Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their sons. Here is the original Mother's Day Proclamation from 1870:
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Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their sons. Here is the original Mother's Day Proclamation from 1870:
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Cheney tells "Fox News Sunday" that his health has improved since last year, when he was diagnosed with end-stage heart failure. He had an operation last summer to fit his body with a battery-powered device that helps his heart pump blood.
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Personal bankruptcy cases are on the rise in Massachusetts. Bankruptcy attorney Kathleen Kane of Quincy in her office at Spillane Law Offices in Quincy.
Personal bankruptcy cases are on the rise in Massachusetts. Bankruptcy attorney Kathleen Kane of Quincy in her office at Spillane Law Offices in Quincy.
The bankruptcy epidemic has affected a wide variety of households, from people in their prime earning years who are struggling after layoffs to retirees who are no longer able to pay their mortgages.
In Massachusetts, the total number of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 personal bankruptcy filings rose to nearly 23,000 last year, up 16 percent from 2009. Nationally, personal bankruptcy filings rose 9 percent over the same time.
On last night's Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Condoleezza Rice stood firm on the Bush administration's actions in Iraq. The discussion got quite heated at points with Rice repeatedly threatening to end the interview and O'Donnell accusing her of evading his questions.
Watch the video, from MSNBC, below:
Watch the video, from MSNBC, below:
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Mark Thompson, 19, of Alum Creek, is charged with animal cruelty
Mark Thompson, 19, of Alum Creek, is charged with animal cruelty
Mark Thompson, 19, of Greenview Road, is charged with animal cruelty after police got a call from a woman who said he stole her goat at about 3:15 a.m. Monday, Stover said.
Lisa Powers said she bought the goat on Friday as a gift to her 4-year-old grandson. They named the male goat Bailey after a female character on the Disney Channel television show The Suite Life on Deck.
"The baby just loved him," she said.
Powers' nephew, Joshua Pollis, got a call from a neighbor early Monday morning, she said.
"They told him that my goat was wandering around in Mark's house and he'd better come and get it," she said. "They called my nephew because he'd been there before."
Pollis and two women walked into Thompson's house looking for the goat, according to the criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.
The three entered the house and made their way to Thompson's bedroom door when Thompson spoke to them, Powers said.
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When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Snow, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.
Law enforcement agents and poison control centers say the bath salts, with their complex chemical names, are an emerging menace in several U.S. states where authorities talk of banning their sale. Some say their effects can be as powerful as those of methamphetamine.
From the Deep South to California, emergency calls are being reported over exposure to the stimulants the powders often contain: mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, also known as MDPV.
Sold under such names as Ivory Wave, Bliss, White Lightning and Hurricane Charlie, the chemicals can cause hallucinations, paranoia, a rapid heart rate and suicidal thoughts, authorities say. In addition to bath salts, the chemicals can be found in plant foods that are sold legally at convenience stores and on the Internet. However, they aren't necessarily being used for the purposes on the label.
Mississippi lawmakers this week began considering a proposal to ban the sale of the powders, and a similar measure is being sought in Kentucky. In Louisiana, the bath salts were outlawed by an emergency order after the state's poison center received more than 125 calls in the last three months of 2010 involving exposure to the chemicals.
A passenger plane carrying 27 people plunged into the ocean on Saturday as it approached an airport in bad weather in Indonesia's eastern province of West Papua, killing at least 17.
Herry Bakti Singayuda, director general of Indonesian air transportation, said the Chinese-made Xian MA60 twin turboprop plane went down just before landing in Kaimana.
The flight, operated by state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines, originated in Sorong, another town in the province.
He said rescuers had recovered 17 bodies from the wreckage of the aircraft, which crashed into Kaimana Bay about 500 yards from the end of the runway. Searchers were hampered by heavy rain.
"Technically there was no problem with the plane," Mr Singayuda said.
He said the plane had only 615 flight hours and had been purchased in October.
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Parts of a plane wreckage lies on the ground after it crashed near Kaimana airport in Papua, Indonesia
Parts of a plane wreckage lies on the ground after it crashed near Kaimana airport in Papua, Indonesia
The flight, operated by state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines, originated in Sorong, another town in the province.
He said rescuers had recovered 17 bodies from the wreckage of the aircraft, which crashed into Kaimana Bay about 500 yards from the end of the runway. Searchers were hampered by heavy rain.
"Technically there was no problem with the plane," Mr Singayuda said.
He said the plane had only 615 flight hours and had been purchased in October.
Toronto police have arrested a man suspected of assaulting a woman on the York University campus.
The alleged assault took place on Thursday at about 4 p.m. inside the Seneca College building on Finch Avenue West.
Police say the 20-year-old victim was walking to the building when she became aware of a man walking very close behind her.
When the woman entered the Seneca College building the man continued to follow her.
Once inside the main hall the man sexually assaulted the woman.
The alleged assault took place on Thursday at about 4 p.m. inside the Seneca College building on Finch Avenue West.
Police say the 20-year-old victim was walking to the building when she became aware of a man walking very close behind her.
When the woman entered the Seneca College building the man continued to follow her.
Once inside the main hall the man sexually assaulted the woman.
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Jason Keough, shown outside court in 2008, was sentenced Friday to 27 months in prison
Jason Keough, shown outside court in 2008, was sentenced Friday to 27 months in prison
Keough was convicted in January on two counts of possessing child pornography and one count each of making voyeuristic materials and voyeurism.
The sentence imposed by Justice Donald Manderschied is nine months longer than what the Crown had recommended and includes jail time for the voyeurism conviction. The judge said no court has ever imposed jail time for that offence.
Crown prosecutor Diane Hollinshead later explained to reporters that courts have been imposing conditional sentences or probation as a punishment for voyeurism, which is still a relatively new offence.
She welcomed the judge's decision to sentence Keough to prison on that count.
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Jamaal Coleson Jr., 2 years old, died after being circumcised.
Jamaal Coleson Jr., 2 years old, died after being circumcised.
New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is investigating the death of 2-year-old Jamaal Coleson, Jr. following a circumcision Tuesday at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center.
"They gave him anesthesia, and after the circumcision he woke up he was fine," said Jabbar Coleson, Jamaal Jr.'s uncle, who lives in Jonesboro, Ga. "He asked to eat, he asked for something to drink, and then he started complaining about pain in his stomach."
Jabbar said his nephew was in the outpatient ward when doctors noticed something was wrong. But four hours passed before the toddler was rushed to the emergency room, he said.
Comment: In case readers are wondering what "high on bath salts" means, check out this article:
Officials fear bath salts becoming the next big drug menace