ything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.” Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the city’s cuts in the police force. “The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens,” he said. Although police cannot be on the s…
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“Bicholim Conflict” was voted a “good article” – a Wikipedia badge of honor – and sat happily on the online encyclopedia for more than half a decade. But editors have lately discovered a small issue with the site’s meticulously written 4,500 word article detailing the 17th century Bicholim Conflict. It was entirely made up. After five years of featuring the piece, which tells th…
Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, has landed in Rabat, Morocco, after flying from Spain, completing the second leg of its pioneering journey. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse in Rabat, 19 hours after taking off from Madrid. The plane – the size of a jumbo jet – was powered by 12,000 solar cells turning four electrical motors. The 2,500 km-trip (1,550 miles), begun i…
riners in June 2004. Gregory Halman was one of the country’s most successful baseball exports and rose steadily through the Major League ranks before hitting the big time in 2010. He appeared in 44 MLB games for Seattle and helped the Netherlands win the European Baseball Championship in 2007. In 2009, Gregory Halman earned the “best power hitter” tag and “best athlete̶…
Amanda Knox is prepared to fly back to the U.S. today after being dramatically cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Amanda Knox, 24, was taken to the airport police station to sign various forms – even anxiously calling her lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova to check everything was fine for her to go through immigration and board the British Airways flight to Seattle via London…
…ho, corporate welfare’s got to go”, the Los Angeles Times reported. “In the end, what we want to do is inspire working-class people to get involved in the political process,” Adam Liszkiewics, a 32-year-old USC graduate student, told the Los Angeles Times. Boston The Occupy Boston movement appears the most well-developed of the off-shoot protests, with a sizeable camp, featuring tents, medic…
commercialization rights and the Takeda Group has rights to commercialize Adcetris in the rest of the world. Seattle Genetics and the Takeda Group are funding joint development costs for Adcetris on a 50:50 basis, except in Japan, where the Takeda Group will be solely responsible for development costs….
nsferred to King County Jail. On Monday he was being held in custody and was expected to be booked on investigation of felony assault. The flight 108 from Anchorage, Alaska, landed in Seattle at about 4:30 a.m. on Monday. Seattle-Tacoma Airport spokesman Perry Cooper said no other airport operations were affected….
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Amanda Knox arrived in Seattle, her home city, as a free woman after serving four years in an Italian jail for the murder of English student Meredith Kercher. After dramatically being cleared of the murder in court on Monday, Amanda Knox touched down at Seattle-Tacoma airport to rapturous applause at just after 5:00 p.m. local time. Amanda Knox made an emotional thank you speech from the airport,…
…han $1,200 in public housing vouchers, plus state and government disability cheques and even food stamps. Prosecutors are demanding they pay back more than $135,000 in federal housing assistance since 2003 and are seeking tens of thousands of dollars in fines. It is thought the couple has spent some of the money they claimed over the last eight years flying to Moscow, Paris, Israel, Turkey, Mexico…
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…me photos, he is reading Friday’s copy of the Communist Party newspaper Granma. Fidel Castro led Cuba after the revolution in 1959, first as prime minister (1959-1976) and later as president. In 2006, surgery took Fidel Castro out of public view. His brother Raul became acting president. In February 2008, Fidel Castro officially handed over power to Raul who has been leading the country sinc…
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Whitney Houston’s premature death at 48 in Beverly Hilton Hotel triggered a slew of media speculation and rumors about her alleged drug use and troubled personal relationships. Now, a Vanity Fair article has shed new light on Whitney Houston’s personal life and last days in Los Angeles, three months after she was found drowned in a hotel bathtub. One of the more bizarre anecdotes is recount…
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Jeff Blackburn was driving his garbage truck on his regular route in Seattle when he saw a woman jogging with a baby in a pram, TV network Komo 4 reports. Scroll down for video The mother turned the pram sideways at the top of a hill and moved away to talk to some other women when the stroller took off, he said. “She was on a hill and almost immediately when she turned the corner the st…
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Five people have been reportedly killed in a shooting at an apartment complex in Federal Way, near the city of Seattle. According to police, a man and a woman were found dead in a search of the complex, Associated Press reports. Five people have been reportedly killed in a shooting at an apartment complex in Federal Way, near the city of Seattle Another two men were found lying wounded in a car…
…a records what is happening before a patient’s eyes and fires beams of near infrared light on to the retinal chip. The creates an electrical signal which is passed on to nerves. Natural light is 1,000 times too weak to power the implant. The researchers said: “Because the photovoltaic implant is thin and wireless, the surgical procedure is much simpler than in other retinal prosthetic…
Intel confirms details of the first smartphone to be powered by one of its processors. The XOLO X900, made by the Indian manufacturer Lava, will go on sale on 23 April priced at about 22,000 rupees ($420). Lava has teamed up with Indian retail chain Croma to distribute the device across the country. The move follows Intel’s previous failed attempt to break into the smartphone market. A tie-…
igeroa, who told police that her daughter stabbed her own child. When officers went to the home, they found Emily Castro covered in mud, water and blood. Emily and Anthony’s father Ariel Castro, 52, was arrested on Monday after one of his alleged victims, Amanda Berry, escaped his home and called police. Neighbors in the street were shocked to hear that Ariel Castro, who was a school bus dri…
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…d. The San Francisco Chronicle reports it’s the second Alameda County lawsuit filed over Williams’ bizarre 10 minutes on stage last month at Oakland’s Oracle Arena. The suit filed by 35-year-old Brian Herline, of Modesto, says he and hundreds of fans were disappointed when Katt Williams took off his clothes and challenged people to fight. Brian Herline is seeking class-action cer…
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…d close to the screen of the tablet it ignores touch-input from the users’ hands and “samples” the ink at 600 dpi (dots per inch). The ARM-based version will be available with either 32 GB (gigabytes) or 64 GB of storage. Microsoft said they would be priced at a similar rate to other tablets using the same type of processor built by other firms. It added that the Intel-based vers…
Coolpix S800c, the first mainstream digital camera to be powered by Google’s Android system, has been released by Nikon. Nikon’s point-and-shoot Coolpix S800c model is being marketed as a “social imaging device”. Demand for compact cameras has suffered because of the rise of smartphones. However, Nikon says its latest model offers superior picture quality thanks to the siz…
…eir mothers The article also provoked responses from religious and Pro-Life groups. Rev. Joanna Jepson came to public attention when she spoke out against a late abortion that had been carried out in 2001. Doctors are permitted to carry out abortions beyond the 24-week legal limit if they believe a baby’s disability is serious enough, but Rev. Joanna Jepson argued that a cleft palate was a…
…, the article by investigative journalist Edward Epstein revealed. The article continued to pick flaws in Nafissatou Diallo’s statement too, which coincided with the missing mobile. Nafissatou Diallo, 32, entered DSK’s hotel room at 12:06 on May 14 for housekeeping and claims that within the six minutes she was in room 2806 with him, she was dragged near the bathroom and forced to give him oral se…
Tom Cruise’s lawyer has threatened the National Enquirer with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a new issue asserting it has details of the actor’s recent split with wife Katie Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The website posted a letter from Tom Cruise’s Los Angeles attorney, Bert Fields, in which he blasts American Media Inc, parent of the National Enquirer, for w…
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…Connor Cruise, were sent on a course to teach them to recognize “suppressive persons”, such as their adoptive mother. The article includes an interview with John Brousseau, who was a Scientologist for 32 years and is a former brother-in-law to the church leader David Miscavige. Us Magazine claims that Bella and Connor Cruise were sent on a course to teach them to recognize “suppressive persons”,…
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ase had been botched and DNA evidence contaminated. A third suspect, Rudy Guede, whose DNA and bloody footprints were found all over the crime scene, is serving a 16-year prison sentence, reduced from 30 years on appeal. Meredith Kercher’s family welcomed the Italian court’s judgment. Her sister Stephanie said: “We are never going to be happy about any outcome because we have still lost Meredith b…
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