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[ 11 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 39 views ]

Time and money is finally beginning to run out for large numbers of people who lost their jobs, and have been living off hefty severance packages for up to two years.

Many workers who received generous exit packages from the financial and auto industries kept on spending the way they were use... read more

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[ 11 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 31 views ]

Justice fell short with the execution of Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad, one of his victims’ survivors said after witnessing his death by lethal injection.

Muhammad died silently Tuesday night in a Virginia prison death chamber filled with lawyers, lawmen and his victimsR... read more

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[ 10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 72 views ]

Capt. Lisa M. Nowak, the former astronaut whose drive to Florida from Texas to confront a romantic rival dominated the news and late-night comics’ routines, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery as part of a plea bargain.

The deal, which involves ... read more

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[ 10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 66 views ]

Sophisticated genetic fingerprinting confirmed that a laboratory experiment was the source of a bacterial infection that sickened a graduate student on Boston University’s medical campus, city disease investigators said yesterday.

The genetic tests, conducted at the state laboratory in Jama... read more

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[ 10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 62 views ]

Police in New York State say a person has been taken into custody after holding a northern New York high school principal hostage on Tuesday morning.

The drama took place at the Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains, NY, about 90 miles north of New York City.

Town supervisor Gre... read more

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[ 10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 50 views ]

The driver of Boston subway train that came to a screeching halt just before hitting a woman who had fallen onto the tracks has been hailed as a hero.

Charice Lewis got a radio call from fellow Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority employee Jacqueline Osorio, who was standing on the plat... read more

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[ 10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 47 views ]

Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, will cut as much as 6 percent of its workforce as the company loses subscribers to rivals.

Sprint will eliminate 2,000 to 2,500 jobs, saving at least $350 million annually, the Overland Park, Kansas-based company said in a sta... read more

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[ 10 Nov 2009 | 3 Comments | 121 views ]

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses _ the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. I... read more

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[ 10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 52 views ]

British scientists begin a new study on Tuesday to consider how human DNA is used in animal experiments and to determine what the boundaries of such controversial science might be.

Though experts have been swapping human and animal DNA for years — like replacing animal genes with human gene... read more

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[ 10 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 45 views ]

John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that terrorized the suburbs of the nation’s capital, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening at a state prison near Jarratt, Virginia.

Muhammad continued to profess his innocence during two lengthy trials ... read more