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Father's lesson is deadly for 19-year-old son Tyler Comstock as he is shot and killed b... - 4 views

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  • Hayli Erickson on 08 Nov 13
     
    This is absolutely crazy! This is a perfect example of police crossing the line of authority. He was killed because he wouldn't shut off the truck. His dad was trying to teach him a lesson, not kill him.
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  • amber1996 on 12 Nov 13
     
    I agree with Hayli, I don't understand why they had to shoot at him they could of shot at the tires or somewhere on the truck. so many killings have been happening by miss observations and cops killing innocent people.
  • ladasia on 12 Nov 13
     
    This is a total abuse of power. There are so many other ways you could stop a driver. They should have backed off like Ames suggested
  • Sara Dunn on 13 Nov 13
     
    Just because you have a right to have a gun and fire if needed, doesn't mean you should every time a person isn't cooperating.
  • Victoria Kirk on 13 Nov 13
     
    Yet again another case where the police have gone to far. With the government protection will these cases ever stop? Yeah they fire one guy then the next day you hear about it in a different state. Where is the punishment?
  • sarah smith on 13 Nov 13
     
    I agree with Ladasia it is another example of total abuse of power.
  • Pedro Valdez on 03 Dec 13
     
    This is a great example of the police abusing there power. Yet there is no consequences for the police that shot a 19 year old that would not turn off his truck engine.
  • Daniel Bonner on 03 Dec 13
     
    The police should be fined and fired from their jobs! They abused their power.
  • chrislegg263 on 03 Dec 13
     
    another example of abuse of there power
  • Jordan Freeaman on 03 Dec 13
     
    To pursue a stolen vehicle and pull them over is one thing but to need your weapons at all when the father is the one who called the police and use that much force is pointless and life wasting as we can see.
  • eddymora on 03 Dec 13
     
    They shot at a person who was unarmed and wasn't trying to hurt anybody, yet they chased him down and killed him like a criminal. This doesn't make sense.
  • McKenzie O'Brien on 03 Dec 13
     
    I agree with Hayli because all he was doing was teaching a lesson! Not try to kill him!
  • Jakson Cole on 04 Dec 13
     
    This is a terribly unfortunate story. But I agree with the decision that the policemen made. The boy was driving recklessly and not cooperating on a college campus. If it had escalated much more they would have been putting the university in danger.
  • jkeller068 on 04 Dec 13
     
    Not the best story I've heard..thoughts and heart goes out to the family..
  • samaeld on 04 Dec 13
     
    Where was the escalation, Jackson? They could have smoked him out, they have tassers, there are all sorts of non-lethal things Cops are trained in for this kind of situation. Yet here they with out their guns and mow him down with shots to the head. There was no need for that.
  • nlarsen15 on 05 Dec 13
     
    Sad stuff out there. And it kinda hits home considering this took place here in Iowa...
  • Lauren Nahnsen on 05 Dec 13
     
    Not that I want to admit it, but last year I got in HUGE trouble because I told my mothers car multiple times without permission. What if they would have wanted to teach me a lesson? Would I get killed just because I had a moment of bad decisions? This makes me think how easily this could have been me.
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Drag racing called possible factor in 'Fast & Furious' actor Paul Walker's death - 0 views

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  • maceep on 02 Dec 13
     
    investigators are looking at the possibility that another car veered in front of the Porsche and caused the crash
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  • jamie003 on 04 Dec 13
     
    If the car is "hard to handle" then get rid of it. Why have a car that is hard to handle if it's going to end innocent lives?
  • eddymora on 04 Dec 13
     
    Why even make a car that is hard to handle?
  • letisia rodriguez on 05 Dec 13
     
    A tradegy death, a man loved by millions of fans. My boyfriend was upset when he heard this news. But it'll be interesting to see what they do with the movie with out Paul there next to van. Sympathy goes out to his family.
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Photos show scale of North Korea's repressive prison camps -- Amnesty - 0 views

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  • kroark782 on 05 Dec 13
     
    North Korea's prison camps are wrong. Now with the pictures of the camps and all the witnesses they have and evidence, I would think that would be enough for the United Nations to do something about it.
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Ex-Massachusetts chemist gets 3 to 5 years in tampering case - 0 views

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  • Olivia Welch on 25 Nov 13
     
    (CNN) -- A former Massachusetts crime lab chemist accused of mishandling evidence affecting hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of criminal cases was sentenced Friday to three to five years in prison after pleading guilty to 27 counts.
  • jamie003 on 05 Dec 13
     
    She should get longer in my opinion. She messed with evidence and hid things probably to her benefit.
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4 Reasons Obama's New Dark-Money Rules Won't Stop Dark Money - 0 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 05 Dec 13
     
    Great article. The amount of $$$ spent to get our politicians into office is spiraling out of control. SuperPACs and "dark money" sources make it impossible to see who the candidates are getting financial support from.
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day | The Nation - 0 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 04 Dec 13
     
    "Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi's worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables."
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Innocent man: How inmate Michael Morton lost 25 years of his life - 1 views

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  • letisia rodriguez on 04 Dec 13
     
    It's just goes to show that trials need to go on longer, investigated more, and acquitted right.
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Where is the world's most corrupt nation? - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 04 Dec 13
     
    "More than two thirds of the 177 countries included in the 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index scored below 50, where 0 indicates the country's public sector is seen as highly corrupt and 100 as very clean."
  • nlarsen15 on 04 Dec 13
     
    Interesting way to rank the countries. I could see those 3 nations as the "most corrupt." Then again, there's probably stuff going on behind the curtain in other nations that we don't know about. Wouldn't surprise me :P
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New York troopers given big SUVs to peer in on texting drivers - 1 views

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  • Rani Athay on 25 Nov 13
     
    Even for a state trooper, it's not easy to spot drivers who are texting. Their smartphones are down on their laps, not at their ears. And they're probably not moving their lips.
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  • ashleyrhodes97 on 25 Nov 13
     
    I think that the SUV's will be good for catching drivers texting. If the word gets around there will probably be less accidents and less desire to text while driving.
  • jsteenbock23 on 25 Nov 13
     
    I think this is more of a scare tactic. People seeing those big SUVs will stop texting knowing that they are looking for texters.
  • chrislegg263 on 25 Nov 13
     
    i think that suvs will be a good thing to stop drivers that are texting
  • megan floerchinger on 26 Nov 13
     
    I think the drivers will still text, because there can't be cops everywhere watching for it. Especially if there are more serious problems going on.
  • Ellie Croson on 26 Nov 13
     
    The SUV could be helpful
  • maceep on 26 Nov 13
     
    Good idea, but I think they should have used a different method than just buying SUVs for all New York Troopers
  • McKenzie O'Brien on 26 Nov 13
     
    I think drivers are still going to text while driving because they don't care. You can't have cop everywhere because one, there isn't enough and second because there is more important thing then set at every street.
  • Lauren Nahnsen on 02 Dec 13
     
    I don't think it matters because texting is a second offense. Which means that a trooper cannot pull you over just because you are texting. You have to commit a first offense and get pulled over to be charged for the second offense.
  • jkeller068 on 02 Dec 13
     
    I agree with little Miss McKenzie on this one!(: Teenagers will be teenagers..until something happens to them or to someone they know..they won't change.
  • jamie003 on 04 Dec 13
     
    It depends on which state you are in, if its a second offense or not. In some states such as New York its a first offense.
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Obamacare Website Fixed? - 0 views

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  • nlarsen15 on 03 Dec 13
     
    They say the Obamacare website is now free of bugs that have been plaguing it since the beginning of the site. Some critics still say there are plenty of bugs; but only time will tell to see how fixed this site really is...
  • deahnna on 04 Dec 13
     
    I don't believe they've really fixed it, but if they don't get it set up soon, people will have to start paying large fines for the care that they may or may not need at the fault of the government.
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Iowa Lawmaker Still Seeking Medical Marijuana Law - 2 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 01 Dec 13
     
    "Legalizing medical marijuana will again be debated in the upcoming legislative session, though Iowa lawmakers have so far been loath to embrace a policy that is finding acceptance elsewhere."
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  • Kelsie Gubbels on 02 Dec 13
     
    I don't think this will happen..
  • ashleyrhodes97 on 02 Dec 13
     
    If it's gonna happen then their should be strict "laws" to follow for it. Although it probably wont happen.
  • Jordan Freeaman on 02 Dec 13
     
    I think that if it does not happen now it is inevitable for the legalization of marijuana. The government has noticed that when it was illegal the money made a year in the "business" is in the billions. The government does not want to miss out on that much money to conclude.
  • maceep on 02 Dec 13
     
    I think they should go for it, just because it eases some symptoms for some diseases and that's good for the people suffering from those disease. So why not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • jsteenbock23 on 03 Dec 13
     
    I think it would be better for the government to legalize marijuana because we have spent millions trying to stop the distribution of the drug with nothing to show for it. The government should legalize it so instead of wasting money trying to stop it we can make money, or spend the money on more pressing matters.
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Michelle Obama Wears Prabal Gurung Dress For Barbara Walters Interview, Of Course - 1 views

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  • jkeller068 on 03 Dec 13
     
    Personal opinion: I couldn't be a president, someones always for or against you which works in many ways..Its just too much stress.
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Boat sinking in the Mississippi River is discharging oil - 0 views

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  • williamdoner on 26 Nov 13
     
    (CNN) -- A vessel carrying about 100,000 gallons of petroleum products struck a submerged object and was sinking in the Mississippi River on Monday night. Officials closed a section of the river near LeClaire, Iowa, to deal with the oil that was discharging from the towboat, the Coast Guard said.
  • deahnna on 03 Dec 13
     
    This shouldn't even be a problem. They should move faster to get the boat out before the oil destroys more ecosystems.
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The Knockout Game Is Stupid, Stop Doing It - 0 views

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  • Abaigh Plummer on 26 Nov 13
     
    The latest victim, a 24-year old Orthodox Jewish man in New York was walking home when he overheard his potential attackers daring each other to knock him out. The assault is being considered a hate crime.
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  • jamie003 on 26 Nov 13
     
    What is the point of doing that? You're hitting a person that did nothing wrong!
  • chrislegg263 on 26 Nov 13
     
    i dont get the point of that game
  • williamdoner on 26 Nov 13
     
    I don't understand what is the appeal of being hit so hard you become unconscious. its extremely dangerous what if you fall and snap your neck or crack your head open and start choking on your own blood because you cant roll over.
  • samaeld on 26 Nov 13
     
    I wonder who was twisted enough to invent this, and better yet, who was dumb enough to start spreading it around. When did it become okay to walk up to your buddies and be like 'I dare you to knock that guy cold' and even worse, for them to actually do it?
  • jsteenbock23 on 02 Dec 13
     
    This is the most pointless and idiotic "game". This type of thing can be very dangerous and whoever participates in it deserves to be punished severely.
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Michelle Obama's School Lunches Starve Kids - 0 views

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  • whitneytoms on 25 Nov 13
     
    RUSH: Okay. We had this as our Morning Update today, but in case you missed it. "School officials in Carmel Clay, Ind., said they lost $300,000 last school year because students are rejecting the healthy menu changes brought on by First Lady Michelle Obama's federal lunch regulations.
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  • nlarsen15 on 26 Nov 13
     
    The idea of "healthy lunches" seems alright on paper. But I've actually heard people claim food served in prisons are healthier than some school lunches! Also, they say they're aiming for "healthier choices." If that's the case, why are we getting Nachos every Monday and French Fry Bars on Thursdays? So many mixed emotions about school lunch anymore! Great... Now I'm hungry
  • deahnna on 26 Nov 13
     
    In theory, the lunch program is a good idea, because students are getting the nutrients they need. However, if they don't eat it, it doesn't do them any good and just wastes the food and money used to buy it. The blame partially falls to students who refuse to eat the lunch, not only Michelle Obama.
  • jamie003 on 02 Dec 13
     
    Some of the students that are told to pay for the lunch, can't afford it and refuses to pay for it. Who wants [ay for a meal that they don't like and probably won't benefit them? It's the student choice not the schools.
  • Daniel Bonner on 02 Dec 13
     
    I think this is a good idea, but we need to figure out how to make lunch affordable and healthy all at the same time.
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