Robert Russell from Texas has recovered a vintage sports car he spotted being sold on eBay 42 years after thieves stole it from him, officials in California say. Robert Russell, 66, said he had never given up searching for the 1967 Austin-Healey, which was stolen in 1970. After seeing the car on eBay, he found that the vehicle identification number on the website matched the one on his title cert…
Jul 15 2012 | Posted in
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, this has been incredibly overwhelming and we have always cherished our privacy.” The jackpot was the second-largest in US history. The numbers drawn on November 28th were 5, 23, 16, 22, 29 and 6. The other winning ticket was bought at a petrol station by Mark and Cindy Hill, of Dearborn, Missouri. They said they would use their winnings to help their relatives, including grandchildren, nie…
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L be done on earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN>> since in heaven God’s will is done #always. On earth, it’s done rarely,” seemingly in response to the family’s tragic loss. Rick Warren, 59, is one of the leading voices in the evangelical movement in America. His church, located in Orange County, is ranked the seventh largest congregation in the U.S. with an average weekly attendance…
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Big Tex, the 52 ft (16 m) tall cowboy who watched over the Texas State Fair for 60 years, has been destroyed by a fire. The flames quickly engulfed Big Tex’s structure, leaving behind little more than a charred metal frame. Big Tex was famed for his 75-gallon (283-litre) hat and 50 lb (23 kg) belt buckle, and was a popular meeting-spot for fairgoers. Fair officials vowed to rebuild Big Tex,…
Oct 20 2012 | Posted in
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; and having to tap out the words to the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star within 45 seconds while wearing darkened glasses that blocked the competitors’ view. The champion said he typically sent 500 texts a day to his friends, but attributed his success to added practice with his mother. The writer Malcolm Gladwell once wrote that studies suggested that it typically took 10,000 hours –…
Ice-T and Coco Austin’s seemingly unbreakable bond has been rocked by a scandal after photos hit the internet showing Coco cuddling up with AP.9. But Ice-T appeared to have forgiven his wife and the pair put on a united front on a Las Vegas outing on Friday. It seems rapper Ice-T may have travelled to the Nevada city to be by his wife’s side – and perhaps keep an eye on her – after she was snappe…
Dec 22 2012 | Posted in
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A huge explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, has left 60 people feared dead, more than 100 injured and caused multiple buildings to be flattened. The blast at the plant in West, close to Waco, at 7.50 p.m. (CST) on Wednesday left fires burning as a three-mile radius around the blast zone was evacuated amid fears of a secondary explosion. Six or seven fire crew are unaccounted for foll…
…marillo/Potter/Randall Office of Emergency Management. “Some of the cars were just buried in hail and people were trapped in their cars.” The southbound lane of the highway, which was shut down around 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, finally reopened early on Thursday morning. Emergency crews also got several swift-water rescue calls as the road was flooded in low-lying areas, she said. Rural fences and ve…
Texas officials have announced that 12 bodies have been recovered from the site of Wednesday’s deadly blast at West Fertilizer plant. About 200 people are now thought to have been injured in the blast. Earlier, the town’s mayor said he believed four firefighters who attended the original fire were among the dead, though this has not been confirmed. Dozens of buildings were destroyed b…
Apr 19 2013 | Posted in
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Read More » Amanda Billiris from Texas was arrested after relatives said they caught her having sex with a 15-year-old boy on Thanksgiving Day. The scene unfolded at a family gathering held on the holiday at a house in Oakridge Forest Lane in Spring. Amanda Billiris, 23, an avid motorcycle racer, was arrested after relatives said they witnessed her having sexual intercourse with the boy, the arrest report st…
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Megan Fox and husband Brian Austin Green have welcomed baby boy Noah Shannon. Megan Fox, 26, gave birth to her first child on September 27. She subsequently announced the news to fans on Facebook, gushing about the couple’s “healthy, happy, and perfect” little bundle. “We have been very lucky to have had a peaceful few weeks at home, but I would like to release this myself before others do,…
Oct 17 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » Fears are growing Matthew McConaughey is taking it too far as he continues to shed weight for a role as an AIDS victim in a forthcoming film, The Dallas Buyer’s Club. Matthew McConaughey, 42, looked gaunt and unwell as he made his way through a Los Angeles airport as he jetted out to New Orleans on Friday. The actor was aiming to lose 30 pounds from his already lean but muscular frame to pl…
Nov 10 2012 | Posted in
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Researchers from Austin, Texas, have “cloaked” a 3-D object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time. However, the demonstration works only for waves in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The demonstration uses a shell of what are known as plasmonic materials; they present a “photo negative” of the object being cloaked, effectively cancel…
r Day Weekend Packages at Family Resorts Many family resorts in the U.S. have end-of-summer bashes, often with a BBQ. For instance, in southern Maine the Pointe Sebago family resort on Lake Sebago has 775 acres and a package that includes buffet meals (with lobster on the menu), a boat cruise, paddle boats, canoes, kayaks, activities for all ages, and entertainment. The AAA four-diamond Resort at…
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St Louis Cardinals beat Texas Rangers 6-2 in the decisive seventh game and won baseball’s World Series 2011. Both teams drove in two runs in the first innings, but St Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter then began to dominate as the runs dried up for Texas Rangers. Allen Craig’s solo home run in the third put St Louis Cardinals ahead before Texas Rangers bullpen contrived to walk…
Celebrating Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday anniversary lots of events are taking place over the world starting from September 5. Freddie Mercury, the Queen frontman, who left an important legacy On Monday night at the Savoy Hotel in London Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor honored Freddie Mercury‘s memory. Celebrities including Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Ta…
…onymous boasted of stealing Stratfor’s confidential client list, which includes entities ranging from Apple Inc. to the U.S. Air Force to the Miami Police Department, and mining it for more than 4,000 credit card numbers, passwords and home addresses. Austin, Texas-based Stratfor provides political, economic and military analysis to help clients reduce risk, according to a description on its…
3.5% of average 2. Brooklyn, New York – 183.4 3. Honolulu, Hawaii – 170.8 4. San Francisco, California – 163.2 5. San Jose, California – 156.5 6. Queens, New York – 151.4 7. Stamford, Connecticut – 146.7 8. Washington, DC – 145.5 9. Framingham, Massachusetts – 143.0 10. Orange County, California – 142.5 THE CHEAPEST CITIES IN THE U.S. 1. Har…
on the east- and westbound sides of the interstate. The highway had been crowded with motorists traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday. Many of the vehicles were moving close to the posted speed of 70 mph despite dense fog that limited visibility, Rod Carroll said. Chief Charles Sonnier of the Labelle-Fannett Volunteer Fire Department told KFDM News the vehicles involved in the accidents includ…
blican Mitt Romney has secured his place as the challenger to Barack Obama in November's US presidential election, following a primary in Texas In early returns, Mitt Romney had captured more than 70% of the vote. Texas awards 152 delegates proportionally. He will surpass his father, George Romney, a former Michigan governor who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in 1968. Opinion…
…to the restroom and really it’s just a supervision issue.” Parents are upset that it’s an invasion of their children’s privacy, but Cody Cunningham argues that many changes have been made in the last 50 years to protect their student’s safety. The restrooms, the schools say, still allow privacy, as there is no line of sight from the hallway into the restrooms, thanks to a half-wall. However, Texa…
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…rea. “Of course the windows were flying out, and my sister is paralyzed, so I had to get someone to help me get her in a wheelchair to get her out of the room,” said Joy Johnston, who was visiting her 79-year-old sister at the Green Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. “It was terribly loud.” At the nearby Omni Mandalay Las Colinas hotel, tornado sirens sounded, alerting guests to g…
with Grimmer while she released the other workers. She took the man and her two children into another room while a SWAT team managed to evacuate 30 people. Rachelle Grimmer released the supervisor at 7:45 p.m. but remained in the building with her children. During the seven-hour stand-off, the apparent Facebook profile of Ramie Marie Grimmer was updated regularly. Hostage negotiators were in comm…
Dec 9 2011 | Posted in
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…emergency for Dallas and Hutchins!” Dallas tornado tosses trucks across the skies as dangerous twister targets Texas Local television footage shows a large funnel cloud on the ground near Interstate 35 south of Dallas. The weather service says the “large and extremely dangerous” tornado was near Lancaster about 20 miles south of Dallas and moving north. The weather service is also reporting othe…
…com revealed that almost half of all Thanksgiving weekend shoppers will shop online on Monday – and more than half of these said they would shop more online than at shops on Black Friday. Of the 5,000 people surveyed, 41% of people said they would shop on Cyber Monday – up from the 37% in 2011, and 33% in 2010, Fox News reported. Eighty-four per cent of Cyber Monday shoppers said they…
Nov 23 2012 | Posted in
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