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Student Suspended for Posting Principal’s Mug Shot Online
Keandre Varner, a high school student in Riverdale, Georgia, found his principal's mug shot online and posted it on Instagram. For doing so, he received a four-day suspension.
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Abercrombie & Fitch Doesn’t Want Large Women in Their Stores — Is It Fair?
Fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is coming under fire for its decision not to stock XL or XXL sizes for women, ostensibly because they don't want that type of buyer in their stores.
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The Top 10 Most Tornado-Prone Cities
Tornado season is starting in many parts of the country. Is your town or city at risk?
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Saudi Arabia Thinks This Guy Is Too Handsome, Therefore Dangerous to Women
Omar Borkan al Gala is a very good-looking man. Like Derek Zoolander-style ridiculously good-looking. Perhaps even illegally good-looking.
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Solid April Jobs Report Shows Dropping Unemployment Rate, Business Expansion
The economy added 165,000 jobs in April, bringing the overall unemployment rate down a tick to 7.5 percent. The monthly report from the Labor Department also included upward revisions to the last two reports, helping to ease fears of a slowdown.
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Two Chinese Girls Poisoned to Death by Principal of Rival Kindergarten School
It seems almost impossible to believe, but the rivalry between two kindergarten schools in China led the principal of one school to kill a 5-year-old and a 6-year-old who attended the other school. With rat poison.
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Three New Suspects in Boston Marathon Bombing Taken Into Custody [UPDATED]
UPDATE 2:25 p.m. EST: The suspects' names are Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos. From The Boston Globe:
Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both 19 and of New Bedford, were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice by plotting to dispose of a laptop computer and a backpack containing fireworks belonging to bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the US attorney’s office said in a statement.
Robel Phillipos, 19, of Cambridge was charged with making false statements to law enforcement officials in a terorism investigation, prosecutors said.
12:10 p.m. EST: According to Boston.com, the three suspects went to school at UMass-Dartmouth with Dzhokar Tsarnaev and may have helped him in the days immediately following the bombing, which was on April 15. Two of the suspects have been charged with overstaying their student visas.
The Boston Police Department announced that it has taken into custody three new suspects as a result of its ongoing investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Couple’s Second Child Dies After Prayer-Only Healing Doesn’t Work (Again)
In 2009, Herbert and Catherine Schaible lost their 2-year-old son, Kent, to bacterial pneumonia—a condition they refused to let a doctor treat, insisting on using only prayer to heal him. Last week, their second son died. He, too, failed to receive any potentially life-saving medical care.
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New $100 Bills Coming in October
Get ready to throw away all those ratty old Benjamins that are just laying around your house—the newly designed $100 bill will be going into circulation in October.
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Boston Marathon Bomber Charged, Faces Possible Death Penalty
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Boston Marathon Bombers: One Suspect Captured; One Dead [UPDATED]
The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been captured. Dzokhar Tsarnaev was taken into police custody Friday night -- five days after the bombing that left three dead and left more than 100 injured, police said. The 19-year-old was apprehended after a manhunt that began Thursday night with the fatal shooting of an MIT officer and extended into the evening hours on Friday.
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FBI Releases Images, Video of Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects
Special Agent Rick DesLauriers of the FBI, who is leading the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings, just held a press conference in which he revealed that there are two suspects. The FBI released photographs and video of two men believed to be responsible for the attacks.