Tom Jacobs, public information officer for the Department of Motor Vehicles, shows a sample of the Gold Star plates that will become available Monday for families of servicemen killed in the line of the duty Nevada Appeal Gov. Jim Gibbo...

Eleno Oviedo, imprisoned in Cuba for 26 years, stood outside a Sedano's in Hialeah on a recent Saturday, eager to collect donations for a fresh cause: Honduras. "We set up a table and had some signs and asked people to give what they could," said Oviedo, 73, co-director of Plantados, a group of one-time political prisoners from Cuba. Oviedo is among groups of local Cubans seeking to help Honduras as the country tries to recover from political upheaval following the ouster of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and the global shunning of the government.

Many children in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent who is alive, a charity claimed yesterday. According to research by Save the Children, 98% of children in residential care in central and eastern Europe, 94% of tho...

There’s a lot of busy airports around the country today, but hopefully you’ve already made your way through the terminal and are reading this thanks to free in-flight WiFi. If that’s not the case, here’s a few places to relax within some of the nation’s busiest airports. · LaGuardia Airport - New York City: The airports in New York are always stressful; after all, they are full of New Yorkers trying to get out of town. If the weather or air traffic has you stuck for a few, take a moment to relax at the Fox Sports Bar and Restaurant in the Delta Terminal.

Animal shelters in Dallas are now overwhelmed by pets, just like most animal rescues and shelters in other parts of the country. Because of financial difficulties and foreclosures, more pets are being abandoned and more families are bringing in their pets to shelters. The services center of the Animal Guardians of America in West Dallas, which took in more than 7,700 cats in 2008, no longer has space and funds for additional pets. At its website, Animal Guardians has announced that it is no longer able to accept pets....

Much of downtown Toronto came to a standstill for hours this morning as Toronto Police, animal services and an emergency task force surrounded and Tasered a wayward deer that ran through the financial district. After running past office towers and Union Station, the deer eventually took refuge on a grassy patch on the east side of a medical office building at the corner of Chestnut and Edward streets.Around 11 a.m., ETF officers moved their trucks closer to the animal, in an apparent attempt to create a barrier in which to contain it.

A novel anti-crime surveillance program that will record the license plate number of every car entering and leaving Tiburon should be up and running within six months, officials said Thursday. The Town Council voted 4-0 late Wednesday – with Vice Mayor Miles Berger absent – to install six cameras that recognize license plate characters on Tiburon Boulevard and Paradise Drive. Those are the only two roads that feed into the Tiburon peninsula, which also includes the smaller city of Belvedere on its southwestern edge.

The most recent atrocity committed by the self-proclaimed “America’s Toughest Sheriff” involves a woman who was detained while 9-months pregnant. Alma Minerva Chacon’s case has been receiving media attention due to the brutality with which she was treated. The very same night of her arrest, Chacon went into labor and found herself afraid and alone, being rushed to a local hospital with her hands and legs chained in shackles. Once she reached the hospital, nurses repeatedly begged the Sheriff’s staff to allow them to unchain the mother, but they refused and Chacon was forced to give birth while still shackled to the bed.

Our red-headed brethren are still being set upon by angry mobs. It's all TV and the internet's fault — the kids today are on the Facebook and the YouTube and get these crazy ideas and then savagely beat others. A new series of attacks were apparently started when this eugenics-promoting South Park episode led to a Facebook group which led to 12 or so kids at a school in California setting upon a 12-year-old then going on some kind of rampage.

Census worker Bill Sparkman committed suicide and deliberately made it look like murder as part of an insurance scam, Kentucky state police have concluded. State police, working with the FBI, said at a press conference moments ago that Sparkman had recently taken out two life insurance policies that would not pay out for suicide. It appears Sparkman hoped that the scheme would benefit his son, Josh Sparkman.

Here is the best reason ever to not try to find your birth parents. Terry, a Wisconsin woman with a wild past, was contacted recently by Robert Matthews, a DJ in Los Angeles who was adopted and wanted to find his biological parents. Terry was confirmed to have been his mother, and it seems like she was willing to give him as many answers as she could about his family history. But she was significantly tight-lipped about the identity of Robert’s father.

Bizarre sea creatures including an octopod dubbed Dumbo because of his giant ear-like fins, have been found as part of a deep sea census. The previously unseen creatures live more than a mile beneath the ocean in pitch black conditions. A total of 5,722 odd species were discovered as part of the Census of Marine Life - which used deep-towed cameras to give us a better picture of what lives in our oceans.

John Ford was so eager to avoid arrest that he may have eaten the evidence that would help convict him. Ford was suspected in a bank robbery during which he reportedly passed a note to one of the tellers demanding money. After police matched his car to a witness’ description, the police pulled Ford over and discovered a bag of money in his car. Afterwords while emptying his pockets, Ford grabbed a piece of paper in his mouth and proceeded to eat it. Police believe that the piece of paper may have been the ransom note he showed to the teller.

Sandra doesn’t go outside after dark anymore. She lives in one of this city’s most notorious areas, where rival gangs have turned streets into war zones. “It was like fireworks: pop, pop, pop everywhere,” Sandra, who asked that her last name not be used for fear of her safety, said of gunshots on one particularly busy night a few months ago.

Horrific new charges have revealed that ex-Marine David Allen Tyner allegedly shot, stabbed and burned his victims during a heartless killing spree, according to the shocking arrest warrant obtained exclusively by RadarOnline.com. Two of the victims, Cathouse prostitute Brooke Phillips, and Milagrossa Barrera were pregnant at the time.

As a media justice activist, I was thrilled to read about this new GPS application. What it does is basically allow any phone user who has capabilities of downloading applications to download information on safe border crossings between Mexico and the U.S.. It will include information such as where water stations are, where safer crossings are, and it will even give out inspirational poems to let crossers know they aren’t alone on their crossing.

Three gang members arrested for harvesting human fat have confessed to killing five people. They claim that they harvested their bodies for fat which they then sold for high prices. When the gang members were arrested they were in possession of liquid human fat which they expected to sell for about $60 000 per gallon on this very black market. Gang members claim that the human fat eventually ends up in cosmetics made in Europe. Medical experts say that there is no market for human fat.

A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist. Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police. He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth $60,000 a gallon ($15,000 a liter).

A 33 year-old morbidly obese man with no health coverage was returned untreated to a recliner in his home in March after a knee injury. Daniel Webb became unable to walk or leave his home after the injury, for which he was unable to receive treatment. Webb’s wife Ada tried to no avail to obtain disability and medical coverage for her husband, who remained in the chair for nearly nine months, covered in sores and human excrement.

In 2007, Jason Rodriguez was fired from his position at an Orlando, Florida engineering firm and ended up taking a job as a "sandwich artist" at a Subway restaurant. His salary was cut nearly in half and his debts mounted until, last May, he filed for bankruptcy, listing his assets at just over $4,600 and his liabilities at nearly $90,000. Although he lived only 30 minutes away, according to his former mother-in-law, America Holloway, Rodriguez barely saw his son. When the boy asked why his father didn't visit, Holloway said Rodriguez told him: "'Because I don't have any money. I don't have a job. I don't have anything to eat. When things get better, I'll come see you.'"