Monthly Archives: December 2016

An assistant warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola has been accused of committing rape inside the prison walls.  The rape is alleged to have occurred on Nov. 30 at Boeker’s home on Angola property. Erin Foster, a sheriff’s spokeswoman, told The Huffington Post the rape victim was “not an inmate,” but declined to […]

New therapy does not cause side-effects such as impotence and urinary incontinence, researchers say A drug activated by laser light successfully destroys early prostate cancer while avoiding side-effects that commonly occur with surgery, trial results have shown. The new technique, called vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy (VTP), involves injecting a light-sensitive drug into the bloodstream. The drug […]

Second world war ships, most of which are war graves, are vanishing from the Java Sea, yet the Indonesian government says nothing can be done. It is true? Two weeks ago, a HMS Exeter and HMS Encounter, as well as sections missing from HMS Electra. The US submarine Perch is also completely gone. While the […]

Barry Petticrew, 45, was caught on a farm with enough explosives to build the largest bomb ever seen in the region A mechanic originally from the Irish Republic has been jailed for 11 years by a Northern Ireland court for running a bomb factory that contained enough explosives to build what could have been one […]

Leah Remini is still looking for answers from the Church of Scientology.  On Monday night’s special episode of “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” the actress took time to answer some of the questions she didn’t get to during her Ask Me Anything session on Reddit last month. Among those was one Remini has thought about for […]

Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who Politico Playbook reported on Tuesday is exploring a run to chair the Democratic National Committee, is largely a political unknown on the national stage. The openly gay Navy reserve officer and former McKinsey consultant appears to be more of a liberal technocrat than a rust […]

Young organizers hope to raise funds to create space for the best kinds of troublemakers near White House to quickly mobilize against incoming president A group of millennial activists from across the country plan to open a movement house in Washington DC next month, which will serve as a permanent base to protest Donald Trumps […]

New Brennan Center analysis shows second straight year of murder increases in 30 cities, but national murder rate is still much lower than in the 1990s Driven by a historic spike in Chicago murders, the murder rate in the nations 30 largest cities is expected to increase another 14% in 2016, according to a new […]

A German grandmother is fighting hate with nail-polish remover, a scraper and spray paint. Irmela Schramm, 70, spray-paints hearts over neo-Nazi and racist graffiti in Berlin. Schramm, who describes herself as “polit-putze” or a “political cleaner,” has been doing this for 30 years. JOHN MACDOUGALL via Getty Images “I have a strong appreciation for human […]

New York (CNN)A retired police officer allegedly caught in a drug deal gone bad was charged with quadruple murder in Orange County, New York, on Monday. Four bodies were found Tuesday buried on property belonging to Nicholas Tartaglione, the former officer, according to the Chester Police Department. The property is about an hour north of […]