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Efforts to Impeach Judges Hit New High in 2011

The Iowa Supreme Court's 2009 same-sex marriage ruling and an injunction on Oklahoma's voter-approved ban on Sharia were a couple of the more controversial decisions that sparked impeachment calls.

Aliahna Lemmon: Babysitter Admits to Beating, Dismembering Girl [VIDEO]

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Michael Plumadore, the babysitter charged with the murder of Aliahna Lemmon, who disappeared from an Indiana trailer park last week, admitted to beating the nine-year-old girl to death with a brick, dismembering her with a hacksaw, stuffing her limbs into freezer bags and hiding parts at his trailer and at a nearby business according to reports.
Foxconn Seeing To Buy Sharp

LCD makers in $553 million U.S. price-fixing accord

Samsung Electronics Co, Sharp Corp and five other makers of liquid crystal displays agreed to pay $553 million to settle consumer and state regulatory claims that they conspired to fix prices for LCD panels in televisions, notebook computers and monitors.
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The French government last week recommended that women in France who have PIP's silicone gel-filled implants get them removed by their surgeons after the implants appeared to have an unusually high rupture rate.

FDA Warned PIP on Breast Implant Safety

As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant maker at the heart of a scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. That was almost ten years before the company came under scrutiny from European regulators.
Mengniu said it destroyed a batch of products at a plant in the southwestern province of Sichuan which contained aflatoxin, a substance produced by food fungus that can cause severe liver damage, including liver cancer.

Tainted Milk Destroyed, says China's Mengniu

China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, the nation's biggest dairy firm, said it had destroyed milk found to be contaminated with a cancer-causing substance, the latest food safety problem to hit the country's dairy industry.
Newt Gingrich

Court Documents Contradict Gingrich's Claims of First Divorce

Newly emerged Court documents contradict Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's assertion regarding his first divorce. Newt Gingrich who is constantly on fire over his personal history has continuously maintained that it is his first wife Jackie Gingrich, who asked for divorce first and not him. His campaign website under the head Answering Attacks-Personal life says that it is Jackie Gingrich who requested for a divorce, quoting their daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman's ...
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ASUS Transformer Prime: Latest Update on Delivery

The first release of Transformer Prime is on the way into the U.S partner stores, and more will be available and shipped as and when possible over the next few weeks as confirmed by a spokesperson for ASUS.
Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga Sued: Ex-Assistant Claims Overworked, Underpaid

Jennifer O'Neill, 41, alleges that Lady Gaga, 25, owes her hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay. Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, apparently employed O'Neill for 13 months in 2010 as her personal assistant during the pop icon's 2010 Monster Ball world tour.
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Sky Metalwala Missing: New Details Emerge

Investigations into the disappearance of Sky Metalwala, 2, have uncovered photographs of the boy with bruises on his body, along with a suicide note written by his mother, Julia Biryukova, and sent to his father, Solomon Metalwala, as a text message in March 2010.
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Teenaged Daughter of Judge Found Dead at Home

Isobel Narayan, teen-aged daughter of a judge was found dead in her home. The 16-year-old was found by her parents in the bedroom of her family's £400,000 four-bedroom home in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, last Sunday, reports Mirror. The cause of the death is not known and the circumstances also do not seem to be suspicious. However, tests are being carried out to see if her life has been claimed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS).
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GoDaddy No Longer Supporting SOPA Legislation

GoDaddy, a giant domain name registrar, has announced that it is no longer supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act otherwise known as SOPA, which is now making its way through U.S. Congress.
Suffolk County Police image shows the locations where eight of 10 bodies were found near Gilgo Beach since December 2010

Long Island Eye: Where are Nassau and Suffolk Headed in 2012 and Beyond?

What’s ahead for 2012? Obviously, change, some for the better and others for worse. Fortunately, the Island’s unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent from 7.2 percent a year ago, the state labor department said. But its principal Long Island economist, Michael Crowell, said that may reflect a declining work force, with too many “discouraged workers” who’ve given up looking.
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RIM Now Faces Legal Challenge on 'BBM' Trademark

Research In Motion, still smarting over having to change the name of its yet-to-come operating system, faces a similar trademark challenge to its popular instant-messaging service BlackBerry Messenger.
Republicans fume as Keystone oil pipeline rejected

Obama has options to delay Keystone pipeline

President Barack Obama has options to kill or delay the Canada-to-Texas oil sands pipeline despite language in the payroll tax bill that forces him to make a decision on a permit by late February.

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