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As a 50-year-old man walked out of a downtown St. Paul bar, two women flashed their breasts and asked him to go somewhere with them. They walked with him into an alley, where two men allegedly showed up and hit him over the head with a blunt object. As he lay on the ground, the men and women kicked and punched him, and stole his wallet and cellphone. The Ramsey County attorney's office said that's what happened Wednesday, May 2, and on Thursday, Janet Elizabeth Hall, 30, Debra Ann McCoy, 45, Andre Lamont Peterson, 44, and David Allen Reynolds, 43,...

Edit: A definition from Wikipedia is useful here: Blasphemy is irreverence towards religious or holy persons or things.[1] Some countries have laws to punish blasphemy,[2] while others have laws to give recourse to those who are offended by blasphemy.  [Fell's Point, Baltimore, MD] There was a show called "Cheers" on television years ago.  It was bawdy and vulgar yet there were some borders it was not safe to pass in the early 80s when the show first aired.  It depicted a homey place, reminiscent of an unpretentious neighborhood bar with a hint of old world ambiance and Boston charm.  The heavy wooden furniture and the bar...

Seven years of trial, evidence from dozens of experts and a 475-page verdict has come no nearer to discovering whether the purported burial box of Jesus' brother James is authentic or a fake. A Jerusalem judge, citing reasonable doubt, acquitted Israeli collector Oded Golan, who was charged with forging the inscription on the box once hailed as the first physical link to Christ.

Oded Golan Speaks Out on Forgery Trial Verdict Asserts purchasers of looted antiquities preserve valuable information Hershel Shanks • 03/15/2012 After being acquitted of all forgery charges, Oded Golan responded by noting the important role that licensed collectors play by keeping artifacts documented and in Israel.

Date Set for James Ossuary Verdict Biblical Archaeology Society Staff • 03/05/2012 The James Ossuary verdict will be announced on Wednesday, March 14th. As events unfold, check in with Bible History Daily for exclusive reporting and commentary.

A St. Petersburg bar landed in hot water recently after a transgender woman was told she could not receive discounted drinks on “ladies night.” The bar, Bishop Tavern & Lounge, was quick to apologize on its Facebook page after a protest group formed on the same social networking site. “Recently a concern was raised about how a transgender customer was treated here. We would like to sincerely apologize for this,” the Facebook note states. “Bishop strives on being one of St. Petersburg’s premier nightlife destinations for everyone, without prejudice. We really appreciate the fact that we live in such a...

New applications for unemployment benefits sank by 37,000 last week to 391,000 to mark the lowest level since April, but a government official suggested the surprising drop may have stemmed from a variety of "technical" issues...

JACKSON COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A couple has been arrested for running a bar in their garage and dealing drugs. Sheriff's deputies tell WSAZ.com Gary Frontz, and his wife, Lisa Frontz ,both 42, of Ripley, were arrested Friday and charged with delivery of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Click here to find out more! For several weeks, deputies were investigating, with the help of an informant, to make several controlled buys from the Frontz home along Carnian Road. Investigators say the couple was dealing prescription medication, marijuana and alcohol shots without a...

More guns less crime? John R. Lott's pithy summary describing the advantages of owning guns seems to be borne out in Virginia according to a report by Mark Bowes of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Last year the Virginia legislature passed a law allowing those with gun permits to carry concealed weapons into bars and restaurants serving alcohol. Opponents predicted Wild West shootings and bloody mayhem from drunken patrons; instead The number of major crimes involving firearms at bars and restaurants statewide declined 5.2 percent from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, compared with the fiscal year before the law went...

ALBANY, GA - A group of club goers shot up Sports Zone Bar and Grill because they weren't ready to leave. The club owner, Reginald Gordon, used his gun in self-defense. The club bouncer was shot in the leg and taken to Phoebe Putney Hospital. EMS and Police responded to the shooting shortly after 2am. The bar was about to close and a group of guys didn't want to leave. APD says as security escorted the men out a fight happened. At some point, the five men started shooting at the building. That's when the owner came outside with his...

The Obama administration told CNSNews.com Thursday that it is currently in the process of procuring solar panels to place on the White House roof but it cannot discuss the progress on the project because of "sensitivities." “The solar installations on the residence will be part of a Department of Energy project to demonstrate American solar energy technology and know-how,” DOE Spokeswoman Jen Stutsman told CNSNews.com in an e-mail. “The project will show that American solar technology is available, reliable, and ready to install in homes throughout the country.”

MARTINSBURG - Two men accused of causing the death of an innocent bystander killed during a July 20, 2008, shooting outside a local bar were indicted Wednesday by a Berkeley County grand jury on charges of felony murder, first-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit murder. Both Dale E. Knight, 24, whose mailing address is listed as P.O. Box 6129, Martinsburg, and 25-year-old Donzell W. White, of Winchester Avenue, Martinsburg, are alleged to have been involved in the armed robbery of 24-year-old Elan Bell-Veney, of Martinsburg, outside the former Orioles Club on Mid-Atlantic Parkway near Martinsburg. During the robbery, Bell-Veney pulled...

Police surrounded a man’s house after one of his “friends” warned the cops that he might be suicidal. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your perspective) the guy was down the street at a bar watching the whole thing on TV. The mayor is calling it a very expensive ($75,000) hoax, but the cops are still investigating: Cops are referring to this operation as a “well-being check”. They apparently take these well-being checks pretty seriously:

From the outside, Boxers NYC looks like the kind of sports bar you might find in a suburban strip mall. Large windows reveal 14 flat-screen TVs, two pool tables, and a dartboard. Inside, men in suits sit atop vinyl-covered stools, fidget with their BlackBerrys (RIMM), and swill pints of beer—served by bartenders dressed in their underwear. After all, Boxers wasn't named for the sweet science, but for the style of skivvies its clients prefer. Less than a year after opening in Manhattan's Flatiron district, Boxers has become a pioneer of the gay sports bar movement. Equal parts generic pub and...

Tom Brokaw on Thursday said that as a result of Arizona's loose gun laws, he'd be nervous going into a bar or restaurant in that state on a Saturday night. Such was uttered during a discussion about gun control on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" (video follows with transcript and commentary): TOM BROKAW: Here is why I think there are a lot of Glocks being sold: because gun owners are worried that they're going to be outlawed. That's what happened when President Obama first took office is that people were buying ammunition and storing it in underground bunkers...

FORT WORTH – One of the busiest airports in the world will soon be a neighbor to an upscale gentlemen’s club, but some prominent North Texans are trying to shut it down before it even opens. A new Rick’s Cabaret is about to open near the South entrance to DFW International Airport. The problem for many is that it’s one of the first things you’ll see going to or from the airport. The club is expected to open its doors in a few weeks. Owners say their place is going to make the airport sexier. But for travelers at DFW,...

According to the complaint: Brumley was on her back on the sidewalk — naked from the waist down — when police arrived about 2:30 a.m. Monday, the complaint said. She was outside Rehab Bar & Grill, 1450 S. Eighth St., with a bouncer who said she had suddenly ripped off her pants and underwear.

There aren’t a whole lot of things in politics about which anyone can claim: “This has never happened before!” But in Iowa, a major battle over judicial activism fits the bill. In all the years that Iowans have held to their odd, some would say cozy, system of appointing judges at all levels including the Supreme Court, a justice has never been voted off that court even though they all come up for a vote on a rotating basis. Each election cycle a few justices come up for retention, and in total they face the voters once every eight years....

Amid Mexico's escalating drug violence, grenades have become the latest weapon of choice used by drug gangs, with many of the grenades of Cold War vintage and manufactured in the U.S. or Eastern Europe, according to a recent Washington Post story. So on hearing that a grenade which wounded at least 15 people was detonated in a nightspot in Puerto Vallarta, a destination once popular with tourists from the U.S. and elsewhere before the surging violence, it was easy enough to assume that someone had rolled a grenade into the bar as part of the cycle of attacks and revenge....

<p>Eight people were killed when a gang burned down a bar in the resort city of Cancun early on Tuesday.</p> <p>At least 10 armed men attacked the Castillo del Mar, a nightclub outside the city's main tourist area, threatening patrons and then lighting the building on fire...</p>

The sister of a 23-year-old New York man killed in a bizarre incident at a Boston pub spoke out today, saying the family is “a mess” in the wake of their loved one’s death. “We don’t know what to do with ourselves,” said Jennifer DiMaria, 25, whose brother Michael died after he was hit in the neck with flying shards of glass at The Lansdowne pub Saturday. “My parents are walking around like zombies, my grandparents are devastated… We’ll miss him so much.” Jennifer DiMaria spoke to the Globe from her family home in Hicksville, N.Y., a few hours after...

There are several precepts that American jurisprudence is supposed to be based upon. “Equal under the law,” “justice is blind,” “no man is either above or below the law,” in the U.S. these basic ideas undergird the premise that we are all the same under our American law. But apparently someone forgot to tell the American Bar Association about all these simple, long-time American principles because the ABA is delivering itself a new charge: The search for Hispanic law. That’s right, folks, the ABA is no longer concerned with “the law.”

Note: This is not an endorsement of bars or gay bars, but is posted here for info and archival purposes. # Note: Video included. "Ground Zero mosque spokesman to Gutfeld: Your gay bar won’t build dialogue because it doesn’t consider our sensibilities" SNIPPET: "He’s got a point. Construction projects that fail to consider local cultural sensitivities aren’t very conducive to dialogue, are they?"

A name for the Muslim Gay bar being floated is: 1. YOU MECCA ME HOT!

NOTE: This is not an endorsement. This is posted here for archival purposes. "Greg Gutfeld: I’m raising money to build a Muslim gay bar next to the Ground Zero mosque" POSTED AT 7:07 PM ON AUGUST 9, 2010 BY ALLAHPUNDIT SNIPPET: "Andy Levy assures me that he’s quite serious."

Auburn,CA. A Placer County man has been arrested after he broke into a shuttered bar, reopened the business and started selling drinks to unwitting customers, according to the Placer County Sheriff's department. The Placer County Sheriff's department arrested 29-year-old Travis Kevie of Newcastle after his 4-day stint as the barkeep of the historic Valencia Club in Penryn which had been shutdown for more than a year. Detective Jim Hudson became suspicious after reading about the Valencia Club's re-opening in an Auburn Journal newspaper article that featured a picture of Kevie and identified him as the club's new "owner/operator". Not only...

On July 1, 2010, Virginia and New Mexico legalized the concealed carry of handguns in restaurants where alcohol is served. That makes 43 states allowing handguns to be carried in alcohol serving establishments, with only Montana still requiring unconcealed or "open carry" at these venues. . . .

Let's get this straight. Utah's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control enjoys brisk sales of $270 million in its 41 state-controlled stores. It made a profit of almost $60 million and pumped more than $30 million into Utah's sales taxes and school lunch program. Nevertheless, Utah is cutting its DABC budget. To make do, the conventional wisdom says we either need to cut hours at state liquor stores by two hours a day, to 10 hours, or reduce the number of stores. We have a better, far more sensible solution: Why not get the state out of the liquor business! There's...

Most club bathrooms are far from a pretty sight so I can only imagine the type of facility CBGB offered fans in need of relief after one too many beers. A new art exhibit in Hartford, Conn., will give music lovers the chance to return to the scene of the crime to relive the glory that was the punk rock club’s bathroom. An artist named Justin Lowe is recreating the bathroom of the iconic New York venue in an installation taking up four galleries of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. According to the Wall Street Journal, the graffiti-covered restroom...

The world’s first gold bar vending machine has been unveiled at Emirates Palace. The Gold To Go machine, itself covered in 24-carat gold, dispenses one, five and 10 gram bars as well as one ounce bars of gold, the National reported on Thursday. Six gold coins of varied weights and engraved with symbols of gold-producing nations Canada, Australia and South Africa, are also dispensed by the machine. About AED175 will buy a one gram bar, AED760 a five gram bar and AED4,645 an ounce, the paper reports. “It brings gold to the public,” Thomas Geissler, the chief executive of Ex...

BROMSGOVE, England, - A British court issued the first nationwide Drinking Banning Order to a woman who is now barred from buying alcohol anywhere in England or Wales. Kidderminster Magistrates' Court issued the order to Laura Hall, 20, of Bromsgove, England, banning her from all pubs, clubs and bars and preventing her from buying or publicly consuming alcohol anywhere in England or Wales, the Daily Mail reported Friday. Police said they applied for the order after Hall was convicted of a number of public order offenses and was caught violating bans from numerous clubs and pubs. "There have been some...

HOUSTON—Former first lady Barbara Bush was released from a Houston hospital, where she underwent tests after being admitted last weekend. Methodist Hospital said in a statement announcing the Wednesday release that Mrs. Bush might have had a mild relapse of Graves disease, a thyroid condition for which she was treated in 1989. Her doctors have adjusted her medication. The 84-year-old wife of former President George H.W. Bush was hospitalized Saturday after not feeling well for about a week. She was described as not being in any pain or danger. Mrs. Bush had heart surgery in March 2009 for a severe...

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LONGVIEW, Wash. -- A Longview man who pulled a gun on bouncers at a local bar has been found not guilty of second-degree assault. A jury determined that 29-year-old Brian Adam Barnd-Spjut acted in self-defense on the night of March 28. A security video showed bouncers from Kesler's Bar and Grill hauling the man down the bar's hallway toward a back alley. When thrust into an alley, he spun around and pointed the gun at three bouncers and the bar manager. Barnd-Spjut, who has a concealed weapons permit, says he displayed the gun because he feared the bouncers would beat...

It is legal for lawyers, like anyone else, to give campaign money to politicians. But questions arise when the politicians are local officials with influence over the selection of legal counsel for shareholder lawsuits filed by public pension funds, a role that can be lucrative. A Wall Street Journal analysis documented the extent of campaign giving by plaintiffs' law firms specializing in shareholder litigation. It found that 25 leading firms, their lawyers and family members contributed a total of more than $21 million in the past decade to state-level candidates and party funds, as well as to national-party groups that...

SNIPPET: "On Jan. 3, King County prosecutors claim in charging documents, Basim Salim Abdul-Rahim was seated in the bar of the 13 Coins restaurant..." SNIPPET: "Abdul-Rahim, also known as James Thomas Triblett, was jailed but has since been released after posting bond."

It has been almost three years since Bradley Olsen disappeared. And despite the length of time, his family does not give up hope. Project Jason's Angel Awareness Network has placed electronic posters along America's internet highway, as the anniversary of Mr. Olsens's disappearance comes closer.

A shootout at a west Charlotte bar injured three, including Mark Bowens, a convicted killer from Belmont who police say initiated the Sunday night shooting. The incident occurred around 10:40 p.m. Sunday just across the Gaston County line at the Get-A-Way Lounge at 9305 Wilkinson Blvd., according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. Police say Mark Anthony Bowens, 37, and Rodney Bowens, 45, both of Belmont, were kicked out of the nightclub and then returned a short time later with at least one handgun and started shooting. Bar owner Roosevelt Hinton, 67, of Charlotte, grabbed a handgun and fired back in self-defense, shooting...

CHEYENNE — A head-on collision that killed a Ten Sleep couple last year is prompting a new legal challenge to a state law that protects bar owners from being held responsible for the actions of intoxicated patrons. John and Carol Munkberg died Jan. 28, 2008, in a fiery crash in Big Horn County. He was 70, and she was 66. The other driver, Randall LaBrie, 41, of Malta, Mont., had a blood alcohol level of 0.16 percent — twice the legal limit — and was driving in the wrong lane, police reports stated. LaBrie and his two passengers also died....

Govt-backed gay bar fails to attract customers By Guo Anfei in Dali and Shan Juan in Beijing Updated: 2009-12-02 07:38 The idea was simple: Set up a bar to attract gay men and then use it to distribute information on AIDS/HIV prevention. The media loved the idea -- but all the attention kept the gay men away. "They (gay men) refused to show up at the opening for fear of media exposure and potential discrimination," said Zhang Jianbo, the bar's founder and a local AIDS doctor in Dali, Yunnan province. The bar, partially funded by the Dali Health Bureau in...

Fearing that negative public feelings toward lawyers could be let loose, the Pennsylvania Bar Association backed away yesterday from calling for creation of a citizens' commission to look into changes to the state constitution. The best that a roomful of 350 lawyers could do with the hot-potato issue was to decide to pick another group of lawyers to look into constitutional proposals at a later date. (snip) The group's worry was that an eventual constitutional convention might take up issues the Bar Association has been fighting for decades, such as tort reform and caps on attorneys' fees.

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In the famous Agatha Cristie novel And Then There Were None a group of people on an island mysteriously begins to die off due to accident or foul play. This plot is playing out in real life today with state bans on carrying handgun for lawful purposes in alcohol serving restaurants - these bans are rapidly dying off. Last year Georgia repealed its ban on gun carry in restaurants, and after a historic veto override by the Tennessee legislature, Tennessee's ban died on July 14, 2009. And today, September 30, 2009, Arizona's ban on concealed carry in alcohol serving restaurants...

The rocket, standing more than three stories tall and weighing almost a ton, will be launched in 2009 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of NASA's historic moon landing in 1969. To be powered by nine motors generating more than 8,000 pounds of thrust, this high-power rocket is likely to bring a huge national spotlight—however briefly—to a hobby that is still relatively unfamiliar to the general public.

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. – A patron at the I Don't Care Bar & Grill evidently didn't care about leaving until it was way past closing time and the door was locked. The man, whose name was not released, told police in western Kentucky that he fell asleep inside the bar and when he got up to leave he set off the alarm.

DiCaprio To Convert to Judaism To Marry Bar: Arab World Says To Hell With Him Israeli journalist, Guy Bechor, writes on the Israeli website gplanet (Hebrew language) that the Arab world is going crazy over reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is converting to Judaism in order to marry Sports Illustrated cover girl, Bar Rafieli, an Israeli. The report appeared on Al-Arabiya website and, according to Bechor, is quite vicious. Apparently, Leo is a hero in the Arab world (everyone loved Titanic) but that the combination of his relationship with the Jewish beauty, and his conversion, should it happen) instantly transforms him...

LOS ANGELES – An exotic dancer was set on fire outside the club where she worked early Thursday, burning more than 60 percent of her body, police said. They were searching for two suspects...

"He's never really explained why -- what the motive was. So it's still a mystery for us."

Throwing our constitutional rights of free speech and freedom of association down the drain, the State Bar of Arizona is considering a revision to the attorneys' oath of office that would silence conservative viewpoints on gay issues. The oath would be revised to add the language in red as follows:“I will not permit considerations of gender, race, religion, age, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, or social standing to influence my duty of care.� The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a Christian constitutional rights organization, has expressed its opposition in a letter signed by several attorneys including myself. They point out that the language is so...

I know there are people out there who may disagree with me on this one. But here I go anyway. Mind you this is not an issue that affects me personally as I am not a smoker. First and foremost, because any article dealing with smoking must add in a few caveats I will take this opportunity to state what should already be obvious. I obviously believe that those addicted to smoking should try their harderst to quit. No doubt about that. You will not hear arguments from me disputing the dangers of cigarette addiction. Now that I got that...