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CHICAGO, IL — Two sisters are charged with attempted murder after police allege they attacked a store employee and one sister stabbed him 27 times after they were asked to wear a mask, Chicago police said. The 32-year-old store worker was in critical condition following the Sunday attack. Police said the two sisters entered a small West Side store in the 3200 block of West Roosevelt Road around 6 p.m. Sunday and were greeted by an employee, who asked them to put on a mask and use hand sanitizer, according to Sun-Times Media Wire. Police said surveillance footage showed Jessica...

Freeper friends and Vets can you please distribute to others that would be interested reading a great book about a tour in Iraq? Plus help out a retired Vet who deserves credit for his service. This is written by a true hero and if you see some of the details you will agree. I served with the author in Soc Trang Republic of Vietnam he was a helicopter engine mechanic in 1967-1969. He returned to Iraq to serve a year tour 2004-2005 as he was approaching the age of 56 as a platoon sergeant of combat medics. This book deserves...

NEW YORK – A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs. The Tata Group headquartered...

Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles — the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses — little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer. Except in the black community. When three white women were said to be romantically involved with Woods in addition to his blonde, Swedish wife, blogs, airwaves and barbershops started humming, and Woods' already tenuous standing among many blacks took a beating. On the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner radio show, Woods was the butt of jokes all week. "Thankfully, Tiger, you...

Egyptian Muslim Mob Attacks Thousands of Coptic Christians in Egypt Contact: Ihab Aziz, Executive Director, Coptic American Friendship Association (CAFA), 703-337-5217, Coptic.American@yahoo.com MEDIA ADVISORY, Nov. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- As of Saturday, November 21, 2009 the Egyptian town of Farshoot, located 300 miles south of Cairo, and the neighboring villages of Kom Ahmar, Shakiki and Ezbet Waziri, have been the scenes of massive Muslim mob attacks against Coptic Christian inhabitants. The mob looted, vandalized and burnt Coptic properties estimated for six million Egyptian pounds (over one million dollars), while Copts are still hiding indoors fearing for their lives. There are...

If global warming scares you, think about spending $6.66 to offset your carbon emissions this Halloween. The Delta Institute, which sells carbon offset credits to corporations on the Chicago Climate Exchange, is opening up its books to the public. For $6.66, you can offset 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. The number 666 is usually associated with evil, but the money will do some good in this case. “When someone plants trees or grasses, they absorb CO2 and essentially negate CO2 emissions somewhere else,” explains Todd Parker, an associate with the Institute in Lansing. The offsets are generated primarily...

Troy Anderson was at the gas pump and couldn't have been happier, filling up at a rate of $5 per tank. Anderson was paying 63.8 cents per gallon equivalent for compressed natural gas, making Utah a hot market for vehicles that run on the fuel. It's the country's cheapest rate for compressed gas, according to the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition, and far less than the $3.56 national average price for a gallon of gasoline. "I'm totally celebrating," crowed Anderson, a 44-year-old social worker, who picked up a used Honda Civic GX two months ago. "This is the greatest thing. I...

Can We Offset Global Warming By Geoengineering The Climate With Aerosols? Volcano eruption on Reunion Island. Should humans deliberately mimic the effect of volcanic aerosols to try to offset global warming? (Credit: iStockphoto/Julien Grondin) ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2008) — Concerned that energy system transformations are proceeding too slowly to avoid risks from dangerous human-induced climate change, many scientists are wondering whether geoengineering (the deliberate change of the Earth's climate) may help counteract global warming. Sulfate aerosols, commonly released by volcanoes, serve to scatter incoming solar energy in the stratosphere, preventing it from reaching the surface. To investigate the feasibility of...

Cannabis makes teeth fall out: study Dope smokers are not just damaging their lungs and their memory, but are also giving themselves gum disease, according to new research into the illicit habit. A study by New Zealand researchers found that regular cannabis use causes the gums to recede and, in the worst cases, teeth to fall out. The periodontal disease affected the heaviest smokers worst, with one in four having the chronic condition by the age of 32. Researchers at the Dunedin School of Medicine tracked more than 900 people from age 18 to 32, regularly monitoring their dope smoking...

Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them. The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back. Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings. So begins an Associated Press story focusing on how teachers...

The Army, facing another tough recruiting season, launched a $200 million-a-year advertising campaign this month and unveiled a new slogan: "Army Strong." The campaign's core message is that the Army builds not only physical but also mental and emotional strength in recruits, bonding them into a powerful, close-knit team. "There's strong, and then there's Army strong," a deep male voice intones as martial music rises from a brass band in the background. The television ads, launched nationwide for Veterans Day along with Internet placements and other outreach, omit all but the most fleeting images related to the all-volunteer Army's biggest...

Teachers Quit After Students Witness Sex - Thursday, June 8, 2006 (06-08) 14:33 PDT Tampa, Fla. (AP) -- Two middle school teachers resigned after students saw them having sex in a classroom, the school district said. Frances J. Sepulveda, 30, and Bryant J. Wilburn, 29, said they had sex in the classroom during school hours on "one or two occasions," according to an investigation by the Hillsborough County school district. They resigned last month after two students at Coleman Middle School reported they saw the teachers having sex. The classroom door was locked and a window was covered with paper,...

Will Rice enjoyed the first massage of his life Friday -- so much so that his eyes were closed, and he was oblivious to the world around him for the first time in ages. "It's beautiful. It's necessary. I mean, this is cool," Rice, 58, said, relaxing in a massage chair more commonly seen in a tony spa as Barbara Lytle, a therapeutic masseuse, worked her magic. It wasn't a fancy spa, but the more pedestrian St. Vincent de Paul Community Center on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, where Rice and scores of other homeless men and women got some...

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the city of Los Angeles is violating the constitutional rights of homeless people by arresting them for sleeping or sitting on sidewalks and streets -- a finding that advocates for the homeless say could have a significant effect in San Francisco and elsewhere. In its 2-1 decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a Los Angeles city law prohibiting sleeping, sitting or lying on public byways constituted "cruel and unusual punishment," because the city has so few shelter beds its street people have nowhere else to stay.

Poll Shows Divide Among Parents, Teachers Considering they share responsibility for 50 million children, parents and teachers sure have some different views about what goes on in school. From discipline to standardized tests to the quality of high schools, parents and teachers disagree on basic aspects of education, an AP-AOL Learning Services Poll finds. They come together, though, on the need to hire and keep good teachers. Parents and teachers literally see children differently. The setting at home is often not at all like the one at school, where kids hang out in groups and social pressures climb. In the...

Rage, remorse, but some hope in Africa on AIDS Day By Andrew Quinn Rage and remorse marked World AIDS Day in Africa on Thursday as the continent worst hit by the global crisis remembered millions of deaths in a pandemic that even new drug treatments are doing little to slow. In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, President Olusegun Obasanjo went for a morning jog with HIV patients while in the tiny kingdom of Lesotho officials launched the world's first door-to-door national HIV testing campaign. But Swaziland, which has one of the highest adult HIV infection rates in the world at...

Be aware of misleading political stories Friday, August 27, 2004 - AH, the campaign season is in full swing, and 'tis the season for misleading news stories concerning presidential politics. Every four years, news services take quotes out of context, shape facts to fit the story they want to produce and present politicians' sly tricks to the public with very little filtering. Take, for example, an Associated Press story for Tuesday newspapers concerning an anti-John Kerry advertisement produced by a third-party political group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The ad, and the reaction to it by the Kerry campaign...

What is a Redneck-Sexual? It seems that we are bombarded daily with the Kerry Campaign and the Metrosexual campaign he is waging for the heart of the UN lovers and other Europeans. For those of you still not aware a Metrosexual is a heterosexual that has all the good taste of Gay Man but the sexual preference for women. Picking John Edwards as his running mate confirmed that style was more important than substance for Kerry and Metrosexuality was the main plank in JFK’s campaign. So I had to reflect on my own leaning toward Metrosexuality and conclude that I...

The Maginot Line „³ The Burka Curtain I just watched a History Channel program about the Maginot Line in 1939-1940 separating France from Germany and how the French believed it could keep them safe. I was not informed by the program because I pretty much knew the story of how the Germans, were able to skirt the line, and conquer France in 1940, because of the belief that the French generals had that France was secure behind the Maginot Line. Move forward in time to 1967 where I was an American soldier on the West German/East German border who went...

Officials fight racial discord District aims By Sandhya Somashekhar STAFF WRITER Friday, November 21, 2003 - FREMONT -- School officials say they are embarking on an ambitious plan to curb the racial tensions that have flared among teachers and students this year. This week, several students are taking a "safe-schools" survey designed to gauge how often they hear derogatory statements from their classmates and teachers while at school. Early next month, Michael Pritchard, a renowned motivational speaker whose work has appeared on public television, will go to Kennedy High School to discuss the importance of respecting others. And in January,...