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FEDS GAVE SOMOZA'S EVIDENCE TO THE GUY SUING HIM
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The Public Hearing Process for Citizen Input Needs to Change
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By Jim Ostrowski
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When the assistant manager arrived early on June 26 (2012) to open up the Rent-A-Center in Brockton, Massachusetts, he encountered a man on the ground with his head stuck underneath the heavy metal…
Undignified Deaths
(1) Australian lawyer William Ray was killed on May 22 when he was thrown from his all-terrain “quad bike” in rural Victoria state and pinned underneath. Ray had come to prominence by representing…
Fetishes on Parade
Recidivist Jesse Johnson, 20, was charged again in June (for suspicion of disturbing the peace) after he had crawled underneath a woman’s car at an Aldi store’s parking lot in Lincoln, Nebraska…
Police Report
A Woman at the Top of Her Game: In Nashville, Tennessee, in June, sex worker Jonisia Morris, 25, was charged with robbing her client by (according to the police report) removing the man’s wallet from…
Wait, What?
Brigham Young University professor Jason Hansen apologized in May after coaxing a student (for extra credit) to drink a small vial of his urine in class. The physiology session was on kidney…
The Passing Parade
— Quixotic Malaysian designer Moto Guo made a splash at Milan’s fashion week in June when he sent model after model to the runway with facial blotches that suggested they had zits or skin conditions…
The Job of the Researcher
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Litigious Societies
(1) Insurance agent John Wright filed a lawsuit in Will County, Illinois, in June over teenagers playing “ding dong ditch,” in which kids ring a doorbell but run away before the resident answers. The…
Suspicions Confirmed
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New World Order
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Lead Story- Blessings, Guaranteed
More and more churches (“hundreds,” according to a June Christianity Today report) offer hesitant parishioners a “money-back guarantee” if they tithe 10 percent (or more) of their income for 90 days…
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By James Hufnagel
Gender bending “Ghostbusters” remake an unfunny mess
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Dog Beater Gets His Day
BUFFALO’S GREEN GIANTS: Part I
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The Cargo Cult of the State
By Jim Ostrowski
Buffalo Billion project in big trouble: Investors pulling out, pols playing CYA
By Mike Hudson
Erie County Deputy Sheriff Admits to Insurance Fraud Orchard Park resident falsely reported stolen car
Keith Capodicasa, 43, of Orchard Park, has pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia to Insurance Fraud in the Fifth Degree for falsely reporting his car stolen.