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The guy dressed in the suit and tie, smiling and shaking a bevy of hands, caught Grayson Thomas’ eye. Grayson wasn’t alone. Teachers and other students at Stevenson Ranch Elementary School couldn’t take their eyes off the lunchtime visitor, either. Grayson, a fifth-grader at the campus near Santa Clarita, Ca., noticed the gentleman’s outward characteristics: Tall and lean. Good looking. Charismatic. Charming. Energetic. Then he made a fatal error: Grayson, 11, pulled a little “made you look” joke on a schoolmate seated next to him, saying something along the lines of “Obama’s visiting our school today,” referring to the magnetic...

Don't Exhale. EPA Expected to Declare Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant The Environmental Protection Agency is expected in the next few weeks to declare that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a pollutant, a move that would require the federal government to regulate them -- even without legislation. FOXNews.com Friday, August 28, 2009 Don't exhale. That advice may need heeding if the Environmental Protection Agency declares carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant, a move -- expected in the next couple weeks -- that would require the federal government to impose new rules limiting emissions....

ANDERSON, Ind. -- A teenager was being held after he was charged with raping a comatose 92-year-old woman in a city hospital hours before she died. Derek D. Hutchison, 18, of Anderson, was being held in Madison County Jail on $100,000 bond Saturday. Hutchison, who has a 5th-grade education, was arraigned Friday in video court. If convicted of the rape charge, he could face six to 20 years in prison. Anderson police said Hutchison acknowledged "taking advantage" of the woman while she was lying in her bed at St. Johns Medical Center about 16 hours before her death in...