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Wal-Mart says it may have been a customer who misused a New Jersey store's public address system last Sunday announcing "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."
A former American NATO commander and senior marine officer, Gen John Sheehan blamed "open homosexuality" in the Dutch army for the failure to prevent the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Gen Sheehan made the comments at a U.S. Senate hearing where he ...
Bernard Madoff, who is currently serving a 150-year jail sentence in North Carolina for running a fraudulent investment operation, known as Ponzi scheme, which cost investors billions of dollars, was beaten up by another inmate in December, three ...
Wachovia Bank reached a $160 million settlement with the Justice Department over allegations that a failure in bank controls enabled drug traffickers to launder money by transferring money from Mexican currency-exchange houses to the bank.
A man who is said to have been urinating on women at a bus stop in Journal Square, Jersey City, was arrested on Wednesday.
Washington's Spokane County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Craigslist ad on Feb. 28 that offered a four-year-old boy for sale.
California's median home sale price jumps 11.2% in February
California's median home price rose a robust 11.2% in February from the same period a year ago as fewer foreclosure properties sold, while the number of homes sold fell 3.8%.
Passengers on Virgin America flight 404 from Los Angeles to New York stuck for more than six hours on the tarmac at Newburgh's Stewart airport on Satuday. Travelers complained they received little food or water, and had to take the last leg of the...
U.S. President Barack Obama, who was born to a Kenyan father and an American mother, moved to Indonesia at the age of seven, after his mother married an Indonesian man, Lolo Soetoro, she met while studying at the University of Hawaii. The recently...
A calm male voice announced "Attention, Wal-Mart customers: All black people, leave the store now," over the public-address system at a New Jersey store on Sunday evening. The incident prompted apologies on Wednesday from the management of the com...
Ohio man arrested for tattooing a 1-year-old
An Ohio man could face a minimum of 5 years in jail for allegedly tattoing a one-year-old girl, FOX8 News reported.
A New Jersey mother is trying to put on weight in order to become the world's fattest woman. Donna Simpson currently weighs 600lb (273kg), but she aims to reach her goal weight of 1000lb (450kg) in two years.
Michael Jackson's estate has signed a contract, worth up to $250 million, with Sony Music Entertainment for 10 projects over seven years, a knowledgeable person said. The deal is the biggest recording deal in history.
A single-engine plane with oil covering its windshield, while trying to make an emergency landing, hit and killed a man on a South Carolina beach Monday afternoon.
Detroit city is planning to ban its employees from wearing scented products as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by a city planner in 2008 and settled last month.
New York City taxi drivers have been caught out overcharging passengers by $8.3 million in the past two years. The drivers were found to have been setting their meters at double rate and at least 1.8 million rides were wrongly charged.
Two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes visited Harv's Metro Car Wash in Sacramento, California on Wednesday. They delivered a letter to the on-site manager, which was about the amount of money the carwash owed to the feds...
American women are more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than women in 40 other countries
According to a new report by Amnesty International on pregnancy and childbirth care in the U.S., American women are at greater risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes than women in 40 other countries.
A 15-year-old student was stabbed 16 times with a steak knife at the George Washington High School campus in Washington Heights, Manhattan on Friday, authorities said.
Fugees video director accused of raping 5 daughters, fathering 6 with them to save bloodline
Award-winning video director Aswad Ayinde, aka Charles McGill, said to believe that only he and his offspring would survive the end of the world is charged with raping 5 of his daughters and fathering six children them.