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Obama: No shirtless pictures By Ian Swanson - 12/28/10 04:34 PM ET The White House is taking extra steps to prevent photos of a shirtless President Obama on vacation in Hawaii. The president and his family are on a snorkeling trip in Haunama Bay State Park, and traveling press are under “explicit instructions that there will be no long lenses or other sneaky attempts to take pictures,” according to a pool report. Photos of a shirtless president on a Hawaii vacation after his win in the 2008 presidential election caused a stir two Christmases ago. Washingtonian magazine even ran a...

What is wrong with people nowadays? Some of you may remember back in July of 2004 my niece Emma was seriously injured and had to have half her skull removed, along with half her brain. The Doctors and the Police determined that this was not accidental and charged my sisters boyfriend, who was taking care of her at the time, with 2 counts of aggravated child abuse. Well the trial ended today and he was found not guilty on the first count which they said he had no criminal intent to injure my niece. Forget the fact that out of...

Parents of Los Amigos School students are not only concerned about a move to a new campus, but also about problems that have developed in the district's only dual-language immersion program. The Palmdale School District board of trustees received at least 20 minutes' worth of comments Tuesday night when it held a public hearing about a potential permanent campus for the school. The district staff has offered Los Amigos the choice to stay put or move to 67th Street East and Avenue R-8 as its permanent site. The district recently broke ground on a kindergarten-through-sixth-grade campus on Avenue R-8, a...