NEW YORK - Sales of prescription painkillers are exploding in new areas, and experts are worried that's creating a wave of addiction.

Pharmacies, hospitals and physicians dispensed the equivalent of 69 tons of pure oxycodone and 42 tons of pure hydrocodone in 2010. That's enough to give 40 5-mg Percocets and 24 5-mg Vicodins to every man, woman and child in the United States.

An analysis by The Associated Press shows distribution of the two drugs is booming from New York's Staten…

By Shomari Stone and Joel Moreno Published: May 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM…

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is temporarily suspending immigration court dockets in four cities while authorities review thousands of cases as part of a plan to indefinitely delay deportation proceedings for many non-criminal illegal immigrants.

The dockets in Detroit, New Orleans, Orlando, and Seattle will be suspended during the review cases involving illegal immigrants not held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, the Department of…

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Chapter 12

Satan’s Family Tree

“The Devil can get into people and cause them to do things they

wouldn’t do otherwise.”

—Herbert Mullin, speaking to a Bible study class

In New York City in 1875,

Madame Helena Petrovina Blavatsky founded the

Theosophical Society, an occult-based group that survives to this day and that

supplied much of the ideology of Hitler’s Third Reich. Over the course of the

next decade-and-a-half, Blavatsky published Isis…

By TAMAR LEWIN

Published: March 6, 2012

Black students, especially boys, face much harsher discipline in public schools than other students, according to new data from the…

Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg News

 R. Allen Stanford, shown arriving at the courthouse in Houston on Tuesday, was convicted of 13 out of 14 counts of fraud.

By CLIFFORD…

Capt. Brett Pierson refers to a computer tablet during preflight checks aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft bound for a refueling mission in Afghanistan. (Master Sgt. William Greer / U.S. Air Force )

by Staff Writers

Seoul (AFP) Feb 16, 2012

By Hal DardickClout Street

9:15 p.m. CST, February 15, 2012

Reuters

9:02 a.m. CST, February 16, 2012

Richard Perry/The New York Times

The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, a gathering in Times Square of skeptics on global warming.

By JUSTIN GILLIS and …

A state senator and his wife said Saturday they were attacked and beaten at a Niagara Falls casino hotel after the lawmaker tried to break up an argument between two men, one of whom accused him of hating the Indian tribe that owned the resort.

The Associated Press

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. —

A state senator and his wife said Saturday they were attacked and beaten at a Niagara Falls casino hotel after the lawmaker tried to break up…

CURTIS TATE - MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS…

While white separatists for years have called for a racial homeland in the inland Pacific Northwest, an even bigger movement of survivalists, Christian fundamentalists and political doomsayers is fueling the idea of a defensible retreat west of the Rockies.

The federal budget deficit fell sharply in January compared to a year earlier, as an improving economy lifts income tax revenue.

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER

AP Economics Writer

February 6, 2012

REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican economy is "hemorrhaging" billions of dollars annually because of money laundering, tax evasion and other forms of corruption, …