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Time Warner Cable (TWC) isn't yet a part of Comcast, but it's taking after its potential parent company in one very unfortunate way. Comcast customers have complained about their billing account names being changed to insults like "*******," "*****," "dummy," and "super bitch." Now, the same...

“African values are not on sale,” the new Chairman of Communications for the African bishops has said. But Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of Oyo, Nigeria, is convinced they are under threat from what Pope Francis has called an “ideological colonization” that is seeking to destroy the family. It's so...

Quebec Education Minister Yves Bolduc says high school staff are permitted to strip-search students, as long as it's done "in a respectful fashion." Bolduc's comments Tuesday follow a report in the Journal de Montréal newspaper, saying that a 15-year-old female student at the Neufchatel High...

No, it's not from The Onion............ If you need any more proof that we are living in a strange world where obscure foibles can become worldwide sensations, look no further than the tale of a correction to a Lexington Dispatch letter to the editor headline. The original letter...

That giant pot-hole on the political highway in front of Stephen Harper is the trial of Mike Duffy. Put it in the bank; there is no deal or deal-making in the works from Duffy or his legal team. If his trial is cancelled or postponed, it will be because of actions taken by the Crown, or God...

In an attempt to appeal to the non-dairy crowd, Starbucks is bringing “coconut milk” to the masses. Those who are committed to real food are no stranger to coconut milk. It’s deliciously thick and creamy, full of healthy saturated fats, and low in sugar. That’s real coconut milk, though...

by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. I am, now and have always been fiercely pro vaccine. I had all six of my children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines have saved the lives of hundreds of millions of humans over the past century and that broad vaccine coverage is critical to public health. That’s why I...

The leadership of the Jehovah’s Witnesses – one of the world’s most insular religions – for 25 years has instructed its elders to keep cases of child sexual abuse secret from law enforcement and members of their own congregations, according to an examination of thousands of pages of documents in...

Pastor Ahmet Guvener managed to get his daughter, a Christian, an exemption from mandatory religious classes in her Turkish school. But he soon found that the 17-year-old wasn't really off the hook. As an alternative to the classes at her school in Diyarbakir, in southeast Turkey, she would...

Radio, TV and voiceover performer Gary Owens died on Feb. 12 at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. Owens, who was 80, had been a diabetic since the age of 8. Owens was probably best known as the announcer on NBC’s “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” (1968-73), with his trademark...

Imagine you’re a Medicare patient, and you go to your doctor for an ultrasound of your heart one month. Medicare pays your doctor’s office $189, and you pay about 20 percent of that bill as a co-payment. Then, the next month, your doctor’s practice has been bought by the local hospital. You go...

The United States has fallen three places to 49th in global press freedom, according to the newly-released Reporters Without Borders 2015 World Press Freedom Index. The index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to numerous criteria, including medial pluralism and independence...

Kidde is recalling more than 4.6 million disposable fire extinguishers in the U.S. and Canada because the plastic valves may not fully discharge when the lever is pressed and released. The company has received 11 reports of extinguishers failing to discharge, but no injuries have been...

Bill Proposes Sentencing Women To Five Years In Prison If They Wear Yoga Pants In Public Three Times Representative David Moore said introduced House Bill 365 on Tuesday in the House Judiciary Committee. He said the bill is in response to a group of nude bicyclists who participated in a...

“What we need to find out is how this happened,” he said in an interview. “When we find out that there was a lobbyist who had been working for Minister Baird, representing the company in question — we were under the impression that this was a sanction that was not relevant — but it is...

Let's go to another room so the TV can't hear us! Samsung's smart TVs don't just respond to your commands now – they also tell a third party what you're saying while you sit in from of them. Sharp-eyed folks have spotted Samsung's confession to that this effect in the UK privacy policy for its...

A B.C. woman is speaking out after a thief managed to steal $17,000 from her bank account using only her stolen driver's licence. Heather Wallace Barnes says her wallet was stolen on Oct. 30, while she was working at a vintage clothing store in Port Moody, B.C. The thief, a man, was...

Mexico is offering undocumented foreigners including Americans amnesty if they come forward and apply for legal status.“I have heard there are people here who don’t have the proper documents. We have illegal aliens here also,” said Arlene Van Note, a resident in San Miguel de Allende.“I’m a...

I quit using sugar in coffee and elsewhere, if possible, many years ago but corn fructose is everywhere and hard to avoid. I also avoid salt if possible. I've never heard of this Berry before I came across this article..........