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Taxpayers to pay $800,000 for rape convict’s heart transplant

Sun, 04/24/2011 - 15:10 by Anter Prakash Singh

Kenneth Pike, who is undergoing a sentence of up to 40 years for raping a 13-year-old relative, could become the first prisoner from New York to undergo a heart transplant costing $800,000 to the tax payers.

SC hears Microsoft’s patent appeal over Word

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 13:15 by Anter Prakash Singh

In what can be termed as one of the most significant patent cases in the recent years, the software giant Microsoft is involved in a legal fight with a small Canadian company i4i.

Wal-Mart agrees to pay $440,000 in harassment suit settlement

Fri, 04/15/2011 - 21:57 by Anter Prakash Singh

Wal-Mart, the retail giant, has agreed to pay $440,000 to nine of its employees who had alleged ethnic harassment at the hands of a co-employee.

Harry & David Holdings Inc. seeks bankruptcy protection

Tue, 03/29/2011 - 14:39 by Cooshalle Wilson

Iconic 100-year-old fruit basket company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

McDonald’s faces lawsuit for luring kids with Happy Meal toys

Thu, 12/16/2010 - 11:19 by Neha Gupta

Hamburger giant McDonald's Corp. has been sued by the 'Center for Science in the Public Interest' for luring children into eating harmful junk through Happy Meal toys.

Fourth planet found in distant star system

Thu, 12/09/2010 - 11:16 by Prince damin

Los Angeles -- U.S. astronomers say a giant planet found outside our solar system is highlighting the remarkable resemblances between a distant planetary system and our own.

Researchers at UCLA, along with international colleagues, discovered and imaged a fourth planet in a distant solar system that resembles a supersized version of our own system, a UCLA release said Wednesday.

"Besides having four giant planets, both systems also contain two 'debris belts' composed of small rocky or icy objects, along with lots of tiny dust particles," Benjamin Zuckerman, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy says.

McDowell bests Woods on playoff hole

Mon, 12/06/2010 - 10:11 by Prince damin

Thousand Oaks, Calif. -- Graeme McDowell forged a tie with an 18th-hole birdie and then bested Tiger Woods on a playoff hole Sunday to win the Chevron World Challenge.

The clutch performance on the final regulation hole allowed McDowell to close with a 3-under-par 69 and catch Woods atop the leaderboard. Woods, who led by four entering the final round, struggled to a 1-over 73 and finished the 18 holes tied for first at 16-under 272.

McDowell sank a 20-footer for birdie on the final hole and forced Woods to respond with his own 3-foot birdie putt to extend the match.

McDowell then won it thanks to a birdie putt and a miss by Woods on the extra hole at Sherwood Country Club in California.

Police: Items hidden in 'excess skin'

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 23:56 by harsheeb

Edmond -- Police in Oklahoma said two alleged shoplifters tried to hide four pairs of boots, three pairs of jeans, a wallet and gloves in their "excess skin."

Edmond police said Ailene Brown, 28, and Shmeco Thomas, 37, are facing felony shoplifting charges after they were caught concealing the $2,600 worth of merchandise on their bodies at TJ Maxx, KFOR-TV, Oklahoma City, Okla., reported Tuesday.

"These two were actually concealing them in areas of their body where excess skin was, under their chest area and armpits," Officer James Hamm said.

Investigators said Brown possessed a knife the women were using to cut off security tags.

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Woman: $100 fine from misunderstanding

Fri, 11/26/2010 - 05:44 by harsheeb

New York -- A New York woman said the $100 ticket she is challenging in court was the result of not understanding the pay system on a new bus.

Daryn Mayer said she boarded the M15 Select Bus through a back door Tuesday and went up front to pay with her MetroCard, the New York Post reported Thursday.

However, Mayer said the driver told her the vehicle requires payments to be made at outdoor machines but refused to open the doors to allow her to get off the vehicle.

Mayer said the driver told her she could ride for free but she was confronted by uniformed officers at the next stop who demanded to see her bus slip.

Robbery suspect used police phone

Fri, 11/26/2010 - 05:22 by harsheeb

Eugene -- Police in Oregon said a man who stopped by a police station to call his parents was arrested and charged with a bank robbery from the previous day.

Investigators said Nathan Alan Bramlage, 23, stopped by the Eugene police station lobby Wednesday to call his parents and an officer recognized him from security footage of the bank robbery at a Wells Fargo branch a little more than 24 hours earlier, The Register-Guard newspaper reported Thursday.

Detectives followed Bramlage out of the facility and arrested him without incident a few blocks away, police said.

Bramlage was taken to the Lane County Jail and charged with second-degree robbery an addition to violating probation for an earlier delivering heroin charge.

State bans alcoholic drinks containing caffeine

Fri, 11/19/2010 - 16:38 by Neha Gupta

Sale of drinks containing both alcohol and caffeine has been banned by the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.

Police: Burglar left MySpace open

Tue, 11/09/2010 - 07:37 by harsheeb

Sugarloaf -- Authorities in Florida said they arrested a teenage burglary suspect who allegedly left himself logged into MySpace at the scene of the crime.

The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said a caretaker for a house on Sugarloaf Key called 911 Sunday evening and reported seeing someone sitting on a couch inside the house, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Monday.

Deputies said they arrived to find the house unoccupied, but they discovered an open back window, empty food containers and marijuana left on a coffee table.

The sheriff's office said deputies found a computer logged into the MySpace account of Robert Rupp, 18, of Big Coppitt Key.