How a fake word from The Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string th...

"If you needed any convincing that after 18 years on the air The Simpsons has thoroughly penetrated the popular consciousness, consider the following usage of the word "embiggen,"[...]While in both cases for P anti-D3-branes the probe approximation is clearly not good, in the...

Former tanning salon owner pleads innocent to eight counts of child pornography

Springfield, MO. - Brett Patrick Kent, a former tanning salon owner charged with eight counts of child pornography, emtered a plea of not guilty in Federal court today. Kent stands acccused of videotaping female customers at his 360 Degree tanning salon without their...

Podcaster Loses "Cybersquat" Of Simpsons Movie Site

"An arbitrator for the United Nations' patent agency, WIPO, ruled that New York-based Keith Malley must cede control of the "thesimpsonsmovie.com" site to Twentieth Century Fox, the News Corp. <NWS.N> unit which owns the Simpsons trademark.[...]In the Simpsons case,...

Police Continue Probe In Fatal Firetruck Crash

" May 9, 2007 Maine - The investigation continued Tuesday into the death of a Springfield volunteer firefighter who apparently lost control of the firetruck he was driving and crashed en route to a call Monday, said Stephen McCausland, Maine State Police spokesman....

Obama Takes Campaign Online

"At his first rally since announcing his presidential exploratory committee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) appealed yesterday for support from the young people who had mobilized for the event online. The gathering of several thousand students at George Mason University in...

Former Policeman Burned Trying To Put Out Blaze

" January 14, 2007 Illinois - A well-liked, retired Bloomington police officer burned in a fire at his home Friday night was in critical condition Saturday at a regional burn unit. Elijah "Joe" Rusk was in Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, a nursing supervisor said...

Three Injured In Fire

" January 13, 2007 Illinois - A Bloomington man tried to fight flames with a garden hose Friday night while his great-grandson was still inside the burning house on Bloomington's southwest edge. The boy, the man and a second adult were injured in the fire at 2704 Bainbridge...