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The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Tuesday accusing the Trump campaign of “laundering” $170 million through numerous companies, some with connections to former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten -- An 85-year-old British sailor who dreamed of crossing the Atlantic on a raft as a young boy completed the journey with three friends Wednesday. The crossing to this Caribbean island, led by Anthony Smith of London, took about two months and was generally smooth except for damage to two rudders on the large, sail-powered raft. "Some people say it was mad," he told The Associated Press when he

A Macon woman arrived home from work Thursday to discover her house had been burglarized and her puppy severely cut, beaten and burned. Kristy Lipscomb, of Beddingfield Drive in south Macon, said she left home about 6 p.m. Wednesday to go to work at Houston Healthcare in Warner Robins. When she returned home just before 8 a.m. Thursday, she found her bedroom had been ransacked and her kitchen cabinets left open. The electrical meter had been stolen from an outside

WARNER ROBINS -- A Bonaire man is accused of threatening a Warner Robins man and his family over $750,000 in winnings from a lottery ticket the man claims belongs to him and not the winner. Jose Antonio Cua-Toc, 25, was arrested Saturday by Warner Robins police and charged with terroristic threats, according to a police report and Houston County jail records. Cua-Toc is accused of repeatedly calling Erick and Sonia Cervantes and threatening “to kill each of them and their children if they did not give him some of the lottery winnings that they had recently won,” the police report...

Every day we are seeing the MSM standing on its head to appease its master. Some new polls are cited. Each day the numbers change with the MSM claiming the "race is tight." So, anyone have any predictions as to what the final numbers will be in the house and senate?

<p>That's what Nadya "Octomom" Suleman is finding out -- the hard way.</p> <p>After gaining notoriety for going full-term with eight children, to add to the six children she already had, the unmarried Suleman is now almost completely broke, and ready to go on welfare, RadarOnline.com reports.</p>

The 1986 Dodge Ram pickup coughs and sputters. It threatens to slide back down the slushy hill, until Kate Quigley finds its sweet spot, shifting it into four-wheel drive. “All right,” she says as the tires grab. “Let’s go save some dogs.” Quigley — known widely as “the dog lady” and “Miss Kate” — works six days a week, driving into high-poverty neighborhoods to look for animal abuse and neglect. Knocking on doors, talking to owners, leaving supplies. By borrowing pets to have them spayed and neutered, she stops the misery of neglect from repeating itself litter after litter. Inside...

Vanity thread- Just wanted to see if anyone has noticed a sudden influx of new trolls on FR over the past few days. I logged on this morning to find 2 very hateful emails about some comments I made back BEFORE the election, calling me RACIST (how they love to use that word), and accusing me of hate speech and ordering me to burn in hell for my comments and beliefs. I cannot recall this person's screen name, but he CLAIMED to be a professional white male who is "normally" conservative. (yeah right). I couldn't even get angry and was...

BOSTON — Me-ouch! Veterinarians performed an unusual surgery to reattach the face of a cat they believe was injured by a car's fan belt, probably because she tried to stay warm under the hood. Edgar, a 4-year-old long-haired feline, went missing from her home in Winthrop for three days last week. When she finally came home, her owner found her in

I saw a blog several years ago asking folks to write about the worst Christmas gift they ever received. It is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Knowing the sense of humor most freepers have, I would like to hear your answers and stories.

BEULAH, N.D. — Oscar Stohler was raised in a sod house in western North Dakota and ranched there for nearly seven decades. He never gave much thought to what lay below the grass that fattened his cattle. When oilmen wanted to drill there last year, Stohler, 83, doubted oil would be found two miles underground on his property. He even joked about it. "I told them if they hit oil, I was going to buy a Cadillac convertible and put those big horns on the front and wear a 10-gallon hat," Stohler recalled. He still drives his old pickup and...

As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were kissing and making up last Friday, Bill Clinton might have had other ideas, according to a report in The (London) Telegraph. The paper reports that even as the former president and the current presumptive Democratic nominee prepare to meet to make their own amends, Bill Clinton reportedly told close friends Obama can “kiss my ass” to get his support. The paper cited an anonymous Democratic source who provided the quote. That source also said Clinton is not making the primary effort to bridge the chasm between himself and Obama. “He’s saying he’s not...

CHICAGO — A gust of wind blew a 2-year-old in a stroller into Lake Michigan, where the boy remained submerged for at least 15 minutes before being pulled out unconscious but alive. The child's grandfather, who had been pushing the stroller on the lakeside Friday afternoon, jumped into the harbor to try to save the boy, the Chicago Fire Department said. Witnesses said the frantic grandfather struggled in the frigid water, just off a 70-foot long pier, pointing a few feet away and shouting, "Child! Child!" "He was just moaning in the breakwater, crying," said

America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant. In the next 30 days the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) will release a new report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken Oil Formation that covers North Dakota...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- I met Bonnie Turner seven years ago when I was looking for a puppy. There was just simply no one better to turn to than the eccentric grandmother who loved animals so much that her 86-acre North Georgia farm was home to donkeys, goats, high-priced show dogs and even a few wayward deer. On Saturday, nothing was left of that bucolic sanctuary after a 130-mph tornado ravaged it. Bonnie died, thrown 50 feet from her home as her husband Michael cried out her name, their neighbors Joe and Jamie Wheeler said. Her death has shaken me....

A pit bull stopped five people from robbing a home and may have saved his owners life. Christopher Payne told Bibb County sheriff's deputies when a group of people tried to rob him his dog Dino attacked and scared off intruders. But Christopher said his 120 pound pit bull Dino is a friendly playful dog. However Tuesday night Dino jumped into action when two men trying to rob him knocked on the door. "I answered the door," Payne said. "When I answered the door a guy put a

It may not be the most appetizing reading before a hearty holiday meal, but the New England Journal of Medicine is devoting part of its Thanksgiving issue to a giant hairball -- and not the feline kind. The prestigious journal details the case of a previously healthy 18-year-old woman who consulted a team of gastrointestinal specialists. She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss. After a scan of the woman's abdomen showed

MINEOLA, N.Y — An off-duty police officer and her husband, a volunteer fire chief, rescued a disabled woman from her stalled car seconds before a train smashed into it, police said. The 63-year-old driver apparently mistook the Long Island Rail Road tracks for a road, authorities said. Her car, which had a licensed plate that denotes a disabled driver, got stuck on the rails Thursday evening with a train fast approaching. She screamed that she couldn't get out of the car and needed help, said witness Jennifer Freiermuth, 28. Randi LoCicero, off duty from her job at the New York...

Some Macon City Council members are scolding one of their colleagues for passing along to the administration a constituent's suggestion they say is racially insensitive. Tuesday morning, a Macon man e-mailed Councilwoman Nancy White in response to Mayor Jack Ellis' pledge to spend "whatever it costs" to refurbish the City Auditorium in advance of Oprah Winfrey's Nov. 17 visit. The resident asked the city to use existing contracts to get inmates from Central State Prison to do the work, because he said it would be cheaper for taxpayers. "A phone call from Jack the mayor to the Commissioner of Corrections,...

Some Macon City Council members are scolding one of their colleagues for passing along to the administration a constituent's suggestion they say is racially insensitive. Tuesday morning, a Macon man e-mailed Councilwoman Nancy White in response to Mayor Jack Ellis' pledge to spend "whatever it costs" to refurbish the City Auditorium in advance of Oprah Winfrey's Nov. 17 visit. The resident asked the city to use existing contracts to get inmates from Central State Prison to do the work, because he said it would be cheaper for taxpayers. "A phone call from Jack the mayor to the Commissioner of Corrections,...