Sales of million-dollar Tahoe homes fall ... by half!!!

Sierra Nevada mountain living just isn't worth as much as it used to be. Poor Lake Tahoe and the beautiful Ponderosa Pine forests that welcome people from all over ... especially, San Francisco. The fuel to drive the...

Rush Limbaugh: Worth $400 Million?

Let's see if Drudge Report is right on this breaking news." The American broadcast industry is rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit, yet again, by Rush Limbaugh, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In what is being described as an unprecedented radio contract,...

Jostling, teargas at drug lord's auction

"The sale of goods belonging to Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, a convicted drug trafficker suspected of heading up Colombia's notoriously violent Valle del Norte cartel, included luxury vehicles, DVDs, wine, flatscreen televisions, a watch valued at $US680,000 ($729,748) - and...

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Bid

"Yahoo Board to Spurn $44B Microsoft BidSaturday February 9, 11:37 pm ET By Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer Yahoo Board Intends to Turn Down Microsoft's Unsolicited $44.6 Billion Takeover Bid SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6...

Sun to spend $1B to acquire MySQL, will compete with Oracle, Microsoft

"When discussing enterprise database installations worldwide, as of today, it will be impossible not to consider Sun Microsystems along with Microsoft and Oracle. This morning, Sun announced it has reached an agreement with MySQL -- which by some accounts may have become the...

Victoria: Popular parrot purloined from perch at pet shop

What is reminiscent of a Monty Python skit, a pet shop owner is despondent that someone kidnapped up his parrot during a busy rush of customers. Perhaps the Parrot took flight to it's native Norway to bask in the...

Microsoft Buys Into Facebook; Google Left Out in the Cold

Does this mean that Bill Gates will be my newest Facebook friend? Will Facebook now become a  MS Office networking device as well as a social network?Stay tuned. "Microsoft Corp beat out rival Google Inc on...

O.J Simpson To Give Up Memorabilia And Rolex Watch

"O.J. Simpson has been ordered to give up a Rolex watch valued at up to $US22,000 ($25,000) and sports memorabilia as partial settlement of a multimillion-dollar judgment for the wrongful deaths of his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Los Angeles...

Mind the Gap Museum: Gap Inc. Founder to open art museum

Art or no art, this might not exactly be the most welcome addition to San Francisco: Gap (Old Navy, Banana Republic) founder Donald Fisher is planning to build an art museum to house his personal collection in the...

NYC Schools in Police State Environment

I thought It was bad when I went to school.  We had a few police officers, but this is utterly ridiculous.  Instead of addressing the causes of school violence, they simply cover it up with more...

Undergarment thief walks off with 80 bras

Ok... apart from this story being strange, what the reporter fails to mention is that the location in question is inside a mall. Now the case has gone cold due to lack of leads?

Refugee 'Abused British Hospitality'

A Somalian who a Judge said had abused British hospitality will now be enjoying a long stretch at the expense of His Majesties Prison. Gurey stole a checkbook from Blacks Leisure group and tried to cash cheque's.. "A SOMALIAN refugee who paid two cheques stolen from a...

Loyal V.A. Employee Earns Termination

Life in the United States waxes increasingly strange,as Matthew B. Stannard reports today on the story of Chris Fredking, a technician at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center who has, by all accounts,...

Craigslist Founder Says He Won't Cash In

"The founder of craigslist, the free social networking and classifieds Web site, said on Thursday he is not interested in selling out, a few hours after social networking site MySpace was valued at $15 billion."

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