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A woman who allegedly faked her own pregnancy has been charged with killing her pregnant friend, cutting her baby girl from her womb and kidnapping the infant. Julie Corey was initially charged with kidnapping after authorities found her and the baby in a homeless shelter in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in July. A Worcester County grand jury indicted her on Thursday on murder and kidnapping charges. DNA tests confirmed that the baby was cut from the womb of Darlene Haynes. Haynes, who was eight months pregnant when she was killed, was found dead in her Worcester home two days before Corey's...

Feast and football. That’s what many of us think about at Thanksgiving. Most people identify the origin of the holiday with the Pilgrims’ first bountiful harvest. But few understand how the Pilgrims actually solved their chronic food shortages. Many people believe that after suffering through a severe winter, the Pilgrims’ food shortages were resolved the following spring when the Native Americans taught them to plant corn and a Thanksgiving celebration resulted. In fact, the pilgrims continued to face chronic food shortages for three years until the harvest of 1623. Bad weather or lack of farming knowledge did not cause the...

As American families sit down to their traditional Thanksgiving feasts they will naturally recall the familiar story of the Pilgrims taught to every school kid and, in the process, distort the true character of the nation’s religious heritage. Most children learn that the Mayflower settlers came to the New World to escape persecution and to establish religious freedom. But the early colonists actually pursued purity, not tolerance and sought to build fervent, faith-based utopias, not secular regimes that consigned religion to a secondary role. The distinctive circumstances that allowed these fiery believers of varied denominations to cooperate in the founding...

PLYMOUTH – Reports of a gunman walking across campus put Plymouth State University and the nearby Holderness School in a lockdown last night. By 9:43 p.m., the lockdown was lifted after officials located and talked to the individual, who was not a student, and learned he was carrying a martial arts device that resembled a gun.

WILKES-BARRE – Sen. Ted Kennedy was well known in Northeastern Pennsylvania – from his involvement in the tragic July 1969 death of Edwardsville native Mary Jo Kopechne to his overwhelming margin of victory in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties in the April 1980 Pennsylvania Democratic primary Kennedy’s win here carried him to victory in the state primary over eventual Democratic presidential nominee, incumbent Jimmy Carter. Kennedy, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in U.S. history, died late Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod, Mass., after a yearlong struggle with brain...

When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they established a system of communal property. Within three years they had scrapped it, instituting private property instead. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell tells the story. There are three configurations of property rights: state, communal, and private property. Within a family, many goods are in effect communally owned. But when the number of communal members exceeds normal family size, as happens in tribes and communes, serious and intractable problems arise. It becomes costly to police the activities of the members, all of whom are entitled to their share of the total product of the...

I just saw a classic car and need help remembering the model. I dont have a pic, but the rear window was very unique. I think it was a Chrysler car from around 1969 or 1970. The rear window was fastback-style. The car resembled an El Dorado, but was not. Any help? I would love a pic from google Thanks

PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE Pilgrims Regress By Mark Alexander In the aftermath of a momentous election, an election sure to change the course of our nation, it is tempting to despair. On this Thanksgiving, though, let us resist that powerful temptation and instead take stock of the blessings of liberty. President Ronald Reagan often cited the Pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving as our forebears who charted the path of American freedom. He made frequent reference to John Winthrop's "shining city upon a hill." As Reagan explained, "The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined....

Every year around this time, schoolchildren are taught about that wonderful day when Pilgrims and Native Americans shared the fruits of the harvest. "Isn't sharing wonderful?" say the teachers. They miss the point. Because of sharing, the first Thanksgiving in 1623 almost didn't happen. The failure of Soviet communism is only the latest demonstration that freedom and property rights, not sharing, are essential to prosperity. The earliest European settlers in America had a dramatic demonstration of that lesson, but few people today know it. When the Pilgrims first settled the Plymouth Colony, they organized their farm economy along communal lines....

I hesitate to say this after what happened last time. But here goes ... -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, in the land of the first Thanksgiving. A couple of months ago, I wrote a column suggesting that if we wanted to be historically accurate, perhaps we should be celebrating on Sept. 8. On that day in 1565 - 56 years before the Pilgrims' gathering in Massachusetts - Spanish settlers had a feast with native Timucua in the place that would become St. Augustine. A University of Florida professor has long argued for that as the first Thanksgiving, based on...

What The Pilgrims Ate FIRST THANKSGIVING In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is now known as the first Thanksgiving. While cooking methods and table etiquette have changed as the holiday has evolved, the meal is still consumed today with the same spirit of celebration and overindulgence. WHAT WAS ACTUALLY ON THE MENU? What foods topped the table at the first harvest feast? Historians aren't completely certain about the full bounty, but it's safe to say the pilgrims weren't gobbling up pumpkin pie or playing with their mashed potatoes. Following is a...

NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Two teens have been charged in the brutal decapitation death of a registered sex offender in Michigan whose headless body was left to burn in a subdivision in what prosecutors are calling a "thrill kill."

Video link to the Mayflower II just outside of Plymouth Harbor last Sunday the 22nd, her 11 time under sail since 1957. The Mayflower Compact: IN THE name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents...

'Eta plot to bomb Plymouth ferry foiled' By Edward Owen in Madrid Last Updated: 2:17am BST 12/07/2007 Spanish police have foiled a plot by Eta terrorists to blow up a ferry carrying thousands of British tourists, officials said yesterday. The Pont-Aven ferry carries up to 2,400 passengers and 183 crew between Plymouth and Santander They said the Pont-Aven, which sails twice a week between Plymouth and the northern Spanish port of Santander, was one of three possible targets. If the bomb had exploded at sea a major disaster could have occurred on the vessel which carries up to 2,400 passengers...

Hundreds crammed into bleachers and behind barricades to see the Belvedere come out of the vault Friday afternoon. It was wet Friday morning, but the crowd that gathered wasn't going to let one day of rain spoil 50 years of history. News On 6 anchor Omar Villafranca reports hundreds of people, young and old, crowded near the courthouse to catch a glimpse of history, 50 years in the making. Simple curiosity drew visitors from all over the world. Silvester Humaj’s ‘59 Buick broke down on the way from Massachusetts. He didn't let car trouble keep him away from seeing the...

June 1957 – Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma are enjoying their city’s anniversary, called “Tulsarama!” Most every city around the country enjoys parties; it’s a big tradition throughout the United States. Tulsa representatives decided they needed something unique and different in order to compete with Oklahoma City. They decided to entomb an automobile in a time capsule, using a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere as the car of choice.

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When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they established a system of communal property. Within three years they had scrapped it, instituting private property instead. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell tells the story. There are three configurations of property rights: state, communal, and private property. Within a family, many goods are in effect communally owned. But when the number of communal members exceeds normal family size, as happens in tribes and communes, serious and intractable problems arise.[...]Thirty years old when he arrived in the New World, Bradford became the second governor of Plymouth ... and the most important figure in the...

Plymout selectman nabbed in major sex sting By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer KINGSTON — In one of the largest stings targeting online predators in the area, 11 men — including a newly elected Plymouth selectman — were nabbed trying to meet what they thought was a 13-year-old girl. Sean Dodgson, 45, of Plymouth, elected to the Plymouth board this year, was among the 11 men arrested Friday night and Saturday in “Operation Trenchcoat,” a two-month, undercover investigation involving state, local and federal authorities posing as children online. Dodgson, a West Point graduate, beat the incumbent this year by more...

  Plymouth Road Runner History1968-1980 Introduction: By 1968, muscle cars had moved away from their street slepper image and had become option loaded, luxury machines that only the well to do could afford. Plymouth decided that what was needed was a return to basics. Starting with the stripped pillared coupe version of the Belvedere, it created a new breed of muscle car that packed maximum excitement with a minimum price. Just like the old days. 1968 Plymouth Road Runner Comments: In 1968, Plymouth decided that muscle cars had gotten too far from their original purpose: cheap (and very fast)...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (July 2) - In this village settled by thrifty Pilgrims, you can still buy penny candy for a penny, but tourist Alan Ferguson doubts he'll be able to dig any 1-cent pieces out of his pockets. He rarely carries pennies because "they take up a lot of room for how much value they have." Instead, like so many other Americans, he dumps his pennies into a bucket back home in Sarasota, Fla. Pity the poor penny! It packs so little value that merry kids chuck pennies into the fountain near the candy store, just to watch them splash...

Winter must come awfully early to that little spit of sand called Provincetown. The town isn't exactly Mayberry to begin with, if you know what I mean. But as the cold winds blow relentlessly down Commercial Street and the gray waves slap constantly against the shore, the isolation must lead to a total divorce from reality. Think Jack Nicholson in ''The Shining." How else to explain the bizarre behavior of a majority of the town's selectmen at a meeting earlier this month? To wit, Selectwoman Sarah Peake spun her chair around near the end of the Nov. 14 meeting, gazed...

How the Pilgrims Made Progress Behind the Pilgrims' bad harvest in 1621: a lack of property rights. November 25, 2005 The textbooks don't explain why the Pilgrims had only a meager harvest in 1621, so we will. For their first two years in Plymouth, the settlers conducted an experiment in communalism. It wasn't until 1623 that they divided the land into private plots and could look forward to the kind of bounty that many of us enjoyed yesterday. In his "History of Plimoth Plantation," the colony's governor, William Bradford, wrote about how the settlers studied human nature and laid the...

There's something about Thanksgiving that truly brings out the hate in America's most miserable extremists. Some of the most notorious fresh examples: From Bill Schechner at San Francisco's KPIX: Arab-Owned Liquor Stores Attacked In Oakland OAKLAND Security tapes from the San Pablo Liquor Market on 23rd and San Pablo Ave. in Oakland show 11 men dressed in the manner of members of the Nation of Islam walking into the market at about 11:30 Wednesday night. After confronting the clerk behind the counter they push him aside, topple some groceries, open the wine, soda and alcohol coolers and throw the goods...

What Thanksgiving should be How wonderful it is, how pleasant when brothers live together in harmony! Psalm 133:1 NLT Fighting historical vandalism In an article in Focus on the Family's Citizen magazine, Douglas Phillips describes how he took his family to Plymouth, Massachusetts, a few years ago and was shocked at what he found. Atop Cole's Hill, the burial ground for Pilgrims who died that first hard winter, Phillips was startled to see a city truck pull up and men pile out carrying shovels. They told Phillips the city was placing a new monument. "Most revolutions are staged at night,"...

THAT TURKEY IS MARXIST. The first Thanksgiving was not at all what most Americans have been taught. The Indians didn’t make the difference between starvation and plenty for the Pilgrims in what they called ‘Ye Plimouth Colonie’. What really made the critical difference between that first year, which Governor Bradford called “The Starving Winter”, and the year of the first Thanksgiving? This critical factor lies at the heart of the American experiment in government. Yet virtually none of the present American population knows about the real reason behind the first Thanksgiving. I was a double major in college and one...

2 Years ago, I had the honor of being involved with a noble cause, that of supporting our troops through a sporting goods drive that Freepers assisted in. Below is the original story, edited some here, to tell of what and why the Sporting goods drive occured. Because of the efforts of a 12 year old boy mentioned below, the town of Plymouth Mass is going to hoor a fallen Marine from Plymouth, along with veterans of all wars and their families, including the war we are in right now to preserve our freedoms from Islamic terrorism.. Here is the...

When pilots are in an aircraft, the Marines of Aviation Life Support Systems personnel watch over them like guardian angels, working behind the scenes of the flight line to maintain aircraft emergency gear at the station Parachute Loft. ALSS personnel are responsible for providing and maintaining aircraft emergency gear pilots may use as a last resort. They rarely make an appearance on the flight line, so their contributions to pilot safety are seldom recognized, said Staff Sgt. Ryan Schmidt, Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 ALSS flight equipment technician. “That's the strange thing about this job,” said Schmidt, a Schenectady, N.Y.,...

Police Probing Hate Crime Against Girl, 14 Group Says It's Attacked Because Of Beliefs PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- Police in Plymouth are investigating a possible hate crime against a 14-year-old girl. The victim said a woman attacked her because of religious beliefs. The girl belongs to a group known as Twelve Tribes, the Commonwealth of Israel. The fundamentalist Christian sect has several local communities, including one in Dorchester. NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that there are 35 of the communities across the United States and 50 worldwide. In Dorchester, the group owns and operates a health food store. The group appears...

PLYMOUTH - Police charged a Plymouth woman with a hate crime after she allegedly jumped out of her car and repeatedly punched a 14-year-old girl, a member of the Twelve Tribes religious group, who was walking down the street with her mother and two siblings.

"...and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation, let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise." Gov. William Bradford, 1640's That is my favorite passage from Bradford's Journal. Two decades after the famous landing of the Mayflower, Bradford sat down to write of Pymouth Colony, in a family journal to pass on to his descendants, relating the period of time from the first beginnings in England, their sojourn in Holland, and their first 20 years in New England. Little did...

The Pilgrims’ Short Lived Experiment in Communism Many have credited Karl Marx with inventing what we now know as communism in the middle of the 19th century. The concept of communal living and dependence, however, came long before The Communist Manifesto. Over the centuries, the concept has been applied by different people in different places. While the reasons for applying the communal approach varied as widely as the people who attempted it, one thing did remain constant: failure. From Roman latifundiae to the Soviet Union, communism time and again proved the failure inherent in its concept. Americans do not need...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Plymouth voters have recalled the mayor and two city council members who supported a pact with an Indian tribe that wants to build a casino in the gateway town to Sierra foothill wine country. It's the latest round in a long-running battle that has split the town, Amador County, and the tribe, and led to twin federal investigations of the regional office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Two-thirds of voters opted to recall Mayor Darlene Scanlon, who in addition to her casino support was pictured on the front page of the local Amador Ledger Dispatch newspaper...

<p>Three men caught with camera equipment on the grounds surrounding the nuclear power plant were arrested and interrogated by federal and local authorities.</p> <p>The trio, who police say came to the United States as teenagers from Iran, were spotted at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Saturday morning walking along a restricted beach near the plant. They were arrested on trespassing charges. The men told authorities they were hiking.</p>

PLYMOUTH – A once-tiny, nearly destitute American Indian tribe is pushing hard to build a $100 million casino – but it's not traditional tribal members gunning for riches. Hundreds of people have been newly added to the Ione Band of Miwok Indians' membership rolls, which were opened up by regional Bureau of Indian Affairs officials. Among the new members are several BIA employees and dozens of their relatives. Four congressmen have called for an investigation, though federal officials have so far declined to intervene. Rep. Nick Rahall, ranking Democrat on the House Resources Committee, called the BIA's move an apparent...

Dec. 23, 2003 ? For 22 years, celebrating Christmas was a crime in Massachusetts, where observers of the holiday were subjected to fines and "mince smellers," individuals who were paid to patrol streets to sniff out those who might be baking traditional mincemeat pies around Dec. 25. America's mid-17th century inobservance of Christmas, which was also practiced in Pennsylvania and parts of the South, is described in "The Book of the Year ? A History of Our Holidays" by Colgate University professor Anthony Aveni. According to a recent Colgate press release, Aveni credits Protestant reformists for the 1659-1681 law against...

A Thanksgiving lesson Posted: November 27, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding the people responsible for the American Thanksgiving tradition. Contrary to popular opinion, the Pilgrims didn't wear buckles on their shoes or hats. They weren't teetotalers, either. They smoked tobacco and drank beer. And, most importantly, their first harvest festival and subsequent "thanksgivings" weren't held to thank the local natives for saving their lives. Do you know there are public schools in America today actually teaching that? Some textbooks, in their discomfort with open discussions of Christianity, say as much. I dare suggest most...

Thanksgiving is a time to think about all with which we’ve been blessed. And I’m not talking here about just Cool Whip. As a young man, Benjamin Franklin wrote a prayer of thanksgiving that encompasses many of the sentiments Americans of today share: "For peace and liberty, for food and raiment, for corn, and wine, and milk, and every kind of healthful nourishment—Good God, I thank thee! For the common benefits of air and light; for useful fire and delicious water—Good God, I thank thee! For knowledge, and literature, and every useful art, for my friends and their prosperity, and...

<p>The Pilgrims were brave Christians who risked everything to gain religious freedom in the New World. Or they were fanatical European interlopers, guilty of "genocide" against American Indians. Multiculturalism has taken its toll on the reputation of the small band of Protestant separatists who landed at Plymouth Rock in November 1620.</p>

BREAKING NEWSTuesday, December 4, 2002Court Orders Municipality To Pay Over $39,000 in Michigan Pro-Life CaseIn a case that has drawn national attention, Detroit Federal District Judge Victoria A. Roberts has ordered that Plymouth Township, Michigan, pay monetary damages, attorneys? fees, and costs totaling $39,545.15 and has permanently enjoined the Township from interfering with the rights of pro-life demonstrators to display signs of aborted babies.The case began this past July in Plymouth Township when pro-life advocates began to demonstrate against Michigan Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, Jennifer Granholm, and her ?pro-choice? stance, on the public sidewalk in front of the...

Despite revisionist history suggesting that the Thanksgiving of 1621 was a non-religious feast, the Pilgrims of Plymouth and the national holiday we now celebrate are firmly intertwined. So it’s an appropriate time to reflect on the Pilgrim experience as detailed in Plymouth Governor William Bradford’s "History of the Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647." At first the Pilgrims set up a socialist economic system, one that included a common storehouse. People complained that no matter how hard they worked, others who did little or nothing received just as much as they did. Some of the colonists considered themselves to be in "slaverie." Stealing...

<p>PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP -- Anti-abortion activists have launched a small but vocal movement to excommunicate pro-choice Attorney General Jennifer Granholm from the Roman Catholic Church.</p> <p>Since early June, a group of 10-30 protesters have picketed outside of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Plymouth Township, where the Democratic nominee for governor is a member. Foes say Granholm is a heretic because she is Catholic yet adamantly pro-choice.</p>

The Plymouth, Michigan parish that is supporting the partial birth abortion gubernatorial candidate -- a parishioner -- gave us "Ten Ways to Show You Are Pro Life" in last Sunday's parish bulletin. Can you improve this list: 1) Visit the Giving Tree. There you will find small ways to help the unborn, the homeless and the defenders of our country who are now hospitalized. 2) Volunteer for Manna Meals. Groups of parishioners go weekly to a soup kitchen in Detroit (across from the old Tiger Stadium). 3) Knit or Crochet a Layette. The Council of Catholic Women of Detroit provides...

If protesters outside Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church were to get their way, Attorney General Jennifer Granholm would be excommunicated for her pro-choice views. They aren't going to get their way, but that's not going to stop them from picketing outside the church, as they have every Sunday since June 2. The protesters, all supporters of the pro-life movement, have assembled every weekend on the sidewalk outside OLGC, where Granholm, the Democratic nominee for governor, is a member. Although Granholm hasn't been seen there much in recent weeks, the protesters are still outside with their signs, some with...

Confederate gunboat replica on mission to attract tourists The Associated Press June 17, 2002   12:00 pm PLYMOUTH, N.C. -- The CSS Albermarle is once again prowling the Roanoke River, only it's hunting tourists, not Union forces.Local history buffs have launched a replica of the Confederate gunboat in hopes of attracting visitors to eastern North Carolina.The 63-foot replica, christened in April, commands a portion of the scenic waterfront in this Washington County town about 120 miles east of Raleigh.The real Albemarle rode the Roanoke River during the Civil War and fought successfully against the Union Navy in two battles...