Cited: Daily News
Three college freshmen were arrested by campus police on the campus of Georgetown University after discovering they had converted their dorm room into a clandestine drug lab. Please and school officials said the students were using the room to create dimethyltryptamine (DMT) a powerful hallucinogenic that is said to cause visions of alien [...]
Cited: AP
Mount Everest has joined the rest of the world finally! They have installed near Mount Everest base camp 3G cell towers so that explorers can now surf the web, Tweet and post Facebook updates without worrying about losing the signal including.
You now cannot get away from a cell phone call, even at the top [...]
Cited: ABC News
Randy Quaid and his wife are seeking asylum in Canada claiming that they fear for their lives. It seems that the exploits of Oscar nominated actor Randy Quaid and his wife are taking a turn for the bizarre even by Hollywood standards.
The increasingly eccentric duo, who are wanted in California for allegedly skipping [...]
Cited: Reuters/Daily News
OnOctober 28, Wells Fargo admitted it made mistakes in the paperwork of thousands of foreclosures and promised to fix them. According to the Wall Street Journal, Bank of America Corp found mistakes in foreclosure files as it began a review of 102,000 cases.
Wells Fargo, a San Francisco-based bank, said it plans to refile [...]
Cited: MSNBC
As the vicious drug cartels fight, not only each other, but the authorities as well over smuggling routes into and out of the US as well as distributing rights and Mexico, Americans find it difficult to understand the level of brutality. That brutality is so close that bullets for Mexican gunfire had struck buildings [...]
Cited: Time
Making cheap, R-rated sequels and releasing them in October seems to be what the folks at Paramount Pictures think of as the secret elixir for box-office success. Following that October 16 weekend debut for Jackass 3-D, the $20 million movie that made $50.4 million in 3 days, Paramount released “Paranormal Activity 2″ a prequel [...]
Cited: ABC News
On October 26, opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick took the stage to open this year’s TEDMED conference in San Diego for an exquisitely sung aria! This conference is one that examines the novel approaches to medicine and health care as well as marking an anniversary for the singer. It was one year ago the [...]
Cited: ABC News
A shark expert has stated that the shark attack may have been a case of mistaken identity. The shark that killed Lucas Ransom, 19-year-old trained lifeguard, who was boogie boarding off the coast of central California could have been mistaken for a seal or sea lion.
Lucas Ransom was surfing Friday morning between 50 [...]
Cited: Daily News
After arming her 12-year-old son with a BB gun and a knife to defend himself against school bullies, a Connecticut mother has been arrested according to police. Sylvia Mojica of Hartford has been charged with risk of injury to a minor, according to authorities.
The 38-year-old allegedly put the pistol and blade in the [...]
Cited: Reuters
On October 27, a senior treasury official said that the US Treasury does not foresee a systemic financial threat due to the possibility that banks will be forced to buy back mortgage securities of faulty foreclosure documents
But the foreclosure controversy could put downward pressure on home prices by delaying the sale of thousands of [...]
