Following the shooting at LAX Airport, the first news conference was held explaining briefly what happened today. Chief of police Patrick Gannon explained. “Thank you mayor. Patrick Gannon. I’m the chief of police here at LA International airport. As the…
New York City police have determined that a photo of a boy riding a subway train is not that of an autistic boy missing for nearly a month. A 13-year-old snapped the picture Tuesday and later posted it on his…
A 12-year-old Brooklyn boy says in a lawsuit that he was barred from boarding a city bus after the driver heard the youngster reciting a Muslim prayer and branded him a “terrorist.” The unidentified plaintiff was searching for his MetroCard…
Dr. Conrad Murray left the Los Angeles County jail under sheriff’s escort, avoiding reporters and Michael Jackson fans waiting for his release early Monday. Murray, who served two years of a four-year sentence for causing Michael Jackson’s death, was driven…
As if being a teacher isn’t enough of a financial challenge, here’s some worse news, compliments of a front-page article in Sunday’s New York Times about the Federal Reserve possibly injecting some inflation into the economy. Right now it’s an…
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly paid a visit Saturday to the father of Avonte Oquendo and expressed regret for saying he feared the missing 14-year-old autistic boy was dead. “He was very nice to me,’’ Daniel Oquendo told The Post. “He…
A 29-year-old military veteran in Alabama pleaded guilty to hiring what he believed was a Ku Klux Klan member to kill his neighbor and mutilate his body. Allen Wayne Densen Morgan began his murder plot when he thought that his…
What a waste of time, effort and money. During the sixteen days that the government was shut down, the United States could have been funding scientific research, analyzing economic data and providing needed services to people who need them. It…
“Come to the flashing lights Avonte.” ~ Vanessa Fontaine, Avonte’s mother Fourteen year old Avonte Oquendo, a severely autistic teen from New York City, has been missing for two weeks. He doesn’t speak and has trouble performing many basic tasks…
A family of a Dallas-area man wants to know why cops showed up and shot 52-year-old Bobby Gerald Bennett, especially after their official description of the incident is proven wrong on a surveillance video. The police report read that officer…
In the end, we got a terrible economic deal, but a nice political gift. Congress essentially kicked the problem down the road and ensured that early January would mark the beginning of other round of hostage-taking on the part of…
I’ve used the tsunami wave metaphor in other posts about the decline of the Republican Party and its associated havoc-wreaking on the country over the past two years. Today we talk about the complete meltdown of the party. The debacle…
