ST. LOUIS, Missouri - April 10, 2010 - A jury awarded a salvage yard owner $1 million after the City of St. Louis took her property away through eminent domain.

Opal Henderson, 80, had owned the yard near Busch Stadium for 61 years. The city offered her $200,000.

The St. Louis Board of Alderman declared the property blighted in 2004, a necessary measure to use eminent domain. It took the property in 2008.

The aldermen wanted the property for redevelopment - bars and restaurants in the Ice House District, just blocks south of Busch Stadium.

MADISON, Wisconsin - April 9, 2010 - Approximately a dozen people openly carrying handguns on Madison's State Street were left alone by police officers, in contrast to the treatment received by a UW-Madison student with a gun on the same main drag last year.

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DES MOINES, Iowa - April 9, 2010 - Twelve-year-old war protester Frankie Hughes was arrested late Wednesday for trespassing after she allegedly refused to leave U.S. Senator Tom Harkin’s Des Moines office.

On Thursday morning, the girl’s mother - who was standing outside Harkin’s office when Frankie was taken into custody - was ticketed for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

“How crazy,” said Frankie, who learned after school that her mother had been charged. “She didn’t contribute to anything. I did what was in my heart. No one suggested I do what I did.”

NEW YORK - April 8, 2010 - Mind reading may no longer be the domain of psychics and fortunetellers - now some computers can do it, too.

Software that uses brain scans to determine what items people are thinking about was among the technological innovations showcased Wednesday by Intel Corp., which drew back the curtain on a number of projects that are still under development.

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia - April 7, 2010 - A Kalifornia Democrat is proposing a new law requiring residents to register their shotguns and rifles or go to jail, CBSNews.com has learned.

Assemblyman Mike Feuer, whose district includes Beverly Hill and West Hollywood, this week introduced legislation ordering law enforcement to "permanently keep" records of anyone who buys a gun from a dealer or an individual. Kalifornia already stores information about handgun purchases.

EUGENE, Oregon - April 6, 2010 - A mother says police killed her schizophrenic son by tasering him continuously for more than 2 minutes, then kneeling on his back as he lay facedown.

Felisa Rold claims Salem police Officers Jacob Pratt, Daron Mumey, Adam Waite and Eric Brown killed her son Gregory in May 2009. She says her son had been eating lunch with her and his brother, and that he did not resist arrest until they shot him with the Taser.

MARTINSVILLE, Indiana - April 1, 2010 - Two officers called to a home day care to subdue an unruly 10-year-old have been suspended after one used a stun gun on the boy and another slapped him in the mouth, a central Indiana police chief said Thursday.

The child suffered no significant injuries. Both officers have been placed on paid administrative leave while police investigate the confrontation Tuesday at Tender Teddies.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - March 31, 2010 - A study published in the March edition of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine suggests that a few physicians may have killed children who were very sick by giving them fatal morphine doses, after the parents had requested euthanasia.

I am 52 years old as I write this commentary.  I have lived all over the united States of America.  I have also lived in a number of foreign countries.

For over 15 years, I have been teaching people who genuinely desire to learn, how the American people have been defrauded of their birthright and inheritance by a federal government entirely staffed with criminals (i.e. people who do not obey the Law of the Land, which is the Constitution).

Over that period of time and due to my commitment, like Patriot Patrick Henry before me, to see the truth, the worst of it, and prepare for it, it has become apparent that modern America looks and acts nothing like the country in which I grew up, or the Republic founded on individual freedom that was established over 231 years ago.

WASHINGTON - March 23, 2010 -  Ten U.S. states plan to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of health care as soon as illegitimate President Barack Obama signs it into law, Florida's attorney general said Monday.