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Public Turns Gloomy, Fearful as 2013 Approaches

Public Turns Gloomy, Fearful as 2013 Approaches

The holidays are traditionally a time where we renew our optimism about the future. Gatherings with friends and family, festive meals and sparkling decorations are all powerful elixirs to the wear-and-tear of daily life. A new ABC/WaPo poll, however, shows

Shake-Up: Jake Tapper Leaves ABC News For CNN Anchor Spot

Shake-Up: Jake Tapper Leaves ABC News For CNN Anchor Spot

ABC News just announced big changes at the network. Jonathan Karl has been named Chief White House Correspondent and Martha Raddatz is the new Chief Global Affairs Correspondent. Wait, isn’t Chief White House Correspondent Jake Tapper’s gig? Indeed it is, and buried at the

ABC's 'Nightline' Airs Superb Segment on School Security

ABC's 'Nightline' Airs Superb Segment on School Security

Last night on ABC’s “Nightline,” Terry Moran introduced a fantastic segment that took a serious look at something beyond the incessant media drumbeat that pretends only gun control will solve the problem of mass shootings. In a glaring exception to The Narrative,

Remembering Celebrities Who Left Us in 2012

Remembering Celebrities Who Left Us in 2012

(UPI) The entertainment world mourned the loss of numerous titans and dozens of supporting players this year. Among the notable deaths of 2012 were veteran television personality Dick Clark; broadcast journalist Mike Wallace; actors Andy Griffith, Sherman Hemsley, Michael Clarke

Texas Gun Shop Offers Free Handgun Courses to Teachers

Texas Gun Shop Offers Free Handgun Courses to Teachers

A gun shop near San Antonio, Texas is offering free concealed handgun license courses to all teachers after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.  Josh Felker, who owns LoneStar Handgun in Schertz, Texas, told the ABC affiliate there that he is offering

ABC News Anchor Sam Donaldson Arrested For DUI

ABC News Anchor Sam Donaldson Arrested For DUI

WGMD Radio out of Delaware: Former ABC News political reporter Sam Donaldson was pulled over on Savannah Road by Lewes Police on December 1 for a traffic violation. An officer says that he’d been drinking. Donaldson failed field sobriety tests,

Newtown Shooting: The Gunman Who Knew No Pain

Newtown Shooting: The Gunman Who Knew No Pain

A picture is beginning to emerge of Adam Lanza from those who knew him, and it’s clear that virtually everyone thought he was abnormal. His advisor for the tech club at Newton High School stated that Lanza would not know

Cuomo Stuns 'View' Hosts: Put Armed Guards In Schools

Cuomo Stuns 'View' Hosts: Put Armed Guards In Schools

ABC News reporter Chris Cuomo (brother of New York governor Andrew Cuomo) stunned the hosts of “The View” by advocating for armed security guards at our nation’s schools as the only way to prevent more mass murders. “In every one

Portraits of Connecticut Victims

Portraits of Connecticut Victims

(AP) – Most died at the very start of their young lives, tiny victims taken in a way not fit no matter one’s age. Others found their life’s work in sheltering these little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating

Pot proponents hopeful, wary after Obama comments

Pot proponents hopeful, wary after Obama comments

(AP) Pot proponents hopeful, wary after Obama commentsBy MANUEL VALDES and KRISTEN WYATTAssociated PressSEATTLEBackers of new laws that legalized marijuana in Washington and Colorado were cautiously optimistic after President Barack Obama said Uncle Sam wouldn’t pursue pot users in those

3 Allegedly Planned to Kill Justin Bieber

ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 12 (UPI) — An ex-con from New Mexico and his nephew planned to kill Justin Bieber and his bodyguard, police said. Mark Staake of Albuquerque was allegedly taking orders from a man he met while both were doing