CNN) -- It began as horseplay, with two teenage stepbrothers chasing each other with blow guns and darts. But it soon escalated when one of the boys grabbed a knife. Quantel Lotts is shown at age 12, two years before he committed the crime that sent him to prison for life. The older teen, Michael Barton...
After tossing 6 scorless innings Wednesday night against the Oakland Athletics, Nick Adenhart was driving outside of Cal State Fullerton College with some friends. It was late in the night when they were hit and killed by a drunk driver who is now facing hit-and-run charges, along with vehicular ma...
LOS ANGELES As she walked from a post office, Talon Curtis thought she'd found one of those gimmicky sweepstakes offers on the ground that scream something like "$357,959.55" in big bold letters and "This is not a real check" in much smaller type. But just as she was about to do h...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090406/ts_afp/australiaanimaldogoffbeat;_ylt=Aub4AcqEfroKAK1YXr6OYwcfYhAF Dog overboard found four months later SYDNEY (AFP) A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island...
KUALA LUMPUR:Police have busted a syndicate which used foreign women to smuggle drugs into the country City Narcotics chief Assistant Commissioner Kang Chez Chiang said two Malaysians and two Myanmar women were arrested last Friday. "The Myanmar women, aged 38 and 30, were arrested near a s...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/navarrette.immigration/index.htmlDo they agree? NO SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- The Obama administration's stance on immigration reform is like a never-ending telenovela with multiple plot twists --sometimes more than one in the same news cyc...
"Octomom" Nadya Suleman will likely sign a deal for a reality TV show that will feature her 14 children very soon, according to People. Sources told People that Suleman and her attorney, Jeffery Czech, have been taking several meetings about the project: The pair met with four productio...
If you think the government is watching your every move, that's crazy, but if you think the government is too good or too honest to try it, that's naive. Whether in the name of fighting crime, communism, terrorism, anarchy, military enemies, or just in the name of patriotism, our government has watch...
-Cuban President Raul Castro has held talks with members of Congress in his first face-to-face meeting with US politicians since he became president last year. -Barack Obama is expected to ease some of the travel and economic restrictions imposed on Cuba nearly 50 years ago. -Last week, a bipartis...
Miss Universe's 'fun' blogpost about Guantánamo disappearsDayana Mendoza's posting that described the dentention centre as a 'beautiful place' has been removedayana-001.jpg" border="0" alt="Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza" width="460" height...
MANILA, Philippines Fishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught and later ate a megamouth shark, one of the rarest fishes in the world with only 40 others recorded to have been encountered, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday. The 1,100-pound, 13-foot megamouth died while struggling in th...
Arizona State University says it will not bestow an honorary degree on President Barack Obama the esteemed Harvard University Law professor, former U.S. Senator, best-selling author, Grammy Award-winner, and undeniable leader of the free world saying it is not clear that his body of work justi...
Turkish authorities have released a Syrian man who was arrested last week in connection with an alleged plan to kill President Obama, a senior U.S. official said. The Saudi paper reported that the Syrian man, who was carrying an Al-Jazeera TV press credential in the name of "M.G.," confe...
4Chan: The Rude, Raunchy Underbelly of the InternetThe most powerful people on the Internet don't work for Microsoft, Google or the government. Rather, they're a bunch of antisocial, foul-mouthed, clever nerds who congregate at a largely unknown Web site called 4chan.org. Ever get your MySpac...
Scientist: My quake prediction was ignoredL'AQUILA, Italy (CNN) -- A researcher says he predicted Monday's devastating earthquake that killed dozens of people and left tens of thousands homeless in central Italy, but authorities dismissed him as a scaremonger. Gioacchino Giuliani, an employ...
A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek "honor" named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. Awards have been given for people who "do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the Gene pool", i.e., lose the ability to reproduce either by death or sterilization in...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30088148/ NEW YORK - A former pastor in New York City is accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from his parish to pay for plastic surgery, Botox injections and prescription drugs. He is accused of stealing $84,537 over three years. The money was earmarked f...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/07/iraq.shoe.thrower/index.htmlBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's federal appeals court has reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-President Bush at a news conference in December, his lawyer told CNN on Tuesday. An Ir...
FONTANA - Classes let out and things heat up for Fontana's school police. On any given afternoon, there may be fistfights to break up outside A.B. Miller High or vandals to find near Fontana High. But lately, officers have also been on the lookout for something far more serious.Story continues below...
An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday on 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, whose body was found in a suitcase in a dairy-farm pond near her California home. Police found the girl's body Monday, after she went missing March 27 in Tracy, California. Police did not identify a suspect in her disappearance and did n...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090407/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_france_bosses;_ylt=A0WTUeHNjdtJtDUAcwHtiBIFPARIS (Reuters) Almost half of French people believe it is acceptable for workers facing layoffs to lock up their bosses, according to an opinion poll published Tuesday. Staff at Fre...
I saw an article in the newspaper about an organization you can call if you have a bee hive in your yard that you would like to get rid of, and without knocking it down or taking a hose to it they will come and extract the bees and take them out to the country side where they are more wanted. so i will try to find...
The worlds one and only indoor beach can be found in Japans Ocean Dome about 1,200 miles south of Tokyo in Miyazaki, on Japans southernmost Kyushu Island. Here, the water is always blue and salt-free, waves are perfectly timed, sharks are elsewhere, and its never too hot, or cold, to take a dip. Japans...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_fe_st/odd_orange_wigged_robber;_ylt=A0WTUeHNjdtJtDUAeAHtiBIFsuburban Westchester County are looking for a woman who wore an orange wig whi...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the keynote speaker at an economic briefing lunch held by The Business Press today at the Ontario Convention Center. Schwarzenegger will talk about efforts to improve the state's economy. This year's economic briefing also will feature discussion on the econ...
http://lifestyle.in.msn.com/relationships/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1297915What attracts you to a person?? here's what some researchers are saying.... Have you ever wondered why men are attracted to fair-complexioned females while women prefer the dark and brooding types? Well, th...
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