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• Death row inmate pulls out eye, says he ate it
HOUSTON - A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old ...
• Spider-Man to save Inauguration Day!
Quesada said that since the stories are set in the real world, there is a long history of presidents appearing in Spider-Man comics, from Franklin D. Roosevelt through to George W. Bush, who has appeared on several occasions. But Obama has the honor ...
• Illinois House impeaches Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Jack Franks, D-Woodstock. Blagojevich is the first governor impeached in Illinois' long and often sordid political history. He could become only the eighth U.S. governor to be impeached and removed from office; the last was Arizona's Evan Mecham in ...
• Former Satyam chairman arrested
The largest scandal in India's corporate history calls into question the viability of the company as an independent entity," consultancy Forrester said in a Jan. 8 research note. "As a result, sourcing and IT executives need to actively review their ...
• Some cities dropping criminal-history question
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Hoping to prevent convicts from being shut out of the work force, some major U.S. cities are eliminating questions from their job applications that ask whether prospective employees have ever been convicted of a crime. Most of the ...