After running inside from a rainstorm one Friday evening last January, Deepa Kulkarni leaned against the doorway with her right hand to take off her boots. Then, in an effort to make sure the dog didn’t get out, someone slammed the door hard, and it landed right on her pinky. Kulkarni thought the door had [...]
Nearly half of all Americans who claimed the first-time homebuyer tax credit on their 2009 tax returns will have to repay the government. According to a report from the Inspector General for Tax Administration, released to the public Thursday, about 950,000 of the nearly 1.8 million Americans who claimed the tax credit on their 2009 [...]
Anyone convicted of a violent sex offense against a child in California will get life in prison without parole starting Thursday, after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed “Chelsea’s Law.” The law was named for 17-year-old Chelsea King, who was murdered earlier this year by a registered sex offender who also admitted killing 14-year-old Amber Dubois. “Because [...]
A 90-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 17-1/2 years in prison for battering his wife of nearly 68 years to death with a hammer. A feeble-looking John Bunz stumbled on his way into the Buffalo courtroom and was helped to a chair by deputies. He remained seated throughout the hearing, interrupting state Supreme Court Justice [...]
The decision by a divided appeals court says the risk of state secrets being exposed outweighs the alleged victims’ right to seek damages from a Boeing subsidiary they say aided in the renditions. Five foreign men who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the CIA cannot sue the Boeing Co. subsidiary that helped spirit them away [...]
The mayor of El Naranjo, Mexico, in the central state of San Luis Potosi was gunned down and killed inside his office Wednesday, officials said. Witnesses say that four armed and hooded men stepped out of a white truck at city hall, the San Luis Potosi government said in a statement. Two of the men [...]
There were many odd things about my recent Havana stopover (apart from the dolphin show, which I’ll get to shortly), but one of the most unusual was Fidel Castro’s level of self-reflection. I only have limited experience with Communist autocrats (I have more experience with non-Communist autocrats) but it seemed truly striking that Castro was [...]
On the night of her arrest for drunken driving, prominent Seattle attorney Anne Bremner told the sheriff’s deputy who arrested her June 4 that she was the “attorney for Seattle police,” that she was “famous,” and that this “will be bad for you guys,” according to a copy of the officer’s report. “I represent Seattle [...]
The health insurer violated state law nearly 1 million times from 2006 to 2008 after it was bought by UnitedHealth Group, the Department of Insurance says. California regulators are seeking fines of up to $9.9 billion from health insurer PacifiCare over allegations that it repeatedly mismanaged medical claims, lost thousands of patient documents, failed to [...]
Eighteen people died and several others were wounded Tuesday in a shooting at a shoe factory in San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras, police said. The incident began at 3:45 p.m., when two men carrying AK-47 assault rifles burst into the factory and began shooting, said Chief Hector Ivan Mejia of the San Pedro Sula [...]
The lives of US troops could be put at risk by a Florida church’s threat to burn copies of the Koran to mark the September 11 attacks, the top US commander in Afghanistan has warned. Gen David Petraeus said that the plans by the evangelical Dove World Outreach Centre to destroy the Muslim holy book [...]
Several homes are fully-engulfed in flames in several different locations in Detroit. On Detroit’s east side, multiple homes are on fire on Moenart near Mound and McNichols. At least twenty homes were fully-engulfed near Quinn and Van Dyke. Multiple homes are on fire on Robinwood Street and Van Dyke, near the fires on Quinn and [...]
Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s killer, was denied parole for the sixth time Tuesday, according to the New York State Division of Parole. A three-member panel of parole board commissioners conducted a video conference interview with Chapman from their offices in Rochester. In their written comments, the commissioners told Chapman they had concerns “about the [...]
An American couple in Belize struggled Tuesday to figure out their future, their dreams literally up in smoke after a mob of indigenous Mayans burned down their animal sanctuary in the belief the foreigners fed two missing children to crocodiles on their property. Cherie and Vince Rose moved to the tiny Central American nation in [...]
A Florida pastor told CNN on Tuesday that while his congregation still plans to burn Qurans to protest the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the church is “weighing” its intentions. Terry Jones, pastor of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, who was interviewed on CNN’s “American Morning,” said the congregation is taking seriously the [...]
George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, plans to announce on Tuesday that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch to expand the organization’s work globally. It is the largest gift he has made, the largest gift by far that Human Rights Watch has ever received, and only the second gift of $100 million [...]
Silicon Valley technology giant Oracle Corp has hired Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co who resigned amid a scandal, as president. Hurd, a close friend of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will replace Charles Phillips, who has resigned, Oracle said in a statement on Monday. Phillips was co-president alongside Safra Catz, who remains [...]
Officers stand watch in Westlake neighborhood the day after police shot a man they said was wielding a knife and not obeying their orders. Tensions flared Monday in the immigrant neighborhood of Westlake as dozens of protesters and Los Angeles police faced off at the site where a day laborer was fatally shot by police [...]
A third man survived last month’s massacre of 72 migrants by suspected drug traffickers in Mexico and is now in the United States, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said Sunday. “We know of a Salvadoran who is in the United States and who fortunately avoided getting killed,” Funes said. “His testimony will be key in solving [...]
Soldiers opened fire on a family’s car at a military checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and his father, authorities and relatives said Monday. It is at least the second time this year that a family has been caught up in a shooting involving Mexico’s military, which has come under intense criticism for [...]
The U.S. government is considering substantially increasing funding for Mexico’s drug war beyond the $1.4-billion Merida Initiative, Paul Richter reports from our Washington bureau. Citing an unnamed source in the White House, Richter reports that the Obama administration sees its joint anti-drug effort with Mexico as a top priority. At the same time, the administration [...]
The state, which still has the nation’s highest number of union jobs, is losing them at a faster clip than any other state, a UCLA study finds. The recession is taking a toll on union jobs, which are disappearing in California at a faster rate than anywhere else in the country, according to a UCLA [...]
It looks like a meteor strike: From out of nowhere, a huge clearing appears in the jungle — a deep rust-colored pit surrounded by mounds of dirt and thick stands of trees pushed to the side in dense piles of overturned soil. But this is no act of nature. It is the result of the [...]
Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation’s first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68. Mr. Thomas died Sunday in Ohio of pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from Carlotta Walls LaNier, who also enrolled at Central High [...]
Condoleezza Rice ordered George Bush not to return to Washington after the 9/11 attacks before hanging up the phone, the former national security advisor revealed in a documentary interview. In a heated exchange, Ms Rice had to argue with the US President in Florida not to return to the White House because it was a [...]
John Travolta has requested that charges be dropped against two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from him over the death of his son Jett. The actor said the legal case had already caused “unbelievable stress and pain” to his family. Jett, 16, who was autistic, died of a seizure in January 2009 [...]
More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II. Now, a half-dozen [...]
One in 10 people in Argentina have been found to live in areas where levels of arsenic in the water are above the legal limit. Campaigners there are calling on the government to take action, but as Craig Mauro reports from the province of Buenos Aires, people are already seeing the effects of several decades [...]
President Barack Obama has unveiled an ambitious plan to revamp the US transport infrastructure in a bid to kickstart the country’s ailing economy ahead of forthcoming mid-term congressional elections. Obama is expected to face intense pressure over the economy in the run-up to the November 2 election, which could see his Democratic Party lose control of Congress under [...]
Grand Isle – Several gulf residents have tested positive for oil in their blood as documented by Matt Smith and Heather Rally on the Intel Hub Radio Show last Thursday. Further testing is currently being preformed to find out if the chemical dispersant Corexit, made by Nalco, has entered the bloodstreams of gulf coast residents. [...]
Mark and Linda Wilfong are dealing with a problem inside their home that you wouldn’t believe. The smell of natural gas infests the air and even their water after a water well was drilled on their property. “We never thought, we just figured when they drilled we would have good drinking water. You never knew [...]
As college students gear up once again to taste the sweet freedom of the college campus, there’s one thing they’re not likely not focusing on: the probability that one out of four female college students will be raped before receiving a diploma. A recent study from the Department of Justice estimated that 25 percent of college [...]
The Dutchman charged with killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman and suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway has acknowledged extorting money from Holloway’s parents and says he did it to get back at them. In an interview published Monday, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf quoted Joran van der Sloot as confessing to taking [...]
A leading pet product company has issued a voluntary recall of nearly 75,000 bags of dog treats due to salmonella concerns, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The move by Hartz Mountain Corp. came after random sample testing by the FDA indicated the presence of salmonella organisms in one or more 8-ounce bags [...]
Félix survived his ordeal at the hands of the Zeta cartel, one of Mexico’s most ruthless drugs gangs. But he knows of many fellow migrants who suffered the same grisly fate as the 72 who were shot at an isolated ranch 70 miles from the border city of Reynosa. “There are lots more dead migrants, they [...]
Via RealEstalker : We wrote about Candy Spelling’s magnificent manor last year, when she first announced that she was selling it for a whopping $150 Million – and that she was willing to wait instead of lowering the asking price. True to her word, the Spelling Manor officially hit the open market yesterday with the original asking price. The [...]
No one’s really sure how many Americans are Muslim. The estimates range anywhere from 1 million to 7 million. But what’s clear is that over the past few weeks and months, almost every poll that’s been taken on Muslims has pointed to one conclusion: anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise. The majority of Americans — [...]
On the morning of Aug. 31, 2004, an employee at a Burger King in Richmond Hill, Ga., went out back to load some trash into a dumpster. Behind it lay a man in his mid-50s, stark naked. He appeared to have been beaten and had red ant bites on his body. Employees at the Burger [...]
Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges — they pleaded guilty — but two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison. The brothers were convicted of shipping [...]
No one seemed to notice the gunfire inside Pacific Rim Bank. Even when two dozen panicky people rushed out onto the plaza at Restaurant Row, heads barely turned. But when Alex O’Loughlin, Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park stepped up to save the day in this scene from the new “Hawaii Five-0″ — each in [...]
Los Angeles-based Global Horizons Manpower CEO Mordechai Orian, 45, surrendered to federal authorities in Honolulu earlier Friday, a day after the FBI had tried to arrest him at his Southern California home but found he wasn’t there. The Israeli head of a labor recruiting company accused of exploiting 400 workers from Thailand and forcing them [...]
Engineers in Chile have assembled a faster drilling machine for the operation to rescue 33 miners trapped underground since August 5. The arrival of the new machinery, which will be used to enlarge an existing supply shaft, brought new hope to relatives camping day and night outside the mine. Onlookers waved flags as a procession of [...]
Unrelenting rains and severe weather have lashed Guatemala, leaving at least 21 people dead over the past 24 hours, in what the country’s president calls a “national tragedy”. Twelve people were killed, and another dozen injured on Saturday when a rain-triggered landslide buried a bus on a major highway near central Chimaltenango city. Guatemala’s national radio [...]
Police in El Salvador have found two buried oil drums stuffed with millions of dollars in cash possibly linked to the illegal drug trade, authorities said Saturday. The first barrel was found Thursday on a ranch in the town of Penitente Abajo, about 40 miles (62 kilometers) from the capital. After three days counting the [...]
A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago. It took 29 1/2 hours to lift the 50-foot, 300-ton [...]
When it comes to staving off dementia, new evidence suggests that the “use it or lose it” dictum holds true — at least for a while. But it also appears that mentally stimulating lifestyles may speed up dementia once it hits in old age. “We do think that a cognitively active lifestyle is protective up [...]
Paul Conrad, the political cartoonist who won three Pulitzer Prizes and used his pencil to poke at politicians for more than 50 years, died Saturday, his son said. He was 86. Conrad died before dawn at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes surrounded by his family, David Conrad said. He [...]
Presented by President Hugo Chávez as an instrument to make shopping for groceries easier, the “Good Life Card” is making various segments of the population wary because they see it as a furtive attempt to introduce a rationing card similar to the one in Cuba. The measure could easily become a mechanism to control the [...]
The U.S. State Department Thursday flatly denied reports that the Obama administration is considering swapping the “Cuban Five” spies in U.S. prisons for a U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Havana. The denial came a day after Cuban-Americans in Congress expressed concern over reports of a deal to free Alan Gross, held without charges since his [...]
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory located a cosmic “ghost” that scientists think is evidence of a huge eruption produced by a supermassive black hole equal in power to a billion supernovas. The source, HDF 130, is over 10 billion light years away and existed at a time 3 billion years after the Big Bang, when galaxies [...]
The judge declared a mistrial in the sham marriage trial of Mexican soap opera actress Fernanda Romero on Friday after jurors said they were deadlocked with no hope of agreeing. The U.S. Attorney’s office did not immediately say if the case will be retried, but the judge set a hearing for January to discuss the [...]
The machine gun that Al Pacino used in the 1983 film Scarface and which his character referred to as “my little friend” is expected to fetch $150,000 at auction. The Hollywood star, who played Tony Montana in the gangster movie, was a method actor and insisted his weapon was the correct weight – so he [...]
In the first of a three-part investigation, Rory Carroll reports from the gateway to America, at the centre of drug cartel violence that has claimed 28,000 lives. The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers. They slice east to west, west to east, a homicidal pendulum. No one sees anything. [...]
A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department — including some with the highest available security clearance — who used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But the Pentagon investigated [...]
A clash between soldiers and gang members in Mexico has left 25 dead, according to reports. The soldiers had stormed a training camp set up by suspected drug gang members near Mexico’s border town of Monterrey which has seen an escalation of violence in recent months, including the massacre of 72 migrants last week. The [...]
Burger King said Thursday that it has agreed to be acquired by investment firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $4 billion. New York-based 3G Capital will buy the fast food chain for $24 a share. That marks a 46% premium over Burger King’s closing price of $16.45 on Tuesday, the day before news [...]
An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill. A commercial helicopter company reported the blast around 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats were en route [...]
Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate islands off the eastern coast of the United States, as Hurricane Earl closes in on a large swath of the Atlantic region. Authorities issued mandatory evacuation orders for visitors of North Carolina’s barrier islands, where Earl, a powerful category four storm, was on course to [...]
The US president has called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders not to let the chance for peace slip away as he opened a US-sponsored summit to re-launch direct talks. Barack Obama promised to put the “full weight” of the United States behind the effort to forge peace in direct talks between the two sides that [...]
A golfer managed to set fire to a course when he accidentally struck a rock with his iron, sending sparks into the Californian rough. His hacking in the rough caused a spark that lit the rough ablaze and spread, destroying 12 acres, although no homes were destroyed. The fire, at the exclusive Shady Canyon Golf [...]
A New York art courier entrusted with helping to sell a $1.3 Million painting is being sued after it vanished while he was on a night out. James Carl Haggerty is now being sued by one of the owners of “Portrait of a Girl” by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. According to the legal claim [...]
A man who jumped more than 400ft after leaping off a New York apartment block survived after crashing feet first into a parked car. Thomas Magill, 22, is said to be in a stable condition after the jump, suffering only two broken legs and a bruised lung. He only suffered two broken legs and a [...]
Relatives of a mentally ill West Boca Raton man are upset. They say their cousin, who suffers from a paranoia disorder, was taken advantage of. They claim he handed over the deed of his house to his neighbors for $10. The attorney for the neighbors says he can’t talk about what he calls a valid [...]
Preliminary drilling works have begun to carve a tunnel through solid rock to free 33 workers trapped some 700 metres below the surface in a Chilean mine. A giant 31-ton drill bored about 15 metres into the rock on Monday - the first step in the week-long effort - as the miners’ ordeal equalled the longest known [...]
The owners of the mine where 33 Chilean men are trapped have begged for forgiveness. Appearing before a parliamentary committee to answer questions, Alejandro Bohn, of the San Esteban mining group said: “The pain caused by this unwanted and unforeseen situation means we must ask forgiveness for the anguish being felt at this time. “This [...]
A transient, who was nicknamed “The Box Cutter,” was sentenced to more than 400 years in prison for a knifing rampage against several California women. Charles Juan Proctor was convicted this month of 22 charges including robbery and attempted murder in connection with the slashing spree, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said. On [...]
A Pakistani military delegation became the latest victim of the paranoia permeating US airports on Monday night, when US security officials detained a brigadier at Washington’s Dulles airport on a complaint by a passenger who said he did not feel safe sharing the flight with the delegation. The brigadier was removed from the United Airlines [...]
A judge spared a convicted murderer from death row, but the inmate decided to end his life anyway. George Smithey, a 70-year-old convict at San Quentin, hanged himself with a noose made of bed sheets in his cell over the weekend. Prison spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson said Smithey should have been moved from San Quentin [...]
President Obama declared that “the American combat mission in Iraq has ended” in his prime-time address Tuesday. “Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country,” he said. The mission officially drew to a close at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Obama said the winding down of [...]
A former Osama bin Laden aide who stabbed a federal prison guard in the eye was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after telling the court he’s not a terrorist and hearing his victim tell him he will go to hell. U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts said Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, 52, deserved a life sentence [...]
A doctor involved in an “on-again, off-again” relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend’s Bakersfield, Calif., home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later. Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder [...]
A suburban Dallas man used a thin blade from a safety razor to slit his throat in an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday in the courtroom where a judge had just sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Marcial Anguiano, 47, of Duncanville, was taken from the Dallas County courthouse on a stretcher with his neck [...]
Federal investigators are at San Francisco International Airport trying to figure out what caused a blown engine that lead to an emergency landing at SFO Tuesday morning. Hundreds of passengers were on their way to Australia when literally the sparks started flying. Qantas Airways Flight No. 74 departed SFO around 11:10 p.m. with 212 passengers [...]
A Marin County man has filed suit against the Marin County Sheriff’s Department for an incident in which he says law enforcement officers went too far. Peter McFarland was Tased inside his own home as his wife watched, begging officers to stop. On June 29, 2009 McFarland and his wife Pearl were returning home from [...]
A strict quality assurance program has virtually wiped out salmonella in California henhouses, but it makes locally produced eggs more expensive. Amid a rolling landscape of browning chaparral and battered trailers, Alan and Ryan Armstrong’s metal henhouses line up like military barracks. Keeping their 450,000 birds safe — and Salmonella enteritidis out of their henhouses [...]
About 60 child deaths tied in confidential court filings to abuse or neglect by Los Angeles County child protective services workers are under review because they were not disclosed publicly in potential violation of state law, according to an independent auditor. Michael Gennaco, chief attorney for the Office of Independent Review, presented his findingsTuesday to the [...]
Sacramento’s FOX affiliate KTXL “FOX40″ is known for delivering many firsts to the Sacramento area. The station was first with a satellite news truck, first on social media websites Twitter and Facebook, and first with local, national and global breaking news. Monday morning will see another first — the first paid advertisement for a medical [...]
Two civil liberties groups sued the federal government on Monday to try to block its targeted killing overseas of a U.S.-born cleric believed to have inspired recent attacks in the United States. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia [...]
Nyjah Huston pocketed the biggest payday in skateboarding, $150,000, Saturday in Glendale, Arizona the inaugural Street League skateboarding contest, The DC Pro, at the Jobing.com arena. He edged out new sensation, Shane O’Neal, and Torey Pudwill. Street Leage Skateboarding is MTV realtiy television star, Rob Drydek’ s new business venture that has been years in [...]
Federal police on Monday captured a Texas-born alleged drug kingpin who faces trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico. The arrest of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “the Barbie,” was the culmination of a yearlong intelligence operation, [...]
The suspect in the shooting death of a Utah sheriff’s deputy was captured early Monday near the Utah-Arizona border after a resident reported an armed prowler, authorities said. Law officers arrested Scott Curley, 23, shortly shortly before 1 a.m. local time near Kanab, said Jim Driscol, chief deputy of the Coconino County Sheriff’s Department in [...]
As human rights activists around the world marked the International Day of the Disappeared by focusing on Peru, Iraq, Nepal and Mexico, Leslie Spillett sat in her office in Winnipeg, contemplating the fate of more than 500 indigenous women who have disappeared in Canada. The violence, primarily targeting young women from disadvantaged backgrounds over the [...]
Officials say an 88-year-old Colbert, Georgia man died a week after a goat attacked him outside his home. Madison County Coroner Michelle Cleveland said Monday that Vestal Davis died Saturday at Athens Regional Medical Center. A Madison County sheriff’s office report says a deputy was dispatched to Davis’ home on a call that a man [...]
Lynn Turner, who was convicted in 2007 of killing her husband and boyfriend with antifreeze, has died in prison. Officials said Turner, 42, died in Metro State Prison in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday. A release from corrections officials said Turner was found in her cell at 6:55 a.m. Monday and that prison medical staff and [...]
In an IBM security report Apple, for the second year in a row, topped the list of vendors with the most reported security vulnerabilities, and Linux took the top spot for the operating system with the most vulnerabilities. Will this finally put to rest the myth that Apple and Linux users are invulnerable from malware [...]
Fidel Castro has given new details of just how sick he was when he was forced to give up power four years ago, saying in a rare interview that he was weak, dangerously thin and thought at times he could not go on. “I was at death’s door, but I came back,” the former Cuban [...]
About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday. Of those, 465 have been charged with crimes. In addition, Rosas said at a news conference, another 1,020 officers face disciplinary proceedings for failing confidence exams. Among [...]
Drug traffickers accused of killing a mayor in Tamaulipas, the second such incident in the state in two weeks. Suspected drug traffickers have killed the mayor of a small town in northern Mexico, in a region where two car bombs exploded last week and the bodies of 72 murdered migrant workers were found. Marco Antonio [...]
At least 42 people were killed and 12 received serious injuries in a bus accident in central Ecuador, the TeleSUR TV channel reported on Monday citing the local Red Cross branch (CRE). Six children are among those killed. The TV channel quoted Silvia Zumba, a police spokesman in the provincial capital Latacunga, as saying that [...]
A standoff was under way Sunday in a tiny southeast Alaska village after a man fatally shot two of the village’s four full-time police officers the night before, then barricaded himself in his home, local officials said. Hoonah police officers Tony Wallace and Matt Tokuoka died after the shooting late Saturday, said Bob Prunella, acting [...]
The Canadian coast guard began ferrying passengers on Sunday from a cruise ship that ran aground an unmapped rock. Officials aboard the Clipper Adventurer reported their troubles on Friday. The crew failed to dislodge the ship during high tide on Saturday, while Sunday, a coast guard icebreaker arrived to transport the people on board to [...]
“Modern Family” won the Emmy for outstanding comedy series at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday. The show beat out the heavily favored “Glee” for top comedy honors, and wound up winning six Emmys out of 14 nominations. “We are thrilled that families are sitting down to watch a television show,” said the show’s [...]
Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” has won its eighth consecutive Emmy Award for best variety, music or comedy series. Sunday’s victory kept Conan O’Brien from claiming an Emmy for his short-lived stint as “Tonight” host and also deprived nominee “Saturday Night Live” of a trophy for its episode with host Betty White. Bryan Cranston’s portrayal [...]
A Chandler, Arizona father has been charged with child abuse after police say he put his infant son in a freezer. According to Detective Frank Mendoza, Chance Kracke told police that he was high on methamphetamine when he placed his 7-month-old son in a freezer on Aug. 16. Kracke said he went into the kitchen [...]
Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto aims to cash out roughly half his collection of million-dollar homes and land on Kahala Avenue. And the real estate tycoon is looking to make a considerable profit — about $46 million — if buyers meet asking prices that he recently pumped up. Kawamoto cornered much of the market along the [...]
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii said it completed final building inspections for a $25.4 million satellite communications center at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s Wahiawa Annex. The Army’s 53rd Signal Battalion will use the new 28,244-square-foot Wideband Satellite Communication Operations Center. Keys to the building were unofficially turned over to members of the Missile Defense [...]
The thought had crossed Stanley Asato’s mind before. The gentleman was getting ready for retirement from the post office after years of service as a letter carrier. He always enjoyed watching baseball, especially his grandkids when they stepped on the diamond. The opportunity to possibly travel to the Little League World Series was on his [...]
Since February, something has been killing Hawaii’s pufferfish. The cause of the deaths isn’t known, but local researchers are working to find it. Because Hawaii hosts 14 species of pufferfish and four species of porcupine fish, the term pufferfish can mean any one of several shapes, sizes and colors of fish. In general, the fish [...]
Firefighters used hand tools yesterday to cut a 3.6-mile fire line in high elevation to prevent a 1,387-acre fire from moving into forest areas that are home to endangered Hawaiian birds, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said in a news release. The brush fire on the slopes of Mauna Kea is also [...]
As the 33 miners trapped by in a Chilean mine come to terms with their situation, Philip Sherwell travels to the north of Chile and finds a miraculous story of survival. The roaring fires fend off the bitter winter cold that each dusk envelops Camp Hope, a tent community spread across the sands above the [...]
A woman accused of attacking Leonardo DiCaprio with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party in 2005 has been ordered to stand trial in Los Angeles. Aretha Wilson, 40, faces one count of assault with a deadly weapon. Her lawyer said he expected the case to begin within 60 days. DiCaprio required a dozen stitches [...]
The State Department told U.S. government employees in Monterrey, Mexico, on Friday to send their children elsewhere because of heightened security risks related to drug violence. The order is the first of its kind in any Mexican city, said Brian Quigley, a spokesman for the U.S. Consulate General in Monterrey, adding it reflects an increasingly [...]
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was arrested late Friday night on cocaine possession charges in Las Vegas, authorities said. Cops stopped the car Hilton was in after spotting what they believed was marijuana smoke pouring out of the windows, a police spokesman told The Associated Press. A Clark County Detention Center clerk said early Saturday morning [...]
Cuban leader Fidel Castro has claimed Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent. The country’s former president has said that the world’s most wanted terrorist always popped up when former US President George W Bush needed to scare the world, and argued that recently published documents on the internet prove it. [...]
An analyst working at the US State Department has been accused of leaking top secret information about North Korea to a reporter. Steven Kim, who worked as an employee of a contractor, was named in a federal indictment unsealed Friday. He was charged with illegally disclosing national defense information, which carries a maximum penalty of [...]
Billionaire Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has sued 11 major Web-based companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and eBay, alleging they infringed internet patents he owns. AOL, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, and Staples are the other companies accused of violating four patents said cover fundamental web technologies first developed at Interval Research in [...]
A real estate agent who has been trying to sell a Frank Lloyd Wright home for two years is considering an inquiry from clients who want to move it from Southern California to Japan. The La Miniatura in Pasadena is among two of Wright’s experimental textile-block homes that have languished on the market, the Los [...]
Seven inmates were hospitalized after shots were fired by guards during a riot Friday night at Folsom State Prison, officials said. Correctional officers opened fire as they tried to break up the riot involving about 200 inmates that broke out about 7 p.m. Friday in the main exercise yard, prison spokesman Luis Patino said. Prison [...]
The California Supreme Court on Thursday limited the ability of death row inmates and those sentenced to life without parole to obtain information from law enforcement that might help their appeals. In interpreting a 2002 law, the state high court ruled 4 to 3 that such inmates must show the material they want exists to [...]
The speedboat is about three miles offshore when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent cuts the engine to drift on the current in quiet darkness – hoping for the telltale signs of immigrant smuggling a motor’s whirr or sulfur exhaust fumes. “It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and the haystack [...]
The Cuban government has issued two free-market reforms aimed at boosting its struggling economy, including allowing foreign investors to lease state-owned land for up to 99 years. The moves, announced in the official Gazette newspaper on Thursday and Friday, are considered a significant shift for the country as Raul Castro, the country’s president, promises to scale back government [...]
Body of official dumped beside road near scene of killing of 72 Central and South American migrants in Tamaulipas. The body of an official investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants killed in a ranch in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was found today dumped beside a nearby road alongside another [...]
The 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand accidentally fell to her death from a midtown high-rise early Friday after partying at a posh Manhattan nightclub, police said. Nicole John plunged from the 25th story window of the Herald Square Towers on W. 34th St. about 4:15 a.m., landing on the building’s third-floor overhang, [...]
Customs officials in the United States have seized more than 50 pounds (22 kgs) of marijuana from inside a tombstone. The tombstone was being shipped from Jamaica to England, through Cincinnati in the United States. US Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery with help from a narcotics detection dog at the Cincinnati DHL [...]
Former US president Jimmy Carter has secured the release of an American held in North Korea for nearly seven months after crossing the border from China on foot. Aijalon Gomes, 31, left Pyongyang on a plane accompanied by Mr Carter, who had flown to the North Korean capital three days earlier on a private visit [...]
A California attorney known as the “tax lady” whose law firm grosses some $25 million a year has been accused by the state attorney general of operating a “heartless scheme” that takes retainers from thousands of clients while doing little or nothing to help them. In fact, instead of reducing clients’ tax liability to the [...]
Dozens of law officers, some in helicopters or leading tracking dogs, searched a remote desert area in northern Arizona early Friday for a gunman who allegedly shot and killed a Utah sheriff’s deputy. Deputies on foot were chasing burglary suspect Scott Curley, 23, when he allegedly shot a Kane County (Utah) sheriff’s deputy with a [...]
Fruiti Pops, Inc. of Santa Fe Springs has recalled its mamey (mah-MAY’) frozen fruit bars because of a possible link to a rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever. The company said Thursday that the fruit bars were distributed in California, Arizona and Texas since May 2009. Fruiti Pops says retail stores, ice cream trucks and vending [...]
The governor of New Mexico said Thursday that he and Cuba’s foreign minister discussed the plight of a U.S. government contract worker jailed in Havana for nearly nine months on suspicions of spying. Gov. Bill Richardson said he believed they made progress in what he called a “humanitarian case, not a political case.” Alan P. [...]
Elderly Cubans will no longer be entitled to state-subsidised cigarettes after President Raul Castro axed the program in the latest austerity cuts designed to jump-start the country’s sputtering economy. Beginning next month, some 2.5 million Cubans over the age of 54 no longer will get their four packs of cigarettes as part of the country’s [...]
Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person’s car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court ruling in California. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Oregon in 2007 surreptitiously attached a GPS to the silver Jeep owned by Juan Pineda-Moreno, whom they suspected of growing [...]
Brad Pennington, from Houston, was considered one of the favourites among men’s solo racers in the Missouri River 340, a canoe and kayak race that began Tuesday morning in Kansas City, Kansas. However the Asian silver carp hit him “like a brick”. The fish are known to panic and jump in response to passing vessels. [...]
An NYPD cop whose wife called 911 for help against a gang of thugs says he was brutally beaten by baton-wielding fellow officers who stormed his Queens home. Larry Jackson suffered a broken right hand and multiple bruises from kicks and billy-club blows he said he got from the men in blue called to his home [...]
Slashed cabbie Ahmed Sharif said Thursday that he doesn’t think his throat-slashing was linked to the anti-Islam furor over the so-called Ground Zero mosque. “No, we didn’t have a talk about the mosque,” Sharif said of the brief conversation he had with accused attacker Michael Enright. But he said after meeting with Mayor Bloomberg that [...]
Mexican security forces were bringing refrigeration equipment for the bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants massacred by drug cartel gunmen at a remote ranch in northern Mexico, while investigators tried Thursday to determine their identities and why they were gunned down 160 kilometres from the U.S. border. The sole survivor — an Ecuadorean [...]
Three Canadian men and three other people have been charged with being part of a domestic terrorist group that was creating the bombs, and making plans to use them. Hiva Alizadeh, believed to be in his 30s, appeared in an Ottawa court today following police raids and arrests on Wednesday. Mr. Alizadeh faces charges of [...]
The United States made an attempt to snatch Russian alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was due to be extradited from Thailand, without appropriate legal permits, Thai Bangkok Post said on Wednesday. Thai English-language daily The Nation said on Tuesday that Bout, suspected by Washington of arms trafficking, would be extradited on Wednesday, though neither [...]
Southern Colombian authorities have issued red alert and started evacuation of more than 8,000 people living near the Galeras volcano, which erupted on Wednesday, the Caracol radio reported on Thursday. Colombian seismologists warn that a second explosion of the volcano, considered the most active in the country, is imminent. The seismic event began on Tuesday, [...]
Google Inc. is adding a free e-mail feature that may persuade more people to cut the cords on their landline phones. The service unveiled Wednesday enables US users of Google’s Gmail service to make calls from microphone-equipped computers to telephones virtually anywhere in the world. All calls in the US and Canada will be free [...]
The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials. Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for the National Security Council, appears to have been on the payroll for many years, according to [...]
Right now, more than 100 foreign intelligence organizations are trying to hack into the digital networks that undergird U.S. military operations. The Pentagon recognizes the catastrophic threat posed by cyberwarfare, and is partnering with allied governments and private companies to prepare itself. In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its [...]
Facebook is now worth as much as $33.7 Billion, after investors have paid up to $76 for a share in the company ahead of its much-hyped flotation on the stock market, according to a report. The Financial Times has said that the implied valuation means that Facebook is now has a higher valuation than technology [...]
Three Colombian teenagers were murdered in five days after their names appeared on two hitlists published on Facebook, the social networking website. Diego Ferney Jaramillo, 16, and Eibart Alejandro Ruiz Munoz, 17, were shot dead on Aug 15 while riding a motorcycle on the outskirts of the town of Puerto Asis. Two days later, young [...]
The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks on Wednesday posted what it said was an internal CIA report into the perception that the United States exports terrorism, but one U.S. official said it does not divulge spectacular developments. The three-page document, dated February 2, 2010, asks, “What If Foreigners See the United States as an ‘Exporter of Terrorism?’ [...]
Her divorce is final and she’s ready to talk. Elin Nordegrenbreaks her nine-month silence in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE magazine. “I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children,” she says in the magazine’s latest issue, out [...]
The Mexican Navy discovered 72 dead bodies on a ranch Tuesday in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, a statement released by the agency said. The bodies, 58 of which were men and 14 women, were found above ground in a section of a ranch about 14 miles (22 km) away from the town of [...]
Authorities in Peru said Tuesday they have begun disciplinary action against jailers who photographed suspected killer Joran van der Sloot posing with two other men held in connection with high-profile killings there. The photograph, first aired by the Peruvian television network America TV, shows the 22-year-old van der Sloot standing alongside fellow inmates Hugo Trujillo [...]
Oscar’s Cuba, a documentary film about Cuban activist Oscar Elías Biscet — a prisoner of conscience serving a 25-year sentence — was shown Sunday in Little Havana after a tour that took it to audiences in Los Angeles, Madrid and Paris. Its executive producer, Jordan Allott, who is not Cuban and lives in Washington, D.C., [...]
Here’s a new twist in the U.S. military’s Islamic sensitivity effort in the prison camps for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base: Military medical staff are force-feeding a secret number of prisoners on hunger strike between dusk and dawn during the Muslim fasting holiday of Ramadan. The prison camps spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Bradley [...]
Argentinian accused of trying to poison Gabriela Spanic as well as telenovela star’s mother, toddler son and maid. Police in Mexico have arrested the personal assistant of one of the country’s biggest telenovela stars for attempted murder of her employer, as well as the actor’s mother, two-year-old son and maid. In a statement police said Marcia Celeste Fernández [...]
A case of “do as they say, not as they do”? For the Fox News cable television network, opposition to Park51 (the Cordoba House), the proposed Islamic cultural center slated to be built just blocks from the site of the 9/11 terror attacks in lower Manhattan, has been something of a shared cause among the [...]
A group representing Ansel Adams sued a California man for selling prints and posters under the name of the famed nature photographer, the latest salvo in a dispute over glass negatives bought at a garage sale and purported to be Adams’ lost work. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal district court in San Francisco by [...]
Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations. The Drug Enforcement Agency recently sent memos asking companies that provide translation services to help it find nine translators in the Southeast who are fluent in Ebonics, Special Agent Michael Sanders said Monday. Ebonics, which is [...]
Three years ago, James M. Cameron held a position of power and trust as the top drug prosecutor for the Maine Attorney General’s Office. His stunning fall from that post began in December 2007, when state and federal agents showed up at his Hallowell home with search warrants for the four computers inside. The fall [...]
Jimmy Carter is set to travel to North Korea very soon, according to two sources familiar with the former president’s plans, in what they characterized as a private mission to free a U.S. citizen imprisoned there. Carter has decided to make the trip and is slated to leave for the Hermit Kingdom within days, possibly [...]
An invisible heat-beam weapon developed in secrecy by the military is set for use in a U.S. jail. Law enforcement officials recently revealed plans to use the nonlethal device at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Pitchess Detention Center, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. The weapon, which shoots an invisible beam of energy, [...]
A former Camp Lejeune Marine was found guilty Monday of killing a pregnant comrade in December 2007 and burying her remains in a fire pit in his backyard. Jurors deliberated for about three hours before finding Cesar Laurean guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach. Superior Court Judge Osmond Smith [...]
Now that doctors have reportedly concluded that LIndsay Lohan was misdiagnosed, the troubled actress is said to be seething mad at the court system. According to TMZ.com, doctors at UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Westwood evaluated Lohan and do not believe she has bipolar disorder or an addiction to methamphethamine. In addition, she was reportedly misdiagnosed as having Attention [...]
After it looked a couple of months ago as if a bill lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba had the momentum to pass Congress, it now appears stalled in the House of Representatives. The bill, which would also make food sales to Cuba easier, cleared the House Agriculture Committee but still needs a [...]
A Morroccan man charged in the daffy scheme to peddle Disney financial secrets to hedge funds pleaded guilty Monday to insider trading charges. Yonni Sebbag, 30, pleaded guilty to two federal crimes and faces a prison sentence of 27-to-33 months. Sebbag and his girlfriend were charged last May with offering hedge funds an advanced look [...]
The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords. A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took responsibility for the killings in a message left with the bodies, the attorney general’s office of Morelos state said in a statement. [...]
Islamic groups in the US fear an overlap between Eidul Fitr and the anniversary of 9/11 will lead to criticisms that Muslims are celebrating the 2001 terrorist attacks. This year, Eid falls on or around September 11. Some groups worry that the coincidence will increase suspicion and hostility towards Islam at a time when feelings [...]
Esperanza Spalding blends jazz, R&B, Brazilian vocalese and classical music. Her works have proved to have broad appeal at a moment when many in the music industry were fretting that young people were turning away from jazz en masse. She’s managed that rare feat: earning raves from the most discriminating jazz aficionados while also attracting [...]
Jenna Jameson may be famous for her risqué roles in adult films, but her latest video is the most shocking of all—Jenna’s new video reveals what happens to chickens who are killed for the Golden Arches and exposes McCruelty. Jenna knows that in the U.S. and Canada, McDonald’s chicken suppliers are using cruel and outdated [...]
Arizona authorities say 27 people have been booked on charges ranging from attempted murder to participation in a criminal street gang after shootings involving members of rival motorcycle gangs, the Vagos and Hells Angels. Detectives estimate at least 50 rounds were fired Saturday during the shootings in the small community of Chino Valley, 100 miles [...]
Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968. With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation’s most [...]
All 33 miners trapped deep underground for 17 days were reached alive Sunday, Chile’s president confirmed. A probe sent early Sunday near the site of a shelter came back with a handwritten note: “All 33 of us are fine in the shelter.” “We are overjoyed at the news,” said President Sebastian Pinera, who euphorically waved [...]
Relatives of the notorious gangster have fallen out after breaking “Omerta” with book memoirs, reports Philip Sherwell in New York. To the little girl in the 1940s, Uncle Al was just a “big kid” who bounced her on his knee, taught her songs and allowed her to play with the scar on his cheek while [...]
New technology could allow people to dictate letters and search the internet simply by thinking, according to researchers at Intel who are behind the project. Unlike current brain-controlled computers, which require users to imagine making physical movements to control a cursor on a screen, the new technology will be capable of directly interpreting words as [...]
They found the body of Edelmiro Cavazos on a dirt road on the outskirts of Santiago, a popular tourist spot near Monterrey, Mexico. The 38-year-old, U.S.-educated mayor of Santiago had been shot execution-style, hands tied behind his back, head bound with tape. Cavazos, whose body was found Wednesday, was the fifth Mexican mayor gunned down [...]
Threats of gang rape did not prompt Omar Khadr to make any self-incriminating statements and no evidence exists that the Canadian citizen was tortured, the military judge in his Guantanamo Bay war-crimes trial said in a newly released decision. In his nine-page written ruling, Colonel Patrick Parrish states that Mr. Khadr’s various confessions to his [...]
Venezuela’s ambassador to the United States is defending his country’s controversial airline service to the capitals of Syria and Iran — both countries that are designated by the U.S. as state sponsors of terrorism. The scheduled flights to Damascus and Tehran were cited by the U.S. State Department this month as a cause for concern, [...]
In the hermetic bubble of a racetrack — where economic reality has no pit pass — the Lexus LFA makes perfect, glorious sense. As I rocket around New Jersey Motorsports Park, this supercar physically compels me to switch off skepticism, pay heed to the racing line and happily marinate in waves of sensory stimulation: the [...]
Gunmen invaded a luxury hotel popular with foreign tourists and took 30 people hostage Saturday but within hours freed the captives and surrendered to police. The 10 who invaded the Intercontinental Hotel were part of a large group of heavily armed, suspected drug-gang members who had become embroiled in a shootout with police outside a [...]
Six city police officers were arrested Friday in the killing of a mayor in northern Mexico, as the country’s escalating drug violence targets more public officials. The suspects included the officer who guarded the house where Santiago Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos was seized on Sunday. The officer had said he was kidnapped with the mayor and [...]
Haiti’s electoral commission said Friday that hip hop artist Wyclef Jean cannot run for president of this Caribbean nation, ending his outsider’s bid to lead a country struggling to recover from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Jean, who faced a challenge to his candidacy in the Nov. 28 elections because he had has not lived in [...]
Two FCC Commissioners and one US Senator slammed the Google-Verizon joint policy agreement and strongly endorsed the principle of net neutrality last night at a hearing before hundreds of citizens in Minneapolis, giving the Chairman of the federal agency Julius Genachowski all of the support he would need to regulate broadband Internet, if he so [...]
The private security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide, long plagued by accusations of impropriety, has reached an agreement with the State Department for the company to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of United States export control regulations. The violations included illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorized proposals to train troops [...]
A massive, three-week long manhunt came to an end last night as an escaped inmate and his fugitive fiancee were cornered by police in an Arizona campground. John McCluskey, 45, and Casslyn Welch, 44, who have been dubbed a latter-day ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, were dramatically arrested after being spotted by an alert forest ranger. The [...]
Security guards and officials of the presidency formed a ‘human shield’ at the joint press conference held by President Asif Ali Zardari and US Senator John Kerry at the Chaklala Airbase on Thursday. The step, some officials said, was taken to ward off an embarrassing situation if some one hurled a shoe as the two [...]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday the Pentagon has expressed willingness to discuss the online whistleblower’s request for help in reviewing classified documents from the Afghan war and removing information that could harm civilians. ‘‘This week we received contact through our lawyers that the General Counsel’’ of the Pentagon ‘‘says now that they want to [...]
Monsanto has been in the news this week, with a U.S. District Court Judge ruling that the USDA has to at least go through the motions of regulating the company’s genetically engineered sugar beets. Monsanto, you may know, is not likely to win any contests for the most popular company. In fact, it has been [...]
Scientists have discovered a prehistoric bird that used its hooked beak to peck its prey to death. The ninety-pound flightless birds, which lived in South America, wielded their giant, sharp beaks in quick jabs, repeatedly backing away and jabbing again, according to a new study. The tactics of the “terror bird”, officially called Andalgalornis, were [...]
The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division crossed into Kuwait in a convoy of armoured vehicles on Thursday morning, NBC News said. Some of the brigade remained behind to complete logistical tasks and will leave the country by air later in the day. The US combat mission in Iraq is scheduled to end on Aug [...]
Mason County authorities made a daring rescue of a 15-year-old girl who fell off a cliff into the Skokomish River Tuesday afternoon. It happened on a hike with several other people in the Skokomish River Canyon under the Steel Bridge, which is 450 feet high. The girl was suffering from injuries and hypothermia. DNR Wildfire teams answered [...]
Two infant skeletons wrapped in 1930s newspapers and placed in doctor’s bags were found inside an unclaimed steamer trunk by a woman cleaning out the basement of a 1924 building that’s being converted to condominiums, authorities in Los Angeles said. The skeletons, believed to be decades-old remains of fetuses or infants, were discovered late Tuesday [...]
An American activist convicted of aiding leftist rebels surrendered to police Wednesday after a court struck down a decision granting her parole and ordered her to return to prison, where she is to remain with her 15-month-old son for the time being. Lori Berenson was arrested by police at the U.S. Embassy, where she was [...]
Criminalizing speech is a tricky business, but Congress seemed to think it had found the right balance in 2006 when it overwhelmingly enacted the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a crime simply to lie about having received a military medal or service badge. But the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [...]
Erik Prince, whose company, Blackwater Worldwide, is for sale and whose former top managers are facing criminal charges, has left the United States and moved to Abu Dhabi, according to court documents. Mr. Prince, a former member of the Navy Seals and an heir to a Michigan auto parts fortune, left the country after a [...]
This is the terrifying moment a pilot nearly lost his life after the wing of his plane snapped off mid-air. But Argentine pilot Dino Moline managed to activate the plane’s ballistic parachute – walking away from the crash with just a burnt foot. The 22-year-old was performing in an air display in Santa Fe, Argentina, [...]
The body of Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, the mayor of the city of Santiago in Nuevo Leon state, was found Wednesday, two days after he was abducted, Mexico’s interior ministry announced. His handcuffed and blindfolded body was found on the outskirts of Santiago along a road leading to a tourist attraction, the state-run Notimex news agency [...]
Colombia’s constitutional court has declared that a US-Colombian accord from 2009 that gave the American military access to at least seven Colombian bases to be unconstitutional. The deal allowed the US to use the bases to help with operations against drug trafficking and terrorism. The deal, which was struck when president Alvaro Uribe was in [...]
Embattled radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced Tuesday she will not renew her contract that is up at the end of the year, telling CNN’s “Larry King Live” she wants to “regain my First Amendment rights.” Schlessinger, 63, has been under fire for using the n-word repeatedly during an on-air conversation with a [...]
Legendary Hollywood actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has returned home from hospital to live out her final days, after refusing to undergo any more surgery The 93-year-old actress, who has starred in films and television programmes since the 1950s, was earlier given her last rites by a priest at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her [...]
John Paul says, at first, he couldn’t believe his own scientific data showing toxic microscopic marine organisms in the Gulf of Mexico. He repeated the field test. A colleague did his own test. All the results came back the same: toxic. It was the first time Paul and other University of South Florida scientists had [...]
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was found guilty Tuesday of making false statements to the FBI, but escaped convictions on 23 other counts in a trial that is seen as at least a partial victory for Blagojevich. The jury, which deliberated for 14 days, said it was hung on 23 counts against him and on [...]
Heidi Montag’s plastic surgeon Dr Frank Ryan has been killed in a car crash. The Beverly Hills surgeon, who has treated a host of stars, was in his Jeep when it went off the side of the Pacific Coast Highway yesterday outside Los Angeles. The Jeep landed on rocks and lifeguards rushed to the scene [...]
A boat built to resemble a Great White Shark that can fly up to 12 feet through the air before diving through the waves has been dubbed the ultimate millionaire’s toy. The $90,000 James Bond style craft, called Seabreacher X, can reach up to speeds of 50 mph on water or 25 mph after diving [...]
A federal judge has ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee imprisoned at the island facility for more than 8 1/2 years. In a previously secret ruling written in July and released Monday, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy said the Obama administration failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the Yemeni [...]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Randy Ertman knows the road to the Texas death chamber too well. He’s set to make the trip again, to witness for the third time the execution of one of the gang members responsible for the rape and murder of his teenage daughter and her schoolmate. This time, it will be the lethal injection [...]
WASHINGTON – The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under a desk, the recordings could provide an unparalleled look at how foreign governments aided the U.S. in holding and questioning suspected terrorists. The two videotapes and one audiotape are believed to be the only remaining [...]
Attackers shot eight men to death and piled their bodies in a pickup truck in the southern state of Oaxaca, and gunmen kidnapped the mayor of a city on the outskirts of the northern industrial hub of Monterrey, Mexican authorities said Monday. It was unclear whether Mexico’s drug gangs were responsible for the Oaxaca killings [...]
The discovery of the exact location of a stockade and dozens of personal artifacts belonging to its Union prisoners is one of the biggest archaeological Civil War finds in decades, federal and Georgia officials said Monday. Outside of scholars and Civil War buffs, few people have heard of the Confederacy’s Camp Lawton, which replaced the [...]
The former CIA spook Melissa Mahle talks to Helena de Bertodano about disguises, adopting multiple personae, hiding the truth even from her own mother – and advising Angelina Jolie on her role in the new spy thriller ‘Salt’. I am waiting to meet former CIA spy Melissa Boyle Mahle at a French brasserie in Washington [...]
Gatecrashers who target A-list Hollywood ceremonies like the Oscars and Golden Globes could face up to a year in prison under a proposed new law in California. The move is being backed by the Screen Actors Guild, the powerful labor union which represents performers, after their awards event was crashed in the past. “Trespassing by [...]
One passenger was killed when an airplane crashed in bad weather and split into two when landing early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said. The number of injured remained unclear Monday morning, but the national police said six of at least 127 people aboard the plane were not hurt. There also [...]
Rail companies will be forced to come clean on their role in transporting Nazi victims during the Holocaust when they bid for a multi-billion-pound contract to operate a new bullet train in California. A Democratic politician in California is pushing to make it a requirement that any involvement in taking people to work, concentration, prisoner [...]
The Agriculture Ministry said Friday that it would lift a ban on poultry imports for more than three-quarters of U.S. facilities now blocked, acknowledging that the plants satisfy its requirements for meat treatment and production processing. Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama struck a deal in June to allow U.S. producers to import poultry meat [...]
A sports car once owned by the late British actress Diana Dors has sold for $3 Million at a California auction. The 1949 Delahaye Roadster, which some have dubbed the most beautiful car in the world, was given to Dors when she was 17. The sky blue car has been described by auctioneers as “extravagant [...]
Canadian captive Omar Khadr’s war crimes trial was delayed by at least a month Friday because the alleged teen terror’s lone defense attorney took ill. The defense attorney, Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, 39, collapsed in the tribunal chamber hours after opening statements Thursday in the first contested war crimes trial of the Obama administration. [...]
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Police Raid Headquarters Of Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP Party
Romania Attempts To Tax Witches And Fortune Tellers
Pirates Seize Greek Ship In Protected Gulf Of Aden Corridor
Bangladesh Anthrax Spreads, Public Panics
Top Police Official In Siberia Accused Of Taking $450,000 In Bribes
Russian Banker Shot Dead In Moscow
Russian Performers Drop Fish-Eating Circus Act
Taliban Chief Says Victory Imminent
North Korea Marks 62nd Founding Day
Fear Of Fresh Violence In Nigeria
Rachel Corrie Trial: During War There Are No Civilians
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Russian Rokot Carrier With Three Satellites Blasts Off From Plesetsk Space Center
Police In Kamchatka Seize Poached Caviar Worth $1 Million
Europe Raids File-Sharing Groups Including Sweden
Kabul Bank Freezes Assets of Directors And Major Borrowers
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United Nations ‘Failed’ Congo Rape VictimsCalifornia Regulators Seek Up To $9.9 Billion In Fines From PacifiCare18 Murdered In Shoe Factory Shooting In Honduras
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Italian Crime Fighting Mayor Is Killed In Mafia-Style Execution
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In Russia, No Kasha Creates Political Tension
Thieves Steal 3 Ancient Icons From Moscow Region ChurchGeorge Soros Donates $100 Million To Human Rights Watch
Congolese Poachers Destroy Protected Birds
French Unions Stage Nationwide StrikeOracle Hires Former HP’s Mark HurdLAPD Kills Unarmed Migrant, Community ProtestsEl Salvador: 3rd Migrant Survived Mexico MassacreMexican Soldiers Open Fire On Family’s Car At Checkpoint, Killing 15-Year-Old And FatherU.S. Considers Boosting Funds For Mexico Drug WarCalifornia’s Union Jobs Take Hit From Recession
Israeli Minister: Speed Up Building, A Promise Is A PromiseMiners Seeking Gold Destroy Suriname EcosystemLittle Rock Nine Member, Jefferson Thomas
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