During a state House debate in Oklahoma on whether to eliminate affirmative action, Republican state Rep. Sally Kern insulted the entire black race by saying black people are paid less than whites because they are lazy and they are in prison because they didn’t work had in school. “We have a high percentage of blacks [...]

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A renowned Swiss climbing guide died on his 52nd birthday while leading a client up the summit ridge of the Gruenhorn, in the Bernese Alps. Swiss authorities say mountain guide Erhard Loretan, one of the few climbers to ever reach the summits of all 14 of the world’s peaks above 27,000 feet, died Thursday afternoon [...]

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A British pilot committed suicide after feeling guilty about not flying a plane that crashed earlier this year killing six people. Oliver Lee was found hang in the stable of a home he shared with his 54-year-old father and 21-year-old sister in West Yorks on Easter Sunday. Five days after leaving his job at Manx2 [...]

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A 57-year-old New York man hired as a consultant by the Department of Education to wire public schools for the Internet is accused of stealing more than $3 million. After months of investigations, authorities charged Willard “Ross” Lanham with mail-fraud and theft for overbilling the city by $3.6 million. From 2002 to 2008, the city of [...]

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Authorities in New York City say an 8-year-old boy brought a loaded 9mm handgun to school on Thursday and sold it to another 8-year-old for $3. Police in Queens were alerted to the crime after the buyer brought the gun home from school and showed it to his mother.  The mother contacted staff at P.S [...]

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