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A 5-Year-Old Shot and Killed his 2-Year-Old Sister

Phil Nye — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:59:21 +0000

Earlier this week (April 30th), a 5-year-old boy in Cumberland County, Kentucky was playing with a .22-caliber rifle and accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister.

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Girl, 13, Suspended for Bringing Butter Knife to Cut Fruit at Lunch

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:49:29 +0000

A butter knife is causing some major controversy in Attleboro, Massachusetts.

Yes, a butter knife.

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Sex Education in Kindergarten Is About to Become a Reality

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:46:32 +0000

How early is too early to teach sex education?

That question is about to be asked again, thanks to a controversial move in Chicago.

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Utah School Suspends Girl for Having Hair That's Too Red

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:26:33 +0000

The actions of school officials in Utah have one student seeing red.

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Norwich, N.Y., Gun Shop Posts Sign Banning Obama Supporters (UPDATED)

Daniel J. Cassavaugh — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:06:14 +0000

Update: We interviewed the store's owner. His comments appear below.

Heading Due North, a gun and sporting-goods store in Norwich, New York, posted two photos to its Facebook page of signs in front of the store criticizing anyone who voted for President Barack Obama or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The store is owned and operated by David Francis, who also signed a letter posted on the storefront window.

The sidewalk sign reads: "IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA OR CUOMO U ARE NOT WELCOME HERE."

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Ikea Monkey Owner Protesting to Get Her Pet Back

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:53:13 +0000

Earlier this month Darwin, a fashion forward Japanese macaque, charmed the internet by getting loose in an Ikea parking lot and wandering around in a shearling coat.

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Philadelphia Woman Could Be Fined For Giving Out Free Lunches

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:31:27 +0000

Talk about a good deed being punished. This summer, Angela Prattis has been handing out daily free lunches to about 60 kids in her Chester, PA neighborhood. These meals are the same ones they would be getting if their school was in session. Now she faces a fine of $600 a day for doing so because she doesn’t have a variance to serve food in a residential neighborhood.

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Did Progressive Lawyers Defend a Man Who Killed One of Its Policyholders?

Shauna Wright — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:23:02 +0000

A man whose sister was killed by another motorist says that during the ensuing court battle, his sister’s insurance company — Progressive — actually defended the at-fault driver.

And after taking his complaints public, the case is getting a lot of attention.

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99-Year-Old Woman Denied Credit Card Because of Her Age

Shauna Wright — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:18:07 +0000

Being denied credit is never fun, and for one 99-year-old woman, it was especially disheartening. She was turned down for a store credit card because of her age — but as it turns out, it was all a big misunderstanding.

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Boy Fined for Selling Hamburgers for Charity Without Permit — Is It Fair? [VIDEO, POLL]

Amy Sciarretto — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:15:13 +0000

Once again, the idea that no good deed goes unpunished proves itself to be true.

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Man Orders a TV, Mysteriously Gets an Assault Rifle Instead [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:26:32 +0000

Online shopping certainly has its perks, but it’s always annoying when you don’t get what you ordered — especially when you were expecting a TV and wind up with an assault rifle, instead.

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Mississippi County Proposes Law Banning Saggy Pants — Is It Fair? [POLL]

Shauna Wright — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:11:30 +0000

In Hinds County, MS — home of Jackson, the state’s capital — the unemployment rate is a staggering 9.1 percent, and more than a fifth of the county’s residents live below the poverty line.

But according to some local government officials, more people there would be able to get a job if they’d just pull their darned pants up, so they want to enact a law banning saggy pants.

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Lifeguard Billed Thousands of Dollars After Saving a Drowning Boy [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:22:15 +0000

Being a hero has a price — and sometimes, an actual monetary price. That’s what a Vancouver, WA lifeguard found out last month when he saved a young boy from drowning and later got a bill for his efforts.

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Michigan Boy Banned from Running Hot Dog Cart — Is It Fair? [POLL]

Amy Sciarretto — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:58:05 +0000

What a way to shut down enterprising youth. Nathan Duszynski, 13, of Holland, MI, decided he wanted to earn money so he set up a hot dog cart. But he went out of business as fast as he went into it — thanks to the local government.

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Eagle Scouts Return Their Medals to Protest the Boy Scouts' Anti-Gay Policy

Shauna Wright — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:30:49 +0000

Last week, the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed its longstanding policy of banning gays from being scouts or scout leaders.

Now a number of straight men who’ve received the group’s highest honor — the ranking of Eagle Scout — are returning their medals in protest.

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Penn State's Campus Ice Cream Shop Will Keep Selling 'Peachy Paterno' Flavor

Shauna Wright — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:36:39 +0000

Thanks to the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, former Penn State coach Joe Paterno’s football legacy is now largely in tatters — last weekend, the university even removed a statue honoring him.

But if there’s one place you can still find his name, it’s at the campus ice cream shop.

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Boy Scouts Reaffirm Policy of Banning Gays [VIDEO, POLL]

Shauna Wright — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:31:54 +0000

Despite a call from activist groups, the Boy Scouts of America has decided to keep its controversial policy of not allowing gays to be scouts or scout leaders.

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Team USA Gets Gold Medal for Embarrassment By Wearing Olympic Uniforms Made in China [VIDEO]

Amy Sciarretto — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:48:10 +0000

The athletes that comprise Team USA in the Summer Olympics may have been born in the USA but their outfits? Not so much.

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Hundreds of Students Defend Military Funeral Against the Westboro Baptist Church

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:13:15 +0000

When the Westboro Baptist Church announced their intention to target the funeral of Texas A&M alum Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, his fellow Aggies didn’t take it sitting down.

In fact, with a little help of Facebook, more than 500 students at Texas A&M showed up at the burial in College Park, Texas.

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Massachusetts Town May Fine Residents for Cursing — Is It Fair?

Amy Sciarretto — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:45:43 +0000

The residents of Middleborough, Massachusetts will likely be fined $20 for loud, public swearing. It’s a hot-button issue, since it may or may not infringe on free speech, which is protected by the First Amendment.

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