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Volunteers came out rescue Air Jordans and other shoes from Foot Locker during Hurricane Irma before rising flood water would have ruined them.

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A Fort Worth shoe store may think better of its first-come-first-serve policy after a small riot occurred surrounding the release of the new Retro Air Jordan shoes. The Shoe Palace at Hulen Mall decided to let people line up to buy the shoes. A line formed around 5:00 a.m. and at one point the pushing and shoving in the crowd knocked over a couple police officers working as security. “At that point the mall security officer sprayed a short burst of mace (pepper spray) into the crowd,” Fort Worth police Sergeant Pedro Criado explained. “The Fort...

Here’s a blast from the past. Remember Eason Jordan? Every conservative political blogger worth his/her salt knows and remembers who he is. Former CNN head Eason Jordan is the disgraced journalist who admitted in a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece titled “The News We Kept to Ourselves” that he deliberately and intentionally whitewashed Saddam Hussein’s atrocities and regurgitated Hussein propaganda for a decade in exchange for access. Let me underscore that: In 2003, after the U.S.-led Coalition invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein, Jordan confessed that CNN had deliberately reported Baathist propaganda during the Saddam era...

Unrest growing among Jordan's worshippers (Filed: 08/02/2003) David Blair hears the views of a militant mullah in Maan Beneath the slender minaret of an elegant mosque, Sheikh Subhi Mughribi addressed hundreds of worshippers in the volatile Jordanian city of Maan yesterday and passionately attacked the foundation of the country's foreign policy. "North Korea said no to America but here in Jordan we have not the will to say no to America and no to war on Iraq," he bellowed through a rasping loudspeaker. "We must learn from North Korea."(Hee,hee) King Abdullah has never hidden his long-standing belief that an American-led...

Jordan's plan to save the Dead Sea from dying August 29 2002 at 02:53PM Amman - Jordan is hoping to save the Dead Sea from dying completely by channelling in water from its large and less-salty southern cousin, the Red Sea, its water minister was quoted as saying on Thursday. Hazem Nasser said Jordan will present a plan to the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg on Sunday under which it proposes that a canal be built between the two seas to stabilise Dead Sea water levels. The Red Sea lies about 340km to the south of the...