hit in the leg Tuesday, had to have the arrow surgically removed. She spent the night in the hospital and was released on Wednesday afternoon, according to NBCBayArea.com.Who fired the arrow, which came from a crossbow, re...
As gay-marriage supporters and opponents and media pundits parsed the syntax of Supreme Court justices after two days of hearings, the elderly woman who brought one of the historic cases went with her gut."I think it was great," said Edie Windsor, 83, the lesbian widow who challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act after she was made to pay $363,000 in inheritance taxes that a heterosexual wou...
Lawyers for James Holmes -- accused in a shooting rampage that killed 12 at a "Batman" movie in Colorado -- have offered to enter a guilty plea and have their client spend the rest of his life in prison in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.Prosecutors have not yet accepted the plea deal. They were expected to announce April 1 whether they would seek the death penalty.Rob McCallum, a spokesma...
The FBI says it never followed up on the most popular file in its online reading room — a one-page UFO memo that passes along a second- or third-hand report about flying saucers and alien passengers that were supposedly recovered in New Mexico.The memo dated March 22, 1950, has been viewed almost a million times over the past two years, the FBI said this week in a blog posting. It was written by G...
