The Daily Populous

APPLETON - A man who was accused of putting an abortion-inducing drug in his girlfriend's drink was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison.

Manishkumar Patel, 45, was convicted in August of attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child.

RELATED: Man convicted of attempted homicide in spiking of girlfriend's drink with abortion pill. »

In the far east, another Communist candidate looked set for victory until a suspicious burst of votes for the pro-government candidate.

Moscow cancelled the election wholesale for ballot-stuffing, the first time that’s happened since the 1990s.

But somewhere along the line, this turned into a real election, which the authorities have tried to cancel. »

The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents.

Only about 24 percent of people born to low-income fathers in that high-potential group graduate from college.

That means they’re at least as likely to graduate from college as the highest-scoring low-income students. »

Vice President Mike Pence’s wife Karen Pence travelled to North Carolina to campaign for a GOP candidate who thinks things were better when gay sex was a crime.

Right Wing Watch reports that the candidate is a member of the Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Wall network.

The Family Research Council is a listed anti-LGBT hate group whose leader has been condemned for comparing gay people to Nazis. »