The poster for "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" is the best thing about the movie, depicting the brainy potheads in orange prison jumpsuits staring in disbelief from behind a wire-mesh fence. via Press-Enterprise
- Canada's top court says both a random high-school search and one at a Calgary bus terminal were unlawful, calling them breaches of privacy.
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 6-3 that neither search was based on a reasonable prior suspicion of a criminal act.
The first case stems from the sudden arrival in 2002 of police and a canine team at St. Patrick's high school in Sarnia, Ont.
Students were confined to classrooms for about two hours while a drug-sniffing dog eventually led officers to a pile of backpacks in an empty gymnasium - one containing bags of marijuana and some magic mushrooms. Read more
"Oh, he shot him in the head? Pass the salt."
Bill Cosby says apathy among some black Americans about violence, drugs, profanity and teenage sex has sunk to a level of asking someone to 'pass the salt.'
The comedian, who has made waves by criticizing the black community in the past, appeared Thursday night with a Georgia judge who kicked whites out of his courtroom while he lectured black defendants.
Cosby and Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington spoke at a forum for at-risk youths from the Atlanta area. Both men are black.
'Our children are trying to tell us something,' Cosby said to the predominantly black audience at Benjamin Mays High School as he talked about the importance of education and family. Read more
"I wouldn't even bother coming here and doing that because we are absolutely tenacious about the fact that this is not going to go on. Anything we know about it is going to stop immediately, so you might want to go somewhere else."
April 24, 2008 MANSFIELD--Pennsylvania State Police arrested more than a dozen people in connection with a major drug bust in Tioga County on Thursday. via WENY
Five Upstate residents and one man from North Carolina were jailed Tuesday on drug trafficking charges after authorities uncovered more than 2 pounds of cocaine in a Sharon Church Road residence. via Spartanburg Herald-Journal