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by Robert Ramstetter Michael Jackson's final movie, “This Is It” depicts the King of Pop in a much different light than the one that fans have become accustomed to over the years. Unlike so many previous media portrayals that cast...

NO BREAKS AGAIN THIS YEAR FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIAYS By ROBERT WELLER For the fifth straight year, soldiers whose terms would expire before Christmas or New Yorks will be held over. Army Times said the 2009 Holiday Early Transition Program has...

Step aside, Elmo. Watch out, Cabbage Patch Kids. This year's biggest and most desired toy? A hamster. But not any hamster. Built with the same technology behind the Roomba vacuum cleaners, these little hamsters can do a lot. According to...

Recently, I have read several news accounts and blog posts covering a somewhat rare form of prayer known as the imprecatory prayer. If nothing else, the term itself seems to me almost laughably contradictory. Prayer, after all, has always seemed...

Oprah said on her talk show Friday morning “After much prayer and months of careful thought, I’ve decided the next season, season 25, will be the last season of ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’” She confirmed what she told her staff...

A police officer testified November 18th that Alyssa Bustamante, a 15-year-old girl accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor confessed to the crime, saying that she did it so she would "know what it felt like to kill someone." October 21st,...

he adolescent dreams of thousands of teenage girls were fulfilled yesterday as the latest Twilight film arrived on British screens, accompanied by an unprecedented merchandising blitz. Fans who rushed to see New Moon, the second instalment in the vampire series,...

When President Obama tells the nation his revised policy on Afghanistan, he will surely indicate that America's mission in that country is not open-ended in duration, that we will leave when our objectives have been accomplished, and that the objectives...

When it comes to paying for healthcare reform, Americans see only one way to go: Tax the rich. That finding from a new Associated Press poll will be welcome news for House Democrats, who proposed doing just that in their...