President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took a break from their often rancorous campaigns to poke fun at each other and themselves at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York, Thursday night. Romney told the formal white tie and gown crowd that, “it’s nice to finally relax and wear […]
The federal government is giving $550,000 to Connecticut and Massachusetts for pilot projects to crack down on people who text while driving. Each state is getting $275,000 grants to develop “high-visibility anti-texting enforcement programs,” which will include stationing police spotters on highway overpasses looking for motorists who can’t keep their fingers off the keypad. GET […]
NEW YORK — With an estimated 65.6 million viewers, the television audience for the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney was smaller than the first — but only slightly. The Nielsen company said 67 million people watched the first debate a week earlier. Tuesday’s town hall style debate at Hofstra […]
Two University of Maryland students were robbed at gunpoint Monday night while jogging a few blocks from the campus in College Park, authorities said. The robbery came a few days after two robberies and one attempted robbery of students occurred near the campus last week. READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE ARTICLE COURTESY OF WASHINGTONPOST.COM
President Barack Obama took the stage at Tuesday’s presidential debate determined to play offense against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, taking every opportunity to put his GOP challenger on the defensive, defend his four years in office, and make the case for one more term in the White House. READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE ARTICLE […]
CLEVELAND, OH – Shortly after casting her ballot for her husband, first lady Michelle Obama visited Ohio to encourage voters in this critical swing state to follow her lead and vote for the president before Election Day. “I’m feeling pretty fired up and ready to go, because this morning, let me tell you what I […]
Article Courtesy of NBCNewYork.com A man accused of stuffing two ATMs in Manhattan with counterfeit cash was arrested Monday afternoon, authorities said. Gene Carlo Pena, 26, was taken into custody at Kennedy Airport around 4 p.m. after voluntarily returning to New York from the Dominican Republic, the FBI said. He worked for a company that serviced […]
It has been more than a year since patients walked down the ramp from the massive concrete hospital, wheelchairs rolled along the paved paths that crisscross the lawns and nurses headed to work stepped off the No. 70 bus at the corner of Georgia Avenue NW and Butternut Street NW. Walter Reed Army Medical Center […]
With the second presidential debate only two days away, campaign surrogates used the Sunday talk shows to set expectations for the highly anticipated face-off between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Democrats insisted Obama was well aware that he needed to improve following his lackluster performance in Denver. “He knew when he walked off that stage […]
A day after declining to say whether he owned a dog, Michael Vick released a statement Thursday confirming that his family had obtained one. “I understand the strong emotions by some people about our family’s decision to care for a pet,” the Eagles quarterback said in a statement released by his publicist. “As a father, […]