Former Prairie View A&M University student sentenced to prison for attempting to provide materials to Al Qaeda
Texas Man Gets Max for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Al Qaeda HOUSTON – Barry Walter Bujol Jr., a 30-year-old Hempstead, Texas, resident and former student at Prairie View A&M University, will now serve 20 years in federal prison, ...

Christian sues Time Warner for allegedly allowing employees to watch porn on company time
Time Warner Cable was recently hit with a $2 million lawsuit for allegedly ignoring an employee’s complaints about his colleagues watching porn on company time. The former employee said his colleagues’ actions went against his religious beliefs as a Christian, ...

Mother stabs fiancé to death after he gives her cheap Mother's Day gift
Mothers, did you get the gift you wanted for Mother’s Day? One Beaumont mother reacted violently after she received a gift that did not meet her expectations. Beaumont police arrested 20-year-old Paige Parkerson this past Monday on charges of allegedly ...

Skechers toning shoes deemed ineffective, buyers can get refund
Skechers Shape-Ups will NOT turn you into the next Kim Kardashian or Brooke Burke. This revelation comes from the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection. Consumers who purchased Skechers Shape-ups or other toning shoes made by the company will be eligible ...

Mother sues district, state for constitutional violation after son cut from high school varsity basketball team
For those of you who know me, you know I’m not really into sports. But this particular story caught my eye the other day. Yahoo News is reporting that an Arkansas mother has sued her son's high school for cutting ...

Judge Rules Clicking ‘Like’ On Facebook Not Protected By First Amendment
Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook can be viewed in a couple of ways. If someone posts a good joke, a “like” can mean that you also found humor in the posting. Whereas, a “like” on a graduation or wedding announcement, can ...

Looking for sources: Have you ever unfriended anyone on Facebook?
Hello. I have a busy reporting week ahead at the Advocate. Here’s a snippet of what I have on my agenda: Banned Books Summary: Find out why some books written by a local writer-in-residence are no longer welcome in Arizona. ...

Employee Fired After Donating Kidney to Her Boss
Were you fired from your job after going above and beyond? Well, a New York Long Island woman said she definitely was. Debbie Stevens, 47, said she was fired after she donated a kidney to help save the life of ...

Campus diversity suffers under race-blind policies, Supreme Court set to re-visit issue
Fifteen years after California voters decided to eliminate race and ethnicity as considerable factors in university admissions, many of the state’s selective public colleges and graduate schools have struggled to assemble diverse student bodies. California was the first state to ...

Brother-sister couple fail in fight against anti-incest laws
Incest in Germany will remain illegal, according to a decision handed down by The European Court of Human Rights. MSN reports the decision was upheld after a German brother-sister couple argued that their home country had no right to penalize ...