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Update at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday: At a press conference this morning, Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said charges won't be filed against Ahmed Mohamed, the MacArthur High School freshman arrested Monday after bringing what school officials and police described as a "hoax bomb" on campus. Boyd said the device -- confiscated by an English teacher despite the teen's insistence that it was a clock -- was "certainly suspicious in nature. "The student showed the device to a teacher, who was concerned that it was possibly the infrastructure for a bomb," Boyd said. School officers questioned Ahmed about the device and...

<p>INDIANAPOLIS -- IndyCar driver Justin Wilson has died from a head injury suffered when a piece of debris struck him at Pocono Raceway. He was 37.</p> <p>IndyCar made the announcement on Monday night at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.</p>

Sullivan made several campaign appearances over the weekend with Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican who’s a favorite of the tea party, then arrived with Romney at 9 a.m. Monday at City Diner, where a large group of Republicans waited, along with a few unsuspecting patrons. Romney, wearing a khaki overcoat and jeans, urged people to “get out and vote often,” posed for photos with Sullivan and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and, on his way out, snatched a piece of reindeer sausage off one woman’s breakfast plate. Romney and Sullivan, along with Republican Gov. Sean Parnell, were scheduled to hold...

Pornography depicting rape will be outlawed as part of a government crackdown on web filth. David Cameron today unveiled a raft of reforms to shield children from 'poisonous' websites that are 'corroding childhood'. In a victory for the Daily Mail, the Prime Minister announced every householder connected to the internet will have their access to online porn blocked unless they ask to receive it. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2372833/Internet-porn-depicting-rape-BANNED-Cameron-unveils-opt-rule-web-users.html#ixzz2ZncKS1Bp Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

SPRING HILL — The JROTC member at Springstead High School who said she confronted a Muslim student last week because the girl did not stand for the Pledge of Allegiance fabricated that part of the story, school officials said Monday. Heather Lawrence, a 16-year-old junior at the school, has said she was walking by another homeroom Wednesday morning when she saw a girl with the traditional Muslim head scarf sitting during the pledge. Later, Lawrence said she confronted the girl, told her she should stand during the pledge and, according to her own account and a school report, said, "Take...