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SAN ANTONIO - A registered sex offender at the Alamo. Sounds outrageous, but it's true.

While you may know about the sex offenders that live in and around your neighborhood, some are roaming our streets and you'll never know about them. News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Mireya Villarreal uncovered the legal loophole they use to register strange...

Truth Lies Here
How can Americans talk to one another—let alone engage in political debate—when the Web allows every side to invent its own facts?



THIS PAST AUGUST, the left-leaning San Francisco–based Web site AlterNet posted a remarkable scoop: members of a group calling itself the Digg Patriots were banding together to promote...

WASHINGTON – All but wiped out in 2008, Republicans groping for a comeback strategy determined there would be no swift return to economic health under incoming President Barack Obama.
They soon also agreed privately to oppose his major legislation.
Over the next two years, they criticized, attacked, voted against and then attacked some more as...

Twelve local residents from Leader, Sask., posed for a calendar decrying the condition of a local highway. (Sask Highway 32 campaign)

A publicity campaign featuring rural Saskatchewan residents in the buff and posing along a stretch of pothole-damaged highway has paid off.

On Friday, people from Leader, Sask., and other communities along...