Orlando Dad Gets Gas by Trading Son's Name

A dad in Orlando really needed money to buy gas - so he offered the right to name his unborn son to a local radio station.Radio hosts Richard Dixon and J. Whilloughby took up the challenge and named the baby - Dixon...

Dozens of murder cases at risk after collapse of hitman trial

A Law Lords ruling last week that concluded that accused criminals in England and Wales have the right to see those who are accusing them of crimes has thrown the entire English criminal justice system in the into a...

Failed bomber's wife guilty of staying silent about terror plot

The wife of one of the failed suicide bombers, Hussain Osman, is facing jail forfailing to tell police of his plans. The woman, 32-year-old Yeshi Girma, is a Muslim convert and allegedly knew of the plot before it was attempted."The wife of failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman...

Plotter's wife convicted

The wife of Hussain Osman has been convicted for failing to tell police about his plan to bomb a tube train If the plot had succeeded, 3 tube trains and a bus would have been destroyed   " The Old Bailey heard Yeshi Girma, 32, of Stockwell, south London,...

Teenager guilty of murdering Polish care worker Magda Pniewska

A British teenager has been found guilty of murdering a Polish careworker who was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight."A 17-year-old has been found guilty of the murder of Magda Pniewska, a Polishnursing assistant, who was caught in the crossfire of a gun battle in...

Fears of no money to back housing growth

It was easy for ex Government minister and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party John Prescott to advocate the building of 250,000 houses in Northamptonshire, Northants, county in central England in the United...

London England British National Party Wins Seat After winning 5.3% of The Votes

"The anti-immigration British National Party has won a seat on the London Assembly after getting 5.3% of votes.Richard Barnbrook, who is BNP leader on Barking and Dagenham Council and who came fifth in the mayoral...

No, Seriously: Hooked on Gadgets

Two researchers ae conducting a study on levels of tech addiciton: how things like crack- er, Blackberries, email, instant messenger, and the like afffect our non-work lives. Nada Kakabadse and Susan Bailey, who are...

George Polk Award Winners include Josh Marshall of TPM

This is from editor and publisher.com but I like Steve Yelvington's take on the issue of blogger vs. reporter. I got the tip about what Steve wrote via my Twitter client, snitter, as an interesting side note. Those 140 character "tweets" are especially useful in snitter...

Red Carpet Grammy Glamour

It's hard to read about style, you've got to see the fashion in action to really get the knockout effect. Any of you aspiring paparazzi have glitzy Grammy pics to share? Post them here."In the not-so-distant past,...

Man had sex with dead model

"Aspiring teenage model Sally Anne Bowman was "savagely and brutally" murdered only yards from her home by a man purely motivated by sex, a court has heard. The 18-year-old, whose dream was to appear on the front page of Vogue, was repeatedly stabbed, bitten and then...

Millionaire 'beaten to death by ID thief who raided bank accounts'

"A reclusive millionaire was battered to death in his Hampstead home by a conman who raided his bank accounts, the Old Bailey has heard. Allan Chappelow, 86, was a world expert on playwright George Bernard Shaw but had become "rather eccentric" in his old age, the jury was...

The Siege of Gaza is Broken

"The Siege is Broken The Palestinian people took their destiny in their own hands today and smashed down the wall that divided Gaza from Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of people left their prison and walked into Egypt and bought up food, fuel and everything else in sight. It...

Offensive Golly Dolls 'Snapped Up'

" Golly dolls - the black and white toys which many believe have offensive racist connotations - are being snapped up in Northen Ireland shops. A Belfast woman said she was "horrified" to find them in a local...

American press get-together discusses press repression

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) devoted the entire day to its semi-annual "country-by-country reports" in which publishers and editors from around the hemisphere describe the most recent advances -- or setbacks -- of press freedom in their nations. It wasn't a...

Make News

Top Members Today

  • Top Rookies

  • Top Veterans

  • mettacara
    690
    points
    mettacara
    Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • zichi
    302
    points
    zichi
    Kobe City, Japan
  • Gh0s7
    240
    points
    Gh0s7
    Boone, North Carolina, United States
 

is reporting from

closeSign in to NowPublic