Abandoned Saginaw home sells for $1.75 on eBay

"Abandoned Saginaw home sells for $1.75 on eBay by Roberto Acosta | The Saginaw News Tuesday September 30, 2008, 5:14 PM The Saginaw home that hit the housing market at a cut-rate price sold for less than the...

Bear runs marijuana growers out of secret Utah camp

Barry, you're gonna love this one. Just be sure to read the commentary on the original article."PANGUITCH, Utah — One Utah community is cheering a special bear — but don't call him Smokey. Investigators say a...

Marijuana-Sniffing Black Bear is Utah's Drug Buster!

When your neighbour starts growing dope, who you gonna call?  Drug Buster!  The Black Bear!  How many of us can remember the time when a bear was content with honey?     " A BLACK...

Diamond Life - the big divide

"The chief executive of Marks & Spencer believes the UK is fast becoming a very divided nation: the rich who live inside the M25 - and the rest. Speaking earlier this month, Sir Stuart Rose said there was a widening gulf between the have-nots and the have-a-lots, which is...

Feds hire Perkins as friendly face for 'internet spy' program

The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan, today announced Kieren Perkins as the Parent Ambassador for the NetAlert—Protecting Australian Families Online information campaign. The program, though nobly named, is...

Caterpillar announces major investment in China

CATERPILLAR ANNOUNCES MAJOR INVESTMENT IN CHINA WITH PLANS TO BUILD SMALL AND MEDIUM DIESEL ENGINES The company launches core elements of its multi-year investment plan for China (Full text of a statement. Contact details follow below.) Beijing (ANTARA...

Edge of Sanity: DVD Review ("You'll Have to Catch Me First!")

Edge of Sanity (1988) starring Anthony Perkins and a bunch of people that get killed. This is a strange one, folks. Check it out: Anthony Perkins, the superhero of onscreen instability, stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll,...

True "Satisfaction": Stones added to Library of Congress

It took this long to dub "Satisfaction" "culturally significant"? Well, I guess we are dealing with librarians here. I know my library growing up had a hard time keeping up with the kids. "Songs by rockers The...

Reward offered in hunt for letter bomber

"Bang you're dead""CHICAGO, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. postal inspectors are offering a $100,000 reward for the arrest of the person who sent mail bombs to investment firms in Chicago and Kansas City, Mo. Pipe bombs were mailed to American Century Investments in Kansas City on...

Retail sales slow ahead of holiday shopping

"NEW YORK --US retailers' sales rose the least in four months as consumers held off on spending ahead of the holiday season. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. forecast the worst sales in more than 10 years. October sales at 57 chains surveyed by the International Council of Shopping...

Who Pays for Special Ed

"Parents want the best for their disabled kids. Public schools say they can't handle the cost. Luke Perkins has been living "two disparate lives," court documents say: one at school in Berthoud, Colo., where the autistic boy was making some progress, and the other outside...

The (VC) Boat That Dreams are Made Of

"There are pics up of venture guy Tom Perkins' new 87.5-meter monster yacht. Called "The Maltese Falcon", the vaguely Black Pearl-ish looking schooner apparently cost $100m and sports 57-meter masts that...

The Death of Social Networking?

"Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month. The patent covers the determining and display of relationships between...

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