Police pursuit ends with crash in Richmond

"Barbarians at the Gate: The GOP's Health Reform Plan"
My colleague Jeff Kluger, who covers Health and science, has penned an impassioned defense of the Affordable Care Act, inspired by his kids' reaction to his recent Outpatient surgery. An excerpt is below. Full piece here . Discuss. I had a bit of surgery last week. It wasn't much the kind of Outpatient operation that would once have had me hospitalized for three or four days, but with new, less invasive procedures, had me in and out in five hours. When I arrived home, my daughters (ages 7...

VIDEO: Mosque controversy takes strange turns
Controversy surrounding the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro took another unusual twist over the weekend as an outspoken Mosque opponent was briefly hospitalized following a verbal confrontation with a Documentary filmmaker on the Public Square. Mosque opponent Kevin Fisher can be seen in a video posted on the popular video website YouTube telling Murfreesboro Police dispatchers that he was being "racially harassed." Fisher, who is black, lodged the accusation against documentarian Eric Allen...

Macomb County news: Exam today in embezzlement case
A pre-exam conference is set for 8 a.m. today. Curt Dumas, 53, is accused of bilking St. Clair Shores of about $27,000 by taking money from scrap metal sales, having a water bill for his wife's home waived and using a city Laptop AirCard for personal use at his Richmond Township home from 2006 to this year. Dumas is charged with embezzlement by a public official, a 10-year felony, and public money/safekeeping, a two-year Misdemeanor. The case was transferred to Eastpointe from 40th District...

Students sickened by chemical fumes in Roosevelt lab
Several Roosevelt University Students were sickened, and three hospitalized, after experiencing Headaches and throat irritation from chemical fumes in a Loop laboratory Wednesday afternoon. A Level 1 hazardous materials response was called about 3:30 p.m. to Roosevelt Universitys Auditorium Building on the 430 block of South Michigan Avenue after a Student opened a container in a lab and other Students complained of Headaches and throat irritation, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis...

President Obama's Aunt Speaks Out About Living Illegally in U.S.
"If I come as an Immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen." Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV.   Onyango is the aunt of President Barack Obama. She lived in the United States illegally for years, receiving public assistance in Boston.   'I KNEW I OVERSTAYED'   Aunt Zeituni, as she has come to be known, first surfaced in the public light in 2008, in the final days of the Presidential...

Obama's aunt says US obligated to make her citizen
Boston — President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston, says in her first interview since being granted asylum that the United States has an "obligation" to grant her Citizenship. Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUH'-nee awn-YAHN'-goh) tells WBZ-TV that she came to the U.S. from Kenya in 2000 but couldn't afford to leave when she was originally denied asylum in 2004. She says she fell critically ill and was hospitalized. When she was discharged, she lived in a Homeless...

Bud Selig won't expand use of instant replay for postseason
Related Articles Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on Monday ruled out increased use of instant replay by umpires to review close calls during the postseason this season. Selig said he discussed the matter with the special committee of managers, management and ownership he appointed in December. “I brought the subject up, as I always do with everybody,” Selig said. “I don’t get the feeling that there’s a lot of support for it, at least their conversations with...

Man shot after firing at cops in Detroit strip club
Police were called to Club 007 on the 5300 block of East Outer Drive around 6:35 a.m. today for a possible breaking and entering. Officers found a door ajar and entered the Club when a man inside opened fire on them. Police fired back, injuring the man. His injuries are not life-threatening, Detroit Police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens said. The officers were not hit in the exchange of gunfire. The suspect was hospitalized for his injuries, Stephens said. Contact MATT HELMS: ...

Obama aunt says US obligated to make her a citizen, she's been treated as 'public enemy No. 1'
Boston — President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston before being granted asylum in May, said the United States has an "obligation" to grant her Citizenship. "If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen," Zeituni Onyango told WBZ-TV in an interview that first aired Monday. Onyango came to the U.S. from Kenya in 2000 and was denied asylum by an Immigration judge in 2004. She was granted asylum earlier this year by the same judge who...

Florida father apologizes for school bus tirade, threats
(CNN) -- A Florida man apologized Tuesday for boarding his daughter's School Bus earlier this month and threatening the other Children and the Driver, saying he acted out of frustration over Students Bullying his daughter. "I handled it the wrong way when I went on the Bus," James Jones said. He said he does not condone storming on the Bus or his Profanity-laced tirade in front of Students. "I really strongly believe we should do it a different way," he said. "But at...

Nevada governor hurt in fall from horse at ranch
Related Articles Reno, Nev. (AP) A spokesman for Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons says the Republican was thrown from a horse at a ranch and was taken by ambulance to a Reno medical center. Daniel Burns, the Governor’s Press Secretary, told the Reno Gazette-Journal late Tuesday that the extent of Gibbons’ injuries wasn’t clear. But he says the 65-year-old was moving his arms and legs and was coherent and alert. Burns says Gibbons was helping break a young horse at a ranch north of...

Obama's Aunt: 'United States Has The Obligation To Make Me A Citizen'
Zeituni Onyango is the native Kenya half-sister of President Obama ’s late father who suddenly finds herself back in the media spotlight. Last night, Boston’s WBZ-TV broadcast an interview which is sure to polarize many citizens concerned with the plight of Illegal Immigration in the United States. “If I come as an Immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen,” said Onyango, which is sure to be used over and over again by those looking to embarrass the...

Eric Allen Bell: Anti-Mosque Protester Calls Police on Film Maker [Video]
Posted on 21 September 2010 by Garibaldi Kevin Fisher has been a staunch and vocal opponent to the planned Murfreesboro, Tennessee Islamic Cultural Center. In this video he responds quite strangely to a normal greeting from Documentary film maker, Eric Allen Bell. VIDEO: Mosque opponent hospitalized following verbal dispute with filmmaker A well-known opponent of the proposed Islamic Center of Murfreesboro was hospitalized over the weekend following a verbal confrontation with a Documentary...

Criminal Records Raise More Questions About DOJ and Black Panthers
New information about the violent Criminal history of the Philadelphia Black Panthers once again calls into question the Department of Justice handling of this Racist Hate Group. Records obtained from the Philadelphia Courts document arrests for Assault, Robbery, Domestic Violence, and drug dealing by King Samir and Jerry Jackson. According to one of his Victims, King Samir does more than intimidate voters with his baton. He beat the man in the head with the same type weapon he was seen...

Egg exec apologizes, but House panel blasts company
WASHINGTON — A member of the family that owns one of two egg farms linked to the recent, massive Salmonella outbreak apologized to its Victims and pledged not to resume selling fresh eggs until its farms are free from disease. "While we always believed we were doing the right thing, it is now very clear that we must do more," Peter DeCoster, chief operating officer of the Wright County Egg operations, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Rep. Bart Stupak , D-Mich,...

Miami Dade Police Car Chase " an ending with an added surprise!
UPDATED VIDEO: I called BFH about this Car chase this afternoon that was broadcast on Fox News. Found it on YouTube - the home narration on this video I didn’t expect. The story is - typical stolen Car chase in Florida. Police execute the pit maneuver, stolen Car crashes into innocent bystander’s Car. Police tase suspects. THE TWIST: The Car they slammed into was occupied by Cheech and Chong fans. After their Car was hit, you will see the door open and puffs of smoke...

Boy shot in the eye on Southwest Side
A teenage boy was shot in the eye Wednesday night on the Southwest Side. The 14-year-old boy was shot in the eye at 5:09 p.m. in the 3200 block of West 57th Street, Police said. A vehicle approached the boy and a passenger engaged him in a conversation about gang affiliations, according to Police. When he ran, the passenger pulled a Gun and shot him. The boy was taken in stable condition to Mount Sinai Hospital. The gunman fled after the shooting and is not in custody Wednesday night....

Fioretti: Turn McCormick Place East into a casino
A Near South Side alderman whos mulling a race for mayor proposed Tuesday that McCormick Place East be converted into a giant, but temporary, casino and that Chicago begin the search for a permanent gambling site. Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) mentioned the 37-acre campus that formerly housed Michael Reese Hospital, the old Chicago Post Office and 67 acres of vacant land at Roosevelt and Clark once owned by convicted businessman and Rod Blagojevich fund-raiser Tony Rezko as possible sites for a...

Two charged in gang-related Northwest Side shooting
Two men have been charged with the apparent gang-related shooting of two other men in the Northwest Side Kilbourn Park neighborhood early Monday. The shooting happened about 1:20 a.m. in the 4700 block of West Barry Avenue, according to Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro. The Victims, ages 21 and 25, were standing on the street when an assailant approached, shouted gang slogans and began shooting, News Affairs Officer Robert Perez said. The gunman then fled on foot. The 25-year-old was...

Egg exec apologizes, but House panel blasts company
WASHINGTON — A member of the family that owns one of two egg farms linked to the recent, massive Salmonella outbreak apologized to its Victims and pledged not to resume selling fresh eggs until its farms are free from disease. "While we always believed we were doing the right thing, it is now very clear that we must do more," Peter DeCoster, chief operating officer of the Wright County Egg operations, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Rep. Bart Stupak , D-Mich,...

Bob Barker 'Bounced back' After Shooting Range Fainting
Bob Barker on Monday said he is fine after a recent Health scare at a Los Angeles shooting range last week. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Bob Barker, the former host of the long-running “The Price is Right” game show, said he was fine after collapsing at a shooting range in Los Angeles last week. “My healthy young body has bounced back,” Barker, 86, told Access Hollywood on Monday.

House call programs ready to go national
From the back window of his row house, Karl Schwengel can see the U.S. Capitol. But the 11 blocks might as well be so many miles, because he can barely walk across his bedroom, let alone go for a stroll. Schwengel, 79, has congestive heart failure and arthritis. And though he lost 60 pounds during a recent Hospital stay, he still weighs 260 pounds. Last year he was retaining so much fluid that his calves were "almost the size of basketballs," he says, and walking became nearly impossible....

11 year old baby sitter charged in 2 year old death
Source: AJC 11-year-old babysitter charged in 2-year-old's death By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Sandy Springs Police have charged an 11-year-old girl with Murder and child cruelty in the death of a toddler she was babysitting. The babysitter, whose name has not been released, was taken to a juvenile Youth Detention Center in Fulton County, where she will be held while prosecutors decide how to proceed. Zyda White, 2, died over the...

11 year old baby sitter charged in 2 year old death
Source: AJC 11-year-old babysitter charged in 2-year-old's death By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Sandy Springs Police have charged an 11-year-old girl with Murder and child cruelty in the death of a toddler she was babysitting. The babysitter, whose name has not been released, was taken to a juvenile Youth Detention Center in Fulton County, where she will be held while prosecutors decide how to proceed. Zyda White, 2, died over the...

Obama's Aunt Update: 'The System Took Advantage of Me'
**Written by Doug Powers The entitlement mentality is strong with this one : “If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen.” Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV. Onyango is the aunt of President Barack Obama. She has been living in the United States illegally for years, receiving public assistance in Boston. [...] Zeituni Onyango said she came to the United States in 2000 and had...