Detroit Woman, 101, Gets Her House Back
Feds will pay her taxes and allow her to return

A happy ending in Detroit: 101-year-old Texana Hollis is getting her house back. HUD foreclosed on the home Monday and evicted the bewildered woman, who was unaware that her son had failed to pay property taxes to keep a reverse mortgage afloat. After the story made national headlines, HUD officials said today they would pay the taxes, get rid of the padlocks, and allow Hollis to return to the home she lived in for nearly 60 years, reports the Detroit News.

"We just want to make sure that Mrs. Hollis knows that her home of many years is hers to live in for as long as she wants," said a HUD spokesman. Hollis has been in the hospital since the eviction.


Dr. Oz slammed over apple juice arsenic warning

Arsenic in apple juice! Fed to babies! And it probably came from China! Television's Dr. Mehmet Oz is under fire from the FDA and others for sounding what they say is a false alarm about the dangers of apple juice.

Oz, one of TV's most popular medical experts, said on his Fox show Wednesday that testing by a New Jersey lab had found what he suggested were troubling levels of arsenic in many brands of juice.

The Food and Drug Administration said its own tests show no such thing, even on one of the same juice batches Oz cited.

"There is no evidence of any public health risk from drinking these juices. And FDA has been testing them for years," the agency said in a statement.

Tim Sullivan, a spokesman for Oz's show, said in an interview: "We don't think the show is irresponsible. We think the public has a right to know what's in their foods."

Publisher's Note:


Again, it's not about Dr. Oz is being accused of inflating the numbers of arsenic levels found in apple juice, thus informing his audience and the public about it, but instead it is about the fact that he has INFORMED his audience and the public that indeed there IS arsenic IN apple juice, which is approved by our own overseeing agencies, that is being consumed by the American public! 

NYPD scores major pot bust: Cops arrest reggae star Denroy Morgan, seize 310 pounds of marijuana

Jamaican-born reggae star Denroy Morgan was busted on drug charges after cops saw him leaving a Bronx house carrying 25 pounds of ganja, police said Thursday. Morgan's capture led to the seizure of a 310-pound stash of marijuana and the arrest of another man caught toting 16 pounds of pot, cops said.


Known for his 1981 reggae-disco hit "I'll Do Anything For You," Morgan, 66, told cops he was flush with weed when they pulled his car over Wednesday afternoon and got a whiff of the drug, police said.


A source insisted the unraveling of the cannabis caper did not stem from a surveillance sting but was the result of eagle-eyed narcotics detectives.


The detectives were working on an unrelated case in Soundview when they saw Morgan walking out of a building at 4p.m. carrying what appeared to be a brick of marijuana in shrink-wrap packaging, the source said.

High court halts Duane Buck's Texas execution

The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution Thursday of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial.


Duane Buck, 48, was spared from lethal injection when the justices, without extensive comment, said they would review an appeal in his case. Two appeals, both related to a psychologist's testimony that black people were more likely to commit violence, were before the court. One was granted; the other was denied.

"Praise the Lord!" Buck told Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark. "God is worthy to be praised. God's mercy triumphs over judgment. I feel good."

The jobless in New Jersey find refuge in Tent City

Lakewood, New Jersey (CNN) -- Cars and trucks cruise along Cedar Bridge Avenue, drivers listening to radio anchors reporting the headline that a record 46 million Americans are living in poverty, while 50 feet from the bustling boulevard, hidden by the woods that border the road, lies a shocking example of that shameful statistic.

Behind the trees, six dozen homeless Americans have set up camp, in tents, teepees and huts, residents of what they call Tent City. It's a place where those out of work and out of luck can drop out of society while living as cheaply as possible.

"It's a community here," said the Rev. Steven Brigham, who founded Tent City in 2006 as part of his Lakewood Outreach Ministry Church. "They have a sense of belonging."

In the past year Brigham has seen Tent City's population nearly double as the jobs recession drags on.


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Post Office closings could move Ga. mail operation to Ala. 

The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it will conduct a study at the Columbus (Ga.) Customer Service Mail Processing Center to determine the feasibility of consolidating its operations into the Montgomery, Ala., Processing and Distribution Center, reports the Columbus Ledger Enquirer.

 

APNewsBreak: SC employers to get insurance refunds

South Carolina's unemployment insurance agency will be sending refund checks to businesses or giving them credits for past overpayments, the agency said Thursday.

Agency director Abraham Turner said "this is a very good news story for businesses in this state."
"Businesses will be able to invest a little bit more of their money because of the refund that's coming their way," said Turner, who just started the job a week ago. They will be "able to feel more confident about the future going forward."