May, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Ruling due over Guantanamo damages

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Three of the country’s top judges are set to rule on whether secret evidence can be used by the Government in a damages claim being brought by six former Guantanamo Bay detainees. The security services […] […]

Woman stabs 4 in Southern Calif. Target store

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A woman who stabbed and wounded four people in a busy Target store Monday afternoon was arrested when an off-duty sheriff’s deputy pulled his gun and ordered the woman to the ground as screaming shoppers […] […]

Arrest made in Times Square car bomb plot

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A U.S. citizen has been arrested in the Times Square bombing probe, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced early Tuesday. Faisal Shahzad was arrested at JFK airport in New York as he prepared to board […] […]

Outdated libel laws help suppress freedom – PAJ

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The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) has joined the global media fraternity in observing World Press Freedom today, under the theme ‘The Right to Know’. In a release yesterday, the PAJ said the free flow […] […]

Guinness world record smashed

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Buoyed by a spectacular flood of donations, the Rotary Clubs of Jamaica broke the Guinness world record for the most books collected in seven days. They, in fact, aced the task on the first day […] […]

Cops detain suspect in Homestead gunfight

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A man, whom the police suspect to be involved in a brazen gunfight with another man in the community of Homestead in St Catherine yesterday was detained after he turned up at the Spanish Town […] […]

‘Long-term harm’ of too much TV for toddlers

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The more TV a toddler watches, the higher the likelihood they will do badly at school and have poor health at the age of 10, researchers warn. The study of 1,300 children by Michigan and […] […]

Hunt is on for missing Conn. man who bought car bomb Nissan just 2 weeks ago on Craigslist

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A Connecticut man was being sought Monday in the failed plot to blow up a bomb-laden SUV in Times Square, sources said. This “person of interest” bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that was abandoned with […] […]

Pope’s envoy to run discredited Catholic order

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Pope Benedict XVI will appoint a special envoy to run a Mexican Catholic order whose founder abused minor-age seminarians and fathered three children with two women, the Vatican said Saturday. A Vatican statement said the […] […]

University of Virginia athlete charged in lacrosse player’s death

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A male University of Virginia lacrosse player was charged with first degree murder Monday after a member of the school’s women’s lacrosse team was found dead in her apartment, police said. Police were initially called […] […]