There is that lasting image of Dick Trickle in the Winston 500 lighting up a cigarette while driving his stock car with his knees during a caution lap.
He places the cigarette through a hole he carved in his helmet for a quick toke and exhales.
The green flag hits and out the window goes the cigarette [...]
Friday May 17th, 2013 | No comments »
(www.guardian.co.uk), President demands punishment for IRS staff who targeted conservatives after official report finds tax exemption was deliberately delayed
arack Obama has pledged that Internal Revenue Service employees who discriminated against Tea Party groups will be held accountable after an independent watchdog heavily criticised the tax organisation for “inappropriate” behaviour.
Obama – who on Monday said he [...]
Wednesday May 15th, 2013 | No comments »
The 2013 NFL Draft transformed 32 NFL rosters. Around The League will examine the aftershocks in our Draft Fallout series. Next up: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Big Question: Have the Buccaneers built a playoff-caliber defense?
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were a schizophrenic operation on defense last season.
Nobody in the NFL was better at stopping the run, [...]
Monday May 13th, 2013 | No comments »
(CNN) – A day after a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of her ex-boyfriend, Jodi Arias will return to court Thursday to begin a phase that will move her closer to learning whether she will live or die.
During this part of the proceedings, the so-called “aggravation phase,” jurors will take an [...]
Thursday May 9th, 2013 | No comments »
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(Reuters) – An Ohio school bus driver and his two brothers have been arrested after three women who vanished separately as teenagers about a decade ago were found alive at a Cleveland house.
Authorities were alerted to the missing women’s whereabouts on Monday evening by a frantic emergency call from [...]
Tuesday May 7th, 2013 | No comments »
A limousine heading to a bachelorette party burst into flames in the San Francisco area, killing five female passengers, including the bride-to-be, while four other women managed to escape, according to the mother of one of the survivors.
Rosita Guardiano told the San Francisco Chronicle that her daughter — 42-year-old Mary Grace Guardiano of Alameda [...]
Monday May 6th, 2013 | No comments »
Scientists in the US have created a robot the size of a fly that is able to perform the agile manoeuvres of the ubiquitous insects.
This “robo-fly”, built from carbon fibre, weighs a fraction of a gram and has super-fast electronic “muscles” to power its wings.
Its Harvard University developers say tiny robots like theirs may eventually [...]
Friday May 3rd, 2013 | No comments »
(www.abcnews.go.com) Chris Kelly, one half of the 90s rap duo “Kriss Kross” has died, Georgia authorities said.
Clint Harbin, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office told ABC News Radio that Kelly, 34, was pronounced dead Wednesday night at the Atlanta Medical Center.
Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death and an autopsy is [...]
Thursday May 2nd, 2013 | No comments »
Divinyls singer Chrissy Amphlett, known for the Australian band’s 1991 hit “I Touch Myself,” died yesterday at home in New York after battling breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, Reuters reports. She was 53.
Amphlett said in 2007 that she had multiple sclerosis, and announced in 2010 that she was fighting breast cancer. Her husband, former Divinyls [...]
Monday April 22nd, 2013 | No comments »
BOSTON—A late-night police chase and shootout has ended with one Boston Marathon bombing suspect dead and another on the run, police said early Friday morning. One police officer was killed and another was seriously wounded during the violent spree.
At sunrise, Gov. Deval Patrick ordered a shutdown of all public transit and residents on the edges [...]
Friday April 19th, 2013 | No comments »
