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"This Tuesday is a moment to look into the future and imagine what we can do. This is much more than our moment. It is America's moment of renewal and purpose and optimism. As president, I won't just represent one party, I'll represent one nation. I'll try to show the best of America, at a time when only our best will do." - Mitt Romney Born Free- Kid Rock

Volunteers at the Warren County Democratic headquarters say they are shocked and disappointed by a political prank played on them early Tuesday morning. Someone dumped a pile of horse manure in the parking lot of the headquarters building on U.S. 42, just north of Lebanon. Warren County Democratic chair Beth Goldenfield tells Local 12 that the pile was dumped in the parking lot, blocking the entrance to the building, sometime between 10 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday. A report was filed by the party with the Warren County sheriff's department. Goldenfield says no one has claimed responsibility for the...

Seriously? Why doesn't he just stand on the caskets?

Democrats are poised to avoid the danger of President Barack Obama accepting his party’s nomination before a partially-empty stadium by shifting his speech to an indoor arena and citing ‘severe weather’. The Obama campaign have been working desperately to ensure that the 74,000-seater Bank of America stadium in Charlotte would be filled. Images of rows of empty seats at the stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers, as Obama speaks on Thursday night would be politically disastrous – an enduring image of the contrast between his campaign of ‘hope’ and ‘change’ in 2008 and his dour, negative struggle for re-election in...

50,000 people have 90 mins evacuate area near Tangipahoa River; dam about to break near Percy Quinn State Park. #nbc33isaac

You've got to listen to this! It's Limbaugh/Shanklin quality! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elhGwS05IPg&feature=player_embedded

Two News & Record reporters returned to the office in the past hour after checking Chick-fil-A restaurants for on-site kissing by supporters of same-sex marriage. The reporters visited four Chick-fil-A's. They saw no kissing. We'll stop by local Chick-fil-A's again later today. Let us know if you see Chick-fil-A kissers. Kiss-ins, set for today, were to be same-sex marriage supporters' answer to Wednesday's -- what? -- eat-in. That's when supporters of Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy's stance against same-sex marriage packed its restaurants in the Triad and elsewhere. Of course, 'tis easier and probably more fun to register support by eating...

After five years of marriage, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. "This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family," says Holmes's attorney Jonathan Wolfe. "Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."

Good Morning Comrades! Our Dear Leader Obama wants you to work hard today for the collective cause. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Today is a new day in the USSA!

A day after killing Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman passed a police lie detector test when asked if he confronted the teenager and whether he feared for his life “when you shot the guy,” according to documents released today by Florida prosecutors. According to a “confidential report” prepared by the Sanford Police Department, Zimmerman willingly submitted to a computer voice stress analyzer (CVSA) “truth verification” on February 27. Investigators concluded that he “has told substantially the complete truth in regards to this examination.” Zimmerman, the report noted, “was classified as No Deception Indicated (NDI).” Along with questions about whether his first...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A 400-pound woman decided to strip down to her birthday suit while she sat on a bus bench in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday afternoon. Patricia McCollum was arrested and charged with exposure of sexual organs in public and was initially held on a $100 bond, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The 52-year-old, who is currently homeless, was sitting buck naked on a bus bench at 3900 N. Ocean Blvd. She claims she was only trying to put on a different outfit. “That’s why I was changing my clothes on the bus bench. I don’t have anywhere...

CINCINNATI - Winning football teams are use to a lot of cheering. But for the second leading tackler of the Mt. Healthy Fighting Owls, cheering has earned Anthony Cornist a penalty he doesn't think he deserves. "It's crazy how somebody can do that to you," he said from his family's living room Monday. When Anthony walked across the stage at his high school graduation, his family made some noise. "It was my dream to graduate," he said. "I'm very proud of my son," Traci Cornist said. Apparently, so were a lot of others. "Teachers, other students and other family members...

The Air Force wants its B-52s to keep flying until 2040, but the airplanes of that era won’t look like the ones we all remember from “Dr. Strangelove” — or even the bombers flying today. According to an official story from the weekend, Lt. Gen. Jim Kowalski, the head of Global Strike Command, says the B-52 is set to receive a round of upgrades that will help both the airmen inside each one and also the top-level commanders moving them around on their maps. Even if that commander’s suit is a darker shade of blue: These upgrades are integral to...

A former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Carmel, Ind. resident was arrested on child pornography charges. Donald J. Sachtleben, 54, was charged with possessing and distributing child pornography. U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett announced the criminal charges Monday, stating law enforcement began investigating an individual allegedly trading child pornography online in September 2010. That individual, who resided in Illinois, was arrested in January 2012. After searching the Illinois suspect’s computer, authorities discovered he was trading material with several other people. Hogsett said law enforcement were able to trace the alleged online activity to Sachtleben’s home in Carmel. Police obtained a...

SANTA ANA – Nadya Suleman – known as Octomom – filed bankruptcy papers on Monday here in federal court. Suleman's debt could be as much as $1 million – 20 times more than her net worth, according to court documents. The mother of 14 has up to $50,000 in assets. "I have had to make some very difficult decisions this year, and filing Chapter 7 was one of them," Suleman, 36, said through an e-mail sent by her manager, Gina Rodriguez. "But I have to do what is best for my children, and I need a fresh start."

LAS VEGAS — Using a hammer as a weapon, a “complete stranger” with no significant criminal history allegedly chose a family at random and attacked them in their home, killing a woman and her daughter, in a brutal crime that left investigators both baffled and aghast. Bryan Clay, 22, was arrested Friday in the April 15 rape and bludgeoning deaths of 38-year-old Ignacia Martinez and 10-year-old Karla Martinez. He had no connection to the family of five, Lt. Ray Steiber said Saturday.

NEW YORK -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news. ... "Now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people," Obama said. Then Fallon: "Ohhhh yeaahh. You should listen to the president."

Answer: There are obviously dangers involved. First of all honestly ask yourself, why do you feel the need to have a Facebook profile? In the multicultural and worldwide brotherhood that we are a part of do you need one in order to connect with people, or to make new friends? There is no rule saying that you should or should not, but one thing I have found helpful is looking at whether or not it's the popular thing to do. I'll think you'll agree it is fairly popular especially with youths. The Bible tells us to be no part of...

A man learned the hard way that you don’t take a cell phone call when Princess Leia is preforming. Carrie Fisher, who portrayed Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” movies, had her one-woman performance of “Wishful Drinking” interrupted twice (you read right, twice) Saturday at the Victoria Theatre by a cell phone user. A man near the front row apparently couldn’t resist the urge to answer two calls. Fisher laughed it off when the man answered the phone in the show’s first act, asking if his wife was in labor or something, Diane Schoeffler-Warren, a spokeswoman for the Victoria Association,...

I walked in the room and my wife has it on. Reba just found out her 4th generation grandfather owned slaves and now she feels like a horrible human. The historian just said, "We white people must understand that we have a connection to slavery so we all can heal." I gagged.