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An Outlaws Motorcycle Club member who was arrested during Biketoberfest when his motorcycle ran out of gas as deputies said he tried to flee from traffic stops is in more trouble. He was recently accused of grinding down identification numbers on the motorcycle’s engine and transmission, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office. Robert Patrick Wilson, a 31-year-old Ocala resident and Outlaws member, was charged with two felony counts of possession of a vehicle with altered vehicle identification numbers, according to a press release Wednesday from the sheriff’s office. Wilson has been locked up at the Flagler County jail since...

In light of the two recent events in Florida, with the shooting at the nightclub and the murder of Christina Grimmie, I feel compelled to share my thoughts on the greater scope of life and how precious it is. With the recent birth of our daughter, and starting a new chapter with Dakota; I am now, more than ever, seeing that each moment in life is a blessing. It was just announced that the shooting at the nightclub was a terrorist attack with now 50 people dead and 53 injured. This is the worst mass shooting in our history. My...

When does the gang at Fox News start saying Matt Bevin’s huge upset in Kentucky was due to “Carson-mania?” After all, don’t they all believe Ben Carson has grabbed up all the excitement on today’s political stage? How about some of the columnists who are shilling so hard for Carson? Where are their joyful shouts that “Bevin won because of Carson-mania?” Democrats can apparently recognize and acknowledge scary poll numbers better than the Republican establishment and the Donald Trump hating media. With their noses rubbed in the dirt they have had to acknowledge the truth. The latest Reuters poll of...

The GOP is making a bold play for a U.S. Senate seat in reliably Democratic Oregon, where a Republican hasn’t been elected to a statewide office in more than a decade. Republicans back in Washington think they’ve found the right candidate in Monica Wehby, a children’s brain surgeon who’s raised more than $1 million and put her early opposition to President Barack Obama’s health care law at the center of her campaign. […] Wehby faces four other Republicans, most notably state Rep. Jason Conger of Bend, a lawyer who’s promoting his conservative credentials and his experience representing a district that,...

HAVANA - The average monthly salary in Cuba rose 17 percent between 2006 and 2011 to the equivalent of $19, the state statistics office said Monday. That meant the average monthly wage of workers in Cuba, where the Communist-ruled state controls more than 90 percent of the economy, climbed from the equivalent of $16 a month in 2006 to $19 last year, the office said on its website. Low salaries are a key complaint in the Americas' only one-party Communist regime. There is a very small salary range from unskilled to highly skilled labor, so a street sweeper might make...

Busy Gupta performs brain surgery, reports for CNN Television Writer David Bauder, Ap Television Writer – Wed Jan 7, 5:54 am ET AP – If Barack Obama wants a surgeon general with visibility to promote health issues in his administration, it can't hurt to hire a CNN correspondent called one of People magazine's "sexiest men alive." Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and one of CNN's busiest personalities, is under consideration by the president-elect for the job. Should the offer come, CNN said Gupta has indicated he is likely to take it. Obama will have a man who has interrupted...

/begin my translation French Doctor Headed for N. Korea to Treat Kim Jong-il Japanese media "specialist on brain tumor left for Pyongyang" Internet edition of Mainichi Shimbun, Japanese Daily, reported on Oct. 29 that a brain surgeon at St. Anne Hospital in Paris, France, left for N. Korea a few days ago in order to treat brain sickness of N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il. The specialist is Francois Xavier Lou (sp?) (age:57.) He is a specialist on arterial flow and brain tumor, and he also treated Kim in Pyongyang last August, according to the paper. (When asked,) His colleagues at...

Kim Jong-Il's son lines up French brain surgeon: report Mon Oct 27, 1:59 am ET TOKYO (AFP) – The eldest son of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il is believed to have visited a Paris brain surgeon who apparently flew to Pyongyang to treat his father, Japanese television reported Monday. Speculation about Kim's health has swirled since he failed to appear at a key anniversary parade in early September, and US and South Korean officials say the 66-year-old recluse is believed to have suffered a stroke. Japan's Fuji Television showed footage from Paris of a man it identified as Kim Jong-Nam,...

A GIFTED brain surgeon is believed to be the mastermind of a ring of foreign doctors behind the London and Glasgow car bomb plots. British police suspect Jordan-trained neurologist Mohammed Jamil Abdelqadar Asha, 26, headed a network of medics intent on unleashing terror. Three doctors and two trainees are among seven people being quizzed in the UK over the car bomb plots. Several people arrested in connection with the terror attacks were traced via call logs from two mobile phones that failed to detonate in the nightclub car bombs. Suspected plot ringleader Dr Asha is a neurologist who was born...

LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson on Friday questioned the system that allowed both him and actor Robert Blake to be found liable for murder after being acquitted in criminal court, calling it "double jeopardy." "I still don't get how anyone can be found not guilty of a murder and then be found responsible for it in any way shape or form," Simpson said in a phone interview from his Florida home. "... If you're found not guilty, how can you be found responsible? I'd love to hear how that's not double jeopardy." Simpson said he had no opinion about Blake's...