Columbia police have captured an inmate who allegedly escaped from the Howard County jail using a cardboard toilet paper holder. Curtis Jones of New Franklin was captured Wednesday afternoon.
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Inmate Uses Toilet Paper Cardboard To Escape Cell
Posted: 24th June 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, PoliticsTags: cardboard, escape, prison, prison break, prisoner, toilet paper
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Norwegian Oil Company Wants Alcohol Sold at Filling Stations
Posted: 24th June 2009 by Veritas in Lifestyle, Oddly Enough, PoliticsTags: alcohol, beer, drinking, lithuania, oil, statiolhydro
Norwegian oil and gas group StatoilHydro is trying to reverse a ban on the sale of alcohol at petrol stations in Lithuania, claiming it may lead to massive lay-offs, daily Dagens Naeringsliv said on Wednesday. The ban on selling alcohol at night came into effect on January 1, after which the number of accidents linked [...]
USA BEATS SPAIN 2-0 in Confederation Cup Final
Posted: 24th June 2009 by moonphrogg in Politics, SportsTags: Confederations Cup, football, soccer, Spain, USA, win
It is finished. Spain’s 35-match unbeaten streak ends on a frigid night in Bloemfontein, where the United States men’s national team has engineered an improbable 2-0 upset of the reigning European champions.
Ayatollah Says Election Stands, No Matter What
Posted: 24th June 2009 by Veritas in PoliticsTags: Ayatollah Khomeini, britian, Diplomats, Iran, karoubi, mahsouli, montazeri, mousavi, Obama, riot, shiite
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Wednesday that a disputed election result would stand, despite street protests that Iranian officials say Britain and the United States have incited. The opposition refused to be bowed. Reformist cleric Mehdi Karoubi, who came last in the June 12 presidential election, called the new government “illegitimate” and [...]
North Korea Threatens World – Vows to “Wipe America Off The Map”
Posted: 24th June 2009 by Mr. Rafferty in Crime, PoliticsTags: blow up, missle, North Korea, nuclear missles, nuclear war, threaten, USA, war
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.
Violence Continues for Rioters in Iran
Posted: 23rd June 2009 by Veritas in Crime, Lifestyle, PoliticsTags: ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, islam, karoubi, mousavi, nuclear, police, protest
Iranian authorities said they would teach an exemplary lesson to “rioters” held in the worst unrest since the birth of the Islamic Republic and pressed accusations that violence was being incited by Western powers. Ten days of protest against elections that confirmed hardline anti-Western President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in office have produced unprecedented protests and a [...]
Dog Gets Revenge After Being Shot
Posted: 22nd June 2009 by Veritas in Mother Nature, Oddly Enough, PoliticsTags: bernese mountain dog, bite, dog, Germany, gun, nose, shot
A dog in Germany shot by a drunken man with a gun took swift revenge by biting off the end of the man’s nose, authorities said on Monday. Police said the armed man was snooping at night in the yard of a house in Stadtlauringen in northern Bavaria when he shot the Bernese mountain dog [...]
Archaeologists Uncover Massive Find in Isreal
Posted: 22nd June 2009 by Veritas in Politics, ReligionTags: archaeologist, cavern, Christian, holy land, isreal, jericho, jesus, West Bank
Israeli archaeologists said on Sunday they had discovered the largest underground quarry in the Holy Land, dating back to the time of Jesus and containing Christian symbols etched into the walls.
Couple Marries in Zero Gravity
Posted: 22nd June 2009 by Veritas in Lifestyle, Oddly Enough, Politics, RandomnessTags: boeing 727, bride, erin finnegan, g-force one, grrom, gulf of mexico, noah fulmor, planets, wedding, zero gravity
The bride wore white and earrings resembling tiny planets, the groom a tuxedo and cuff links shaped like spacecraft, and the wedding party attended in blue jump suits. New York City couple Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor floated into matrimony on Saturday thousands of feet (metres) above the Gulf of Mexico in what organizers said [...]
Chavez Supports Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Posted: 22nd June 2009 by Veritas in PoliticsTags: ahmadinejad, chavez, election, Iran, president, protest, Venezuela
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez expressed support and solidarity for Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.