Reported in Southern California news, a very lucky little boy, had his finger successfully reattached after it had bitten off by a pit bull. Another medical marvel thanks to new micro-surgery techniques. "PASADENA -...
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"Matt Clark, he is a young industrial designer from Southern California. He showed me his bicycle creation, the IV-1 (for Innervision 1) : Here is the description of this unique bike: "This bicycle prototype is...
Here is a refreshing perspective from Garrison Keillor ~ the Mark Twain of our times.–"In the sweetness of July, nothing seems to matter -- not high gas prices, the dumb New Yorker cover, nor the...
Worried customers lined up outside IndyMac to withdraw their money this morning. IndyMac was seized by federal investigators on Friday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp automatically insures customers...
IndyMac Bancorp Inc. became the second-biggest federally insured financial company to fail today after a run by depositors left the California mortgage lender short on cash. "FDIC Establishes IndyMac Federal Bank,...
"PASADENA, CA - NASA's Phoenix Lander, while searching for frozen water and organic compounds on the Martian surface, discovered today what appears to be crude oil instead. A secondary experiment, built by the...
"Randy Sylvester Sr., of Pasadena, has been held in the Harris County jail without bond since he was arrested June 17 for assaulting the mother of the children. On Monday, District Attorney Ken Magidson charged him...
"Cold Blooded Father leads police to bodies" UPDATE 6/21/08 - The bodies of Randy Sylvester, Jr. and Denim Sylvester have been found. The burned bodies of the children were found in a wooded area near...
We'll be seeing more and more of this in the coming years. This family just happens to have figured it out a little early."June 15, 2008. CNN’s Thelma Gutierrez reports on a family living the ultimate green...
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The Pasadena Chalk Festival took place this past weekend, attracting over 600 artists and 70,000 visitors. This annual event started back in 1993, and with a...
Paving the way for an Ice-Pirates-esque future:"Nasa's new robotic craft on Mars may be resting on a large patch of ice.The latest images sent to Earth reveal tantalising glimpses of what looks like frozen...
"Less than a week after landing safely on a cold, sunny patch of far northern Mars, NASA's Phoenix lander is at work and one of its cameras, scientist said Friday, has already detected a lump of ice - or maybe only a little Martian rock.Either way, the Phoenix will begin...
A lovely, outdoor, May wedding by a river in Arkansas.. a happy event, as most weddings are, then suddenly saddened with gunfire as a mad man, not at all associated with the wedding, opens fire, shooting the bride,...
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"NASA’S ambitious mission to discover if Mars was ever habitable has encountered its first hitch - the protective sheath covering the robotic digging arm of its Phoenix lander has failed to fully unfurl.The malfunction means the elbow joint of the 7.7 ft long arm, which...