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A young girl was killed on Sunday morning as a stray bullet from her father's gun hit her during an argument with her mother. Achauntiara 'Shanti' Lanza, 11, ran upstairs to her mother's second floor room while her mother Kristina Lanza refused to let her boyfriend -- and Shanti's father-- Deandre Kelley, 34, into their Sedamsville, Ohio home. Anita Lanza, Kristina Lanza's mother, says that Kelley left the home but returned just before 2am drunk. Kelley fired several gunshots with a brown revolver into the air, one of which entered the window and shot Lanza, Cincinnati.com reports. She died at...

Police: CBS reporter charged with DUI, battery By Adam Sege Tribune reporter 1:53 a.m. CST, January 5, 2014 An investigative reporter for CBS 2 Chicago was charged with driving under the influence and endangering the lives of children after a minor accident outside a Naperville fast food restaurant early Saturday, police said. Dave Savini, whose age was not released, was arrested shortly after 1:30 a.m. Saturday after fleeing the scene of the accident, Naperville Police Department Cmdr. Jason Arres said. Police were alerted about 12:20 a.m. to an incident involving Savini and another driver in the parking lot of a...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A woman charged with killing a fellow Alabama fan after the end of last weekend's Iron Bowl football game was angry that the victim and others didn't seem upset over the Crimson Tide's loss to archrival Auburn, said the sister of the slain woman. Adrian Laroze Briskey, 28, was charged Monday with murder in the killing of 36-year-old Michelle Shepherd

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A woman charged with killing a fellow Alabama fan after the end of last weekend's Iron Bowl football game was angry that the victim and others didn't seem upset over the Crimson Tide's loss to archrival Auburn, said the sister of the slain woman.

The woman evades her restrainer and takes a swan dive into the seats

'She kicked me,' Oklahoma junior Michael Connolly said in an interview with Sports Illustrated. 'It left giant boot marks on my shirt.'

Original post (December 30) -- Around 9:30 a.m. on December 7, University of Minnesota-Duluth student Alyssa Jo Lommel, 19, was found nearly frozen to death on a neighbor's porch. She'd apparently spent the entire night outside while temperatures dropped as low as 17 below zero. THE BACKSTORY: UMD student Alyssa Jo Lommel tweeted about tequila shots before she was found freezing More than three weeks later, Lommel remains hospitalized. Her condition has been upgraded to fair, but according to her family, doctors still haven't told her how bad her injuries are. Her doctor "felt that today it would be good...

TWO Mormons on the Gold Coast for a church camp stand accused of a shocking attack that left a passing stranger in a coma.Amanaki Kaufusi, 21, and Onesi Taufui, 18, yesterday faced Southport Magistrates Court charged with grievous bodily harm over a violent attack on a tourist in Surfers Paradise. Hundreds of Mormons have gathered on the Gold Coast for a Latter-day Saints conference at Tallebudgera. But as their friends listened to the teachings of church leaders, Kaufusi and Taufui, both from western Sydney, headed to the bright lights of Sin City for a night on the town. The court...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, talks with employees of DeNA during his visit to DeNA Co., Ltd, a global Internet company providing web services for mobile devices and PCs, in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013.While touring a Japanese Internet company Tuesday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden asked a group of women, “Do your husbands like you working full-time?” Mr. Biden asked the question while sitting with five women in the DeNa cafeteria in Tokyo. Their responses couldn’t all be heard by reporters. “Can anyone work from home?” Mr. Biden asked. One woman replied, “Yes, under certain conditions.” The vice...

POLAND - It was one of those nights for 56-year-old Marek Michalski. One of those nights when "one more" seemed like a good idea - but wasn't. He was found passed out on a bench in Piotrkow, Poland without a pulse. Concerned citizens called an ambulance and he was whisked away. Fade to Black: Fade in: It's hours later. It's dark. It's quiet...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn’t even started her 2016 presidential campaign yet — and she’s already shutting out the press. Clinton’s speech at the Moscone Center on Saturday will be blacked out — closed to the media. So will her big fundraiser Saturday night with Chelsea Clinton, a “Millennial Network” event to benefit the Clinton Foundation. Seriously? In San Francisco? The easiest Democratic audience in the country? This is the progressive bastion where — as one political wag put it – the biggest problem may be how many chairs to remove so Hillary fans can better prostrate themselves...

School “zero tolerance” policies claimed another victim as Massachusetts high school student Erin Cox was suspended from her volleyball team after giving an intoxicated friend a ride home from a party. Police determined that Cox had not consumed alcohol, and agreed that the honors student had only come to a party featuring underage drinking in order to make sure a friend got home safely. But Andover High School decided to punish Cox anyway, determining that she had violated the school district’s zero tolerance policy against drug and alcohol use. Cox was demoted from her position as captain of the volleyball...

From around the interwebs, some funny cartoons!

THIS WASHINGTON STATE fan is sticking it out till the bitter end. It’s raining, miserable, and his beloved WSU are losing to Stanford 41-3. At least he’s got his popcorn to console him, and hopefully someone to escort him home.

Already the scourge of a summer picnic or barbecue, experts are now warning of a new threat from ‘jobless, drunk’ wasps. Environmental authorities say billions of the insects are currently at their most ‘aggressive and dangerous’ as they have finished supplying their queens with nectar. The British Red Cross is advising sun-worshippers to keep a credit card handy in case of insect bites this summer; as the long cold winter and a late spring has triggered record numbers of wasps in UK parks and gardens. “It’s hilarious that, now worker wasps have finished their life’s work, all they are doing...

<p>COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) -- Authorities say an immigrant suspected of entering the country illegally attempted to make his journey in an unusual but hot place - a shipment of red chile.</p> <p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at a New Mexico border checkpoint said the man was discovered Thursday face down among a commercial load of the spicy stuff.</p>

From New  Orleans, a classic case of how becoming stupid drunk can cause you and other people  a world of trouble.  If you are so drunk as to not know where you are, you put your life at risk when you attempt to force your way into a place, and threaten a resident while doing so.  From nola.com The guest confronted Dousay and told him he had the wrong room, the report said.  But when the victim entered the room, Dousay threw his leg into the doorway and tried to force his way in, McGregor said. The victim yelled, "stop"...

Mike and his fiancé woke up at 2 a.m. on Saturday after they heard a loud bang. "The dogs were barking. I left my bedroom to find an intruder standing in my kitchen; he was ordered to stop. He advanced forward, and that's when I did what I had to do to protect myself and my family," he explained. Mike said his house was dark and groggy before he saw a silhouette coming for him. After ordering the person to stop, Mike said he fired two gun shots. "At that point in time you are in fear for your life....

ONTARIO -- An Ontario man shot and killed an intruder who broke into his apartment early Monday morning. Police came to the 2500 block of East Riverside Drive after receiving several calls from residents at 3:02 a.m., said Ontario police Sgt. David McBride. The intruder, identified by police as 24-year-old Thomas Gilbert Manzano of Barstow, had broken a back window to an apartment, according to police, climbed inside and confronted a man. The two men brawled, police say, and Manzano allegedly threatened to kill the man. That's when the victim's father came to his rescue. "He arms himself, comes into...

Krauthammer on O'Rielly Factor: I think there is a bigger story here  that will in time come out.  The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is what was the president doing in those eight hours. He had a routine meeting at five o’clock. He never after during the eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger, he never called the Secretary of Defense, he never calls the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never called the CIA Director, Who does he call?  But in five hours he calls the Secretary of State. And after the phone call she...