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It’s the end of the world as we know it. An all-red heifer was born at the Temple of Israel on September 4, fulfilling a Biblical prophecy to “reinstate purity to the world and the rebuilding of the Holy Temple,” according to the temple’s YouTube announcement.

Michelle Obama went as low-key as Melania Trump had gone high-style, choosing to deliver her convention speech in a cobalt-blue silk crepe A-line dress with cap sleeves. The dress, custom-made by New York-based designer Christian Siriano, who shot to fame after winning the fourth season of “Project Runway” in 2008, fell to just below the knee and was paired with a pair of metallic heels that industry trade publication Footwear News identifies as Jimmy Choo pumps.

Wagoner, Okla. (CBS HOUSTON) – A newly-hired teacher was found intoxicated and not wearing any pants inside an Oklahoma high school classroom on her first day of work, according to Wagoner police. Police arrested Lorie Hill after two Wagoner High School teachers found her intoxicated and without pants in an empty classroom she was claiming to be her own, KOKI-TV reports. Recently hired by Wagoner Public Schools, Hill was reporting for her first day on the job as all teachers were also returning for their first day back in school from summer break.

Wagoner County teacher Lorie Hill arrested for public intoxication; found without pants WAGONER COUNTY, OKLA. - A Wagoner teacher was discovered intoxicated and with her pants down inside a Green Country school, according to police. A spokesperson for the Wagoner Police Department says Lorie Hill was arrested for public intoxication Monday. She was found at Wagoner High School in an empty classroom. Teachers reported Aug. 4, but students do not return until Aug. 7. Hall was recently hired as a teacher for the Wagoner Public Schools. Police say they did find an empty cup in her car.

WAGONER, Okla. — Police arrested a woman they said was intoxicated and not wearing any pants at an Oklahoma high school Monday. The woman, Lorie Hill, was a newly hired teacher for Wagoner Public Schools. She was found by two other teachers in a Wagoner High School classroom on the first day back at school for teachers. Police said Hill admitted she had been drinking, police said they found an empty cup in her car. Wagoner Police Chief Bob Haley said that even though evidence of alcohol consumption was found in Hill's car, there was only enough evidence to arrest...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Heifer International has opened a $7.5 million museum at its Little Rock headquarters to illustrate the work it does around the world to help impoverished people feed themselves. The museum, called Heifer Village, opened in June and will add an important element to Heifer educational programs, which demonstrate the charity's mission to provide animals and training so the world's poor can have sustainable nutrition. Narrative elements run through the museum's exhibits, showing the effects that fair trade, clean water or mosquito netting can have. Under a ceiling of rich, amber-stained wood, natural light falls on the...

Diana Ponce talks on a phone in the yard of her San Pablo home Wednesday, the fifth day of a hunger strike to protest the gathering of armed volunteers, the Minuteman Project, at the Arizona-Mexico border to keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Chronicle photo by John O'Hara

Behind the Headlines by Justin RaimondoAntiwar.com April 15, 2002 BEWARE THE RED HEIFERHow religious nutballs could start World War III While the American secretary of state shuttles back and forth between Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon, trying desperately to cobble together a) a ceasefire, and b) some basis for a settlement of the world’s most tiresome perpetual crisis, it behooves us to examine the issue of … the red heifer. Say what?You heard me, I said the red heifer….IMPOSSIBLE – YET IT HAPPENED!When I was a lad, my favorite feature of the Sunday comics was something called “Impossible! – Yet...

<p>RALEIGH, N.C. -- State Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps, imbroiled in a two-year scandal involving State Fair contracts awarded to campaign donors, will resign Friday, according to her lawyer.</p> <p>Attorney Wade Smith told WRAL Friday morning that a resignation letter was being drafted.</p>

<p>RALEIGH, N.C. -- As federal investigators close in on State Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps' campaign scandal, Gov. Mike Easley believes the commissioner may be too badly damaged to do her job and he is asking for her resignation.</p> <p>Easley had a telephone conversation with Phipps Tuesday and later wrote a letter, asking her to step down.</p>

<p>GREENVILLE, N.C. -- Bobby McLamb, who ran for Agriculture commissioner against Meg Scott Phipps, then joined her campaign when she won the Democratic nomination, pleaded guilty Monday to fraud conspiracy and extortion charges.</p> <p>Bobby McLamb pleaded guilty Monday to fraud conspiracy and extortion charges.</p>

<p>Linda J. Saunders and Bobby McLamb, aides during Phipps' 2000 campaign, were indicted Monday, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported. Saunders, 43, faces 17 counts, including extortion, conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. McLamb, 42, was charged with two counts: extortion and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.</p>

<p>RALEIGH, N.C. -- A key figure in the political scandal involving Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps has announced she will resign from the Department of Agriculture.</p> <p>Linda Saunders served as Phipps' campaign treasurer during her election in 2000.</p> <p>She's been on paid medical leave since July from her post as a special assistant to the commissioner.</p>

<p>RALEIGH, N.C. -- Four months after she was fined, North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps has worked out a schedule to pay off her penalty.</p> <p>In June, the State Board of Elections ordered Phipps to pay 130,000 for campaign finance violations. Phipps' attorneys submitted a proposal Tuesday to pay $30,123 by the end of November.</p>

RALEIGH, N.C. -- On Wednesday morning, 23 people will gather in the grand jury room of the federal courthouse on New Bern Avenue. They are ordinary citizens, unremarkable except that their identities are confidential and their work is sealed by law. Behind closed doors, they will begin digging into one of the biggest political scandals to erupt in North Carolina recently: the election campaign of Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps. The grand jury is likely to probe much deeper than the State Board of Elections, which in June fined the Phipps campaign $130,000 for "grossly negligent" violations of campaign law,...

<p>RALEIGH, N.C. -- Legal problems continues to mount for state Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps. WRAL has learned the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office are now investigating Phipps and her campaign finance problems. Plus, a state lawmaker has called on the state attorney general's office to investigate whether the Phipps' campaign broke the law.</p>