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Remember when that kid "accidentally" killed himself by falling into a gym mat? Thought not. The federal government remembers [...] Johnson's body was found in a rolled-up mat in the Lowndes High School gymnasium on January 11, 2013. Investigators with the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office...

How the American media misrepresent Putin, Sochi and Ukraine. The degradation of mainstream American press coverage of Russia, a country still vital to US national security, has been under way for many years. If the recent tsunami of shamefully unprofessional and politically inflammatory...

Interior ministry justified ban by saying name sounds 'foreign' They are either considered blasphemous, or were 'inappropriate' Not all the names are normally considered offensive to Muslims Binyamin is banned. It happens is the name of the Israeli PM Also included are Alice, Elaine, Lauren...

No 33 here *thread fixed for the darkbeaver*

LOS ANGELES—California Gov. Jerry Brown has 150 days to decide whether Manson Family member Bruce Davis—convicted for his role in the murder of two men in 1969—should go free after he was issued a grant of parole. Davis was convicted in 1972 for his role in the murders of ranch hand Donald...

It's probably nothing. And I'm certain that internet geniuses will solve the riddle for us. Remember those heartbreaking RIP, Facebook, donation, and fundraiser webpages that were created several days BEFORE the actual massacre on Dec. 14, 2012, of 20 kids and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook...

A Montreal salad bar, Mandy’s, is under fire from Quebec’s language police because its decor features vintage English signs. The Office québécois de la langue française told sisters Mandy and Rebecca Wolfe they would have to remove the purely decorative signs from their shop in traditionally...

who died leaving £100,000 vintage clothing wardrobe Vervia Todd died last year aged 92 and left behind a secret collection of unworn vintage clothes worth £100,000 Now historians have discovered a hoard of First World War memorabilia in the attic of her County Durham home It includes boxes...

Perhaps they should have held on to them: Hundreds of rusting tanks abandoned in secret Ukrainian depot unveiled as Russia's armoured vehicles line its streets There are more than 400 abandoned tanks at the plant in a secret, heavily guarded depot in the town of Kharkiv The depot is in the...

or, False Arguments Fuel Government Assistance to Canada's Entertainment Industry. "The arts, entertainment and recreation industries combined for about 1% of the GDP produced by all service industries in 2012, so it's a great exaggeration to say that the entertainment industry makes a major...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A federal judge has upheld a Missouri law requiring protesters to stay at least a football-field length away from funeral sites, beginning an hour before they start until an hour after the services end. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. caps a...

Annapolis Mayor Pantelides to alderman: 'Thanks for (expletive deleted) me' Ever get caught passing notes in school, only to be embarrassed when the teacher read it to the class? Mayor Mike Pantelides knows the feeling...

via bcf David Miller just waltzed in from Ottawa in a skirt and heels. Olivia Chow's mayoral campaign just promises more of the same more Olivia Chow's mayoral campaign just promises more of the same | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

Since the 1960s we have spent trillions to uplift the bottom. All nostrums, whether liberal or conservative, free market or statist, have failed and there is nothing on the agenda that offers any hope. The latest, President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper scheme to help struggling young men of...

Seems a teeny bit far-fetched but hey, what do I know. The National Security Agency (NSA) is using a fake Facebook server to spread automated malware and expand its ability to hack into computers and networks around the world, according to a new report. Classified files obtained from former...

Why Should It Be for You? In August 2011, the federal government announced plans to consolidate more than 100 different email systems used by over 300,000 employees into a single, outsourced email system. While the email transition is currently underway - Bell won the nearly $400 million...

via sda: Strange Happenings in Quebec Politics Licia Corbella explains:What's even more puzzling than [Pierre...

OTTAWA - Korean cars for Canadian cows is just part of the free trade deal Prime Minister Stephen Harper secured with South Korea on Tuesday. The deal's been in the works for almost a decade and now that it's been officially announced - even without full details - many industries are...

The parents of George Zimmerman have sued comedienne Roseanne Barr, saying they fled their Lake Mary home in the middle of the night and have been unable to return because she posted their address on Twitter two years ago. Robert Zimmerman Sr. and Gladys Zimmerman filed suit Monday in state...

Mother forced to bring up daughter alone after her American husband is deported from Britain because he had cancer and is a '£98,000 burden on the taxpayer' Lorraine Marx, 56, nursed husband when he was diagnosed with leukaemia But he was escorted onto a plane and deported against medical...