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MIAMI GARDENS – (CBS4) – Police say the 15-year-old boy charged with the murder of a popular gas station owner confronted the victim as he sat in his car after he had finished working his late night shift. The new details of the shooting were released Friday in an arrest affidavit which released more information about the shooting that occurred August 11th. It killed 58-year-old Shahid Mahmood. He was shot several times while sitting in his car allegedly by the teen because the teen allegedly “had beef with him,” police said. On Friday, police identified the murder suspect as Damu...

Jobless single mum Janis, 48, said she was delighted because the council will now have to give her a bigger house.

SAGINAW — The state Senate this week is expected to consider its version of bill sponsored by state Rep. Kenneth B. Horn that could end some poor Michigan families’ welfare benefits as soon as October. Jackie Doig, who is the senior staff attorney at the Center for Civil Justice, 320 S. Washington in Saginaw, said she thinks the bills impose “draconian penalties.” She said the emphasis should be on compliance with the Jobs, Education & Training (JET) program rather than on increased penalties and time limits. “Every single organization that testified in the House testified against the bill,” Doig said....

Nicky Phear, instructor and program director in The University of Montana’s Climate Change Studies Program, and UM student Mara Menahan will begin pedaling across Bhutan on July 2 to see firsthand how climate change affects the Himalayan country and its people. The two will be joined by Katy-Robin Garton, a documentary filmmaker with Missoula-based Sprout Films, in the inaugural “Bhutan Ride for Climate,” which was conceived through a partnership between UM’s Climate Change Studies Program and the Washington, D.C.-based Bhutan Foundation. The trip brings together 15 teenagers from Bhutan and the U.S. to cycle 300 kilometers, crossing three passes over...

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British aid money was used by an African dictator to buy a £30million jet, it emerged last night. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni bought the top-of-the-range Gulfstream G550 private plane in the same year ministers gave his poverty- ravaged country £70million. During the same period Uganda also received around £57million from the UK through the European Union. The autocratic 67-year-old leader – currently facing criticism for launching a violent crackdown against protesters demanding an Egyptian-style uprising – received the cash under the Labour government in 2008-09. Mr Museveni, who fought an election with posters depicting him as Rambo, bought the new...

The deconstruction of America is well underway. This has been clear to anyone living in California since the 1970s. Back then I remember talking with people who lived out of state about the changes that were being wrought by immigration, both legal and illegal, to California from countries of the Third World. No one could quite believe that the changes were as drastic and far-reaching as I described. Many considered me an alarmist. Those who did not thought that what I described was peculiar to California. The last decade has changed all that. What began in California thirty years ago...

What happened on board the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic en route from Rio to Paris? According to information obtained by SPIEGEL from the analysis of flight recorder data, pilot Marc Dubois appears not to have been in the cockpit at the time the deadly accident started to unfold. The fate of Air France Flight 447 was sealed in just four minutes. That short time span began with the first warning message on one of the Airbus A330 aircraft's monitors and ended with the plane crashing into the Atlantic between Brazil and Africa, killing all 228 people...

THE ultra-rare Coco De Mer palm tree, which only grows on Praslin Island in the Seychelles, was discovered in 1743. NOW nearly extinct, they require a special licence to be removed from the island. LEGEND has it that sailors who first discovered the ­double coconut floating in the sea thought it resembled a woman’s buttocks. THIS is reflected in its old botanical name Lodoicea ­callipyge, which roughly ­translates as “beautiful rump”. THE nuts are the world’s heaviest, weighing up to 30kg (66lb) and can grow up to 20 inches (51cm) in diameter. EUROPEAN nobles in the ­16th Century would polish...

Talk about in-flight entertainment. Passengers on a Delta flight Saturday got a "show" when a woman stripped naked and began to make a scene during their flight. Flight 6562, en route from Chicago to New York, was descending to Kennedy Airport when the "emotionally disturbed" woman removed her clothes, reports USA TODAY. A Newsday manager who was also on the flight said flight attendants tried to cover the woman with a blanket, but she yelled "No! No! No!" The woman, reportedly in her late 20s, was taken into custody by local law enforcement. According to the Port Authority of New...

PESHAWAR: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed along with his son and three bodyguards in a helicopter assault on a mansion in the northern city of Abbottabad late Sunday night to bring to an end the biggest-ever manhunt by the United States. Reports suggest that Bin Laden was shot dead with a single bullet to his head when he resisted capture, but an official indicated that the 54-year-old mastermind of the biggest and most devastating attack on US soil might have been killed by one of his own guards in line with his will to avert his capture....

Phoenix area FReepers, I am sure you must have noticed by now. We are under a new kind of invasion -- from welfare recipients of the *legal* kind. They are pouring out of projects and ghettos across the country and moving straight to Phoenix. As little as two years ago, spotting them anywhere outside of a few select rundown neighborhoods used to be a thing of curiosity. Now they are everywhere, invading pristine neighborhoods of the East Valley - from Tempe to Mesa to Gilbert and Chandler. I see them in grocery stores, in malls, on the streets, at city...

It was a tall claim. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness told a Pasadena crowd last week that more African American men are in the penal system now than were enslaved in 1850. More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began. A chilling claim. But true? We checked it out. Frankly, as an Ohio State law professor and author on the subject, Alexander is way more qualified than we are to verify the claim. (She ran...

“This is the same Conservative Government, that put to death many of the young Black men in Brixton back in the eighties, it is the same Conservative government that is doing it again. But we black people of Jamaican parentage, not going to make this happen again. It s payback time,” Paige-Patric Samuels commented. ================================================ A FACEBOOK group has been set up by members of the community eager to get justice for late reggae star Smiley Culture. Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture, aimed to bring the police to account for the death of the Cockney Translation singer, has already...

India has won the 2011 Cricket World Cup by 6 wickets over Sri Lanka. MS Dhoni crushed a six on the final ball to complete the chase for the Indians, who overcame a 274-run inning by their opponent, despite losing their first two batsmen (including "the master" Sachin Tendulkar) in the opening overs ...... It's India's first World Cup championship in 28 years.

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Junichiro Koizumi was the last man who could credibly fill the boots of a leader. But the same is now also true of the ruling Democratic party of Japan, which appears to be discarding its leading lights with similar abandon. Ever since the DPJ ended the LDP's virtual monopoly of postwar power two years ago, successive governments have been in a state of crisis. Washington, but only at the cost of distancing his government still further from the wishes of most Okinawans. Both the left and, cynically, the right on the island are against such a heavy US military footprint....

I don't want to donate through liberal "non profits" who pocket a major chunk to sustain their bureaucracy. What reliable groups/ organization can I donate to so most of the money goes straight to those in need ? Thanks.

As expected, Sendai 89ers players, coaches and team staff left Sendai early Friday afternoon for a road trip to face the host and Eastern Conference rival Niigata Albirex BB. Unforeseen challenge: Sendai 89ers center Chris Holm (54) and his team face a difficult time following Friday's massive earthquake in Tohoku. YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO The games were called off, however, along with the rest of the bj-league's six other series this weekend, in the aftermath of Friday's devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sendai that struck at 2:46 p.m. J. League matches, Nippon Professional Baseball exhibition games and other sporting...

Canon was forced to halt production at some of its manufacturing plants after power failures caused by the Japan earthquake. In a statement, the company has also confirmed that around 12 employees suffered minor injuries at its lens factory in Utsunomiya. However, Canon says that buildings and factories have not suffered major damage, as it assesses the impact of the quake on production. A spokesperson for Canon Europe was not able to confirm which factories were forced to stop production. It is also not clear whether there were any British nationals among those working at the damaged plants. However, we...