Category Archives: Current Events

Coroner: Ninth body found in ruins of ‘Santa massacre’ home

By doris | Published: December 26, 2008

jFull Story At  CNN.com LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — A ninth body has been found in the rubble of a home that was set afire after a shooting rampage by a man in a Santa Claus suit, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Friday.A car exploded outside the home of Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who [...]

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Woman buried in snow for 3 days found alive

By doris | Published: December 25, 2008

Full Story At  CNN.com No one expected to find Donna Molnar alive. Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton, who had left her home three days earlier in the middle of a blizzard to grocery shop. Alongside his search-and-rescue dog Ace, Ray Lau on Monday [...]

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Three dead at party after man in Santa suit opens fire, police say

By doris | Published: December 25, 2008

Full Story At CNN.com Update: Now ninth body found ruins of homehttp://peanutbutternews.com/2008/12/26/coroner-ninth-body-found-in-ruins-of-santa-massacre-home/ LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — At least three people were found dead after a man dressed as Santa Claus started shooting at a Christmas Eve party in suburban Los Angeles, police said Thursday.Bruce Jeffery Pardo is a “person of interest” in the incident, [...]

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Cargo crew marooned on ship for months

By doris | Published: December 14, 2008

Full Story At  Reuters BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Fourteen crew and officers, mostly from the Philippines, have been stranded for three months in an Argentine river on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner, surviving on charity donations of food and water. The Philippine consulate was working to help the crew, who had not been [...]

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Man ‘killed wife, wanted her eaten’

By doris | Published: November 18, 2008

Full Story at news.ninemsn.com.au A philandering husband allegedly strangled his wife to death, smeared her in peanut butter and dumped her body in a ditch hoping wild animals would devour the evidence, a report claims. New York police say William Walsh, 29, has admitted to killing wife Leah after the pair had an explosive argument [...]

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Many Dealings of Bill Clinton Under Review

By doris | Published: November 18, 2008

Full Story At  NYTimes.com Over the weekend, former President Bill Clinton enthusiastically endorsed the prospect that his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, might join the Obama administration as secretary of state. “If he decided to ask her and they did it together,” the former president said, “I think she’ll be really great as a secretary [...]

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Nebraska fears rush to drop off kids before haven law change

By doris | Published: November 14, 2008

Full Storu At CNN.com OMAHA, Nebraska (CNN) — Nebraska officials said they’re concerned about an apparent rush by parents to drop their teenage children off at hospitals before lawmakers change the state’s troubled “safe haven” law.Four children have been dropped off at Nebraska hospitals in the last two days. Four children have been dropped off [...]

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Obama’s win ushers in new group

By doris | Published: November 7, 2008

Full Storly At  USATODAY.com Who’s got the power? Washington is a tribal town, and the election of a new chief — make that commander in chief — is sparking the most extensive reordering of influence and access since George W. Bush moved in eight years ago to take over from the Clinton administration. “The changes [...]

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Kenya’s Elephants Send Text Messages

By doris | Published: October 12, 2008

 AOL.com OL PEJETA, Kenya (Oct. 11) – The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir’s screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers’ crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card [...]

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Iconic Stone Arch Collapses in Utah Park

By doris | Published: August 10, 2008

Full Story At AOL News One of Utah’s most distinct natural structures has collapsed. The famous Wall Arch in Arches National Park, which had become a favorite stopping point for photographers over the years, gave way to gravity and erosion. “They all let go after a while,” one official says.

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9 Feared Dead In Calif. Copter Crash

By doris | Published: August 6, 2008

Full Story At CBS News CBS/AP) Nine people are missing and feared dead in the crash of a helicopter that was carrying firefighters over a Northern California forest, officials said Wednesday. The helicopter was carrying 11 firefighters and two crew members when it went down Tuesday night in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, according to the [...]

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Iraq’s oil-fueled surplus could hit $80 billion, report says

By doris | Published: August 5, 2008

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iraq is raking in more money from oil exports than it is spending, amassing a projected four-year budget surplus of up to $80 billion, U.S. auditors reported Tuesday.Sen. Carl Levin says the U.S. shouldn’t “be paying for Iraqi projects while oil revenues continue to pile up.” Oil accounted [...]

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Feds blame mine operator for fatal collapse

By doris | Published: July 25, 2008

Full Story At CNN.com CNN) — The U.S. government Thursday announced its highest penalty for coal mine safety violations, $1.85 million, for a collapse that killed six miners in Utah last year.Supervisory Mining Engineer Joe Zelanko on Thursday describes the earth movements at Crandall Canyon mine. Supervisory Mining Engineer Joe Zelanko on Thursday describes the [...]

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Mandating Sick Leave?

By doris | Published: July 24, 2008

Full Story At WKBN/WYFX The Ohio Healthy Families Act, which would require companies to provide employees with seven days of paid sick time, is a union backed initiative gathering strength and signatures. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce, though, is trying to stop this movement right in its tracks. Several local business owners attended a luncheon [...]

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Casa Fiesta Raid

By doris | Published: July 24, 2008

Full Story AT WKBN/WYFX The arrests of illegal immigrants from Mexico is something you’d hear about in Texas, New Mexico or Arizona states where illegal immigrants are really an issue. But tonight this problem of elsewhere has hit home. Illegal Mexican immigrants were arrested today at the Casa Fiesta Restaurant on Youngstown’s South Side. It [...]

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Evidence Mounts Against Missing Tot’s Mom

By doris | Published: July 23, 2008

Full Story At CBS News CBS/AP) The mother of a missing 2-year-old is a person of interest in a case that is beginning to look like a homicide, prosecutors said Tuesday. Sheriff’s deputies said they still hope to find the girl alive. Casey Anthony, 22, is charged only with child neglect and lying to investigators. [...]

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Fannie And Freddie Rescue Could Cost $25B

By doris | Published: July 22, 2008

Full Story At CBS News CBS/ AP) Congress’ top budget analyst says a federal rescue of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost taxpayers as much as $25 billion. But Peter R. Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, predicted in a letter to lawmakers Tuesday that there’s a better than 50 [...]

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