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Bryan Pregon

Student suspended for sexual harassment after hugging teacher - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 17 Dec 13
     
    "Surveillance video captures the hug in question, showing Sam placing his arms around the teacher and giving her a hug. The teacher then pushes him away."
  • nlarsen15 on 08 Jan 14
     
    My first reaction was "IT'S JUST A HUG!" But after reading, I could kinda understand why he got in trouble. Interesting read.
Bryan Pregon

President Pardons Omaha Man - 0 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 20 Dec 13
     
    "President Obama has pardoned an Omaha man sentenced to probation and home confinement for a drug conviction in 1996. The White House said Thursday that Chris Deann Switzer was one of 21 people who received clemency."
Bryan Pregon

Budget compromise clears Senate procedural hurdle - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 17 Dec 13
     
    "Tuesday's vote overcame a Republican filibuster attempt that required 60 votes in the 100-member chamber to proceed on the budget measure. The count was 67-33, with a dozen Republicans joining the 55 Democrats and independents in support of the plan."
Olivia Welch

Tech Companies seek Limits on government surveillance - 0 views

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  • nlarsen15 on 12 Dec 13
     
    Hopefully something will go through on limiting government surveillance. Because stuff like this disturbs me... We'll see though...
nlarsen15

Obamacare Personal Information Leaked - 0 views

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  • nlarsen15 on 09 Dec 13
     
    Isn't this lovely? In California, some folks in California who signed up for Obamacare got their personal information (name, phone #, etc.) shared with insurance agents and people like that WITHOUT their consent... Isn't this a breach of privacy? Let's hear what y'all think!
  • jkeller068 on 11 Dec 13
     
    This whole Obamacare crap Is driving me even more insane. When will It finally end!?
kroark782

D.C. Moves Towards $11.50 Minimum Wage - 0 views

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  • kroark782 on 04 Dec 13
     
    The minimum wage shouldn't be raised because giving everyone more money is the same as not giving anyone anything.
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  • Ellie Croson on 04 Dec 13
     
    I think it should be raised, People are working to hard for too little money.
  • chrislegg263 on 04 Dec 13
     
    i like that the minimum wage is being brought up
  • Daniel Bonner on 04 Dec 13
     
    I don't know if moving Minimum Wage up is a good idea because than the prices of everything will go up. But if they keep moving the Wage up and things stay the same price than thats a good idea.
  • jsteenbock23 on 04 Dec 13
     
    If we increase the minimum wage then the cost of living will go up, taxes, and businesses will be able to increase their prices.
  • deahnna on 05 Dec 13
     
    There's pros and cons to moving minimum wage up. The cost of living, taxes, and products will go up, because they have to pay people more to make the goods or provide the services. It's a tricky situation, but it really wont change much.
  • Pedro Valdez on 05 Dec 13
     
    Probably not a good idea because then businesses would be able to increase the price on almost everything. But if everything stays the way it is and nothing but the minimum wage goes up it would be fine.
  • jkeller068 on 05 Dec 13
     
    It's not worth It..because everything else will go up to match the new wages..so it would be as if nothing happened.
  • nlarsen15 on 06 Dec 13
     
    Isn't this borderline inflation? More money given making the value go down and (as the dude above me) everyone else will raise the wages of everything else?
williamdoner

Quaterback gets no charges to alledged rape - 0 views

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  • williamdoner on 05 Dec 13
     
    The ADA is not filing charges against FSU's QB because "They dont think they will win"
williamdoner

Woman Unknowingly tweets husbands Death - 0 views

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  • williamdoner on 05 Dec 13
     
    A woman saw a car get totaled so she tweeted the 911 dispatch and didn't realize that it was her husband
Hayli Erickson

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.
maceep

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.
kroark782

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.
Olivia Welch

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.
whitneytoms

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.
Bryan Pregon

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."
alewis516

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.
Bryan Pregon

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
Rani Athay

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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