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Prime Suspect: ‘America’s Most Wanted’ Headed to Lifetime Network

Memo to Fox: You think you can just end one of the longest-running shows on television and be done with it? The creator-host of America’s Most Wanted, John Walsh, in a joint announcement with Lifetime, confirmed on Tuesday that shortly after being dropped, his weekly criminal roundup (which since 1988 has brought the best part

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Count Barbara Boxer among those steamed about President Obama’s decision to ditch the EPA’s proposal for stricter smog standards . The California senator talked to reporters yesterday, and while Politico notes that she was more measured than many environmentalists , she did call for a lawsuit against the president. “I’m not making…

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‘Sensational’ Discovery: Ancient Gladiator School Found East of Vienna

A large and well-preserved Roman gladiator school has been discovered near Vienna, Austria, that includes the sleeping cells and training grounds of men who fought to their death 1,700 years ago. The site is buried, but was detected through sophisticated, ground-penetrating technology that provide three-dimensional images of what lies below. A team at Vienna’s Ludwig-Boltzmann

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Yankees Hold Ceremony to Mark 9/11 Anniversary

The New York Yankees marked the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 with a ceremony before their game against the Baltimore Orioles Wednesday. The team will be in the middle of a long road trip on Sunday, the anniversary of the attacks. (Sept. 7)

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Arrest in Missing Calif. Nursing Student Case

An arrest has been made in connection with a missing Northern California nursing student last seen more than three months ago, police said Wednesday. (Sept. 7)

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Just two people survived a crash today that claimed almost an entire Russian ice hockey team. The Yak-42 plane, which was carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team to Minsk for the season opener, crashed to the ground and caught fire immediately after take-off at 4pm Moscow time. RIA Novosti reports that…

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British police say they’ve arrested a 16th suspect in their investigation of phone hacking at the now-defunct tabloid News of the World . The 35-year-old man, whose name was not released, was arrested at his home this morning. None of the 16 suspects has yet been charged, and one has been…

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Magma ExpressBox 3T gives you 3 external PCIe slots over Thunderbolt

Laptops aren’t exactly renowned for their expandability, especially those beautiful slivers of aluminum from Apple. (Simply upgrading the RAM on your Air requires you break out the soldering iron.) Magma has a solution, the ExpressBox 3T. This silver case houses its own 220w power supply and a trio of PCIe 2.0 slots. Two of those slots are of the x8 variety (though one can hold an x16 card) while the third is scaled back to x4. And they all talk to your notebook via that wonderful little port known as Thunderbolt . It even comes with a carrying case which, we suppose, makes this hunk of metal “portable,” but we certainly wouldn’t want to lug it around very often. Sadly there’s no info just yet about price or release date, but we do have a gallery of images below and the complete PR after the break. Gallery: Magma ExpressBox 3T Continue reading Magma ExpressBox 3T gives you 3 external PCIe slots over Thunderbolt Magma ExpressBox 3T gives you 3 external PCIe slots over Thunderbolt originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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President Obama intends to swoop to the rescue of the ailing US Postal Service —or at least try, reports the New York Times. The White House yesterday announced that it would push for legislation giving the USPS a three-month reprieve on the $5.5 billion it’s supposed to pay on…

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