A young woman made a decision to remove herself from the organ donation list so that she can complete her bucket list. 22-year-old Channan Petrides of the United Kingdom, is terminally ill. She was told by doctors that she has one year to live. Petrides, who has cystic fibrosis, was on a waiting list for …

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) — The case of the dog that was found with his front paws cut off appears to have been an accident. According to a news release, issued Friday afternoon, new evidence has been found in the case. Kanawha County Sheriff’s Deputies say one of the dog’s paws was located on railroad …

HOUSTON – Police say a 33-year-old woman was beaten to death on her birthday, and her 4-year-old may have witnessed the murder, reports CBS affiliate KHOU. “I found the baby. The baby is the one who opened the door and let me in,” said T.K. King, victim Amanda Baird’s roommate. King told KHOU she called 911 after …

Police say they’ve arrested a fifth family member of a 14-year-old girl whose cousins are accused of beating her to abort the baby. Robert Joseph Cayald, 22, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.           …

A story from the Philly Confidential  is reporting that an off-duty Philadelphia police officer was at the Rising Sun Pizza shop in Lawndale, Pennsylvania, waiting for his Stromboli order when two armed burglars entered the store and demanded money. The two armed men then put a gun to the officer’s head and took $20 from his hands. …

  A father’s tough love has backfired, tragically resulting in his 13-year-old daughter committing suicide after she was overcome with shame. On May 30th, 2015 the Tacoma Stories published an article titled “Public Shaming Leads to a Young Girl’s Suicide” about the death of Washington State teen Izabel Laxamana.   The article originally stated the then-unnamed …

The culture war against Christianity is picking up speed. Last week came word Saint Louis University will remove a heroic-sized statue of Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet S.J. from the front of Fusz Hall, where it has stood for 60 years. The statue depicts Fr. De Smet holding aloft a crucifix as he ministers to two …

In a recent interview with the British edition of GQ magazine, Vince Vaughn held no punches about his thoughts on liberty in America. A preview of the interview was posted on the GQ website Monday highlighting four key points. The first point was about Vaughn’s role in “assembly-line comedies” to which he responded candidly and …

ST. LOUIS • Charges were dropped Monday against a St. Louis woman accused of burning a terrier mix.  St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce said her office had issues securing testimony. In a statement, Joyce said the statute of limitations has not run out in the abuse case against Adrienne Martin, and the case remains open.   …

During Thursday evening’s edition of Special Report on Fox News, Charles Krauthammer offered some backhanded praise of Donald Trump for leading a poll of presidential candidates people will not vote for. The real estate mogul leads the poll “with a deserved 59 percent,” the pundit told host Bret Baier. “[Trump] is going to say how …

During his first election campaign Obama promised that if elected he would end racial divisions and treat everyone fairly. Nearly seven years later, he has not treated everyone fairly, in fact, his Justice Department has made it clear they would not pursue civil rights cases only if the aggrieved were black. As for promoting harmony, …

Months after the failed attempt at passing universal background checks in the U.S. Senate, New Jersey’s “junior varsity” Senator, Cory Booker, sent a letter to constituents doubling down on his support for universal background checks. The former Mayor of one of New Jersey’s most murder filled cities, Newark, NJ, Booker, hits all the gun banner …

Let’s set aside whether Cameron Crowe’s new movie, “Aloha,” is a good or bad movie. Whatever the flick’s merits or demerits, it has inadvertently helped expose the arbitrary, capricious and ridiculous demands of militant identity politics. After getting hammered by ethnic mau-mauers, director Crowe issued an apology this week for casting actress Emma Stone as …

Who rises if Assad falls? That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises when Assad falls? For the war is going badly for Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since Richard Nixon was president. Assad’s situation seems more imperiled than at any time in …

The decline of America’s morals via sex education programs is a topic of regular interest at Fox News and similar media outlets. But we all know the one focus group that will almost always take issue with something whenever the words “sex” and “education” are combined: parents. Hence this story from The Star Tribune that parents of students …

When travelers and airport staff at Atlanta International Aiport saw Jim Cooley, they grew concerned. Not because the Georgia native and his wife were dropping off their daughter — things like that happen all the time at airports. Rather, everyone was freaking out because Cooley was carrying a fully-loaded AR-15. As a result, Cooley was approached by airport …

A 28-year-old Iranian cartoonist who drew members of her country’s parliament with the heads of monkeys and cows has been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison for “insulting members of parliament through paintings” as well as the Iranian supreme leader. Atena Farghadani, also a painter, was also accused of “gathering and colluding …