Roses are red, violets are blue, some moms are mad at the party one school threw. Parents of children at Millgrove Elementary in the Houston suburbs are looking for answers today after their elementary-age children were given sexually explicit heart candies at a county Valentine’s Day party. The messages, printed on sugary hearts synonymous with…
A Utah politician is so desperate to squash gay marriage there that he has proposed dissolving the state. Apple Valley councilman Samuel Wyatt told supporters at a fundraising breakfast that he is looking into what it would take to have the state absorbed into neighboring Arizona, where gay marriage remains illegal. “Sometimes something’s too broken…
The new Keppman’s Grocery Store in Florence, Alabama, offers plenty of variety in its aisles but don’t expect to find much in its customer base. The chain’s newest store announced last week it would open to whites only, barring minorities from shopping in the 58,000-square-foot store in northwest Alabama. “It is Mr. Keppman’s view that…
An Oregon school district may continue permitting an elderly janitor to spank students after a state court refused to stop what parents called “an arcane form of torture at the hands of a pervert.” The Farifax School District has an old policy, adopted in 1930, that allows for the longest-tenured employee to dole out corporal…
Checkers may sound like a pleasant enough place to stop for a burger and fries, but working there is proving to be anything but a game for its employees. That’s because a new study from the American Service Industry Health Unit shows the fast-food giant’s employees are, on average, morbidly obese. “It’s not even close,”…
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