Roscoe Bartlett's Office Declined the Congressman's Support Claim for Stache Act

WASHINGTON, DC (Feb. 29) – Will Americans with mustaches get the tax break up to $250 a year for facial hair grooming? 

Roscoe Bartlett's Office Declined the Support Claim for Stache Act

The American Mustache Institute was quite confident to find the support of a Republican congressman - Roscoe Bartlett from Maryland - to the 'Stache Act, which calls for a tax deduction of up to $250 a year for facial hair grooming.

But an official statement issued on Wednesday by Bartlett's office declined the support claim by the American Mustache Institute, saying:

"For the record: Roscoe is pro-stache, but he does not believe Americans should pay for people's personal grooming decisions."

The statement mentioned that the staff only sent a copy of the suggestion to the House Ways & Means Committee, without Bartlett's awareness, after receiving a media inquiry about it. That led the institute to believe Bartlett, who has long had a mustache, supported the measure.

So far, no other representatives have supported the 'Stache Act.

The American Mustache Institute, meanwhile, issued a statement criticizing Burrell for what it called a "shameful reversal."

VIDEO (Report): U.S. Coast Guard Chopper Crashed in Alabama Killed 1, Missing 3

MOBILE BAY, Alabama (Feb. 29) – Authorities confirmed on Wednesday that at least one dead and three remains missing in a United States Coast Guard (USCG) helicopter crash in Mobile Bay in Alabama on Tuesday evening. There were total four on board at the time of accident. 

U.S. Coast Guard Chopper Crashed in Alabama Killed 1, Missing 3

The Coast Guard MH-65C helicopter went down for some unknown reasons at about 7:40 p.m. local time. The chopper crashed around 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from the shore in Mobile Bay, a Gulf of Mexico bay which is located in the state of Alabama. 

A team of Coast Guards Navigation boat found a body of a crew member soon after the accident that was later declared as dead; but identity was not immediately released. Search operation for the remaining three missing crew members was continuing on Wednesday. 

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Kohistan Killing - Hidden hands identified, soon be made public: Rehman Malik

GILGIT, Pakistan (Wed, Feb 29) – The hands behind the conspiracy of Kohistan killing have been identified and soon will be produced before the nation, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday talking to media persons after a thorough discussion with religious scholars of various schools of thought.

Kohistan Killing - Hidden hands identified, soon be made public: Rehman Malik

Malik further said that it was not an incident of sectarian killings rather an effort to deteriorate law and order situation in the entire country. He hailed the religious scholars for their understanding and assistance to control the situation by showing tolerance. He said that he visited the area on the special orders of the PM Yousuf Raza Gilani.

He also informed the journalists that Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts have been given powers of police for 3 months to control the situation. He said that plan of the enemies was foiled.

Minister unveiled the plan to form a special security force for protection of passengers on Karakoram Highway (KKH). Till formation of the force, FC (Frontier Constabulary) and police would be deployed along the highway and security check-posts would be set up along different points on KKH, he added.

Ohio School Shooting Updates: Tapes released by 911 showing panic among callers

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Wed, Feb. 29) – The shrill puffing request from a young girl to a 911 dispatcher expressively captures the panicked insecurity students felt as a teenager, named as T.J. Lane, roaming Chardon High School with .22-caliber gun and a knife, killing students.

Ohio School Shooting Updates: Tapes released by 911

"We just had a shooting at our school. We need to get out of here! Oh my God!" the girl screams, her voice trembling.

The dispatcher asks the girl if she saw the shooter.

"No," the girl says beginning to cry. "No. I didn't. I just saw the gun."

Young student’s trembling request is among 911 tapes authorities released Tuesday as they continued their inquiry into the shooting at the suburban Cleveland school that left three dead, two wounded.

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Serial Killer, Awdhah, Sentenced to Death by Saudi Arabia Shariah Court

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Wed, Feb. 29) – A Saudi citizen has been awarded a death penalty by the Saudi Arabia Shariah Court on account of raping and killing several house maids.

Serial Killer, Awdhah, Senteced to Death by Saudi Arabia Shariah Court

 According to reports published in 'Al Hayat' newspaper; the accused Awdhah, also known as ‘Serial Killer’, has rejected the verdict of the court and aimed to appeal against it.

According to details; Awdhah is accused of attracting housemaids and raping them before killing them. He even spoiled the dead body of one of them.

Awdhah confessed of killing an Asian girl, named as Halima, two years back in Yanbu by beating and choking her with a pillow and buried her in a sandy area on Yanbu Palm Road.

He also confessed murdering of two more housemaids and buried them in deserted places. He further told that he poured benzene on the third victim, also an Asian girl, to deform her body before burying her in the same way.

VIDEO: Scary but safe emergency landing of United Express plane at Newark airport

NEWARK, NJ (Feb. 28) - Passengers face scary emergency landing at Newark Airport, but pilot landed plane unharmed to the ground. As the United Express passenger plane approached Newark Liberty International Airport, passengers on board Shuttle America Flight 5124 from Atlanta, thought that it was the last moment of their lives and they were going to die.

Scary but safe emergency landing of United Express plane at Newark airport

According to New York Times reports; the flight landed with a malfunctioning front landing gear due to hydraulic problems, leading to a "scary" emergency landing around 7 p.m. ET that ended with passengers exiting the plane jet on its emergency exit chutes. 

There were 71 passengers on board at the time of emergency landing but fortunately no one get injured in any means as the pilot managed to guide the plane in for a safe landing with only its rear landing gear lowered. After the plane coasted to a stop, passengers were able to exit unharmed via an emergency slide.

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Google celebrating birthday of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini and leap year/day

Today is 29^th February; a day that doesn’t comes in every calendar. It actually comes only after every four years and the year in which it comes is called the ‘Leap Year’. 

Google celebrating birthday of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini and leap year/day

2012 is also a Leap Year and the Google has presented a rare 2-in-1 doodle that remembers not only the leap day but also the 220th birthday of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Leap year or leap days are remembered in relation to the frogs, the leaping amphibians; therefore Google doodle on February 29 has a number of frogs, all four of them. 

The doodle is inspired by Gioachino Antonio Rossini's famous 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia), one of the most performed operas. 

Of the four frogs in the scene, one is at the piano and the soprano is the only one leaping. The barber frog is Figaro and the frog getting a shave is Count Almaviva (Characters created by French playright Pierre Beaumarchais and The Barber of Seville is one of the three Figaro plays penned by him).

Exclusive VIDEO: US Marine's controversial Facebook photo of kissing boyfriend gone viral

US Marine's controversial Facebook photo of kissing boyfriend gone viral

A controversial photo of a U.S. Marine, returning back home, caught in a obsessive kissing with his boyfriend has abuzzed the web after it has been posted on Facebook.

The vivid photograph has been viewed around the globe and received more than 3500 comments. It has also been liked for more than 15000 times, since being posted on Facebook page ‘Gay Marines’. 

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Ohio School Shooting Suspect, T.J. Lane's Facebook Message: “Die, all of you”

“Die, all of you,” is the message posted by Ohio school shooting suspect months before his shooting spree at Chardon High School’s cafeteria on Monday morning that killed one and injured four others. 

Ohio School Shooting Suspect, T.J. Lane's Facebook Message: “Die, all of you”

According to latest reports; two of the four injured are still critical and being treated in Intensive Care of a local hospital.

The suspect, identified by witnesses and one of the shooting victims as T.J. Lane posted a message on Facebook on 30^th December last year. The message looks like a poem or lyrics to a song, telling a man with no belongings or family advancing on a “castle,” which he mentions as “Lucifer’s Laboratory.” The man then apparently demolishes the castle and kills its occupants.

According to Mashable; Lane’s profile disappeared from Facebook shortly after this story was posted.

9 killed, 12 injured in car bomb blast near ISAF base in Jalalabad, Afganistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (Mon, Feb 28) – A suicide attack near a NATO-led ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) base claimed at least nine lives and left more than a dozen injured on early hours of Monday. 

9 killed, 12 injured in car bomb blast near ISAF base in Jalalabad, Afganistan

According to details; a suicide bomber blew up an explosive-laden vehicle near the Jalalabad airport's front gate, an attack that follows a week of deadly violence prompted by the burning of scripts of Holy Quran at a U.S. base. But it is yet to be established that the recent attack was a result of motivation against the burning of Holy Quran.

An ISAF spokesperson, Air Force Capt. Justin Brockhoff, confirmed that there were no fatalities related to ISAF.

U.S. President Barack Obama and other officials have apologized for the burning and called it unintended; but such statements, or explanations, haven't stopped protests from Muslims in Afghanistan.

CNN reports citing an anonymous military source in Afghanistan that said the Quranic scripts  were from a detainee center's library and had "inscriptions" that believed to be used to "facilitate extremist communications."

SOURCE: 

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/27/world/asia/afghanistan-burned-qurans/index.html