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Mystery of message in a bottle found at Auschwitz solved

Mystery of message in a bottle found at Auschwitz solved

May. 9 | WARSAW (AFP) – Sixty-five years ago Waclaw Sobczak hid a message in a bottle between the bricks of a wall in a building of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a last sign of life as he prepared to die. “I put the bottle in the wall,”...

T.G.I. Friday’s to probe snake head in broccoli

T.G.I. Friday’s to probe snake head in broccoli

May. 9 | WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US restaurant chain T.G.I. Friday’s has asked the New York State Police to open a criminal investigation into suspected product tampering after a severed snake head was found among vegetables. According to a statement issued...

Price of a First-Class Stamp going up

Price of a First-Class Stamp going up

May. 9 | Procrastinators, take note. Neither rain nor snow will stop the post office from raising its stamp price on Monday, May 11 by an extra two cents, giving the first-class stamp a hefty 44-cent price tag. (The post office estimates this price increase will...

Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom

Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom

May. 9 | FINDLAY, Ohio – A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said. Despite the warning, 17-year-old...

White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One

White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One

May. 8 | WASHINGTON – The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job. Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military...