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Problem With Private Prisons: Judges Jailed Kids For Money
The sentencers have become the sentencees in a Pennsylvania courtroom, where two judges pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting over $2.6 million from private detention centers in exchange for handing down long sentences to hundreds of juveniles.
Between 2003 and 2006, teens who came before the judges received time in detention centers for minor crimes. In exchange, the judges got paid.
Barack Obama Takes Pennsylvania
The night is still early, but NBC is saying Barack Obama has started off with a lead in the Electoral College
Who's Watching Obama's 30-Minute TV Special Tonight?
Update: The whole video of the presentation can be found below.
Tonight at 8 p.m. most networks in America will become Obama TV.
Pep-Rally for Brains Over Brawn? Academic Trading Cards!
Blah, blah, sports, blah. Not a popular sentiment, I realize — I mean they're fun to watch and all (I hear) but I'd rather know the names of the leaders of Zimbabwe than whether the World Series has happened yet. I just get concerned over the culture of idolizing athletes — because when has a touchdown ever cured cancer?
Gimme a Shot of Jesus: Belly Up to the Bar With Your Bible?
If you're on your couch right now recovering from last night and wondering whether you should hit church or give your thanks over a Sunday brunch Bloody Mary instead, your prayers have been answered. The Phyrst Church in State College, PA, part of Penn State’s Christian Student Fellowship, is taking their message to the Phyrst Bar to preach the word. That's right.
Will Impounding Johns' Cars Put Prostitution to Bed?
Looking to punish demand, and not just supply, Easton, PA, is considering a law that would allow police to seize the cars of anyone seeking a prostitute.
Any vehicle used to solicit or patronize sexual services would be subject to impounding. If a john gets convicted of soliciting a prostitute, the city could sell his car.
Family Battles Poor Children of Panama for Man's Fortune
An undercover child benefactor originally from Pennsylvania, has sparked an international legal battle from the grave. Wilson C. Lucom left a small amount of his fortune to his family, while leaving the rest of his tens of millions of dollars to a foundation he secretly created for the poor children of Panama.
President Bush Awards Medal of Honor to Ross McGinnis
This morning President Bush presented the nation's highest military award to a young soldier who was killed in Iraq when he threw himself on a hand grenade tossed into a Humvee and saved the four other soldiers with him in the vehicle.
Ross McGinnis of Pennsylvania was only 19 years old when he gave his life to save his fellow soldiers.
Bush said, "the Medal of Honor is the nation's highest military distinction.
Boy Sells Bike For Clinton While She Soars in Swing States
The news out of the Clinton campaign regarding the candidate's finances hasn't been good lately. Even though she has raised an astonishing $200 million so far, Hillary is $19.4 million in debt.
But she has found a diamond, or at least $422, in the rough of bad money news — an 11-year-old Kentucky boy sold his bike and video games and donated the proceeds to her campaign.
Does the 9/11 Flight 93 Memorial Contain Islamic Symbols?
United Airlines Flight 93, the flight that crashed into the field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, is set to get a memorial dedicated on the tenth anniversary of the tragedy. The design of that memorial is sparking big controversy. It was conceived by a Los Angeles-based architect, and mirrors the topography of the bowl-shaped land, highlighting a circular pathway ringed by trees, all pointed toward the "sacred ground" of the crash site near the bottom of the circle.
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