Soldier Who Paid to Be Shot Not Indicted

This is an update to nk's previous post, in which an Iraq-bound soldier paid to have himself shot in order to avoid a second tour of duty:"A soldier who admitted paying someone $500 to shoot him in the leg so he could avoid another tour of duty in Iraq won't face felony...

SUB-PRIME POLITICIANS

"A number of studies of communities across the United States and in countries overseas turned up the same conclusion: Government restrictions on building. Politicians show no sign of changing, when they have largely escaped blame for the disasters that their policies fostered."

N.Y. Times to end paid Web service

Put your hand up if you called it.  "N.Y. Times to end paid Web service Reuters August 7, 2007 at 1:14 PM EDT NEW YORK — Access to columnists and op-ed pieces on a section of website known as TimesSelect to be free, N.Y. Post reports The New York Times Co. plans to...

Ribblehead Viaduct open to walkers

"Dent - Cumbria England.Hundreds of people took advantage of the first opportunity to explore the  Ribblehead Viaduct by foot while the Settle-Carlisle railway line, which runs along it, was closed for repairs. The experience was not for the fainthearted, given that the...

Blitz on illegal parking

"A MAJOR crackdown on illegal parking is being launched next month as part of the biggest shake-up of parking enforcement in the county for years. A team of parking wardens has been recruited to patrol the streets of  Corby, Wellingborough and Rushden in...

A whopping 4,000 bands of hope for missing Madeleine McCann have been snapped...

"A whopping 4,000 bands of hope for missing Madeleine McCann have been snapped up at one newsagent - more than the population of the village in which it stands. The Mercury Mercury News shop in Rothley, where the McCann family lives, has sold more of the distinctive green and...