Vintage Reggae Label Releases Anthology Series

17 North Parade is proud to announce the release of Reggae Anthology – Niney The Observer: Roots With Quality and Reggae Rewind –Freddie McGregor: Mr. McGregor on January 13, 2009. These two essential albums are...

Springsteen announces a new record for January.

The twenty-fourth record from the mythical US musician Bruce Springsteen is set to be out on January 27th, with the name Working on a Dream.As the singer has stated on his official website, the new songs were...

Somali pirates demand $25m ransom for supertanker

Somali pirates have demanded a $25 million ransome for the Saudi oil tanker which they hijacked earlier this week.Yesterday Saudi Arabia's foreign minister confirmed that the ship's owners are in talks with the...

Want to know what your state taxpayer dollars pay for? LA Gov. Jindal new web...

"BATON ROUGE -- Want to know what the state Office of Business Development spent last year on employee salaries ($4,349,216.48)? How much the lieutenant governor's office has spent so far this year on travel and training ($117,881.49)? Or the annual salary of Insurance...

World's Longest Legs

Svetlana Pankratova from Russia walks into the Guinness World Records book with 132 centimetres (51.9 inch) long legs. World's Longest Legs

OHIO DJFS Chief on leave over Illegal Records Search on "Joe the Plumber"

"Gov. Ted Strickland said today he is placing Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, on paid administrative leave "due to the possibility, as yet unconfirmed, that a state computer or state e-mail account was used to assist in...

Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Campaign Ads of 2008

Huffington Post has put together the best, worst, and most memorable Campaign Ads of 2008."It is tradition in every campaign for each side to denounce the other as having run the sleaziest race in modern political...

First "Halloween" Costumes: Skins, Skulls, and Skirts?

" A far cry from the faux Palins, pirates, and princesses of today, costumes during Halloween's precursor centuries ago included animal skins and heads, drag getups, and even mechanical horse heads, historians say."

Happy Halloween - the Dead are Voting in Florida

"Thursday, October 30, 2008 – updated: 3:41 pm EDT October 30, 2008 VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Thousands of dead Floridians are registered to vote and some in Central Florida had ballots cast in their names long after their deaths. "That is scary," said Jim Branch. Branch's...

Court orders Ohio to Verify Voter Registrations, ACORN calls it Suppression

"Election Law Blog has a short, useful summary. A three-judge panel from the same court ruled last week that the Democrat Secretary of State, who’s resisted GOP efforts to implement the new system, could rely on...

Troopergate Closed Meeting Ends in Anchorage

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska lawmakers met behind closed doors Friday to discuss a politically charged ethics report into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her state public safety commissioner. The Republican vice...

Judge rules Cheney must release documents to National Archive

A judge ruled, Monday, that vice president Dick Cheney must turn over all documents prepared by him, or his office, in relation to his duties as vice president, to the National Archives after his term as VP has...

Police: Pa. landlord spied on 34 female tenants

" PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A suburban Philadelphia landlord secretly videotaped 34 female tenants over two decades after hiding cameras in their apartments, authorities said Friday. Thomas Daley, 45, will face additional charges stemming from the new victims identified...

cows point to the north

"New weird news related to cows: Researchers discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction. It has long been observed that cows appear to have a talent for weather forecasting and are able to predict when rain is on the way,...

Personnel Records Stolen from MoD

The UK is a very, very dangerous place if you're a database. Usually, though, government and military officials just leave sensitive info lying around; this time a collectoin of hard drives was stolen from a secure...

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