NEW YORK – A small-time money manager who did business out of a shabby storefront in Brooklyn was charged Tuesday with running a $40 million Ponzi scheme that secretly diverted client money to unauthorized ventures, including a mail-order pornography business. Federal prosecutors and the Securities Exchange Commission said Philip Barry, …
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Defending a Yale University lab technician charged with murder against what appears to be a mountain of forensic evidence might mean trying to convince jurors that the crime scene was contaminated because police didn’t immediately shut down the lab where the victim was found, legal experts …
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Holiday Inn, operator of over 4,000 hotels worldwide, will begin to offer a free five-minute “human bed-warming service” at its London Kensington hotel throughout next week. If requested, a willing member of hotel staff will jump in your bed, dressed head to foot in an all-in-one sleeper suit, until your …
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – A light earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area, but there are no reports of injuries or major damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-4.1 temblor hit at 10:09 a.m. Thursday. It was centered 11 miles northeast of San Jose. Bay Area Rapid Transit experienced …
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HOUSTON – An area near the 11th hole at a Houston golf course provided a smooth landing spot after a small plane ran out of fuel and glided on to the grass. The Cessna 170 was expected to be moved from Hermann Park on Tuesday. The unplanned landing of the …
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for four people, including two U.S. citizens, who were reported missing on a fishing trip off the Dominican Republic’s southern coast. The Coast Guard says Robert Wayne and Laura Ricart left Boca Chica with Spaniard Javier Jorge and Dominican …
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LACEY, Washington – A 14-year-old boy in Washington state has been arrested after police say he sent a photo of his naked 13-year-old ex-girlfriend by cell phone to other students. Police say the image was forwarded to dozens of students in at least three different schools. A Thurston County prosecutor …
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We were pre-empted last weekend due to the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the senseless murder of 6 people at the hands of an irrational and deranged lunatic. The interview with Ted Nugent and the segments with Casting Crowns and Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth …
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Once again, NBC News has highlighted dishonest propaganda from the far-left Media Matters outfit. Sadly, TIME magazine also participated in the sham. Controversies about Sen. Tom Coburn’s assertion that Fox News scared some Americans by saying they could go to prison if they don’t buy health insurance under Obamacare. On …
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Witches, Druids and pagans rejoice! The Air Force Academy in Colorado is about to recognize its first Wiccan prayer circle, a Stonehenge on the Rockies that will serve as an outdoor place of worship for the academy’s neo-pagans. Wiccan cadets and officers on the Colorado Springs base have been convening …
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