Print William Bigelow Read Full Bio Baltimore Corrections Officers Charged in Gang-Led Smuggling Ring Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who has entertained thoughts of a presidential bid in 2016, may be slowed down by a scandal on his watch where a Baltimore jail was essentially taken over by a gang within it. The Black Guerilla Family, founded in California in the 1960s but now a nationwide gang, arrived in Maryland and its prisons in the 1990s and by 2006 was the strongest gang in the Baltimore City Detention Center. 24 Apr 2013 New York City May Raise Minimum Age to Buy Tobacco to 21 In New York City, first there was the Big Gulp Ban. Now there is the Nicotine Ban-if you’re under 21. A new proposal announced by Dr. Thomas A. Farley, the city’s health commissioner, and Christine Quinn, the City Council speaker, would raise the minimum age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21. 24 Apr 2013 Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers Williams-Sonoma, the huge retail chain selling home furnishings and gourmet cookware, has removed pressure cookers from their shelves because of the Boston Marathon bombing. 24 Apr 2013 Chicago Woman Ducks Conviction in over 300 Arrests A Chicago woman who has been arrested 396 times has become an expert at manipulating the court system—faking seizures so she can stay at hospitals, getting her cases delayed so she can return to the streets and threaten people—all because prisons are overcrowded and mental hospitals are short on funding. 23 Apr 2013 Internet Sales Tax Advances in Senate After White House Support A bill called the Marketplace Fairness Act has been advanced in the Senate by a vote of 74-20 after being strongly endorsed by Barack Obama. The bill would let states tax online purchases so internet businesses would be forced to make consumers pay state taxes on their purchases. 23 Apr 2013 Boston Bombers Spare Carjacking Victim Because He 'Wasn't American' Pete Williams of NBC News revealed that the network has been emailing a man who claims the Boston Marathon Bombers carjacked his SUV but spared his life because he “wasn’t American.” 22 Apr 2013 FBI Confirms Boston Bomber Suspect's Radical Islamism The FBI has confirmed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead suspect accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, was identified by a foreign government as a "follower of radical Islam and a strong believer" who changed radically in 2010. 22 Apr 2013 Dresden Dolls Singer Writes Poem Empathizing with Boston Bombing Suspect There is a woman named Amanda Palmer. She is a singer with a group called the Dresden Dolls. She raised $1.2 million through her fans using Kickstarter to support her album and tour, then had the gall to ask musicians to work for her on the tour for free. And now she has written a poem with her deep insights into the younger brother suspected of perpetrating the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, titled, appropriately enough "A Poem for Dzhokhar." 22 Apr 2013 Immigration Reform Bill Doesn't Keep Border Security Promises The ostensible plan to guarantee border security that was part of the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform proposal isn’t turning out to be what its sponsors promised. 22 Apr 2013 Planned Parenthood Kept Silent About Gosnell Butchery This week, Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania president and CEO Dayle Steinberg, speaking at a fundraiser, no less, admitted that she knew what was going on at Gosnell’s butcher shop. She and her organization did not report it to state health officials or anyone else who could have stepped in. 21 Apr 2013 Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
Baltimore Corrections Officers Charged in Gang-Led Smuggling Ring Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who has entertained thoughts of a presidential bid in 2016, may be slowed down by a scandal on his watch where a Baltimore jail was essentially taken over by a gang within it. The Black Guerilla Family, founded in California in the 1960s but now a nationwide gang, arrived in Maryland and its prisons in the 1990s and by 2006 was the strongest gang in the Baltimore City Detention Center. 24 Apr 2013
New York City May Raise Minimum Age to Buy Tobacco to 21 In New York City, first there was the Big Gulp Ban. Now there is the Nicotine Ban-if you’re under 21. A new proposal announced by Dr. Thomas A. Farley, the city’s health commissioner, and Christine Quinn, the City Council speaker, would raise the minimum age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21. 24 Apr 2013
Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers Williams-Sonoma, the huge retail chain selling home furnishings and gourmet cookware, has removed pressure cookers from their shelves because of the Boston Marathon bombing. 24 Apr 2013
Chicago Woman Ducks Conviction in over 300 Arrests A Chicago woman who has been arrested 396 times has become an expert at manipulating the court system—faking seizures so she can stay at hospitals, getting her cases delayed so she can return to the streets and threaten people—all because prisons are overcrowded and mental hospitals are short on funding. 23 Apr 2013
Internet Sales Tax Advances in Senate After White House Support A bill called the Marketplace Fairness Act has been advanced in the Senate by a vote of 74-20 after being strongly endorsed by Barack Obama. The bill would let states tax online purchases so internet businesses would be forced to make consumers pay state taxes on their purchases. 23 Apr 2013
Boston Bombers Spare Carjacking Victim Because He 'Wasn't American' Pete Williams of NBC News revealed that the network has been emailing a man who claims the Boston Marathon Bombers carjacked his SUV but spared his life because he “wasn’t American.” 22 Apr 2013
FBI Confirms Boston Bomber Suspect's Radical Islamism The FBI has confirmed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead suspect accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, was identified by a foreign government as a "follower of radical Islam and a strong believer" who changed radically in 2010. 22 Apr 2013
Dresden Dolls Singer Writes Poem Empathizing with Boston Bombing Suspect There is a woman named Amanda Palmer. She is a singer with a group called the Dresden Dolls. She raised $1.2 million through her fans using Kickstarter to support her album and tour, then had the gall to ask musicians to work for her on the tour for free. And now she has written a poem with her deep insights into the younger brother suspected of perpetrating the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, titled, appropriately enough "A Poem for Dzhokhar." 22 Apr 2013
Immigration Reform Bill Doesn't Keep Border Security Promises The ostensible plan to guarantee border security that was part of the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform proposal isn’t turning out to be what its sponsors promised. 22 Apr 2013
Planned Parenthood Kept Silent About Gosnell Butchery This week, Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania president and CEO Dayle Steinberg, speaking at a fundraiser, no less, admitted that she knew what was going on at Gosnell’s butcher shop. She and her organization did not report it to state health officials or anyone else who could have stepped in. 21 Apr 2013
Obama to announce plans to lift ban on sending Guantanamo detainees to Yemen22 May 2013, 10:45 PM PDT
Obama to announce plans to lift ban on sending Guantanamo detainees to Yemen22 May 2013, 10:45 PM PDT
Man kidnapped in broad daylight and held captive for over a month, NYC police say22 May 2013, 10:37 PM PDT
1 child dead, 1 missing after landslide sweeps over fourth-graders on field trip in Minn.22 May 2013, 9:15 PM PDT