After 18 years of "an absolute living hell," Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin were released from prison, where they were currently serving out their sentences for the murder of three second-graders in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Steven Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found dead in a ditch with their bodies mutilated and hog-tied by their own shoestrings. Police immediately ... given the death sentence because he was believed to be the ringleader while the other two allegedly involved were sentenced to life in prison, said he was "very much in shoc...

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... the surge as "one of the most difficult decisions that I've made as president" but said the military campaign was "meeting our goals" in Afghanistan and the troops will be withdrawn "from a position of strength" (CNN). "Al Qaeda is under more pressure than at any time since 9/11," Obama said. "Together with the Pakistanis, we have taken out more than half of ... last decade, we have spent a trillion dollars on war, at a time of rising debt and hard economic times. We take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding" (Stockman). Obama is coming through on the promise he made 18 m...

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The trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician of the late Michael Jackson, took a turn for the worse after the 911 call was played to jurors on September 29th. Murray chose not to call for an ambulance for nearly thirty minutes after he first realized that Jackson needed medical attention - a fact that prosecutors are calling an attempt at a cover-up (Los Angeles Times ... ). Jackson's security guard, Alberto Alvarez, took the stand against Murray, claiming that when he walked in the room, he saw Jackson's lifeless body on the ... reaction" and needed to be taken to the hospital. How...

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... the taxpayers' pockets. However, the auto companies are adding jobs and gaining market share against international competitors (Nicholas). Despite the gain in that industry, the state of the economy poses a major threat to Obama's campaign for the 2012 presidential election. Recent figures placed unemployment at 9.1%, an increase for the second month in a row. May reports found that 14 million people ... still exists and didn't disappear under his watch. It's not really a great statement of success" (Nicholas) During his visit to Chrysler, Obama announced that he would not let carmakers ...

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... is a juggling act that requires open communication, budgeting of your time, and stress management. You will need to have all your ducks in a row to successfully pull off school and work at the same time. It Is All About Communication Talk to your employer. Let ... special schedule? Will this schooling make you more valuable to the company? Playing up this angle will make for an employer who is glad to do whatever it takes to help you succeed. You will also have to talk to your ... family or the important people in your life. How will this affect them? How are you going to make sure that...

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... off of the misery of the middle class. He saw an equitable tax system, and a health care system where no one would ever die for lack of medicine or treatment. No one expected him to do all this in four years. It was almost a given that we would give him eight. Then the mortgage industry crashed, and the economy tanked with it ... who would desert American workers for bigger profits. 4. Impose substantial tariffs on any goods coming in from a foreign country that could be produced right here in the United States, and use that money to subsidize the rebuilding of our own manufacturing bas...

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Protestors in Cairo finally hit their tipping point after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named a vice president, Omar Suleiman - the first to be appointed since Mubarak took office nearly thirty years ago. Frustration has been building for several years about Mubarak's reign, which most Egyptians see as corrupt, heavy-handed, and neglectful of increasing poverty. Protestors were enraged at their president's move, which ... they see as an attempt to set up a successor (Hadid). Since the announcement, Cairo has been engulfed in chaos. Looting and lawlessness ran rampant through the ... with ...

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... , as their domain ending (Gross). "Icann has opened the Internet's naming system to unlease the global human imagination. Today's decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the domain name system to better serve all mankind," said Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of Icann (IBTimes). Icann is ... such as .unicef, .paris, .nyc, .canon, and .hitachi have already publicized their plans to claim a domain name, but many companies and governments refuse to comment for competition reasons (Gross). Retai...

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... have the right to contribute to society and provide for their children and their families." The right to drive, she said, provides access to economic opportunity, including jobs (Dougherty). Saudi Arabia strictly follows the Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam, where women aren't allow to apply for a driver's license, though some drive when they're in remote areas. Women also can't travel or get an ... education without male approval or associate with unrelated men in public places. Furthermore, they are not permitted to vote ... out of Kuwait. The Saudi women were inspired by female U.S. s...

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Millions of hotels across the United States nonchalantly discard their visitors' once-used bars of soap every day. In fact, hundreds of millions of soap bars are discarded each year in North American alone. As relatively wealthy Americans, no has thought anything of it - until Derreck Kayongo launched the Global Soap Project (Ruffins). The project began in the early 1990s after Kayongo's first hotel stay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Ugandan native panicked when he noticed his bathroom soap was being replenished every day despite the fact that he only got one or two uses out of the bars (...

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... attack. Celebratory gunfire could be heard all over the city of Tripoli, Libya, as rebel fighters raided the compound for weapons and mementos of Qaddafi's dictatorship, seizing machine guns, a gold-plated rifle, and a golf cart. Crowds immediately gathered to celebrate the monumental victory ... for the rebel cause. The city's Green Square immediately took on the new name of Martyrs' Square, as rebel supporters celebrated late into ... ongoing uprising. Qaddafi militiamen staged a small counterattack to the rebel intruders and were able to stave off the attackers for quite some time (K...

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... could make a terrorist out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope" (Hays). She did however berate the defendants for the anti-Semitism and for being "willing to kill, maim and destroy for money... You were thugs for hire, pure and simple" (Hays). The FBI's sting operation is under fire for being corrupt. Cromitie's defense attorney Susanne Brody's case revolved around the fact that ... and falling even deeper into debt. The informant then promised him money, cars, and vacations. Furthermore, he had trouble finding accomplices to join him. Brody describe...

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... baby into a zombielike state, used voodoo to steal his spirit, kidnapped the child, and sold his organs (Troutman). Philistin's initial accusations came in March, when the father approached the first judge to hear the case. However, that judge threw out the charges. Philistin then approached a second ... judge who has since handled the case (Troutman). This judge ruled that Waggoner should be detained in prison, possibly for three months, while the case is investigated. Haitian law allows defendants to be imprisoned without charge during investigations (WMUR). After hearing the ... pers...

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... The couple was riding jet skis on Falcon Lake, when they wandered onto the Mexican side, even though it is a known stronghold for the Zeta drug cartel (AOL News). Tiffany claims that the couple had gone to the other side of the lake that straddles the Texas ... authorities have gathered evidence to back-up Tiffany's account. Zapato County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez and his department recovered blood from Tiffany's life jacket that fits in with the Tiffany's story. Gonzalez told the Denver Post, "I just believe her" (Lohr). Texas authorities have questioned whether Mexican officials are d...

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... forward to confirm the announcement (Thompson). The war between the United States and Afghanistan began nearly a decade ago when the Taliban was stripped of its power in 2001 during a U.S. invasion for hosting al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden. After the Taliban regrouped from the initial attack just weeks after the September 11 tragedy, they fought back ... would not confirm Karzai's announcement (Graham-Harrison). "I can't confirm any specific interactions, but we continue to support an Afghan-led reconciliation and reintegration process that would bring insurgents in from the c...

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Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was recently in America this week for the UN General Assembly being held in New York City. The problem with this is, that puts her right in the fire, so to speak. She and her country have defaulted on billions in debt owed to U.S. creditors. President Kirchner has repeatedly ignored the U.S. federal court system and supposedly removed any of her country's assets to outside the U.S. and away from collectors. With her being in New York this week for the UN talks, U.S. bondholders' have become more upset due this obvious slap in the face to the U.S. Justice s...

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... recently come out with the recommendation that medical professionals should increase routine testing in the U.S. for chronic hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is a main cause of liver cancer and disease. The recommendation suggests that testing be done on all persons born in Africa and Asia and that it also be done on others in the at-risk population, such as men who have sex with men and ... injection drug users. The recommendations sent out by the CDC, for the first time, come with guidelines for managing chronically infected patients of hepatitis B. "Chronic hepatitis B affects the ... is th...

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... to pick her up later. After the argument, Freeman chose not to wait for her ride and instead decided to walk home but never made it (CBS News). On August 3, 2000, her body was found in a wooded area about eight miles from her hometown of Coquille. The autopsy ... the liner because of a fuel leak. Neighbors also reported that a bonfire was held at the McGuffin household the day after Freeman disappeared (Lohr). In October of 2009, Freeman's mother, Cory Courtright, requested that the Coquille Police Department and the district attorney's office reinvestigate the case. "They need ... more...

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... clear definition of elasticity of demand for fuels, as the effects of oil futures trading, OPEC pricing models and decisions, the inclusionary versus exclusionary strategies of OPEC with regard to their lesser capitalized members, and the continuing political turmoil of the Middle East only serve to exacerbate the problem. The response to this high level of uncertainty as at the ... one end of the spectrum to create highly intricate forecasting and prediction models including the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedascity (GARCH) Model (Zhang, Lohr, Escalante, Wetzstein, 200...

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... because of the reputation that the U.S has for expertise in Olympic sport in general. Its overall history of being a major competitor in the Olympics and supporting its athletes draws foreign athletes who wish to learn from this tradition and benefit from this support. In many cases, the facilities for training in the U.S. have more funding than in certain less affluent countries. That in itself is a good reason to make ... sports draws foreign athletes to the U.S. to seek the edge that training in the U.S. can provide. A Reason To Escape Some athletes travel, in part, to escape persecu...

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... the solidity of any identified lumps; Needle aspiration, which removes cells from the affected tissue to be examined under a microscope; and Needle biopsy, which takes a slightly larger sample of tissue for testing via frozen section. Breast cancer in men is usually treated in a combination of ways. In most instances, surgery is the preferred method of treatment. Unfortunately, because men have so little breast tissue, a lumpectomy ... cancer cells. That treatment is most often used when the cancer has spread from its initial site. This is particularly true if it is found in lymph nodes...

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... death, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor sentenced Murray to the maximum of 4 years in prison. However, under the new state law regarding conditions in state prisons, Murray will serve time in the LA County Jail rather than in the state prison. Even at that, a spokesman for the county Sheriff's Department said Murray would only spend a maximum of two years behind bars, ... with a potential for even less time if the jails get overcrowded (Ryan). Murray was convicted on November ... and is and remains dangerous" (Ryan). Judge Pastor went on to criticize Murray's tact...

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... . Historically, the U.S.-led NATO force has been slow to acknowledge friendly fire deaths in Afghanistan. With an increased focus on preventing civilian deaths, NATO has increased its response time from weeks or months to minimum amount of time needed to report on mistakes (Vogt). The rescue team came under fire from within the Taliban compound, as well as from an overwatch position ... nearby. A spokesman at NATO headquarters in Kabul, Lt. Col. John Dorrian, reported that, "It was a very high elevation area, very very challenging terrain." According to his reports ... , told the Daily T...

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... In January of 2010, Anthony pleaded guilty to stealing a friend's checkbook and writing five fraudulent checks that totaled $644.25. She was sentenced to 412 days in jail but received credit for time served. However, she was also sentenced to a year of probation, but a misunderstanding granted her credit for that ... also. Orange County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland intended for Anthony's probation to begin to day she was ... being a "self-aggrandizing media hound," and Strickland recused himself (CNN). "From my reading of this, she should be reporting to probation in Orlando probably w...

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... . Weprin is a current New York Assemblyman who formerly served as a member of the New York City council. Last year, he was elected to the state Assembly but failed in his campaign for city comptroller in 2009 (Carnia). "It is expected that David Weprin will be unanimously supported by the Democratic parties of Brooklyn and Queens," said Evan Stavisky (Koplowitz). Weprin will meet with ... due to population losses. The winner of the special election winner will serve out the remainder of Weiner's term, which ends in January 2013 (Carnia). Weprin could run for a full term afterwards, but h...

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