Engineer sent text 22 seconds before fatal train crash

" LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A Metrolink engineer driving a commuter train sent a text message about 22 seconds before the train collided with a Union Pacific freight train last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday....

Eleven decapitated bodies found in Mexico

Mexican society is becoming intolerent and violence is spreading very fast. Police in the peninsulan town of Merida have discovered 11 badly mutilated bodies which bore signs of torture, Some bodies were naked as well.  Mexico has long history of gang war between drug...

Social factors key to health, WHO says

The World Health Organization has just finished an extensive three-year study looking at the relationship between social conditions and health, concluding that "social injustice is killing people on a grand scale."Working conditions, education, housing, food, social security,...

Thank GOD: Police defused 18 bombs at market

Not again... I have just heard of a news pertaining to bomb explosions which took place in Istanbul, Turkey a couple of days ago. Why people (those who are involved in this incident) are targeting innocent...

AN AMERICAN 'HONOR KILLING' - Will you ignore another one?

America must make a stand, because many Europeans either can't or won't.An OP-ED by John Avlon, New York Post"By JOHN P. AVLONPosted: 4:02 amJuly 23, 2008 ON July 6, police say, a Pakistani named Chaudhry Rashid...

Chicago Suburb Bans Saggy Trousers

Another community says No to crack... Lynwood, a suburb of Chicago, has banned the wearing of saggy trousers. No more than three inches of exposed underwear. This ban, seen as targeting black teens, is just the...

Canadian Pedophile to be sentenced Aug. 15 on Thai sexual abuse charge

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Certainly accused Pedophile Christopher Paul Neil's pleas of innocence will fall on the Thai courts deaf ears, as scrambled internet videos of him with children were...

Murder Suspects Describe Two Killings in $2 Robbery

" The men arrested in the slayings of an aspiring Christian singer and his colleague at a Texas recording studio said in a chilling jailhouse interview the victims were killed at random in a robbery that netted only...

Talk about a Mobile Home! Barge floats home from Wash. to Canada

Talk about a Mobile Home and House boat ! Barge floats 2-story home from Wash. to Canada Here is a Story Board of the Move.  Here is video of the move HUNTS POINT, Wash. - Rolling the waterfront house onto a...

Eight Killed After Bomb Rocks Busy Sri Lankan Train

At least eight people were killed and 72 reported injured after a bomb went off in a packed passenger car in Colombo after three bombs were found and diffused on transit over the weekend.Authorities had been warning...

Katrina victim claims $97 million lottery prize

A man who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million lottery prize today, from a ticket he bought at a convenience store when he stopped to buy a gallon of milk." When he turned in the winning ticket, Carl Hunter became the largest Powerball winner in...

Man asks court to change his name to "In God We Trust"

A man from Illinois, Steve Kreuscher, wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name to 'In God We Trust'."Kreuscher (CROY'-shir) says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough times.The...

Flowertown is wilting

Flowertown is wilting A city’s success can only be measured by the quality of its inhabitants. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker these are the unit by which one can measure the value of any...

7 Injured in Wisconsin Church Explosion

Seven people are reportedly injured after an explosion destroyed a church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin earlier today."OCONOMOWOC, Wis. - An explosion in a Milwaukee suburb demolished a church and damaged two homes...

Customers pepper sprayed at B.C. bank

"Unsuspecting customers of a bank branch in Burnaby, B.C., were pepper sprayed Monday by a brazen group of would-be robbers. "Customers of a bank in Burnaby, B.C., were pepper sprayed Monday by a group of would-be robbers. (CBC) " Police say a group of young men in their...

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