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WASHINGTON– Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that the country is evolving on the issue of gay marriage and he thinks it’s inevitable there will be national consensus. He said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” the same thing is happening with the issue of marriage that happened with gays’ service in the military. Changes in […]

New York — Investigators believe the dead woman found stuffed into a suitcase in East Harlem early Wednesday was likely slain the night before, police said. Detectives working to solve the murder of Betty Williams, 28, of the Bronx, are hunting for the man seen on surveillance video wheeling the suitcase along E. 114th St. around […]

New Jersey — Seven people were shot, three of them fatally, in an explosion of violence in Newark on Thursday evening. The bloodshed was part of a spate of shootings and violent carjackings — including the carjacking of a state official — in the city over the last month. The latest eruption began about 4:30 […]

Try these few words on for size: President Jimmy McMillan.

WEST VIRGINIA-WOWKTV Kenneth Ziegler, the father of NBA player O.J. Mayo was charged with attempted murder, possession, obstructing and fleeing in a vehicle and on foot after police officers attempted to accost him. WOWKTV reports: Huntington police arrested Kenneth Ziegler early Thursday morning after a brief chase. Chief Skip Holbrook said Ziegler was observed in […]

Texas — “If you move, no one will have a Merry Christmas.” Those are the cold words of a gunman who robbed a Texas business Tuesday night.

New Jersey — Two men, Canpolat Cankurt and Leonardo Quintero are accused of raping a 12-year-old girl who they met on the internet and video recording it with a cell phone camera. North Jersey reports: Quintero and Cankurt are accused of picking up the 12-year-old at her home in Paterson at 2 a.m. Friday, coercing […]

Washington — Appearing on ‘Parker Spitzer’ (weekdays 8PM ET on CNN), radio host Stephen A. Smith expressed his belief that Democrats have been “taking the black vote for granted.”

HAITI-AFP There are reports in Haiti, that people connected to Voodoo are being lynched and burned in Haiti because some Haitians feel that they are responsible for the cholera epidemic. The AFP reports: Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has killed […]

Alabama — Politics Daily is reporting that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is defending Michelle Obama in her “food fight” with Sarah Palin, who says the first lady needs to mind her business.