A 44-year-old homeowner in Palm Bay, Fla., used a football helmet to strike and then capture a burglar attempting to break into his home early Monday, according to police.
Investigators said a man at a home located on the 700 block of Cayuga Avenue in the northeast part of Palm Bay heard a noise at about [...]
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Nintendo is seeking to lead the charge against the notion that all gamers are unfit couch potatoes. Nationwide sellouts of the Wii indicate that gamers are supporting that notion, and many have been very vocal about the system’s motion-sensitive controller as being a revolution in gaming. The problem is that it appears that after the [...]
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“American Idol” winner Taylor Hicks is biting the hand that made him a star.
The gray-haired pop-star says he won’t watch the FOX show anymore — and just wanted to use the exposure he got from winning “Idol” to further his career.
“‘American Idol’” for me is fizzling out,” he tells the latest edition of Relix magazine, [...]
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A Romanian woman was sent the body of her dead father in the post after a cemetery was sold to developers. Aurelia Cenusa, from Severin, says clergy in her father’s hometown of Darvari, 300 miles away, told her the graveyard his body had been buried in was to be sold and his body exhumed.
She said [...]
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SHREVEPORT, La. – A masked gunman walked into a gas station and demanded money, apparently not noticing that the line at the counter included a uniformed police officer.L.J. Scott, a member of the Police Department’s armed robbery task force, told the would-be robber to put his own hands up.
Scott took the handgun and arrested [...]
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He who prays fervently courts danger - neurological danger.This stark fact has only recently been reported to the public, in a study published by five neurologists at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel in Germany. But fear not - the risk for any particular individual is low. In the recorded history of the world, the physicians try [...]
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Bringing the latest trends in gaming violence against our electronic loved ones sounds like a very saddening thing to do, much like writing the obituaries for strangers. Wiihaveaproblem.com has chronicled two new events in the most recent spate of Wii-related violence, and we’re glad we no longer have to cover the sad tales of [...]
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ST. LOUIS — The Rittenbergs planned to shoot family movies with a new camcorder. They may have to settle for a family pasta dinner, instead.The couple paid about $1,600 for a camcorder at a Best Buy store in the St. Louis suburb of Ellisville last week. They said when they opened the box, they found [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Security in airports and other sensitive areas may get a huge boost, thanks to a technology under development that is straight out of science fiction, said to be capable of looking through clothing to detect weapons and other dangerous items. But privacy advocates—and shy people—may have cause for alarm.Millimeter-wave technology researchers at [...]
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