Police say a 38-year-old gunman opened fire in a Detroit police station. The gunman wounded four officers Sunday at Detroit’s 6th precinct before he was shot and killed. (Jan. 24)
Continue reading …Police are investigating reports that children undressed and engaged in oral sex in a second grade classroom in Oakland, Calif., ABC News reports. The school district calls the allegations “unthinkable,” but is investigating “aggressively,” and admits that evidence “suggests that the reports have merit.” A girl who reported the incident…
Continue reading …A troubled mother may have shot to death her three children and herself after disturbing internet postings about her marital troubles, according to investigators. The bodies of Katelynn Bennett, 30, and her two daughters and son, ages 4 to 14, were found in their partially burned Indiana home, reports CNN…
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One of the country’s elite fitness facilities is reaching out to truckers, trying to save lives. (Jan. 24)
Continue reading …Sex in the Environmental Movement is Everywhere, According to Undercover Cops
January 24, 2011 No Comment
Photo: anorak The news story in the UK of the undercover cop who was posing as an environmentalist for seven years is getting very sexy. This weekend’s installment is more like a manual on how to get it in the green movement. It turns out that sex was (is?) everywhere and it’s a policeman’s job to go for it in order to get information. In case you are wondering, things are pretty hot in left-wing groups and the Animal Liberation Front too. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …A commission created by the Israeli government has cleared the Israeli military and government of any wrongdoing in last year’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla of relief supplies that killed 8 Turkish citizens and a Turkish-American. The nearly 300-page report was based on the testimony of Israeli government and military…
Continue reading …McDonald’s to start accepting contactless Visa payments in all UK restaurants by this summer
January 24, 2011 No Comment
The UK already has a big old investment in contactless technology with London’s rather successful Oystercard travel scheme, but now the whole Kingdom can get a taste for airborne payments thanks to a new initiative from McDonald’s and Visa . The two giants of commerce are uniting to bring NFC tech to all of the former’s 1,200 fast food restaurants within the UK, allowing hungry Brits to pay for meals costing up to
Continue reading …A police commander and three officers were shot yesterday afternoon in their Detroit precinct station house by a 38-year-old gunman, who was then shot and killed by police, reports the Detroit News . The commander was shot in the hand and side, and underwent surgery that evening; he is in critical…
Continue reading …Genovation G2 aims to be the greenest thing you can drive, will be made from renewable and recycled parts
January 24, 2011 No Comment
One big sticking point for those still unwilling to embrace the eco-friendly credentials of electric vehicles is the undeniable fact that building an EV costs plenty in terms of resource and energy use. Hoping to counter this concern, Genovation is working on developing a new G2 electric car (the G1 was a Ford Focus modified with off-the-shelf parts to run on batteries), which will try to maximize the use of renewable and recycled materials in its construction. It’s just completed the first phase of its development, where quarter-size models have been built by Tata Technologies and a bunch of simulations, analyses, and performance tests have been run. Phases two and three will involve the building of functional prototypes and pre-production road vehicles, with phase four presumably being the onset of our sustainable living utopia. Continue reading Genovation G2 aims to be the greenest thing you can drive, will be made from renewable and recycled parts Genovation G2 aims to be the greenest thing you can drive, will be made from renewable and recycled parts originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Jubilant Pittsburgh Steelers fans poured into the streets chanting and celebrating their team’s 24-19 win over the New York Jets in the AFC Championship. (Jan. 24)
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