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Local residents, politicians divided on Gitmo move to Illinois

Despite the strenuous objections of local Republican lawmakers, some residents of Thomson, IL are hoping that the Obama administration will go through with rumored plans to move the Guantanamo detainees to the "vastly underutilized" Thompon ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Dick Durbin,  Council of Economic Advisers,  Pat Quinn

Quick hits

In other Kennedy news, Thomas Tobin, The Roman Catholic bishop of Rhode Island, challenged Rep. Patrick Kennedy over Kennedy's claim in the Providence Journal that the bishop ordered him not to receive communion, and priests not to offer it to him, ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Patrick Kennedy

Obama's replacement admonished by Senate Ethics Committee

The Senate Ethics Committee admonished appointed lame duck Roland Burris for his incomplete testimony to an Illinois investigation into his dealings with the office of then-Governor Rod Blagojevich about his possible appointment to the Senate. The ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Roland Burris,  Rod R. Blagojevich

Taconic mom's family floats McDonalds defense

Tom Ruskin, an investigator for the Schuler family, says that Taconic mom Diane Schuler couldn't have been drunk and high when she crashed her car driving the wrong way down the Taconic because she ordered Chicken Selects from McDonalds four hours ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: McDonald's,  Diane Schuler

Coyote spotted in Queens

The NYS DEC says that the biggest risk from coyotes is that they carry diseases, including distemper, hepatitis, parvo virus, rabies, mange, and tularemia. They also sometimes eat cats and small dogs. Human attacks are rare, but as with skunks, if they ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  22 Nov 2009

Obama appoints Dana Perino to Broadcasting Board of Governors

Perino recently showed her fine grasp of things foreign last year when she acknowledged not knowing what the Cuban Missile Crisis was on NPR's Wait, Wait. Comments may not show up immediately after submission. Please wait a minute after posting a ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Dana Perino,  NPR

Dominic Carter convicted of attempted assault

Marilyn Carter, who initially told police that her husband "hit me several times in my face, my back, my stomach, all over my body" during an argument over their epileptic son. She changed her story on the witness stand and blamed her swollen lip, cut ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dominic Carter

Next day stories: the D train murder

According to the News, Sanchez, an exterminator, showed up a few minutes late for his job at Terminate Control on East 12th Street Friday morning and was sent home for the day. A friend saw him walking away, he assumed heading for the 4 train to go ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rockefeller Center, NY

Empty seat struggle on the D train leads to death

According to police, the not-yet-identified victim refused to move his bag from the seat next to him. Sadly, the man who asked for the seat, according to the News, settled the argument by stabbing the seated man to death. The assailant, also ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  21 Nov 2009

Mark Sanford may be out of the Governor's Mansion. Jenny, not so much.

The South Carolina State House Judiciary Committee announced Friday that an ad hoc legislative committee will formally consider a resolution calling for the impeachment of disgraced Governor Mark Sanford next week. The impeachment resolution charges ...

From JULIA, Village Voice,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mark Sanford,  U.S. Republican Party,  Ethics Commission

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