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COLUMN: Car door slinging hazardous to oncoming traffic
Although people who throw their car door open isn't always directly involved in making physical contact with another vehicle, they can be cited when their actions contribute to a crash. In most cases, problems arise as a result of a person's failure to
Updated: 04/24/2011 08:10A
Vehicle crash traps apartment residents upstairs
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Two apartment residents in northwest Houston had to be rescued from their homes after a man drove his car into their stairway, trapping them inside. It happened around 10pm on Long Point near Campbell. Police say the man was driving
Updated: 04/24/2011 08:10A
Brain Cancer Cluster Case, Disrupted by Doctored Scientific Evidence, Goes to
A lawsuit against chemical company Rohm and Haas has resumed in a Philadelphia courtroom, after the judge abruptly dismissed the jury last October because a plaintiff's expert witness had changed his epidemiological report after the trial started.
Updated: 04/24/2011 08:08A
$$-raiser has lots of bite
And now toothless bartender Jamie Mandel, who lost his pearly whites in a car crash years ago, is talking up his promise to play a jaw-dropping 15 hours of nonstop pub ping-pong in order to raise $35000 for a new set of choppers.
Updated: 04/24/2011 08:08A
Japanese demo demands end to nuclear power
Radiation leaks have forced the evacuation of some 80000 people within 20 kilometres of the site following the accident which followed the earthquake and tsunami which hit the country, leaving 26000 dead or missing. Around 2000 people took part in a
Updated: 04/24/2011 08:07A
UPA stubbornly refusing to learn lessons from Fukushima: Advani
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani Sunday accused the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of stubbornly refusing to draw lessons from the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan and said Environment
Updated: 04/24/2011 08:07A
St. Clair Shores Coast Guard Personnel Responds to Boating Accident
One man died, a second was hospitalized, after their boat capsized on Lake St. Clair Saturday. A boat crew from Coast Guard Station St. Clair Shores was notified by a 911 dispatcher that an 18-foot boat
Updated: 04/24/2011 08:04A
Corruption, Jan Lokpal Bill and the Rule of Law
'Bhishma Pitamah' of Indian politics, Chanakya had commented, "Corruption and governance are like the fish and water". A political strategist, who commands such large following for centuries in India and is considered as a political ideal by majority
Updated: 04/24/2011 08:01A
Message of His Holiness Karekin II on the Feast of Resurrection
The history of our people testifies as well to the unsinkable power of Christ's triumphant resurrection. It is with this strength that our people rose from the Golgotha of the Genocide committed by Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century.
Updated: 04/24/2011 07:58A
Alabama Legislature Apologizes for 1944 Gang Rape
The 91-year-old African-American woman was raped in Alabama by a gang of Caucasian men in 1944, but never saw justice served as two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the suspects. The Alabama legislature has sought to officially
Updated: 04/24/2011 07:56A