“Geography of the United States” on The Daily Caller

A 22-year-old man was killed in a workplace accident Monday — crushed after falling into a mixer at a Brooklyn tortilla factory, police said. (more)

Jared Lougher, the 22-year-old suspected gunman in Saturday’s Tucson, Ariz. shooting, had five run-ins with Pima Community College campus police and was suspended for violating the student code of conduct — ultimately resulting in his withdrawal from the college, according to a CBS News report. (more)

A surgeon of the Arizona hospital where Gabrielle Giffords is being treated said in a press conferece Saturday that he’s “about as optimistic as it can get in this situation” for Giffords’ recovery. She was out of surgery at the time of the press conference, and was “responding to commands,” according to Peter Rhee of the University Medical Center of Tucson. (more)

In the version of history being taught in some Virginia classrooms, New Orleans began the 1800s as a bustling U.S. harbor (instead of as a Spanish colonial one). The Confederacy included 12 states (instead of 11). And the United States entered World War I in 1916 (instead of in 1917). (more)

No one is the same after encountering feisty, fearless and plain-spoken Mattie Ross, age 14, from near Dardanelle in Yell County, Ark. Not the other characters in the Charles Portis novel she dominates, and certainly not the filmmaking Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel. (more)

NEW ORLEANS – Police are investigating an early morning shooting in which a male prostitute who was dressed as woman was shot near the intersection of Tulane Avenue and South Miro Street, according to the New Orleans Police Department. (more)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police arrested a man in connection with a carjacking near 33rd Street and Jackson Avenue on Monday morning, where the owner was chained to his front porch. (more)

A Catholic nun broke one of the Ten Commandments by embezzling $850,000 from a suburban New York City college and gambling it away in Atlantic City, according to federal prosecutors. (more)

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A 53-year-old man is facing charges after police say he was watching porn while driving drunk early Wednesday morning. (more)

DETROIT — A Detroit woman got a rude awakening Wednesday morning when a bullet grazed her head while she slept in a home on Pressler Street, Michigan State Police said. (more)

A Sheboygan woman accused of biting off her husband’s tongue while kissing him was charged Tuesday with felony mayhem and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation. (more)

BELLEVUE, Neb. — A Bellevue boy, 13, along with three middle school-aged friends, went on a joyride early Sunday morning in a woman’s SUV. A short chase ensued, with speeds that exceeded 100 mph, police said. (more)

At long last, the most heated literary contest of the year has been decided. (more)

LOUISVILLE, KY (WDRB Fox 41) – The man accused of killing a Sullivan University student faced a judge Wednesday morning.  At the same time, detectives continued combing a southern Indiana landfill for Andrew Compton’s body. (more)

What is it that makes ‘Bristol the Pistol,’ as her mother calls her, seemingly bulletproof? (more)