Aruba is planning an extensive search involving police, firefighters, and possibly the military as investigators try to determine what happened to a missing American woman , authorities announced yesterday. The search is expected to start later this week and will be centered around the southern part of the Dutch Caribbean island…
Continue reading …The city council of Lilburn, Georgia, changed its tune last night, voting 3-1 to approve expansion plans for a local mosque that it had blocked for nearly two years, after the federal Justice Department said it would investigate the town. Residents packed into City Hall for the meeting, with nearly…
Continue reading …The Army didn’t properly test much of the body armor deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and can’t prove that it meets military standards, the Pentagon’s inspector general declared in a scathing new report. Because of the demands of the conflict, the army rushed some bullet-blocking plates into the field without…
Continue reading …Spanish police have arrested a chemistry student suspected of planning to attack anti-pope protesters with “suffocating gases,” an official said today. The pontiff is due to arrive tomorrow for a nearly four-day visit to celebrate World Youth Day, and a protest march is scheduled for this evening in Madrid. A…
Continue reading …Just call him Gerard Depard- ewwwww : A fellow passenger on the French actor’s Paris-to-Dublin flight says the plane was delayed almost two hours after Depardieu urinated on the floor before takeoff. Depardieu looked drunk and said “I need to piss, I need to piss,” the woman told France’s Europe-1 radio….
Continue reading …Need somewhere to communally draft a bill? To the cloud! Amazon yesterday launched a new version of its cloud service called “GovCloud,” which it says is “designed to allow US government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements….
Continue reading …After Russell Armstrong’s suicide , one question is apparently on everyone’s mind: Is Real Housewives to blame? The Los Angeles Times , Christian Science Monitor , and two separate Daily Beast stories all delve into that question, noting that Armstrong’s marriage troubles were splashed all over television during the first season of the…
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Bomb-making materials, maps of school and written statements found at Florida home Florida police say they have thwarted a plot by a 17-year-old to attack his former school, after discovering bomb-making material at his home. “We were probably able to thwart a potentially catastrophic event the likes of which the city of Tampa has not seen and hopefully never will,” Tampa police chief Jane Castor told a news conference. Tampa police said Jared Cano’s target was the Freedom high school in Hillsborough county. The local police chief, Jane Castor, said Cano, who had been expelled from the school, had hoped “to cause more casualties than were suffered at Columbine”. In April 1999, two students at the Columbine high school in Colorado killed 12 students and one teacher in one of the deadliest school massacres in US history. Castor said Tampa police, acting on a tip from an informant, learned that Cano had been planning an attack for the first day of term next week. Florida United States Global terrorism guardian.co.uk
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