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Orane Gowans was trying to get his five-month-old daughter to stop sucking her thumb and so he allegedly struck the child on her hand, hoping that would stop the habit.

But he ended up braking it in several places instead. The 28-year-old was arrested and charged with child abuse. It has not been confirmed, but it is possible that the dad did not intentionally try and break her hand.

According to the Port St. Lucie Police Department, Gowans shares a residence with his wife and three young children, all under age five.

When Gowans’ wife returned home after the incident had occurred, she saw that her baby’s hand was swollen. When she attempted to touch the baby’s hand to see what was causing it to look so puffy, the child screamed.  The unidentified woman asked her husband, who had been watching the baby, what had happened to their daughter.

Authorities say that Gowans concocted a story, telling his wife that the baby had been bitten by a bug and urged her not to seek medical attention for the child. The wife decided to take the baby to the hospital where doctors discovered that the baby’s hand was broken in several spots.

NEW YORK  — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it expects to hire more than 50,000 temporary employees this holiday season and will be offering more hours to its existing workers.

The world’s largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., says that this year’s holiday hiring will be up slightly from last year, although it declined to give a precise figure for the increase. The discounter operates more than 4,000 stores in the U.S. and employs about 1.4 million people nationwide.

Wal-Mart’s announcement Friday follows one by Kohl’s earlier this week indicating its stores will be hiring more than 52,700 people, up more than 10 percent from last year.

After officially accepting his party’s presidential nomination, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was secretly recorded in a video secured by news magazine Mother Jones at a fund-raising event.

While there, Romney talked with well-heeled campaign donors about voters who support President Barack Obama:

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.”

Romney then added:

“[M]y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”We really shouldn’t be surprised by the new video showing the GOP candidate disparage “those people” and suggesting that, if his father was Mexican, he’d be ahead in the polls. But, in this new age of technology and high-tech snooping devices, one would think Romney would exercise more caution. But, as we all know, it is often too difficult to suppress one’s true feelings, especially among friends.

In this case, his deep pocket campaign donors. In the video, Romney reveals what he truly feels about “those people” he “tried” to woo at a recent NAACP convention and millions of other Americans with whom he struggles to strike a chord.

After a stand-off in the third-largest school district in the nation that had the Chicago Teachers Union in deep debate with Chicago Public Schools officials, the strike has ended. Union delegates voted Tuesday to suspend the nine-day strike, sending 26,000 teachers and 350,000 children back to school.

This summer, 9-year-old Joshua Smith’s lemonade stand raised over $3,000 to help Detroit.

Having learned that his city was in an economic crisis, Joshua decided to raise money to help clean up garbage and cut the grass in local parks.

Last Friday, Kevin Cook, an executive from Playworld Systems in Pennsylvania, arrived in Detroit on Joshua’s 10th birthday with exciting news: His company is going to build a $50,000 playground structure at a nearby park.

“Happy Birthday and we wanted to give this to you as part of your vision and for your birthday,” Cook told the surprised boy, revealing a colourful rendering of the playground set that is set to open on September 29.

Playworld Systems is currently in talks with the City of Detroit, finalizing details for the new Activo Playground.

Cook heard Joshua’s story on World News with Diane Sawyer several weeks ago.

“My wife was sitting on the couch with me and looked at me and said ‘Kevin, you are getting that young man a playground,” Cooke said.
Joshua’s proud parents were thrilled by the news.

“I thought about what Joshua did and always wondered, ‘Lord, how can we make this lasting? Not just a week in the summertime,'” Joshua’s mother, Rhonda Smith, said. “And so when Kevin called and said that they were actually going to have a playground for the children, I said, ‘Wow! This is something that’s lasting’ and so I was just pleased and overjoyed.”

WASHINGTON  — The Education Department is awarding $228 million in grants to historically black colleges and universities.

The five-year grants will go to schools in 19 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Schools can use the money to expand their campuses, acquire science equipment, develop counseling programs and train faculty.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the grants will enable historically black colleges to help students who grapple with financial challenges as they pursue post-secondary education. Most of the schools receiving grants are in the South.

The largest grants will go to Florida A&M University in Tallahassee; Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, La.; Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss.; and St. Philip’s College in San Antonio. Those schools will receive more than $5 million each.

The US News & World Report recently did an analysis of colleges and universities where students graduated with the least and the most amounts of debt debt. Clark Atlanta University ranks at the top of schools where students exit with most debt.

This finding is perhaps unsurprising, since 94 percent of students borrow money to attend the HBCU. The average debt of a 2011 Clark Atlanta graduate is a whopping $47,066. That could easily cripple someone with a well paying job, talk less of a recent college graduate.

The report calculated the average debt of graduating students, the percent of students who borrowed and their U.S. News National Universities rank.

On a more positive note, Howard University was ranked sixth on the list of colleges or universities with students graduating with the least debt at an average of $15,080.

BOSSIER CITY, La. — A woman trying to avoid an Air Force deployment to Asia had her husband shoot her before lying to investigators that an intruder was to blame, Bossier City police said.

Mark Natale, a police spokesman, said Staff Sgt. Judy Groomes, 25, was treated for wounds on both of her legs from one round from a handgun fired by her husband, Staff Sgt. Christopher Tyquan Groomes, 26. Both are active military based at nearby Barksdale Air Force Base.

Daycare worker Paris Ward has been charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of 4-year-old Jordan Coleman, who was under her care when she allegedly left him sleeping in a sweltering SUV last month.

The child’s body temperature rose to a fatal 108 degrees when he was rushed to a Coral Springs., Fla., hospital, where he was pronounced dead as a result of hypothermia.

According to the arrest report, Ward was asked by the owner, Cecily Roberts, of the 3 C’s Daycare Academy to drive seven young children to her friend’s apartment because she was past her capacity as per state guidelines.  The day care, which has previously been cited and has a history of problems over safety concerns, has been shut down.