Risk-Taking Thieves Steal Scrap Metal

"WINDBER, Pa. -- Police in Somerset County are trying to figure out how a radio tower went missing in Windber. Police say a group of people had a very thorough plan to get all 120 feet of steel and copper down from the old Windber radio tower.Police believe the thieves threw...

Toyota Recalls 539,500 Corollas, Matrixes

Do you have a rattling window on your Corolla or Matrix? Your vehicle might be part of Toyota's huge recall announced today, for 2003-2004 models sold in the United States. "WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. is...

Debate over fate of Vancouver's famous hollow tree

After withstanding lightning, storms and countless people posing inside it, it sounds like the famous hollow tree of Vancouver's Stanley Park may finally be for the chop. The 2006 winter storms took a serious toll...

Hackers: NBC Shock Piece Backfires

As i reported over the weekend NBC is full of unqualified young producers just like the one outed by Defcon Members. It shows everyday on the MSNBC Live format. They pick the daily themes and book experts who...

Train crash:"possibility of sabotage"

from the Daily Mail..."Rail crash investigators were facing up to the possibility that the Virgin train derailment could have been the result of sabotage. Four vital steel bolts from a set of points that the train...

NASA approves August 27 Atlantis launch

"NASA managers unanimously picked August 27 for the first attempt to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on a mission to resume construction of the international space station - but two precariously attached bolts...

Report: Memo warned about Big Dig bolts (AP)

" BOSTON - Seven years before falling concrete crushed a motorist to death inside one of Boston's Big Dig tunnels, a safety officer warned that the bolts could not possibly hold the heavy ceiling panels, according to a bluntly worded memo leaked to a newspaper. John Keaveney...

3 more loose bolts found in Big Dig tunnel (AP)

" BOSTON - Traffic was disrupted once again in a key Big Dig tunnel after inspectors found loose bolts in a ceiling panel — the same sort of problem that is believed to have killed a motorist earlier this month. Three loose bolts — one had dislodged about a half...

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