Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 28 February, 2007 | 3 Comments »
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Ohio said on Wednesday they want to force convicted sex offenders to use a fluorescent-green license plate on their cars so they can be easily identified.
A Republican and a Democrat in the state legislature have joined forces to propose the law, which echoes measures in several U.S. states that require [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 28 February, 2007 | No Comments »
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Matt White, a journeyman pitcher trying to make the Los Angeles Dodgers, could become baseball’s first billionaire player.
It has nothing to do with his arm. He owns a rock quarry in western Massachusetts.
White, who has appeared in seven big league games in nine professional seasons, paid $50,000 three years ago [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 28 February, 2007 | 1 Comment »
>>Lawyer: ‘Accusers lied to avoid being ‘outed’ as gay in military’…
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — A military jury ignored an Air Force captain’s plea for leniency Wednesday, sentencing him to 50 years in prison for raping four men and attempting to rape two others.
The sentence was delivered a day after nine Air Force officers [...]
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MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan teacher cut a unruly 7-year-old pupil’s tongue with scissors to silence him, police and school officials said on Tuesday.
The child, of North African origin, needed to go to hospital for five stitches to close the wound.
The boy’s family has filed suit against the teacher, who has been suspended after last [...]
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NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds.
“I found a bomb in the potatoes,” Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters.
“I went to the market to buy some potatoes and that’s where the bomb was. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 28 February, 2007 | 4 Comments »
TALLAHASSEE — A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term “illegal alien” from the state’s official documents.
“I personally find the word ‘alien’ offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children,” said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. “An alien to me is someone from out of space.”
She has [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 28 February, 2007 | No Comments »
(Enquirer) - Pneumonia, not a drug overdose, killed Anna Nicole Smith, the National Enquirer has learned exclusively.
In the new issue just hitting newsstands, The ENQUIRER reports that preliminary findings reveal that tests performed during the autopsy show Anna Nicole had a severe case of pneumonia. Prescription drugs that she had taken made the condition [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 27 February, 2007 | No Comments »
>>WORST 1-DAY DROP SINCE 2001…
>>NASDAQ DOWN NEARLY 4%…
>>S&P 500 FALLS MORE THAN 3%…
>>CHINA SLIDE…
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks plummeted Tuesday, briefly hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 27 February, 2007 | 2 Comments »
ST. PETERSBURG — Max Mayfield, the former director of the National Hurricane Center, is under investigation by his former employer for possibly violating fishing laws.
Mayfield caught a 200-pound Goliath grouper while fishing with friends in the Gulf of Mexico a few days after his retirement Jan.1. The boat captain and crew slid the grouper into [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 27 February, 2007 | No Comments »
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Looking for the love of your life? Does your pet put potential partners off? — There is now a Web site where you can find a partner compatible with your dog, cat, snake or spider.
A new Dutch Web site — www.dier-en-mens.nl — says it is a meeting place for all animal lovers, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 27 February, 2007 | No Comments »
‘Attacker was trying to reach Cheney’…
Taliban ‘knew of visit’…
Security fears dogged trip…
MUSCAT (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney was whisked into a bomb shelter immediately after a Taliban suicide bomber struck the main American military base he was visiting in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Up to 14 people were killed, including one U.S. and one South [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 27 February, 2007 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON (washpost) - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former president Bill Clinton have operated a family charity since 2001, but she failed to list it on annual Senate financial disclosure reports on five occasions.The Ethics in Government Act requires members of Congress to disclose positions they hold with any outside entity, including nonprofit foundations. Hillary [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, 26 February, 2007 | 1 Comment »
HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A woman who told authorities she was fed up with tailgaters pulled out a gun and shot at the tires of a pickup that got too close, police said. Officials believe the bullet missed the pickup, and no one was hurt.
Bernadette Headd, 39, was in rush-hour traffic Wednesday [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, 26 February, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, 26 February, 2007 | No Comments »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Denver Broncos running back Damien Nash died suddenly on Saturday, the National Football League team said in a statement.
Nash, 24, reportedly died after collapsing at a charity basketball game in suburban St. Louis. The team did not confirm any details or the cause of death.
“The Denver Broncos organization is once again [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 25 February, 2007 | 2 Comments »
By: Tim McGirk
Jerusalem
Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you ‘The Titanic’ is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he’s sinking is Christianity.
In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn’t resurrected –the cornerstone of Christian faith– and that his burial cave was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, 24 February, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It had to happen eventually: With no work coming his way, Michael Jackson, sources say, has agreed to do a tour with sister Janet and his brothers.
I’m told that Michael reluctantly met with his siblings on Monday in Las Vegas. Sisters Janet and Rebbie, as well as Jermaine, Randy, Marlon, Tito and Jackie, all knocked [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, 24 February, 2007 | 2 Comments »
(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA A popular Germantown High School teacher suffered a broken neck Friday during a scuffle with students over a prohibited electronic device.
The alleged incident happened just before noon after math teacher Frank Burd confiscated an iPod from a 11th grade member of his class.
Following class, authorities said the 17-year-old student and a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, 24 February, 2007 | 3 Comments »
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Internet was abuzz Friday over a series of racy photos linked to an “American Idol” contestant. The pictures, posted on several Web sites, included one with four women posing topless at the beach, their hands covering their breasts, and others with a woman engaged in a sex act.
The anonymous postings [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 23 February, 2007 | No Comments »
Photos: Clay Moore…
Incident Appears To Be Random Kidnapping, Official Says
PARRISH, Fla. — An Amber Alert was issued Friday after a gunman drove up to a group of children waiting at bus stop in Manatee County, Fla., and kidnapped a 13-year-old boy in front of horrified classmates, according to police.
Clay Moore, 13, was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 23 February, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Transportation Security Administration showed off its newest anti-terrorism tool at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Thursday.
The backscatter machine, which will be at Security Checkpoint B in Terminal 4, is expected to become operational today.
The equipment has rankled privacy-protection groups because it can produce exceptionally clear X-ray images of the human body.
But the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 23 February, 2007 | 1 Comment »
LONDON (Daily Mail) - Psychics were recruited by the Ministry of Defence to locate Osama Bin Laden’s secret lair, it was claimed yesterday.
Newly declassified documents revealed that the MoD conducted an experiment to see if volunteers could ’see’ objects hidden inside an envelope.
It is claimed the ministry hoped positive results would allow it to use [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 23 February, 2007 | No Comments »
Former president Bill Clinton, who came to the White House with modest means and left deeply in debt, has collected nearly $40 million in speaking fees over the past six years, according to interviews and financial disclosure statements filed by his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Last year, one of his most lucrative since he left [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 23 February, 2007 | No Comments »
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A tour bus of U.S. senior citisens defended themselves against a group of alleged muggers, sending two of them fleeing and killing a third in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said on Thursday.
One of the tourists, a retired member of the U.S. military aged [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 23 February, 2007 | No Comments »
When Britney first hooked up with Kevin Federline, I think everyone questioned the backup dancer’s intentions. Afterall, he began seeing Britney while still in a relationship with girlfriend Shar Jackson, the mother of his daughter, Kori, who was several months pregnant with the couples’ second child! Over the next few years, Brit’s fans became more [...]
