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…
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Hundreds of volunteers spent the weekend in Mobile, Ala., helping kick off the construction of a planned 100-mile oyster reef aimed at restoring damage from years of overfishing, coastal erosion and development. (Jan. 24)
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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This won’t be the first (or by any means last) video you’ll see the Xperia Arc starring in, but it is the most comprehensive look we’ve had so far at this finely crafted Android Gingerbread handset. The guys over at HDBlog.it have somehow sourced both the silver and black variants of Sony Ericsson’s upcoming 4.2-incher and they’ve given the pair a nice and thorough video overview. They happily report that Timescape and Mediascape, Sony Ericsson’s pervasive features in the earlier X10 , have been scaled down to mere widgets, making them “far less intrusive” and resulting in the rest of the UI being “faster and easier to use.” Make the leap past the break to get the full dish on SE’s latest and greatest. Continue reading Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc subjected to a thorough video preview Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc subjected to a thorough video preview originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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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
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Japan said it was culling 410000 chickens from a farm in the south after the discovery of bird flu. (Jan. 24)
Continue reading …The new teen-sex barrier busting MTV series Skins might not be child porn , but a mounting list of squeamish advertisers are deserting the popular show. The Wrigley Company has become the third sponsor to ditch the show after GM and Taco Bell, reports the Hollywood Reporter . “Wrigley has decided to…
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