Jury Fines Wal-Mart for 8 Million Labor Violations

After three days of deliberations, a California jury yesterday found Wal-Mart guilty of illegally denying workers lunch breaks. The jury awarded $172 million to about 116,000 current and former...

Google's Secret Weapon

Everyone knows Google's doing a good job at hiring smart people. It's not just anecdotal; the numbers speak for themselves. We lose a lot of our best candidates to them. They're clearly doing something right. What's not so clear, I think, is that Google is actually so...

Technorati Gets a Facelift

Looks like Technorati has been in for a make over.  Nicely done.

iPod's Dirty Secret - Neistat Brothers

The Neistat Brothers show what you can do about batteries that die after 18 months.  Tag that Ipod.

Daring rescue of whale off Farallon Islands

A humpback whale freed by divers from a tangle of crab trap lines near the Farallon Islands nudged its rescuers and flapped around in what marine experts said was a rare and remarkable encounter.

Los Angeles Times: Governor Didn't Believe Williams Had Reformed

Governor Didn't Believe Williams Had Reformed  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not just reject Stanley Tookie Williams' request for clemency, he aggressively attacked the central element of the former gang leader's case: Williams, he said, had never really...

Kim Curtis/Associated Press: Crips Gang Co-Founder Executed in Calif.

Crips Gang Co-Founder Executed in Calif.  —  SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - Convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang co-founder whose case stirred a national debate about capital...

Tookie elusive in death row debate (Reuters)

Reuters - Is Stanley Tookie Williams a cold-blooded killer who has duped Hollywood with feigned innocence, phony assertions of redemption and embellished claims of his sway over gangland Los Angeles to escape execution?

Emergency Stay Sought for Tookie Williams (ABC News)

Emergency Request Seeks Stay of Execution for Crips Street Gang Founder Tookie Williams

Final Arguments Heard for S. 'Tookie' Williams

Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spent more than an hour with lawyers for Stanley Tookie Williams and prosecutors pushing for his death sentence Thursday, hearing final arguments before he makes a decision on Williams' bid to avoid lethal injection.

Yahoo Buys Delicious

From the delicious blog:We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the...

John Fund/Opinion Journal: Arnold's 'Harriet Miers Moment'

Arnold's 'Harriet Miers Moment'  —  Has Gov. Schwarzenegger jumped the shark?  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger stunned California last week by selecting the former deputy chief of staff to...

Help bring Byron home

On November 4, 2005 a nineteen year old young man made a call to his grandmother stating he was scared and would she come to were he was.When the grandmother arrivied, she saw that the young man was upset and told him to follow her into their home town of Milton Freewater...

Wikipedia is the Next Google

Steve Rubel writes:History is about to repeat itself. A successor to Google's throne is waiting in the wings - it's Wikipedia, King Disruptor III. Like its predecessors, Wikipedia is powerful because it provides access to largely accurate information that can be hard to find....

Believers Flock to 'Crying' Virgin Mary - Yahoo! News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Carrying rosary beads and cameras, the faithful have been coming in a steady stream to a church on the outskirts of Sacramento for a glimpse of what some are calling a miracle: A statue of the Virgin Mary they say has begun crying a substance that looks...

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