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Friday, April 11, 2014
News First Drip (4/11/14): FBI unseals list of items seized from Cannon, N.C. doctors are growing vaginas, more
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:59 AM
The FBI has released the list of items agents seized from former mayor Patrick Cannon. In addition to the infamous leather briefcase that was used to carry $20,000 into the mayor's office, a Glock 20 handgun, cellphones, a Kindle, an iPad, $7,680 in cash and mounds of paperwork were collected from Cannon's home, his place of business and the mayor's office.
Expect some delays today and Saturday in Uptown: BB&T Ballpark opens today, and there will be a festival at Romare Bearden Park to celebrate.
In news that make you go whoa: Doctors at North Carolina's Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre are building vaginas in the lab now. Four women have received new vaginas, says the BBC. "A tissue sample and a biodegradable scaffold were used to grow vaginas in the right size and shape for each woman as well as being a tissue match. They all reported normal levels of "desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction" and painless intercourse."
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has resigned, after the debacle that was the Obamacare rollout. "Officials said Ms. Sebelius, 65, made the decision to resign and was not forced out. But the frustration at the White House over her performance had become increasingly clear, as administration aides worried that the crippling problems at HealthCare.gov, the website set up to enroll Americans in insurance exchanges, would result in lasting damage to the president's legacy."
Stephen Colbert will be taking over CBS' Late Show when David Letterman retires next year.
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