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"Police in Texas Learning Spanish Posted on Mar 03, 2008 in Learn Spanish Edit This Add This! • Email this • Add a comment • Subscribe to this feed • Save to del.icio.us • Digg This! Sherman, Texas is going all out to get their patrol officers bilingual....

Things that make you feel super-special

" At the International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla., last week, more than 1,900 exhibitors showed new and innovative products. Here are some of the new products that attendees found interesting.     TurboChef, a do-it-all single oven, cooks up to...

Texas Schools Evacuated, Closed as Explosion Rocks Oil Refinery & Community

Over the past few years, Texas has seen a number of oil refinery explosions and accidents. It's a dangerous business."An explosion rocked an oil refinery Monday in a violent blast that shook buildings miles away...

Owner of destroyed B.C. restaurant commits suicide

More unfortunate news concerning the Taco Del Mar restaurant explosion and fire in Vancouver, B.C."The owner of a Vancouver restaurant destroyed in a suspected arson attack has committed suicide, police said...

Vancouver arson suspect found badly burned

UPDATE: Police believe they've found the suspect witnesses saw fleeing the scene early Wednesday morning."Vancouver police say they've found a suspect in the fire and explosion that destroyed a taco restaurant and...

Major Internet Outage

"CAIRO, Egypt - An abandoned anchor was responsible for cutting one of the undersea Internet cables severed last week, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cable's owner said Friday."

Wrong vines leads to worthless wines

After the second bottle who cares what wine tastes like (or really who can tell HIC!"The ABC reports that a vineyard owner is suing a nursery for allegedly selling him thousands of the wrong grape vines.  The South Australian vineyard owner says the mistake was not...

'Mona Lisa' mystery solved

"Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting. But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover,...

Drunk Dog Put In Hospital

"January 7, 2008 - An unusual case came up as a dog, a labrador, came in to vets in the Austrian town Bad Goisern, completely drunk and over the limit. A dog owner brought his 3-year-old labrador...

Scientists excited over discovery of foot in hiking boot

Maybe they can match up toenail records or something..."Scientists in New Zealand are scrambling to know the owner of a foot found in a boot on a glacier on the island’s South Island.  The reason for the excitement is once the owner is known, it is hoped that this will...

Dane Cook's 7-Hour Set Breaks Comedy Record

It's interesting to note that no mention was made of the audience, other than that Dane fed 'em.  All how many of 'em? Could anyone possibly endure seven hours of stand-up (that is, unless it was Dave...

Princess Diana's Letter said Charles was Plotting to Kill her

I'm sure conspiracy theorists everywhere are having a field day with this one. Still, if true it's pretty disturbing that she warned she would be killed in a car crash in that specific manner...and then died...

Canada :Store owner charged with stealing winning $5.7M lottery ticket

Lets hope this store owner will be spending many Yuletide Dinners in prison. "A former convenience store owner was charged Wednesday with stealing a winning lottery ticket and fraudulently claiming $5.7 million in...

Toronto Retailer Charged in $5 Million Insider Lottery Claim

As though someone wouldn't notice if the guy they bought a lotto ticket from suddenly claimed $5 million dollars. Just a coincidence, I swear!"Police have charged a Toronto convenience store owner with fraud in...

New Orleans Tax Sale Resumes Wednesday, Dec.12

Did you miss out the first time around?Here's your chance to get in on the Action.Some information Buyers need to know:"# When is the sale final? When will the property become mine? * The sale is final when...

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