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Psychic Gets $212K For FAILED Love Spell; Customer Loses It

A psychic in Spain turned out to be accurate about one thing: She knew that an angry customer was going to attempt a robbery to get the money back that he spent on her failed love spell. Police in Magellon, Spain, arrested businessman Jose Laparra last week for allegedly breaking into the home of fortune teller Lucia Martin in hopes of recovering $ [...] Read more ...

via Huffingtonpost
25 May 2013

Jobs, Businesses Wiped Out By Oklahoma Twister

MOORE, Okla. -- A few years after Kristi Lewis started her barbershop in this suburb of Oklahoma City, she went to a used-equipment store outside of town and bought a 1963 Belmont Electric barber chair in the crimson-and-cream color scheme of the Oklahoma Sooners. It was the pride of her shop and a symbol of her success as an independent business o [...] Read more ...

via Huffingtonpost
25 May 2013

New-Home Sales Rise 2.3%

New-home sales increased in April, while prices hit a record high, the latest signs of a stronger housing market as the spring selling season gets under way [...] Read more ...

via Wsj
25 May 2013

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

WASHINGTON (AP) — Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81.The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. In a statement to the Post newsroom, Managing Editor Kevin Merida said Johnson died of a heart attack.Johnson was awarded [...] Read more ...

via Ap
25 May 2013

Menendez: We don’t have 60 votes for immigration reform bill

One of the chief authors of the Senate’s Gang of Eight immigration bill is still hunting around for 60 votes in his chamber. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in an interview set to be aired Sunday that the Gang of Eight does not have the votes necessary to break a potential filibuster on the Senate floor — at least right now. “We [...] Read more ...

via Politico
25 May 2013