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Newspaper apologizes for Obama assassination ad.

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A Pennsylvania newspaper says it’s sorry it accidentally ran a classified ad that called for the assassination of President Obama. "May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!" the ad read. The publisher of the Warren Times Observer said the editors hadn’t made the connection that the four presidents listed were all assassinated and apologized for the “oversight.” The man who placed the ad is now the subject of a Secret Service investigation.

Read it at The New York Post