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As crimes by illegals skyrockets across the country the New York Police Dept. (NYPD) has begun posting notices to citizens to be aware of migrant pick pocket gangs roaming the Big Apple. A recent post by Viral News NYC showed video of an NYPD electronic billboard truck warning residents to be aware of their surroundings and belongings. “Times Square NYC,” the account wrote, “A NYPD billboard truck saying ‘BEWARE KF PICKPOCKETS,’ for the past year and a half, there has been an uptick of pickpocketing in the midtown Manhattan area. Migrants have set up multiple pickpocketing crews throughout the city,...

GOS, Nigeria – Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat for three days, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle. The Nigerian cook survived by breathing an ever-dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket. The other 11 seaman aboard the Jascon 4 died... It was a shock for the diver while he was down there looking for bodies, and we (in the control room) shot back when the hand grabbed him on the screen." Okene kept faith with the psalm he recited, that promises to "give thanks in your name, Lord," at a...

Bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard, who is liquidating the bogus investment firm of convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff, gave $26.9 million to a Manhattan law firm to recover $849,000 for the victims of the largest Ponzi scheme in American history. In a filing with the federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan, Picard noted that $15.8 million went to his own law firm, Baker & Hostetler LLP, in the second and third quarters, the New York Post reports. Another $7.1 million was spent on consultants and $107,560 on “hosting expenses.”

Baptisms1. Israel's National Baptism unto Moses: Placing the Nation under Moses' leadership. 1 Corinthians 10:1-4; etc. 2. Divers Baptisms of Israel's Religion as given by God under the Law. Hebrews 6:2; Hebrews 9:10; etc.3. Traditional "baptisms" (washings, etc.) of the ceremonies of the Jews: making void God's word. Mark 7:1-7; etc.4. John's Baptism of Repentance with water. Acts 10:37; Mark 1:4; John 1:31; Matthew 3:11; etc.5. Christ's Baptism in water to fulfill the Righteousness of the Old Testament Scriptures. Matthew 3:13-15; etc. 6. Christ's Baptism into Death. Luke 12:50; Mark 10:38, 39; etc. 7. Holy Spirit Baptism of Power performed...

Craigslist Killer" Phillip Markoff created a ghoulish shrine to his former fiancee before he died, spreading out photos of her on the small table in his cell and scrawling her name in his own blood over his cell door where guards would not easily see it, ABC News has learned.

Tomahawk Troops Embrace Pocket-Size Memories Soldiers keep pieces of metal which wounded them during their deployment to Iraq. By Spc. Jeffrey Ledesma 1st Cavalry Division, Multi-National Division, Baghdad BAGHDAD, April 17, 2007 — One undeniable commonality in every battle fought is the memories of war that burn into the minds of the soldiers who fight in it and the small pieces that remind them to never forget. Three infantrymen with Company C, 1st "Tomahawk" Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, experienced three different attacks, on three separate occasions and each came away with...

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2006 – While military servicemembers await deployment, some will find inspiration in their mailbox, courtesy of "Project Prayer Flag," a grassroots group that sends servicemembers pocket flags and letters of prayer and encouragement. 4th Infantry Division soldiers near Bayji, Iraq, hold pocket flags they received inside "Project Prayer Flag" kits. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Project Prayer Flag is a member of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, which showcases Americans' efforts to support servicemembers and their families. It's not important how Americans support the troops as long as they support them,...

Anglo-Saxon gold coin leaves British Museum out of pocket By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent (Filed: 09/02/2006) A gold coin lost 1,200 years ago on a river bank in Bedfordshire became the most expensive British coin when it was bought by the British Museum for £357,832 yesterday. A little smaller than a pound coin in diameter and much thinner, the glittering mancus, the value of 30 days' wages for a skilled Anglo-Saxon worker, now ranks among the museum's most valuable artefacts. Anglo-Saxon coin depicting Coenwulf, King of Mercia Experts described the coin as "the find of the last 100 years". But...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C., Aug. 3, 2005 – Marines of Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment received pocket American flags here 15 July from Brenda Brummer, a volunteer with the Pocket Flag Project, shortly before deploying to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Brummer folded over three hundred flags for the company by herself then drove six hours to Camp Lejeune to deliver the flags to the deploying Marines. “When I look at the flags I have made I think of the people who have given part or all of their lives for this...

Former actress June Haver is dead at 79. Haver turned her back on Hollywood at the height of her career to become a nun, then just as abruptly left the convent, married actor Fred MacMurray and retired. Haver died of respiratory failure Monday at her home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Haver grew up in Illinois and Ohio, appearing in local stage productions and singing on radio as a child. She was just 16 and performing with dance bands when she signed a contract with Twentieth Century Fox and made her film debut as a hat check girl...

Multinational Force Attacks Zarqawi Operating Location American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2004 -- Multinational Force Iraq conducted a "precision attack" in southwest Fallujah tonight, targeting an operating location used by the network of fugitive terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, officials announced in a news release. Surrounded by fields, the two targeted buildings served as safe houses and meeting locations for known Zarqawi associates, the release said. Earlier in the day, the terrorists were seen removing a man from the trunk of a car, executing him, then burying his body. Multiple sources of Iraqi and coalition intelligence provided the basis...

Kerry Adviser Sandy Berger Sees Potential 3 Year Force Presence in Iraq WASHINGTON, Jul. 09, 04 /PRNewswire/ -- WASHINGTON, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- In a wide-ranging and exclusive interview with Bisnow on Business released today, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, now a chief foreign policy adviser to Senator John Kerry, says, in answer to a question about how long a "substantial U.S. force presence" might remain in Iraq: "I can certainly imagine us having a force there in three years. I hope it will be a smaller force." In answer to a question about whether the U.S. is better...

<p>LOS ANGELES - Jaime Rincon was minding his own business the other day when he ran into Bill Simon.</p> <p>The meeting occurred at a Latino business expo where the Long Beach machine shop owner had gone to get some advice and the Republican gubernatorial candidate had gone to get some votes.</p>