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Kidnapper fathered 2 children with Jaycee Lee Dugard
August 27, 2009A woman who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 has turned up after being held for the past 18 years in isolation in a backyard compound by a convicted sex offender who fathered two children with her, police said. The details...
Obesity in America at O'Reilly Factor with Marshall and Bruce
August 25, 2009On August 25, 2009, radio talk hosts Leslie Marshall and Tammy Bruce on the O'Reilly Factor discussed obesity in America and its societal implications. The discussion is about PETA's new billboard campaign in Florida, which has raised questions among...
U.S. media bias revealed: Bush volunteered for the Vietnam service
August 25, 2009By Edmund Jenks An outside panel CBS brought into to get to the bottom of the so-called “Rathergate” mess says on Page #130 on an online report resource that George W. Bush had volunteered for fighter pilot service in the Viet Nam theater...
Text and drive "Cow" video 'shocks' not only students
August 19, 2009The police department in Gwent and the Tredegar comprehensive, a local high school in Wales, made a shocking video depicting an accident caused by texting and its emotional aftermath. It attempts to stop car crashes caused by the driver texting while...
Beaumont tornado's touch down caught on Blackberry
August 18, 2009On August 18, video from a local television station (KFDM, see video here) shows a tornado touched down at a Kohl's Department Store, skipped over a Wal-Mart and continued on to Parkdale Mall in Beaumont, Texas. The tornado has caused the collapse of...
Horse hit by Villagra's car during Rally of Argentine
August 18, 2009Rally car driver Federico Villagra hit a wild horse during the Rally Argentina on a dirt track in Patagonia (see graphic video of the crash below). Villagra was unable to avoid one of horses that crossed the road, sending the horse flying 30 feet (about...
US Prosecutors Charge Three In Largest Identity Theft In History
August 18, 2009Officials in the United States have charged a 28-year-old American man and two foreign accomplices -- identified as "having resided in or near Russia" -- with data theft from an estimated 130 million credit and debit cards. That makes it the...
Russia: Dam Disaster Opening New Era of ‘Technogenic’ Disasters
August 18, 2009By Paul Goble The deadly disaster at the Sayano-Shushensk dam in Khakassia, the fifth largest hydro-electric facility in the world, occurred because officials sought to generate more electricity than the dam was designed to produce and because Moscow...
No Ukrainian language school in Russia for about 2M Ukrainians
August 17, 2009By Paul Goble Ukraine Has Nearly 3,000 Russian-Language Schools, but Russia Doesn’t Have Even a Single Ukrainian-Language One Despite Moscow’s frequent charges and complaints, Kyiv pays for the operation of nearly 3,000 Russian...
Health Care Reform Bill: Americans fight back, Katy Abram's story
August 11, 2009Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), who switched from the Republican to Democratic Party this year, was confronted with questions and statements at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Pennsylvania on Tuesday. His constituency is frustrated about the Democratic...