First there was road rage, then air rage, then sports rage, and now — gas rage. As gas prices soar to a record high of more than $3.00 per gallon, so too do incidents of violence and theft at the pumps. In the most extreme and tragic example so far, …
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Guilty Pleasures, 2005 | ‘Kong,’ ‘Brokeback’ Struggle | Hidden Gems on CD Guilty Pleasures, 2005 And so it’s here. We’ve reached the penultimate day of 2005. No more movies will be released. Oscar and Golden Globe voters have their ballots in hand. Some of them have special DVD players from …
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WASHINGTON – To advocates of enforcing immigration laws at the country’s borders, he is a hero. To those seeking to protect illegal aliens once they get here, he isa racist. One thing is for sure, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has a knack for generating headlines as he advocates immigration reform …
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Despite earning little revenue so far, more than half a dozen investors are ready to pump $99 million into the Californian dotcom darling, the Financial Times reports. The figure is nearly threes times the amount of funding secured in February, when the company bagged $35 million, quadrupling its value. The …
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced Tuesday it has approved the early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution. The decision means that one of the most senior political leaders ever convicted by …
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LOS ANGELES – Containment of the 17-day-old wildfire burning in Southern California’s Angeles National Forest increased Friday to 77 percent. The size of the fire also was raised slightly to 160,557 acres, or just over 250 square miles. The fire has been quiet, but burnout operations on the flanks of …
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SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Tuesday just in time for the start of the work week after transit officials hastily announced that crews were able to make a crucial repair a day ahead of schedule. “Traffic is definitely light because nobody knew we were going to …
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NORTH EAST, Md. – A severed human hand has been unearthed from the yard of a Maryland home, but police say this is no whodunit. Investigators believe it’s a decades-old medical school specimen left by a former resident. Still, it was an odd discovery for the electrician who dug it …
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GOLDEN, Colo. – A five-month-old baby found dead early Thursday in a Denver suburb apparently died while his father left him to drink at a local bar. Jefferson County authorities have charged 23-year-old Joseph Trujillo of Golden with first-degree murder in the death of his baby boy, who was not …
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A study in mice suggests using cellphones may help prevent some of the brain-wasting effects of Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. After long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves such as those used in cell phones, mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer’s performed as well on memory and thinking skill …
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