Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 26 January, 2007 | 6 Comments »
ATLANTA (AP) — Two teenagers accused of duct-taping a puppy’s snout and paws and cooking the animal alive in an oven pleaded guilty Friday to animal cruelty and other offenses.
Prosecutors said Joshua Moulder, 17, and his brother, Justin, 19, broke into a newly refurbished community center, where they tortured and killed the 3-month-old puppy, damaged [...]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the US ambassador may be asked to leave Caracas if he continued to “meddle” in the country’s affairs.
Chavez said that William Brownfield could be declared a ‘persona non grata’ in Venezuela for his comments critical of announced nationalizations of key industries.
“It could be, if he continues meddling in the [...]
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(CBS4) MIAMI Die-hard football fans attending the Super Bowl game at Dolphin Stadium are getting a rude awakening after finding out that no tailgating of any type will be allowed on game day within one mile of the stadium.
“There is no tailgating allowed in the Dolphin Stadium parking lots,” Sue Jaquez, a member of [...]
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TAR HEEL, N.C. — The 21 Smithfield Packing Co. employees arrested by immigration officials while they worked Wednesday are in the process of being deported.
The 20 men and one woman arrested were moved Thursday from the Mecklenburg County Jail to Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., nearly 700 miles from Tar Heel.
Meanwhile, church officials within [...]
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 25 (Reuters Life!) - Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman and seven other people suffered minor injuries on a Los Angeles movie set on Thursday when her car crashed into a light pole during filming, police said.
Kidman, who was behind the wheel of a Jaguar rigged for filming when it struck the pole, was [...]
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DUBLIN, Jan 25 (Reuters Life!) - An Irish convict who stole a car to get back to prison after missing a weekend release deadline has been given a six month suspended jail sentence.
Trevor Doyle, 25, grabbed the vehicle after falling asleep on a bus and overshooting his stop near Shelton Abbey open prison in Arklow [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 26 January, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Former president also rejected Christian historian because name sounded ‘too Jewish’
By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Monroe Freedman
TEL AVIV – Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were “too many Jews” on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 26 January, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Passengers on an American Airlines flight that was stuck on the tarmac in Austin for nearly 10 hours last month are pushing for a national Passengers Bill of Rights to protect traveling consumers.
The proposal would require airlines to return passengers to terminal gates after three hours on the tarmac. It would also impose penalties on [...]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cook Rosa Maria Salazar’s eyes dart anxiously to the door as customers file into the Salvadoran cafe in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.
“We’re terrified. The police could come for us at any time and deport us,” she said in Spanish earlier this week as diners fingered maize tortillas [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 26 January, 2007 | 1 Comment »
OMAHA, Neb. — Area drivers will soon be able to fill up with gasoline made from “terror-free oil.”
KETV in Omaha reports that a gas station is about to open near 129th and Q streets named Terror Free Oil, and the idea is to offer consumers petroleum products from countries that do not sponsor terror.
The gas [...]
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A Van Halen reunion tour, with David Lee Roth back in the fold after 22 years, is in the works, with a Las Vegas launch looking good.
A late April date at the Palms’ new venue, The Pearl, is “99 percent” likely, a source said.
It would be the latest coup for Palms owner George Maloof, who [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 26 January, 2007 | 1 Comment »
LINCOLN, Neb. — Two 13-year-old boys are accused of videotaping themselves sexually assaulting two 5-year-olds and a 3-year-old and also taping sexual contact between three young children, according to Lincoln police.
The alleged felony occurred at one of the boys’ homes, about a block away from an elementary school.
Court records show that the tape includes the [...]
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ANTWERP, Belgium (Reuters) - Mozart, an iguana with an erection that has lasted for over a week, will have his penis amputated in the next couple of days.
Veterinarians at Antwerp’s Aquatopia had sought to treat the animal’s problem, but decided removal was the only solution because of the risk of infection. The good news for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, 25 January, 2007 | No Comments »
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - Class, from now on there will be no talking at lunch. A Roman Catholic elementary school adopted new lunchroom rules this week requiring students to remain silent while eating. The move comes after three recent choking incidents in the cafeteria.
No one was hurt, but the principal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 24 January, 2007 | 3 Comments »
TMZ.COM EXCLUSIVE
In an exclusive conversation with the man driving directly behind Brandy at the time of her fateful crash, TMZ has learned that the singer repeatedly blamed herself at the scene of the accident.
“She got upset, talking about how it was all her fault … she didn’t stop, kept saying how she hit the [...]
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RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court has ordered a drug user to spend six months memorizing the Koran, but he faces a year in prison if he fails to recite the Muslim holy book by heart, a newspaper said Tuesday.
The “alternative sentence” saves the Saudi man from Jeddah from a six-month jail term, al-Watan said. [...]
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AMSTERDAM, Jan 24 (Reuters Life!) - The Netherlands, the country that has pioneered reality shows like “Big Brother,” is planning a new first — a dating program for the visibly disfigured.
The broadcaster SBS 6 is seeking candidates for its “Love at Second Sight” show due to be launched on February 20.
“Do you have a visible [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 24 January, 2007 | 1 Comment »
WASHINGTON –Senator John F. Kerry plans to announce today that he will not run in the 2008 presidential race, and will instead remain in Congress and seek reelection to his Senate seat next year, according to senior Democratic officials.
Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, plans to say he will remain in the Senate to recommit himself to [...]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested over the past week in one of the biggest U.S. immigration stings have already been deported, but some are being held for possible criminal prosecution.
Federal authorities announced Tuesday the results of a weeklong series of raids in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that targeted illegal immigrants [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 24 January, 2007 | 5 Comments »
VIDEO…
A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 metres (2,000 ft) or more under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he [...]
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NEW CASTLE — An Ohio woman who led police on a high-speed chase that began in southern Madison County was apprehended Sunday at the Flying J truck stop along Interstate 70 south of New Castle.
Marcia J. Cashel, a 72-year-old retired school teacher from Van Wert, is charged in Madison County with resisting law enforcement, a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 23 January, 2007 | 1 Comment »
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Flight attendants often deal with obnoxious passengers who won’t listen to instructions by kicking them off the plane. But a Massachusetts couple think AirTran Airways went overboard by treating their crying 3-year-old daughter in much the same way. Julie and Gerry Kulesza and daughter Elly were removed from the flight [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 23 January, 2007 | No Comments »
Tuesday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly (AP) — Hills, Calif.:
1. Best Picture: “Babel,” “The Departed,” “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Queen.”
2. Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, “Blood Diamond”; Ryan Gosling, “Half Nelson”; Peter O’Toole, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 23 January, 2007 | 1 Comment »
BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - A Chinese thief has returned a mobile phone and thousands of yuan he stole from a woman after she sent him 21 touching text messages, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
Pan Aiying, a teacher in the eastern province of Shandong, had her bag containing her mobile phone, bank cards and 4,900 [...]
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ERUSALEM — Iran’s nuclear program seeks first-strike capability against Israel, a leading strategist said.
The Israeli strategist and former intelligence officer said Iran believes it could destroy the Jewish state with one nuclear weapon.
“Iranians believe that it holds, may hold, a first strike capability against Israel once it has a nuclear capability,” said Shmuel Bar, director [...]
