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Honor Crimes Are Cultural, Don't Blame Them On Muhammad

Nancy Graham Holm | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Kingston, Honor-Shame Cultures, Wahabi Islam, Islam, Shafia Family, Shafia Verdict, Rape, Mohammad Shafia, Shafia Honour Killing Trial, Ontario, Muslims for Progressive Values, Hamed Shafia, Deobandi Islam, Progressive Islam, Religion News
Nancy Graham Holm

As Muslims with progressive values slowly but surely take ascendancy over Deobandi and Wahabi puritan fundamentalism, honor-shame sub-cultures will disappear and with it, the sanctioned abuse of women.

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Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani Gone Fishing

Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Kingston, Gwen Stefani Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Gwen Stefani Gavin Rossdale Breakup, Gwen Stefani Gavin Rossdale Split, Video, Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani Gavin Rossdale Fishing, Unbelievably Satisfying, Gwen Stefani Divorce, Zuma, Celebrity News

The media may be fishing for rumors that Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani's relationship is on the rocks, but this couple is simply fishing. The rock s...

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Jamaican Mother And Daughter Found Beheaded

AP | By DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Kingston, Jamaica, Charmaine Rattray, Clan Violence, Jamaica Spanish Town, Clan War, Joyette Lynch, Spanish Town Jamaica, Jamaica Beheading, Beheading, Clan, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A mother and daughter were beheaded Wednesday by attackers who invaded their home in a gritty area outside Jamaica's capital, nea...

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Jamaica's North Shore -- Hassle-Free Adventure

Crai S. Bower | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Jamaica, Tropical Vacation, Strawberry Hill Resort, Tropics, Caribbean, Mockingbird Hill Hotel, North Shore Jamaica, Vacation, Port Antonio, Kingston, Soft Adventure, Adventure Travel, Travel News
Crai S. Bower

Deep pools invite dives, natural stone slides tempt us like swing sets to a toddler, and dug outs beg us to lay down and disappear below the natural aquaduct.

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Baby Dies After Being Thrown Out Hospital Window, Say Police

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamaica Baby Thrown Out Window, Jamaica Violence, Jamaica Baby Killed, Kingston Baby Killed, Jamaica Baby, Jamaica, Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Kingston, World News

UPDATE: Health officials are disputing the police account that the baby found outside its maternity ward was a patient at the hospital. More informati...

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Artists Barter for Health Care at the First O+ Festival

Alexandra Marvar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kingston, Art, Economy, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Music, Health Care, Healthcare, Impact News
Alexandra Marvar

One community has devised a preemptive treatment for uninsured creative prosessionals: The O+; Festival -- a three-day, multi-venue festival of art and music which launches in Kingston, NY this weekend.

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Jamaica Police Push For Calm Following Christopher Coke's Arrest

AP | HOWARD CAMPBELL and MIKE MELIA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, Jamaican Gang Violence, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, Jamaica, Bruce Golding, Christopher Coke, Kingston, Drug Lord, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Christopher "Dudus" Coke was born into gang royalty, running a smuggling operation that supplied drugs up and down the U.S. ...

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Jamaica Planning Island-Wide Assault On Gangs

AP | HOWARD CAMPBELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamaica, Jamaican Gang Battles, Christopher Coke, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, Kingston, Bruce Golding @Y:World, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica will launch a sustained assault on gangs that control poor communities across the island and fuel one of the world's...

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74 Killed in Hunt For Jamaica 'Drug Lord'

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamaica, Kingston, Christopher Dudus Coke, Jamaica Violence, Christopher Coke, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-pocked slum Thursday, and said the deat...

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Jamaica Gang Shoot-Out Death Toll At

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamaica Violence, Christopher Coke, Kingston, Christopher Dudas Coke, Kingston Gangs, Jamaica, Jamaica Gang, Video, World News

(AP) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican security forces claimed a tenuous hold over the slum stronghold of a gang leader sought by the U.S., but only ...

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Jamaican Gang Tensions Escalating Outside Capital

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamaica, Gunmen, Kingston, Gangs, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, Caribbean, Jamaica Violence, Jamaica Gangs, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Security forces fought their way into the warren-like complex that is the slum stronghold of a Jamaican gang leader facing e...

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Jamaica Declares State Of Emergency Over Capital Violence

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamaica Violence, Jamaica Emergency, Jamaica, Christopher Coke, Kingston, Dudus Coke, Dudus, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Masked men defending a reputed drug lord sought by the United States torched a police station and traded gunfire with securi...

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Flight 331 From Miami To Kingston, Jamaica Overshoots Runway; 40 Injured

AP | BEN FOX and HOWARD CAMPBELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norman Manley, Kingston, Jamaica, Flight 331, Florida, Norman Manley International Airport, American Airlines, Overshoots Runway, Aa Flight 331, Miami, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Passengers on American Airlines Flight 331 had endured the crowded airports and delays of holiday travel, and were moments f...

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Congress Gets in the Act on Coal Ash

Rob Perks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kingston, Epa, Congress, Tennessee, Coalspill, Coalash, Tennesseevalleyauthority, Dirty Coal, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Green News
Rob Perks

Kudos to Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) for bird-dogging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the need to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants.

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Tennessee Group Invites Pro-Coal Fisherman to TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bass, Clean Coal, West Virginia, Jeremy Starks, Coal Ash, Harriman, Tennessee, Tva, Kingston, Green News
Dave Cooper

The TVA disaster -- over 100 times larger than the 12-million gallon Exxon Valdez spill -- is considered by environmentalists to be the world's worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl.

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In Focus: Area Mom Really Gets Her Rocks Off On Being Appreciated

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kingston, Home News

KINGSTON, NY--Boy, show local mother Janine Williams, 50, a little appreciation, and she practically creams herself, family members reported Tuesday. ...

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Tennessee Rep: Earthquake Caused TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kingston, Coal Ash, Clean Coal, Tva, Frank Nicely, Green News
Dave Cooper

Knoxville, Tennessee State Representative Frank Nicely is the kind of guy who says what he thinks -- no matter what the facts say.

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TVA Doublespeak Translated: "We Must Stress the Fish"

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tennessee, Coal Ash, Harriman, Slurry, Tva, Kingston, Coal, Sludge, Green News
Dave Cooper

TVA seems determined to bury the public in confusing technical jargon. What everyone wants to know is: is my family going to get sick or get cancer and die if we drink our tap water?

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Oklahoma Sen. Inhofe Walks Out on TVA Disaster Hearings

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Tennessee, Coal Ash, Inhofe, Slurry, Tva, Kingston, Sludge, Coal Ash Pollution, James Inhofe, Crandall Canyon Disaster, Polluted Groundwater, Crandall Canyon, Murray Energy, Polluted Drinking Water, Kingston Disaster, Coal Ash Arsenic Contamination, Murray Energy Safety Record, Tom Kilgore, Coal Ash Kingston, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Dave Cooper

Did Sen. Inhofe have an important engagement -- something more important than the problem of one million pounds of arsenic being dumped in our drinking water?

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... And Now For Some Good News From TVA

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Coal, Sludge, Environment, Coal Ash, Tennessee, Tva, Slurry, Kingston, Harriman, Green News
Dave Cooper

According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, the 5-story tall mountain of coal waste didn't collapse into the river like a tsunami of sludge -- no, it was "displaced."

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Jamaica Gangs Oust 200 People From Homes, Police Say

AP | HOWARD CAMPBELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston Gangs, Jamaica Gang Takeover, Jamaica Gangs Violence, Jamaica Gangs, Jamaica Crime, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Heavily armed gangs wrestling for control of two communities near Jamaica's capital have forced more than 200 people from th...

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Gwen Stefani Shows Off Fashion Line L.A.M.B., Son Kingston

AP | Samantha Critchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale, L.a.M.B., Kingston, Entertainment News

Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. collection was the marquee name on the opening day of New York Fashion Week, and she packed the biggest venue at the Bryant P...

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