A woman from Rock Hill, South Carolina, was charged with aggravated
domestic violence after assaulting her husband with nunchucks, according
to Rock Hill Police.
Officers responded to a domestic incident at about 8:30pm on Sunday,
according to a police report. The victim had blood “all over him” when he answered the door, and
officers saw the home was in disarray with blood on the walls.
The victim said he was watching TV in the living room when Sondra
Earle-Kelly, 51, “came in and asked him to go to bed with her,” the
report states. Kelly, who had reportedly been taking Xanax that night,
became irate when the victim said no, and began throwing ceramic
figurines at him. 
A Florida man was arrested on Wednesday morning after sheriff's deputies
say he ignored firefighters' commands and tried to save his dogs from
his burning home.
Brevard County Fire Rescue crews responded to his home in Cocoa at
around 5am after someone called 911 to report the fire.
| 1699 | The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and the Turks. | |
| 1720 | Guilio Alberoni is ordered out of Spain after his abortive attempt to restore his country’s empire. | |
| 1788 | A fleet of ships carrying convicts from England lands at Sydney Cove in Australia. The day is since known as Australia’s national day. | |
| 1861 | Louisiana secedes from the Union. | |
| 1863 | Lincoln names General Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac. | |
| 1875 | Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb. | |
| 1885 | General “Chinese” Gordon is killed on the palace steps in Khartoum by Sudanese Mahdists in Africa. | |
| 1924 | Petrograd is renamed Leningrad. | |
| 1934 | Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system. | |
| 1942 | American Expeditionary Force lands in Northern Ireland. | |
| 1943 | The first OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent parachutes behind Japanese lines in Burma. | |
| 1964 | Eighty-four people are arrested in a segregation protest in Atlanta. | |
| 1969 | California is declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides. | |
| 2005 | Condoleezza Rice is appointed to the post of secretary of state. The post makes her the highest ranking African-American woman ever to serve in an U.S. presidential cabinet. |
Ammon Bundy and his band of gun-toting domestic terrorists are living up to their Vanilla ISIL nickname.
Yes, they’re all dangerous. Armed idiots typically are. 
Snyder says that he would let his own grandchildren bathe in
Flint’s water. That’s when the interviewer’s gloves come off. 
This is the Gooderham Building,
also known as the Flatiron Building in Toronto. Completed in 1892, it
was originally the headquarters for Gooderham & Worts distillery.
It’s a historic landmark now, but still has working offices inside, and a
pub in the basement. Let’s take a look at the backside.The New-York Historical Society has a new exhibit featuring some of the Nadelmans’ collection. The Nadelmans' story is a crucial piece in the history of folk art: how it became not only popular, but a legitimate form of art in the U.S. and beyond. Read about them at Collectors Weekly.By the early 1920s, the couple had amassed the country’s largest collection of folk art and set out to establish a museum to house their objects. In 1924, they began cataloging their extensive collection and worked with an architect to construct a building for it on their property in Riverdale. The collection kept growing, so rapidly that they expanded the museum’s building before it was even complete.
Since art-making was Elie’s primary focus, managing the collection became Viola’s passion. The Museum of Folk and Peasant Arts opened in November of 1926 with Viola acting as director and taking on most organizational duties. As Olson and Hofer explain in their book, “the MFPA was not only the first museum in the United States devoted exclusively to folk art, but also the first in the world to demonstrate the European influences on American folk art.”
The Nadelmans organized their museum by medium with specific rooms devoted to materials like textiles or ironwork. “You’d have things like the wonderful French-Romanesque lions that are now at the Cloisters in the same room with weathervanes and tools like waffle irons,” Olson says, “and they were all hung in an aesthetically pleasing way.”
Not
everyone, even the most enthusiastic eaters of fruits and vegetables,
are privy to what their favorite plant-based foods look like as they are
growing. Some of them have beautiful, showy flowers and some, like the
banana above, grow in visually pleasing arrangements.
An animal lover from New Jersey is speaking out against charges she's
facing for taking care of baby squirrels.
Maria Vaccarella of Howell said she was only trying to help one
squirrel, and then it surprised her and gave birth to two baby
squirrels.
"We left the babies in the cage outside for 24 hours. (The mother) never
came back. I brought them in, kept them warm, bottle fed them,"
Vaccarella said.
Days later, she received a ticket in the mail.
"$500. When I was in court, the judge told me up to a $1,000 fine," Vaccarella said.
She said the judge also said she could face up to six months in jail, because having the animals was a criminal offense.
She said the charges for trying to help out baby animals made her angry.
"Especially wasting taxpayer to go to court over helping two squirrels? It doesn't make sense."
Vaccarella pleaded not guilty. She's back in court on January 27.
A man is in jail after he allegedly threatened to shoot two men in a fight over a wounded elk.
Madison County Sheriff Roger Thompson called it an “elk rage" incident.
He said authorities arrested Kenrick Workman, 52, from Norris, Montana,
at about 5:15pm on Saturday following an incident where an elk was hit
by a vehicle near Norris. The elk had been observed throughout the day
by passing motorists.
| 1533 | Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn. | |
| 1787 | Small farmers in Springfield, Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays, revolt against tax laws. Federal troops break up the protesters of what becomes known as Shay’s Rebellion. | |
| 1846 | The dreaded Corn Laws, which taxed imported oats, wheat and barley, are repealed by the British Parliament. | |
| 1904 | Two-hundred coal miners are trapped in their Pennsylvania mine after an explosion. | |
| 1915 | Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco make a record telephone transmission. | |
| 1918 | Austria and Germany reject U.S. peace proposals. | |
| 1919 | The League of Nations plan is adopted by the Allies. | |
| 1929 | Members of the New York Stock Exchange ask for an additional 275 seats. | |
| 1930 | New York police rout a Communist rally at the Town Hall. | |
| 1943 | The last German airfield in Stalingrad is captured by the Red Army. | |
| 1949 | Axis Sally, who broadcasted Nazi propaganda to U.S. troops in Europe, stands trial in the United States for war crimes. | |
| 1951 | The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea launches Operation Thunderbolt, a counter attack to push the Chinese Army north of the Han River. | |
| 1955 | Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years. | |
| 1956 | Khrushchev says that he believes that Eisenhower is sincere in his efforts to abolish war. | |
| 1959 | American Airlines begins its first coast-to-coast flight service on a Boeing 707. | |
| 1972 | Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to U.S. Congress, announces candidacy for president. | |
| 1972 | Nixon airs the eight-point peace plan for Vietnam, asking for POW release in return for withdrawal. | |
| 1984 | Reagan endorses the development of the first U.S. permanently-manned space station. |
