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Moms, kids, stuck in middle of Moncton's water dispute with landlord

“I tried to put water into my toilet to flush it, it took up to five two-litres of water and now that left us with no drinking water,” said Melanson. The current building operator says the trouble beg... read more

Addicted at 17, learning to start over at 21

Her mom picked her up at the police station. It would not be the last time. Using the e-mail handle “leftbrokenhearted,” she turned her life upside down, using booze and weed and hanging around older ... read more

Police log: Don’t dream and dial; don't jump out of the second-story window; don't use a Jeep as a rope-tow

An erratic plow truck driver near J Mart Asian Food Store on Water Street was reported ... 6:33 p.m. Wednesday Police received a report that a car got stuck in the snow in the middle of the road on Un... read more

Underwater On Your Home? Your Six Options

That’s a mind-boggling amount of home equity that has been wiped out in the past four years, and an astonishing number of homeowners who are stuck in homes that they can’t sell without bringing a big ... read more

Showdown on the range: Nevada rancher, feds face off over cattle grazing rights

(CNN) — A 20-year dispute between a Nevada rancher and federal rangers over ... the protesters chanted to rangers in the middle of a two-lane rural highway. What sounds likes zapping Tasers can be hea... read more

Here’s what real science says about the role of CO2 as Earth’s preeminent climatic thermostat

Yes, water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth’s overall greenhouse effect. And, in fact, a companion study led by Schmidt showed that water vapor and clouds together account for 75 p... read more

Right here, right now, I am a humorless feminist

For me, it's heavily context-dependent. As a former firefighter, a veteran, and a college student in a male-dominated field, I'm quite accustomed to hearing those sorts of comments in particular conte... read more

The Politics of Polygamy

McKay Coppins has a fascinating story in Buzzfeed on the politics of polygamy. The hook is that there are plural marriages in the recent family trees of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, but the most ... read more

Can a Native Brooklynite Still Be an ‘Invading Hipster’?

While I’m standing outside The Owl’s Head, a new wine bar in Bay Ridge, an inebriated middle-aged man passes me ... suggests that young Brooklynites are moving farther south. More kids in funny clothe... read more

St. Paul soldier's blended family shattered by horrors of war

Her husband, Jake, was in Iraq, in the middle of his second combat deployment ... Obeying their mother's instructions for when they were home alone, the kids did not answer the door. The soldiers went ... read more

Did The Standard Hotel Assume This Woman Was A Prostitute Because She's Black?

Portrait of Mississippi Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels by Theodor Kaufmann More and more, it seems we're forced to listen to vile and open racism emanating from the mouths of Republican candidates for ... read more