Putin's party gives free gifts of bottles vodka to lure voters

MOSCOW - Russia's ruling party is trying to lure voters in upcoming elections with free bottles of vodka and other gifts, campaigners from two non-governmental groups said in Moscow on Wednesday.
Yelena Panfilova, Russia director for Transparency International, an anti-corruption group based in Berlin, said at a news conference in Moscow that United Russia was giving "hidden bribes."
These gifts included sponsored vodka bottles, rucksacks, gloves and even jar lids carrying the United Russia symbol for the many Russians preparing jams for the winter season, Panfilova said. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Discovery Channel Store

Scott Peterson can't collect on murdered wife's insurance, court rules - Since he was the one who killed her

FRESNO, California - Scott Peterson, sentenced to death for murdering his wife, Laci, and her fetus in 2002, isn't entitled to the proceeds of her $250,000 life insurance policy, a state appeals court ruled today.
The Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno upheld a Stanislaus County judge's ruling that Laci Peterson's mother, Sharon Rocha, the administrator of her estate, should get the insurance money. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Radisson Hotels & Resorts

Major Crimes Squad - Police tell boys ages 3, 4 and 7 - Shut down your pumpkin stand - Do not have proper license

UK - THREE young children got a Halloween scare to remember after potty police tried to shut down their pumpkin stall because they did not have a TRADERS LICENCE.
Justin Sanford, 35, and his sons Robin, 7, Jack, 4, and Benjamin, 3, set up their stand last week on a rural road near their home in South Wiltshire to raise money to buy costumes to go trick or treating. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Rapid Bath For Pets

Jury Awards Father Nearly $11 Million in Funeral Protesters Case

BALTIMORE Maryland - The father of a fallen Marine was awarded nearly $11 million Wednesday in damages by a jury that found leaders of a fundamentalist church had invaded the family's privacy and inflicted emotional distress when they picketed the Marine's funeral.
The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress to the Marine's father, Albert Snyder of York, Pa.
Snyder sued the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified monetary damages after members staged a demonstration at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Neckties

Pilot, 1st Officer Slept While Approaching Denver

WASHINGTON DC - Lawmakers meeting about airline safety Wednesday heard about a government report that described a commercial pilot and his first officer falling asleep at the wheel 60 miles outside from Denver, and careening toward the airport at twice the speed allowed.
Rep. Bart Gordon , D-Tenn. demanded to know why this information was available on a system available to the public, known as ASRA, but NASA refused to release the information from a separate survey conducted in an $11 million program called the National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Boca Java

Old man beat up for watering his lawn - Dies from a massive heart attack

Australia - A man has been charged with murder in Sydney's south after punching and kicking an elderly man - sparking a "massive" heart attack - during an argument over water restrictions, police say.
A 66-year-old man was watering his front lawn, on Formosa Street in Sylvania, when another man, 36, who was walking past the house, challenged him about water restrictions.
The two argued and police said at one point the 66-year-old turned the hose on the other man, wetting him. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Fleurop

Bad choice of words, Chief - "It's almost a no-brainer" - To use tracking devices for Alzheimer's patients

Indiana - The Greenfield Police Department is buying tracking devices that use radio signals to locate people with Alzheimer's disease, autism or other conditions making them prone to wander and become lost.
Individuals wear wristbands containing tiny devices that transmit radio signals on pre-set frequencies, Greenfield Police Chief Clarke Mercer said. Police use tracking receivers that they tune to the frequency of the person they are seeking. "It's almost a no-brainer," Mercer said. "You have to do it." Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Crock-Pot

Woman claims pet-sitter made her potbellied pig fat - Is abusive

WINONA, Minnesota - A woman wants abuse charges filed against an acquaintance who was pet-sitting for her potbellied pig and allowed the animal to get fat.
Michelle Schmitz said her pig, Alaina Templeton, weighed 50 pounds when Schmitz left her with a co-worker who offered to care for the animal in February, when Schmitz went on medical leave to recover from ankle surgeries.
Nine months later, the pig weighed 150 pounds and it took veterinarians 4 1/2 hours to surgically remove the animal's collar, the Winona Daily News reported. Officers are investigating whether Alaina was abused by the sitter's neglect and overfeeding. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - International Wine Accessories

Severed human foot brought home by dog

COVINGTON, Georgia - When a suburban Atlanta woman's dog brought home a severed foot, she thought it might be some kind of early Halloween prank.
But after the dog owner contacted the Newton County Sheriff's Office, authorities launched a homicide investigation and found other dismembered parts of a petite woman's body, said sheriff's spokesman Lt. Bill Watterson.
"Her dog had it and she didn't know if it was fake or if it was real," Watterson said. "The dog had it out by the house." Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Hand Held Items

Texas Office Worker Shoots Himself in Both Legs While Sitting at Desk

FORT WORTH, Texas - A 47-year-old man was shot in both legs when he accidentally discharged a handgun while sitting in his cubicle at an insurance office, police said.
The man, who hasn't been publicly identified, had put his .45-caliber gun into his jacket pocket and then draped the jacket over the back of his chair, said Brett McGuire, Lake Worth police chief.
The gun discharged Tuesday morning as the man settled into his chair. He said the man must have done something to make the weapon fire.
The bullet passed through both of the man's legs and a bookcase before lodging in the wall of a cubicle. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Exposures

Center Treats Wrong Side Of Patient's Brain

DETROIT -- A patient undergoing treatment at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit received a dose of radiation on the wrong side of the brain, according to a report filed with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
According to the report, a crucial piece of information was misread prior to treatment with a gamma knife, which delivers a targeted form of radiation therapy that zeros in on specific locations in the brain.
The patient went through a routine MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan of the brain just before the procedure, but went into the scanner "feet first," rather than the standard practice of head first, the document said. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - 3 Hour Diet at Home

Low-flush toilets to fix drought - Airport hoping to flush away less water

The world's busiest airport will consider everything from faster flushes for its 1,000 or so toilets to recycling water from its giant chillers as it makes plans to weather the current drought. Officials with Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport will meet Wednesday along with representatives of its major airlines to refine water conservation efforts and plan for the possibility of an even drier future.
One of the more creative ideas: Adjust the automatic sensors in Hartsfield-Jackson's public restrooms so they use less water. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Buyer Zone

17-month-old boy left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours - While mom works at Hooters

PHOENIX, Arizona - A 17-month-old boy left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant parking lot was found dead Tuesday afternoon.
FOX 10 Phoenix reports the baby's mother had planned to drop the child off at childcare before heading to work at a restaurant near Bell Road and Interstate 17.
Instead, authorities say the mother went to work with the child still inside the car. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Jump TV

U.S. Gunships Battle Pirates Who Seized Ships

MANAMA, Bahrain - American warships battled pirates Tuesday who had seized a tanker off the coast of Somalia as well as another vessel northeast of Mogadishu, combined reports said.
In the waters off Somalia, the warships reportedly sunk two pirate vessels and pursued a hijacked skiff carrying some of the fleeing hijackers.
The crew of the tanker Golden Mori, which was hijacked Sunday night, reportedly fought back and overpowered their attackers, regaining control of the vessel, maritime officials said. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Bedford Fair Lifestyles

Cobraman passes out in hospital parking lot - He was bitten by ones of his snakes

Port St. Lucie, Florida - Raymond Hunter, 44, something of a local guru on poisonous snakes, remained in critical condition late today after one of his pets, a diamondback rattlesnake, sunk its fangs into his right hand early Saturday morning.
A neighbor told police he saw a seemingly distracted Hunter hustle from his condo to his car around 12:30 a.m., according to a police report. An hour-and-a-half later, someone alerted nurses at St. Lucie Medical Center that a man, Hunter, appeared to be passed out in the hospital parking lot behind the wheel of his car, the report said. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Guthy Renker

Man Gets Probation In Pickle Assault - Threw two large pickles at friends

Buchanan, Michigan - Calling it silly yet serious, a judge sentenced a 35-year-old man to time served in jail and probation in a case that police say involved an assault with -- and over -- pickles.
Bobby Lee Bolen, who lives in the southwestern Michigan community of Buchanan, was sentenced Monday to 54 days in jail with credit for 54 days served and one year of probation as well as restitution for third-offense home invasion.
According to police reports, Bolen broke into Jody Lee's home in Buchanan Aug. 20, got into an argument and threw two large pickles at friends Lee and J.W. Romanski III. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Food Saver

Coach Accused of Threatening to Kill 12-Year-Old Player

Cudahy, Wisconsin - An assistant football coach in Cudahy was suspended from attending games or practices and is under investigation by police for for allegedly assaulting a 12-year-old player and threatening to kill the youth. According to a police report, Michael Crawley, 39, grabbed the boy by his facemask and threw him to the ground, yelling profanities and threatening to kill him. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - DVD Planet

Model kills three people while trying to kill herself - Faces 10 years in jail

Chicago, Illinois - A model who killed three people while trying to commit suicide has been told she faces up to ten years in jail.
Stunning Jeanette Sliwinski deliberately rammed her car into another vehicle that had stopped at a red light.
The three occupants of the car were killed instantly in the horror smash - while Sliwinski only suffered a broken ankle in the accident, which happened two years ago. She became known as the "suicide blonde." Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Dale and Thomas Popcorn

KKK plans to protest KKK in Alabama

CULLMAN, Alabama - Members of one Ku Klux Klan organization say they will assemble at the courthouse Nov. 10 to show their opposition to another Klan group that plans an anti-immigration rally there that day.
Ken Mier, who described himself as an investigator for the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and the national office of the Ku Klux Klan LLC, said in an e-mail to The Cullman Times that his group is against the tactics of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which held an anti-immigration protest last month in Athens. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Champs Sports

Elvis Presley - Top-Earner of Dead Celebrities - Earned $49 million last year

NEW YORK — Elvis Presley is still the King.
Presley, who earned an estimated $49 million in the past 12 months, has reclaimed the No. 1 spot on Forbes.com's list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities. He last topped the list in 2005.

Presley died in 1977. His estate continues to generate millions from music royalties, DVDs, licensing deals and tourism at Graceland, the rocker's mansion in Memphis, Tenn. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Catherines Plus Sizes

Nutty Grandma Takes Her Own Grandchild On Burglary

CANTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan - Police said a Canton Township grandmother broke into a home while she was with her grandchild.
Police said Rebecca Sue Lunsford has been charged with home invasion.
According to police, Lunsford broke into a condominium on Haggerty Road just South of Cherry Hill and stole several items, including DVDs. The 43-year-old Lunsford was pushing her 19-month-old grandson in a stroller at the time of the crime. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Chic Mystique

Son jailed for smothering mother - Said she made fun of him for failed suicide

UK - A former RAF serviceman who smothered his 76-year-old mother to death with a pillow has been jailed for four years and eight months.
David Thomson, 49, acted as a carer to mother Elizabeth who regularly mocked him, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.
Thomson waited until she went to bed before holding a pillow over her face, struggling with her until she died. He had made a suicide bid weeks before the killing, but his mother told him he was a failure who could not even kill himself properly. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - National Jean Company

Iowa man recovering after being shot by his own hunting dog

DES MOINES, Iowa - A hunter is recovering after he was shot in the leg at close range by his dog, who stepped on his shotgun and tripped the trigger, an official said Tuesday.
James Harris, 37, of Tama, was hit in the calf Saturday, the opening day of pheasant season, said Alan Foster, a spokesman with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
"He had surgery and is doing pretty well," he said. "He took between 100-120 pellets in about a 4-inch circle to his calf." Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Live Aquaria

Man attacked by 50 cows - Left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung

UK - A Sussex policeman has been discharged from hospital after an attack by about 50 cows left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung.
Insp Chris Poole, 50, said the cattle repeatedly butted and stamped on him when he was out walking his dog on the South Downs earlier this month.
The officer, from Brighton, said he was crossing a field along a footpath. One cow butted him in the back, forcing him to the ground, before the others joined in, he recalled. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Inspired Silver

Adolf Hitler was the victim of uncontrollable flatulence

Germany - Guests at the Berghof, Hitler’s private chalet in the Bavarian Alps, must have endured some unpleasant odors in the otherwise healthful mountain air.
It may sound like a Woody Allen scenario, but medical historians are unanimous that Adolf was the victim of uncontrollable flatulence. Spasmodic stomach cramps, constipation and diarrhea, possibly the result of nervous tension, had been Hitler’s curse since childhood and only grew more severe as he aged. As a stressed-out dictator, the agonizing digestive attacks would occur after most meals: Albert Speer recalled that the Führer, ashen-faced, would leap up from the dinner table and disappear to his room. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Golfballs

Teens Could Face Murder Charges After Throwing Metal Tent Pole at Father's Head

AUGUSTA, Georgia - Two teens could face murder charges after one of them threw a metal tent pole at their father's head, fatally injuring him.
Richmond County Coroner Grover Tuten says 39-year-old Tony Powell Sr. of Augusta died Monday at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital. Powell had been undergoing treatment there since the Oct. 23 incident.
Sheriff's Investigator Tom Johnson says the 15- and 16-year-old sons got into a confrontation with Powell over his drinking and drug use. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Fine Stationery

Killer Hurricanes May Someday Be Controlled With Soot

Boston MA - Two scientists think they may have found a way to weaken, slow down and even change the direction of hurricanes.
If it works, the method could be used to divert powerful storms from hitting large cities — but could also create its own maelstrom of problems.
Using computer simulations, Boston-area researchers Moshe Alamaro and Ross N. Hoffman hypothesize that a large amount of soot or pulverized black rubber dumped into a hurricane's eye would quickly disperse around the storm's chilly upper layer. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Drs. Foster & Smith Pet Supplies

Three priests set up failed business - $8.6m missing from church coffers

Florida - TWO Irish priests accused of misappropriating millions from a Florida church had formed a mortgage company with another priest called Shag Inc. Fr John Skehan (80), originally from Johnstown, Kilkenny, and Fr Francis Guinan (64), originally from Birr, Co Offaly, are accused in relation to $8.6m missing from church coffers. The two men are accused of using offertory dollars to keep girlfriends, take gambling excursions and foreign holidays, and buy property. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Dog Toys

Bad News For Squirrels - Safe to eat squirrels again in New Jersey

TRENTON NJ - You may now resume eating the squirrels.
In January, the Garden State warned hunters and residents near a toxic waste dump in Ringwood in North Jersey to limit their consumption of squirrel after the feds thought they found lead in a dead squirrel. Officials now say it was a false alarm.
The Environmental Protection Agency said a blender used to process the squirrel's tissue samples was defective. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Amazon Books

Pirates Hijack Ship - Dozens of Crew Members Aboard

NAIROBI, Kenya - Pirates in Somalia hijacked a cargo ship with dozens of foreign crew members reportedly on board, officials said Tuesday.
The attackers seized the ship late Monday in the waters off the war-battered capital, Mogadishu, said Paddy Ankunda, a Somalia spokesman for the African Union, which has peacekeepers at the city's port.
A cargo trader who works at the port said the ship was from South Korea, with 43 foreign crew members on board. Full Story - UPDATE - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - 1-800 CONTACTS

With approval rating at an all time low - Congress is going to reward themselves by not working on Fridays from now on

Washington DC - Democrats Plan a Shorter Workweek. - Shortly after winning a majority last year, Democrats triumphantly declared that they would put Congress back to work, promising an “end to the two-day workweek.” And indeed, the House has clocked more time in Washington this year than in any other session since 1995, when Republicans, newly in control, sought to make a similar point.
But 10 months into the session, with their legislative agenda often in gridlock with the Bush administration and a big election year looming, the Democrats are now planning a lighter schedule when the 110th Congress begins its second year in mid-January.
The House majority leader, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, told fellow Democrats this week that the House would not be in session next year on Fridays, except in June for work on appropriations bills. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Books-A-Million

Man Saves Woman Stuck in Train Doors - Fined For Causing Delay of the Train

Belgium - A Belgian man has been fined €60 for delaying a commuter train after he helped a woman from being crushed that was stuck between the doors. "I apparently could have caused a delay and that is not permitted," said Daniël Dewulf.
He added, "The train arrived right on time in Bruges in any event. The conductor did not see my point that I may have saved the woman's life as a mitigating circumstance. Result: 60-euro fine." Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Lighting By Gregory

Girls soccer coach suspended after he moons 14-year-old girls

San Francisco, California - A youth soccer coach went to the middle of a sports field in Windsor after a contentious match and pulled down his pants, exposing his buttocks to his opponents - a team of 14 and 15-year-old girls, authorities said today.
Several of the girls and their parents were offended by the action on Saturday and immediately called police, who plan to ask Sonoma County prosecutors to file misdemeanor indecent exposure charges against the coach from Petaluma, Windsor police Sgt. Steve Brown said. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Puritan's Pride

Halloween zombie mistaken for murder victim - Police called

BERLIN, Germany - Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police.
The 24-year-old man fell into a drunken slumber on his way home from a Halloween party in Hamburg, police in the northern town of Bad Segeberg said on Monday.
Believing his hands and face were smeared with blood, passengers alerted police after getting no response from him. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Wayside Gardens

Scientists discover the longest-lived animal ever - And immediately kill it

Iceland - A clam that lived on the seabed in the frigid waters off Iceland's north coast has been hailed as the longest-lived animal ever discovered.
The mollusc, which is thought to have lurked beneath the waves until at least the age of 405, would have been a juvenile when Galileo picked up his first telescope, Hamlet was first staged and the gunpowder plot failed to blow up King James I. The Arctica islandica clam was plucked from 80m-deep water by researchers at Bangor University in Wales, who were dredging the north Iceland shelf for the creatures. By studying their shells, the scientists hope to learn how the marine environment has changed in recent centuries. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Fragrance Net

Town Shares Win - Owner of gas station wins lottery and cuts the price of gas in half

Canada - After learning he won $11 million in Saturday night's Lotto 6-49, a gas station owner in Fort Smith, N.W.T., shared his new-found fortune by giving town residents a surprise break on gas. Barkley and Ann Heron travel to Edmonton on Monday to collect their share of Saturday's $22-million jackpot. Around 10:30 p.m. MT Saturday, as soon as 46-year-old Barkley Heron learned he was one of two winners of the $22-million jackpot in the Lotto 6-49 draw, he cut the price of gas at his service station from $1.15 a litre to 50 cents a litre. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Camping World

Children nationwide, even preschool age, have been suspended from school or taken to jail after being accused of sexual harassment - No hugs allowed

USA - Could my son be accused of sexual harassment? He's a good boy. He likes watching "Thomas the Tank Engine" on television and playing "Simon Says." Like many 3-year-olds, he's very affectionate. Unfortunately, hugging his teacher may get him suspended from nursery school.
I doubt that it will happen to my son. But the frightening fact is that it could. I recently learned that children nationwide, some of preschool age, have been suspended from school or taken to jail after being accused of sexual harassment. In their zeal to avoid lawsuits, educators seem to be ignoring important information, such as whether the accused child intended to commit a crime or even knows how to pronounce the word "harassment." Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Buckle

Nutty Statement of the Day: Schwarzenegger says marijuana not a drug - It's a leaf

LONDON - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says marijuana is not a drug, a British magazine reported Monday. But his spokesman said the governor was joking. Schwarzenegger told the British edition of GQ magazine that he had not taken drugs, even though the former bodybuilder and Hollywood star has acknowledged using marijuana in the 1970s and was shown smoking a joint in the 1977 documentary "Pumping Iron." "That is not a drug. It's a leaf," Schwarzenegger told GQ. "My drug was pumping iron, trust me." Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Montgomery Ward Kids

Suspected Killer Escapes Texas Jail by Stealing Identity

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - A slaying suspect escaped from a county jail by assuming the identity of another inmate and was on the loose for more than six hours before authorities realized he was gone, officials said. He was still at large Monday morning. The man who escaped, David Sauceda, 27, walked out of jail early Sunday morning when he gave the name, address, Social Security number, birth date and system ID number of his cellmate, Michael Garcia, according to the sheriff's department. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Go To Meeting

Hot dog eating contest - Man ate 103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A competitive eater who has already triumphed at a famous hot dog eating contest swallowed 103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes Sunday to take home $10,000. Joey Chestnut, 23, of San Jose, Calif., surpassed the previous record of 97 Krystal burgers — 2 1/2 inches square — held by Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, set at last year's Krystal Square Off. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - David's Cookies

Japan's growing number of suicide pacts among strangers

Japan - Four bodies were found in a car filled with carbon monoxide in what was suspected to be Japan's latest group suicide, police said today.
A group of woodcutters found the bodies inside the vehicle parked on a small path on a hillside deep in the forests of Tochigi prefecture northeast of Tokyo, a police spokesman said. Police believe it was a group suicide. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Cingular Wireless

New York firefighters start fire in plain view of a surveillance camera

New York - Two of New York's Bravest acted more like the dumbest when they allegedly tried to torch a Manhattan firehouse in plain view of a surveillance camera, authorities said. Firefighters Michael Izzo and Richard Capece surrendered to fire marshals Sunday night and were grilled at the 5th Precinct stationhouse in Chinatown. Izzo, 30, of Staten Island, and Capece, 31, of Brooklyn, were caught on camera igniting the garage door of Engine 34/Ladder 21 at 440 W. 38th St. after splashing it with gasoline, officials said. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Boflex

Halloween costumes banned after three girls show up as Captain Underpants

LONG BEACH, N.Y. - Call it the Misadventure of Captain Underpants and the Peeved Principal. A suburban Long Island high school has banned all Halloween costumes after three senior girls showed up last year dressed as the underwear-baring subject of a series of best-selling children's books. Long Beach High School Principal Nicholas Restivo, who sent the three seniors home to change last year, said the episode solidified his sense that the school's costume tradition was disruptive. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Mikasa

Piles of Old Money Found - Thrown for decades in a hole in the wall

WINDBER PA - Talk about throwing away money. Piles of old coins worth as much as $200,000 were found in a long-abandoned home, including scores that the owner had apparently thrown down a hole in the wall.
Jeff Bidelman, owner of Rare Collectibles near Johnstown, said he was helping the family clean out the house after the death of the owners, who had not lived there for two decades. He was dragging a bag of old coins down the steps when he noticed the hole in an upstairs wall. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Michigan Bulb

Man finds wife in another man's house wearing only a towel - She said said she took off her clothes so they would not get greasy

UK - When you catch your wife in another man's house wearing only a towel while eating a Chinese take-away there really can only be one thought. Pub landlord Anthony Morgan, 70, attacked his half-naked wife with a child's cricket bat when he found her enjoying a Chinese takeaway with another man, a court heard today. He came across wife Elaine - his partner for 21 years - wearing only a towel at the home of Stephen Clarke. Full Story

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Government investigation concludes - Aliens blew up household appliances

Italy - A GOVERNMENT investigation into a series of unexplained fires in fridges, televisions and mobile phones in an Italian village has concluded that the responsibility lies with "aliens testing secret weapons".
In scenes similar to the drama series The X-Files, Canneto di Caronia on Sicily was the centre of world attention three years ago after residents reported everyday household objects - electrical appliances, a pile of wedding presents and furniture - bursting into flames. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Go To My PC

Father says college graduate son was exploited - Charged $53,000 in one night at strip club

Florida - Two months after a recent college graduate incurred $53,000 in charges at a gentleman’s club on Okaloosa Island, investigators are reviewing allegations of fraud and larceny. Tommy Salter, 24, of Warner Robbins, Ga., was at Club 10 early Aug. 18, celebrating his graduation from Georgia Tech, according to his father and an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s report. Full Report - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - DVD Planet

Intruder breaks windows, slips on entry - Cuts throat on broken glass

Australia - A GRANDFATHER has told how he desperately tried in vain to save the life of a burglar who was breaking into his home. The burglar bled to death in the man's frontyard after he tripped and slashed his throat while he climbed through a bedroom window. The resident, who didn't want to be named, said the burglar's throat "looked like an axe had hit it" after he came down face first on the jagged glass. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - 1-800-PetMeds

21-year-old runs for school board - 18 criminal convictions in the past two years

BRUNSWICK, Maine — A 21-year-old Brunswick High School graduate with 18 criminal convictions in the past two years, including five theft charges, is trying to convince voters he's changed enough to represent them in an at-large seat on the town's School Board. Matthew Lajoie of 23 Larry Lane has lived in Brunswick since age 4, and his neighbors and friends know all about the string of charges he garnered from 2005 to as recently as April of 2006. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Almond Plaza

Man faces life in prison with no parole for shooting dog

Oregon - A Clark County man pleaded not guilty today in the shooting death Tuesday of a 5-year-old Vancouver police dog. Ronald J. Chenette, 38, was charged in Clark County Superior Court in Vancouver with one count each of harming a police dog with a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm. Judge Roger A. Bennett set Chenette's trial for Dec. 17. Chenette, a transient who has an extensive criminal history, is being held without bail after being arrested Tuesday when a second police dog found him in a wooded area of Brush Prairie, south of Battle Ground. Full Story -Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Easy Click Travel