‘Star-Spangled Banner’ was once a song of drinking, sex
Americans this weekend will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the poem that became the nation's national anthem, a bit of verse written by a pro-slavery lawyer put to the melody...
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Ohio State band director fired after report finds sexualized culture
In the second recent scandal to cloud a nationally acclaimed marching band, the director of the Ohio State University band has been dismissed after investigators found a sexualized culture of...
U.S. appeals court nullifies Okla. ban on gay marriage
For the second time in less than two months, a federal appeals court panel in Denver has upheld same-sex marriage, giving gay couples another victory en route to a final...
Swastika banner flown over Coney Island; beachgoers complain
A small plane carrying a banner of a swastika flew above Coney Island beaches over the weekend as part of an annual effort by the International Raelian Movement to resurrect...
Private autopsy blames Oklahoma for botched execution
A preliminary autopsy, carried out by a pathologist retained by Oklahoma death row prisoners, rejects the state's explanation of a blown vein as the reason an inmate writhed in pain...
Vegas shooter’s dad blames daughter’s husband: ‘That SOB took my sunshine’
Todd Woodruff said he will always think of his daughter Amanda as a young girl, baby teeth glistening in a hopeful ear-to-ear smile. It was that girl who grew into...
Vegas shooter’s dad blames daughter’s husband: ‘That SOB took my sunshine’
Todd Woodruff said he will always think of his daughter Amanda as a young girl, baby teeth glistening in a hopeful ear-to-ear smile. It was that girl who grew into...
Vegas shooter’s dad blames daughter’s husband: ‘That SOB took my sunshine’
Todd Woodruff said he will always think of his daughter Amanda as a young girl, baby teeth glistening in a hopeful ear-to-ear smile. It was that girl who grew into...
911 tapes released in stabbing of girl, 12, by classmates
A bicyclist riding through a Waukesha park saw the Wisconsin middle-school girl on the side of the road bleeding profusely and begging for aid, the victim in what has become...
2 kids hurt in another flying bounce-house incident in Colorado
A sharp gust of wind turned bounce-house fun into a danger chamber for two small children who were slightly injured when the inflatable enclosure was tossed hundreds of feet across...