Republican Scott Brown has won the Massachusetts Senate race held on January 19, 2010. With 83 percent of the precincts reporting, Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley with a 52% to 47% victory in the special election to fill the remaining three years of the U.S. Senate term vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy, [...]
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While President Obama was playing golf during a family vacation in Hawaii, he was unexpectedly cut short and rushed away at once from the golf course, back to the beachfront where he has been staying. An ambulance with flashing lights was seen speeding toward their compound. This triggered concerns about whether the president or any [...]
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Larry Langford, a former mayor of Birmingham, Alabama and a former president of the Jefferson County Commission, has been found guilty by the jury on all 60 accounts in his federal bribery trial.
Langford was investigated by the SEC on corruption charges in 2007. In 2008 a lawsuit was filed against him for illegally accepting [...]
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Another one bites the dust and this time it’s the Democratic Congressman William Jefferson. Jefferson was convicted of taking bribes by an Alexandria, Virginia federal jury. The evidence? $90,000 in cash “wrapped in foil and hidden in boxes of frozen pie crust” which is stored in his freezer. Jefferson wasn’t convicted on one count in [...]
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Seven-time NBA Detroit Piston’s All-Star David Bing was elected as Mayor of Detroit, Michigan last March 5, 2009. He replaced the controversial Kwame Kilpatrick who has numerous allegations of marital infidelity, conspiracy, perjury, murder, and the only mayor in Detroit to be charged with felony while still in the office. Kilpatrick was found guilty of [...]
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