A suspected serial predator accused of sexually assaulting four women, killing two of them, was described by co-workers as a polite, soft-spoken car salesman who mostly kept to himself.
Trent Christopher Benson made an initial court appearance Thursday and was ordered held without bond. The public defender’s office was appointed to represent him, but a lawyer […]
Posted on 16 May 2008
Polica has a suspect in Florida fires
Posted on 16 May 2008
A man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into the woods as firefighters battled large blazes nearby set several other small fires to throw off officers who were pursuing him, police said Thursday.
Each of the fires that Brian Crowder, 31, is accused of setting Wednesday was quickly extinguished, Police Chief Bill Berger said, and investigators […]
Mother apparently organised the kiddnaping
Posted on 16 May 2008
The mother of Austrian Natascha Kampusch, who was held in a dungeon for more than eight years before escaping, has been accused of masterminding her ordeal.
Retired judge Martin Wabl told the State Court in Graz, Austria, that Ms Kampusch’s mother Brigitte Sirny hatched the plot with Wolfgang Priklopil, the Daily Mail reported.
Priklopil held Ms Kampusch […]
Lori Drew charged over MySpace suicide
Posted on 16 May 2008
LAA Los Angeles federal grand jury has indicted a woman for her alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide.
Lori Drew of St Louis, Missouri was indicted on Thursday on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorisation to obtain information to […]
Dalai Lama: Preserve religious traditions, respect others
Posted on 19 April 2008
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The Dalai Lama on Saturday encouraged people gathered at the University of Michigan to preserve their own religious traditions while respecting others with differing beliefs.
“As you know, I always believed since all different traditions have the same potential to bring inner peace, inner value […]
Tropical storm hits south China
Posted on 19 April 2008
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A severe tropical storm lashed southern China on Saturday bringing gale-force winds, as authorities reported the rescue of 38 fishermen who sheltered in reefs as the typhoon approached, state media said.
Typhoon Neoguri brought more than 260 millimetres (10 inches) of rain per hour as it hit Guangdong […]
Beatified man’s body to tour
Posted on 19 April 2008
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PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI is coming to Sydney for World Youth Day. He has been dead since 1925 but that will not stop him playing an important role in the Catholic festival.
He was only 24 when he died, after being ill with polio for a […]
Six-month moon stays by 2020
Posted on 19 April 2008
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NASA wants astronauts who return to the moon to take one long step for mankind by staying there for up to six months.
The US space agency announced it hoped to build moon bases with an intricate transportation and power system that can house astronauts […]
First Korean astronaut returns to Earth
Posted on 19 April 2008
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South Korea’s first astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday, touching down with two International Space Station crew members in a cramped Russian landing pod, space officials said.
The Soyuz craft landed slightly off its target in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan, but Korean scientist Yi So-Yeon and her two colleagues emerged […]
Teen survives cold night after fatal helicopter crash
Posted on 16 April 2008
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A 14-year-old boy survived a frigid night in the wreckage of a helicopter crash that killed four other people and was recuperating at a hospital Wednesday, state troopers said.
The B2 Arrow Star 350 went down in heavy snow Tuesday west of Sheep Mountain, about […]
Calories-on-menus law
Posted on 16 April 2008
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New York City health officials won a big victory Wednesday when a federal judge upheld a regulation requiring some chain restaurants to post calories on menus.
U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell rebuffed a challenge from the New York State Restaurant Association, a trade group that argued the rule […]
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Landlord charged with trying to kill tenant
Posted on 16 May 2008
Prosecutors say a New York landlord who tried to kill a tenant with a bomb has been indicted on attempted murder and other charges. The tenant lost a leg in the blast.
Prosecutors said today that 38-year-old Yung Tang placed the bomb in a bag next to Israel Halberstam’s minivan while it was parked outside his […]
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Stewardess lights fire on a plane
Posted on 16 May 2008
A 19-year-old flight attendant has been accused of setting a fire aboard a commercial airplane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Fargo, North Dakota.
Eder Rojas was charged today in federal court in Minneapolis. The case will be prosecuted in Fargo.
Officials say the Compass Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Saskatchewan landed safely in […]
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Twin found in nine-year-old’s stomach
Posted on 16 May 2008
A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said.
Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo more than two inches long.
“They could see on the right side that her […]
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Texting Friends More Expensive Than Getting Data From Space Telescope
Posted on 16 May 2008
A British space scientist has found that it is much more costly to send a message by cell phone than to transmit data from the Hubble space telescope to Earth.
Dr. Nigel Bannister from the University of Leicester in England calculated that one megabyte of SMS texting costs $730.63 to transmit based on U.K. rates. Hubble […]
- Serial predator and killer allegedly arrested
- Polica has a suspect in Florida fires
- Mother apparently organised the kiddnaping
- Landlord charged with trying to kill tenant
- Stewardess lights fire on a plane
- Twin found in nine-year-old’s stomach
- Lori Drew charged over MySpace suicide
- Texting Friends More Expensive Than Getting Data From Space Telescope
- A bar named after canoeist
- Roach from space became a grandmother