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Disturbing Footage Captures Traces Of A Massacre

The New Yorker | Mattathias Schwartz | Posted 05.03.2013 | World

The question of how to extract a dangerous man from a residential neighborhood is one of the fundamental problems of our time, happening everywhere fr...

Last-Minute Travel Gift Guide

Karen Loftus | Posted 12.23.2012 | Travel
Karen Loftus

From tech toys to fashion-forward gear and on-the-go gifts that tackle health and wellness while away, this guide covers all lifestyle aspects for the travel savvy.

Jamaican Couple Pleads Guilty In Dead Toddler Case

AP | Posted 08.08.2012 | World

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The parents of a 2-year-old boy whose body was found in their house in Jamaica have pleaded guilty to concealing his death. ...

Jamaican Drug Lord Sentenced To 23 Years

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 08.08.2012 | World

NEW YORK — Conceding he's no saint, Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke was sentenced Friday to 23 years behind bars in a U.S. drug traf...

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

Nancy Graham Holm | Posted 04.08.2012 | Religion
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.

Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani Gone Fishing

Posted 01.30.2012 | Celebrity

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...

Jamaican Mother And Daughter Found Beheaded

AP | By DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 09.20.2011 | World

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

Jamaica's North Shore -- Hassle-Free Adventure

Crai S. Bower | Posted 06.19.2011 | Travel
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.

Baby Dies After Being Thrown Out Hospital Window, Say Police

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

Artists Barter for Health Care at the First O+ Festival

Alexandra Marvar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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.

Jamaica Police Push For Calm Following Christopher Coke's Arrest

AP | HOWARD CAMPBELL and MIKE MELIA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

Jamaica Planning Island-Wide Assault On Gangs

AP | HOWARD CAMPBELL | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

74 Killed in Hunt For Jamaica 'Drug Lord'

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

Jamaica Gang Shoot-Out Death Toll At

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

(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 ...

Jamaican Gang Tensions Escalating Outside Capital

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

Jamaica Declares State Of Emergency Over Capital Violence

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

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

AP | BEN FOX and HOWARD CAMPBELL | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

Congress Gets in the Act on Coal Ash

Rob Perks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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.

Tennessee Group Invites Pro-Coal Fisherman to TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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.

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

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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KINGSTON, NY--Boy, show local mother Janine Williams, 50, a little appreciation, and she practically creams herself, family members reported Tuesday. ...

Tennessee Rep: Earthquake Caused TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Dave Cooper

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

TVA Doublespeak Translated: "We Must Stress the Fish"

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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?

Oklahoma Sen. Inhofe Walks Out on TVA Disaster Hearings

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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?

... And Now For Some Good News From TVA

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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."

Jamaica Gangs Oust 200 People From Homes, Police Say

AP | HOWARD CAMPBELL | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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