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4 dead in Houston crane collapse

cmetzger4 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:18:33 EDT

One of the nation's largest mobile cranes collapsed at a Houston, Texas, oil refinery, killing four workers and injuring seven others in the latest of several fatal accidents that have raised concerns about the safety of construction cranes.

Channel: News Tags: crane collapse death Houston oil

Army to Shoot Live Pigs to Save Wounded Soldiers Lives

cmetzger4 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:30:08 EDT

Despite opposition by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Army is moving forward with its plan to shoot live pigs and treat their gunshot wounds in a medical trauma exercise at Schofield Barracks for soldiers headed to Iraq.

Channel: News Tags: PETA pigs army shoot wound

Firefox 3 vulnerability found

cmetzger4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:34:27 EDT

Five hours after Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.0, researchers found a vulnerability in the new browser. Since Mozilla is still working on a fix, researchers won't share details about the problem.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: Firefox vunerable software Mozilla fix

AMD changes CEO as chip maker struggles

cmetzger4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:32:21 EDT

Hector Ruiz was pushed aside after six tumultuous years as CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., as the chip maker tries to pull itself out of a deep financial hole caused by a questionable acquisition and a major product gaffe.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: AMD CPU CEO business Ruiz

'Family Ties' Actor Accused Of Violating Probation

cmetzger4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:23:27 EDT

The man who played Michael J. Fox's brother on "Family Ties" when he was a child is due in Boulder court, accused of violating his probation after assaulting his girlfriend.

Channel: Television Tags: Family Ties actor probation assault

Woman Has Surgery on Giant 110-Pound Legs

cmetzger4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:52:34 EDT

A Chinese woman who long-suffered with elephantiasis of the legs says she is looking forward to wearing skirts and trousers after having life-changing surgery to correct the painful condition.

Channel: Women Tags: legs elephantiasis surgey giant China

Boy dies at church camp

cmetzger4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:26:56 EDT

A 15-year-old boy attending a Christian summer camp in this southwest Ohio town has died after suffering a head injury while wrestling in an inflatable suit.

Channel: Family Tags: death camp church wrestling sumo

Opera singer charged with assault

cmetzger4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:23:23 EDT

A singer with the Cincinnati Opera was charged with assault. Miroslaw Witkowski, who is in his late 20s and from Poland, is accused of attacking another man and hitting him several times.

Channel: Music Tags: opera sing assault Cincinnati crime

Quiet Iraq streets leave soldiers yearning for Afghanistan

cmetzger4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:19:02 EDT

Spc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he's missing the real war -- in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban.

Channel: News Tags: Iraq Afghanistan war fighting quiet

Microsoft and Yahoo both pursuing AOL deals

cmetzger4 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:19:14 EDT

As the maneuvering continues ahead of Yahoo's August 1 shareholders' meeting, the company and Microsoft are both looking to relieve Time Warner of its AOL subsidiary, although for very different reasons.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: business merger AOL Yahoo Microsoft

U.N. peacekeeper slain in Darfur

cmetzger4 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:17:01 EDT

Another U.N. peacekeeper has been killed in the Darfur region of Sudan. The death comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called efforts to resolve the five-year-old conflict in the region "deeply disappointing."

Channel: News Tags: Darfur UN death peace Sudan

German inflation at 14-year high

cmetzger4 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:14:04 EDT

German consumer prices rose by 3.3 percent in June on a 12-month basis, the biggest increase since December 1993, final figures released by the national statistics office showed.

Channel: Money Tags: inflation price Germany high statistics

Barge collision causes huge oil spill near in Germany

cmetzger4 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:10:18 EDT

The 82-metre barge Undine was severely damaged when four of her eight fuel tanks were torn open in the accident on the waterway near a rural district of Hamburg. Police are questioning both ship captains in an ongoing investigation of the incident.

Channel: News Tags: oil spill Hamburg barge eco

Twins born with different skin tones

cmetzger4 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:06:57 EDT

A couple got an interesting surprise this week when the woman gave birth to twins with very different skin tones. One of the two boys born to the German father and Ghanaian mother has dark skin, and the other has light skin.

Channel: Family Tags: skin tone color twins birth

Parents jailed for starving daughter to death

cmetzger4 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:05:01 EDT

A German mother and father were sentenced for murdering their 5-year-old daughter Lea-Sophie by starvation. The Schwerin district court handed both the 24-year-old mother and the 26-year-old father prison time of 11 years and 9 months for child abuse and murder.

Channel: News Tags: Germany parents starve death murder