When sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein asked his madam and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to put a bounty on information that would discredit one of his most prominent accusers, he also brought up rumors involving two high-profile figures — Bill Clinton, a former president, and Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist. In a …
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A Missouri math teacher awaits extradition from Texas after she was tracked down on a warrant for allegedly having sex with one of her 16-year-old students and using other teenagers as lookouts. Hailey Nichelle Clifton-Carmack, 26, “was suspected of fleeing the state of Missouri” to avoid her arrest for sexual …
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COVINGTON, Ky. – The family of a 30-year-old amateur driver killed in a crash at Kentucky Speedway last year filed a lawsuit, alleging that the racecar’s steering wheel broke off in his hands as he roared around the track at more than 100 mph. Stephen D. Cox, a pharmacist from …
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GREENSBURG, Pa. – A man who was arrested for robbing a western Pennsylvania bank when he stopped to eat biscuits at a nearby restaurant will spend two to four years in prison. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/1K0lDr8) reports 32-year-old Shane Lindsey, of Arnold, was sentenced by a Westmoreland County judge on …
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A Pennsylvania elementary school that allegedly prohibited a student from inviting classmates to a church Christmas party is now the focus of a discrimination lawsuit filed in federal court. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed the suit against the Pocono Mountain School District on behalf of a fifth-grade student. The …
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Arizona school children are told they can’t pray in front of the Supreme Court building … Two University of Texas Arlington employees are fired for praying over a co-worker’s cubicle after work hours … In Cranston, R.I., a high school banner causes controversy when a parent complains it contains a …
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TYLERSVILLE, Pa. – A truck struck a horse and buggy in central Pennsylvania, killing a woman and an 8-year-old boy and seriously injuring four other people, authorities said. State police in Clinton County say the eastbound UPS box truck drifted into the path of the horse and buggy “for unknown …
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LOS ANGELES – The Coast Guard says an oil slick that formed in the Pacific Ocean last week near Santa Barbara, California, was created by natural, ocean-floor seepage. Tests conducted on samples from the thin layer of oil found its composition matched naturally occurring sources. The slick was found Wednesday …
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The $192,000 in payouts to fans attending the PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic last month is now in dispute. The Charleston Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/1hOdADR ) reports the tournament’s London-based underwriters filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against The Greenbrier Classic’s nonprofit financial arm, Old White Charities. George McNeill and Justin …
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BELEN, N.M. – A group of people in New Mexico say they cooked the world’s longest tamale Saturday morning. Luis Hernandez of the ABQ West Chamber of Commerce says that a team of more than 30 chefs at Viva II, a three-day celebration of the state’s heritage, assembled a 116-foot. …
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