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The Associated Press has released it's Top Ten News Stories of 2007, as voted by its member editors and news directors: Here are 2007's top 10 stories, as voted by...
Posted on December 22, 2007 2:25 AM
Sad news out of Colorado, as the five trapped contractors are dead, reports Reuters: Five workers died on Tuesday after they were trapped deep underground at a hydroelectric plant near...
Posted on October 3, 2007 2:03 AM
A new Harvard study shows newspapers and television losing news audiences to the internet. The AFP report is at Breitbart.com: News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the...
Posted on August 16, 2007 11:15 PM
Obscene Yogurt Conviction....
Posted on January 19, 2006 7:00 PM
Especially on days when they give me so many good stories to blog about. Today's one of those days, and there are so many, I'm gonna stick a bunch in...
Posted on January 12, 2006 2:00 PM
New Hampshire has a nuclear power plant. The Seabrook Station was originally intended to have two reactors, but due to huge protests from the anti-nuclear crowd and economic necessities, only...
Posted on January 8, 2006 10:00 AM
Relative Says That W. Va. Miners' Left Notes to Tell Loved Ones They Didn't Suffer [AP/ABC News] Mine Survivor May Have Brain Damage [AP/Yahoo! News]We are attempting to locate details...
Posted on January 5, 2006 3:22 PM
In Belmont, New Hampshire, David Moore decided he'd had enough of his life, and it was time to end it. And he concocted an elaborate plan to commit suicide, planning...
Posted on January 5, 2006 11:00 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive, life-threatening stroke Wednesday and doctors are not optimistic for a recovery.Sharon fell ill at his ranch Wednesday evening and was rushed to...
Posted on January 5, 2006 1:15 AM
Editor & Publisher is doing post mortems on the print media meltdown in the wake of the tragedy at the Sago mine in West Virginia. They call it "one of...
Posted on January 4, 2006 2:10 PM
Late this evening a search for 13 miners trapped hundreds of feet underground by an explosion, which had been looking increasingly hopeless, paid off.TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Twelve miners caught...
Posted on January 4, 2006 1:25 AM
NBC is reporting that lobbyist Jack Abramoff has taken a deal and will soon be helping prosecutors in a forthcoming blizzard of corruption cases.Abramoff's cooperation is expected to be a...
Posted on January 3, 2006 10:38 AM
Classically, justice is portrayed as a blindfolded woman holding scales, symbolizing the ideal that justice should be blind, judging matters regardless of outside considerations. One New Hampshire judge, it seems,...
Posted on January 1, 2006 11:00 AM
[Note: Check the updates for links to prior publication of these "exclusives," and follow the listed trackbacks and this followup piece for more backstory.] Lefty UK bloggers, Blair watchers, and...
Posted on December 30, 2005 2:15 AM
MilBlogger Paul Berkley (aka Legibletrout) was murdered on Sunday. He was home on leave from Navy Fifth Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain, when he and his 26-year-old wife Monique were shot...
Posted on December 22, 2005 2:08 AM
New York's mayor has suggested the transit strike could cost the city $400 million a day, and other estimates put the figure even higher. The Wall Street Journal's Carl Bialik...
Posted on December 21, 2005 1:58 AM
Via the recovering Acidman comes this pictorial that gives graphic evidence why those wars in Africa seem to keep going on and on and on: Hardly anyone fighting over there...
Posted on December 15, 2005 5:00 PM
Recently, a commuter in Massachusetts had a rather unusual incident. As he does every day, the man (whose name is being withheld) left his car at the commuter parking lot...
Posted on December 15, 2005 3:00 PM
New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza and New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada will have to fight it out for second billing as New York's top catcher for a little...
Posted on December 15, 2005 2:33 PM
Mitt Romney, in the third year of his four-year term as Massachusetts governor, tonight announced that he will not be running for re-election next November. He will leave office in...
Posted on December 14, 2005 6:15 PM
This story has it all - video of the fall, the happy ending, and the surprise pregnancy.SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. -- Shayna Richardson was making her first solo skydiving jump when...
Posted on December 13, 2005 3:49 PM
A federal appeal court declined to block the execution of the founder of the notorious Crips gang who is on death row for murder. Shortly thereafter California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Posted on December 12, 2005 3:58 PM
Arguably the funniest, foulest, and most influential comedian of the baby boomer generation passed away today after a long battle with multiple sclerosis.LOS ANGELES (AP) - Richard Pryor, the...
Posted on December 10, 2005 6:17 PM
Joel Mowbray looks at the integrity issues behind a new survey about Wal Mart by John Zogby. Mowbray points out that Zogby fails to disclose that he's been paid nearly...
Posted on December 9, 2005 12:39 PM
An air marshal aboard American Airlines Flight 924 from Medellin, Colombia to Miami has shot a passenger who alleged claimed to have a bomb and tried to flee from the...
Posted on December 7, 2005 3:00 PM
In Australia, prostitution is pretty much legal. With that obstacle out of the way, the more common laws of economics -- such as supply and demand -- hold much more...
Posted on November 30, 2005 8:00 AM
Looks like Ronald MacDonald is a hamburgler...MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - You'd think that just working at a Wendy's restaurant would be difficult for Ronald MacDonald. Now, the 22-year-old MacDonald...
Posted on November 28, 2005 10:27 AM
A lot of people are talking about the recent vandalism of two liquor stores in Oakland. The reports are identical: a group of "well-dressed vandals" entered the stores, smashed the...
Posted on November 25, 2005 8:00 AM
What's CNN been up to? I blogged about it, here. Looks like the same kind of tricks Paul caught them at last year. Video, here. But, you see guys,...
Posted on November 21, 2005 10:20 PM
The Jerusalem Post and DEBKAfile are reporting that forensic experts are examining remains that may be those of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror group....
Posted on November 20, 2005 3:01 PM
Much has been written about the comments of Rep. John Murtha (D - PA), Ranking Member on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, and a decorated military veteran, at a Capitol Hill...
Posted on November 18, 2005 1:01 AM
"Seamus, you never liked my mother. So why are you so eager to see her in the home all of a sudden?" "Er... no reason, Colleen..." More proof that God...
Posted on November 16, 2005 2:00 PM
Video A video surveillance camera at a South Korean subway station caught a scary scene Thursday. A subway train pulled away from the platform with a baby in a...
Posted on November 12, 2005 2:14 AM
In case you were wondering.... Jay writes many of his posts at night and sets them to get posted at a given time. (we have future posting ability for you...
Posted on November 11, 2005 9:02 AM
AP says 53 were killed in the attacks, which took place at the Hyatt, the Radisson and the Days Inn in Amman, Jordan. Michelle Malkin is rounding up reaction. Folks...
Posted on November 9, 2005 5:05 PM
Yesterday morning, a small cargo plane ran into engine trouble just after leaving the Manchester airport. It tried to make it back, but didn't quite make it. It crashed into...
Posted on November 9, 2005 8:00 AM
Colleges are always looking for money, and one of the more reliable sources has always been successful alumni. They are usually willing to kick in a few bucks for their...
Posted on November 4, 2005 2:00 PM
I want to thank people for not e-mailing me questions about the recent periods of downtime and extra slow comment posting. Our server move and some backend adjustments have improved...
Posted on November 4, 2005 1:31 AM
At 10:00PM (Eastern) Wizbang will move to a new server, which should solve the load issues we've been having. The process is supposed to be seemless... I'll update this post...
Posted on November 2, 2005 10:31 PM
I'll most likely never own a Ferrari, let alone drive one. I'll probably never even get a ride in one, and the one time I touched one, I got a...
Posted on November 2, 2005 2:00 PM
Sorry for the unplanned downtime. It has become a recurring daily problem, which I had hoped would stabilize. It has not, which means I'm forced to look into alternatives. Of...
Posted on November 1, 2005 6:49 PM
Rootkits are cloaking technologies that hide files, Registry keys, and other system objects from diagnostic and security software, and they are usually employed by the authors of malware, including viruses,...
Posted on November 1, 2005 1:53 PM
Everyone has neighbors. And nearly everyone has neighbors they don't get along with. Learning to live with their presence is a learning experience we all go through, because we're stuck...
Posted on October 30, 2005 6:30 PM
The chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., has been charged with one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of making false statement,...
Posted on October 28, 2005 12:45 PM
Nearly a week later, stranded tourists are slowly getting out of the Mexican resort towns of Cancun and Cozumel....
Posted on October 27, 2005 9:17 PM
I'm switching the way individual pages load. There's shouldn't be any visible changes or downtime, though things may be wonky for a few minutes. On the upside commenting should speed...
Posted on October 27, 2005 8:17 PM
ABC News and AP are reporting that Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination to be a Supreme Court justice. Mary Katharine adds: I'm doing reaction updates in a separate post,...
Posted on October 27, 2005 9:03 AM
Prior to Robert Novak's July 14, 2003 article that revealed Valerie Wilson Plame's name and employment at the CIA here association with Joe Wilson was pretty easy to find on...
Posted on October 27, 2005 2:11 AM
With the increased awareness of sexual predators out there, and the mandatory registering and reporting going on, it's become a lot easier to find out just how many of these...
Posted on October 24, 2005 11:00 AM
I've never been a fan of New Hampshire's senior senator, Judd Gregg. He's the titular head of the "arrogant rich" wing of the GOP here in Cow Hampshire. He's the...
Posted on October 21, 2005 9:00 AM
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He died in a auto accident late last night. If not for Kiel's arrest for shipping cough medicine two years ago, I would most likely not even remember him. RIP....
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It's a tragedy that still eerily lingers within the entertainment industry. And six months after his tragic death, Heath Ledger's parents are getting ready to celebrate his role in "The...
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There are no plans for a rumoured big-screen version of Friends, film studio Warner Bros has told the BBC. Since the success of the Sex and the City movie,...
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She defeated her sister Serena for her seventh career grand slam title. WIMBLEDON, England - Venus Williams beat sister Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and...
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Government's role regulating free speech needs to be as limited as possible. The freedom allowed under the 1st Amendment isn't always attractive, yet to limit free expression is always the worst possible option.
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Certainly all right thinking persons regret the death of anyone. And best wishes to anyone in the Helms family need to be extended at this sorrowful time for them. However as a lawmaker, Helms was one of the very worst...
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Christopher Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair magazine, underwent waterboarding to experience it for himself firsthand. What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the...
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Police say a South Florida woman stole a couple's cat to get them to return her dog. Linda Urioste's black Labrador was recently picked up by animal control officers...
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Here come the moving vans. After 41 years in Seattle, the Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City. The City of Seattle settled its Key Arena lease dispute with the Sonics...
11:36 AM | 3 comments
Peter Cook testified that he and Brinkley used pornography "to get the mood going." He also acknowledged spending about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites in 2005. Alexa...
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