Authorities are expecting more than thirty educators to surrender on Tuesday. They have been indicted in an alleged cheating scandal involving standardized testing. The suspects are teachers, superintendents, principals, etc. The first defendants have surrendered. Tameka Goodson, a former school improvement specialist at Kennedy Middle …
After the wave upon wave pressure by advocates, Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) finally reversed his position on same-sex marriage on Monday, leaving eight other Democrats in the Senate opposing the measure. In an exclusive report by the Philadelphia Gay News, Casey announced on Monday that he …
Barely two weeks after the shooting of Colorado’s police chief Tom Clements, a Texas district attorney and his wife were found dead in their rural home 20 miles from Dallas. Almost two months ago, Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was also killed in …
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that he would not support his fellow GOP’s move to filibuster any move to amend the existing gun control law as long as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would allow them to propose their own amendments. In an …
Gay marriage is inevitable. This is what Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona predicts about gay marriage, an issue now gaining high momentum and wide support from all over the States. Flake expressed how gay marriage is indispensable in today’s world on Sunday during his interview with NBC’s …
Kim Kardashian is no doubt feeling a little gloomy this week for her precious pet, a 4-month old Persian kitten named Mercy given to her by her rapper boyfriend Kanye West, passed away. The white, adorable Teacup Persian cat was a gift Kim received from …
AFTER experiencing long-standing fiscal crisis, the Michigan State is set to take over Detroit City and a manager who will oversee the city’s operation will be announced shortly. This developed after a state-initiated review on the city’s financial showed that the city is actually experiencing …
The lawyers for polo mogul John Goodman are seeking a new trial. The reason for the motion is that they say that one of the jurors lied during jury selection. Goodman’s lawyers said they discovered that Denis Demartin, one of the juror’s has a self-published …
Latin singer and superstar Jenni Rivera, who passed away last Dec. 10, 2012 after a fatal plane crash, will be finally laid to rest this week in Long Beach, California. She was 43. TMZ broke out the news over the weekend that Rivera’s family decided …
Pennsylvania’s same-sex marriage advocates pushed for Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) to reverse his position on the issue amid the waves of debates in the political mainstream. Casey faces pressure among Pennsylvania’s progressive groups to change his stand on gay marriage and join his fellow Democrats …
Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida joined his other GOP colleagues on Thursday to stop any measure in the Senate that aims to amend and restrict the existing gun control law–a move being pushed by President Barack Obama months after the Newtown, Connecticut shooting rampage. …
There’s no more hiding and denying for rumored new couple, Country music’s sweetheart Taylor Swift and British heartthrob Harry Styles as the two were spotted holding hands while leaving Swift’s hotel in New York City last Thursday. In the past week, Harry and Taylor had …
ALL investments that China have with North Korea’s free trade zone will push through, signaling a message to the international community that North Korea’s recent racket missile launch doesn’t bother Beijing at all. China is considered as the lone major political and economic ally of North Korea …
Oscar Pistorius, the South African track star who was charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steemkamp can now travel overseas. One of Pistorius’ bail conditions is to surrender his passport. This has been lifted and he can now travel outside South Africa. Judge …
“It’s good to live a normal life again.” This is what Mitt Romney has to say on Wednesday, months after his tight presidential campaign and loss to President Barack Obama. In a conversation with conservative radio broadcaster Dennis Miller, Romney explained how different yet exciting …
Despite the fiscal crisis experienced around the globe including in the US, the country’s manufacturing sector remained bullish after recording another all-time high figure since 2011. Based on the data collected by Tempe, an Arizona-based research company, which was published in Bloomberg Friday, showed that …
As of late, more and more Hollywood celebrities (Lindsay Lohan, Lauryn Hill, Martha Stewart…to name a few) are getting tangled into the legal issue of tax evasion case x and this time, it’s Stephen Baldwin who got arrested due to not paying his tax properly …
The Prima County sheriff’s department is releasing around 2,700 pages of documents from the 2011 shooting in Tucson that wounded former Rep. Danielle Giffords and eleven others, and killed six people. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns ordered the sheriff’s department from releasing the records of …
As March ends, a network of anti-drone activists set the forthcoming month of April as a month of action against President Barack Obama’s drone policy, a targeted killing program in the Middle East. Dubbed as the “April Days of Action”, organizers and participants intend to …
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen and husband, football star, Tom Brady welcomed their second child, daughter Vivian Lake Brady last Wednesday. Bundchen personally announced the arrival of their new family member via her Facebook fan page. The 32-year old supermodel posted a photo of her baby …
The outgoing Asian Development Bank (ADB) chief Haruhiko Kuroda is set to take the post of Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor on March 18. Kuroda’s term as ADB’s chief will be culminated by an election to pick his successor in the ADB along with other …
A federal jury decided last Tuesday that former police chief Jeffrey Chen was fired from his job because of racial discrimination. And the city of Medina and its city manager are ordered to pay Chen $2 million in compensation. The compensation if for Chen’s back …
Former CIA Director David Petraeus apologized on Tuesday night to the mostly veteran-populated audience for his extramarital affairs–a scandal that led to his resignation last year. Petraeus, dubbed as one of the best military strategists in modern history, apologized during the annual ROTC dinner in …
Many small businesses owners are becoming convinced that increasing the minimum wage across the board is necessary and doesn’t actually harm their businesses at all. This is ironic to the common notion that small businesses by nature hate any increase in the minimum salary since …