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Texas — “If you move, no one will have a Merry Christmas.” Those are the cold words of a gunman who robbed a Texas business Tuesday night.

New Jersey — Two men, Canpolat Cankurt and Leonardo Quintero are accused of raping a 12-year-old girl who they met on the internet and video recording it with a cell phone camera. North Jersey reports: Quintero and Cankurt are accused of picking up the 12-year-old at her home in Paterson at 2 a.m. Friday, coercing […]

Washington — Appearing on ‘Parker Spitzer’ (weekdays 8PM ET on CNN), radio host Stephen A. Smith expressed his belief that Democrats have been “taking the black vote for granted.”

Alabama — Politics Daily is reporting that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is defending Michelle Obama in her “food fight” with Sarah Palin, who says the first lady needs to mind her business.

WASHINGTON — After a filibuster and threats of obstruction by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the Senate unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday that would provide health care for first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attack. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer reached a deal with Republican senators to support the bill earlier in the afternoon.

Washington– Moving from the Arizona desert to the bright lights of New York has given the Knicks’ Amare Stoudemire a way to express himself as a true fashion (power) forward.

Next year, Georgia will become one of the first states in the country to offer electronic testing for the General Educational Development exam, also known as the GED.

CALIFORNIA- Mimi Ash, a California woman had her home broken into while she was gone for weekend. She found out it wasn’t a burglary but a wrongful foreclosure. The New York Times reports: When she finally got into the house, it was empty. All of her possessions were gone: furniture, her son’s ski medals, winter […]

When homeowners are behind on their mortgage payments, or attempting to modify their home loan, or even on occasion fully paid up but lost in the bureaucratic shuffle, they are in danger of having their home broken into and their possessions removed by the banks.

A passerby made a grisly discovery on an East Harlem street Wednesday – a dead woman, stuffed inside a suitcase, police said.