Friday, January 2, 2009
Adults Can Be Liable For Underrage Drinkers
EAGAN, Minn., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- More than 1 in 4 young U.S. adults say they have attended at least one party in the last year where minors were served alcohol, a survey indicates. The survey, by the legal Web site FindLaw says 28 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 24 encountered underage...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Blood sugar linked to elderly cognition
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Maintaining optimal blood sugar levels, even in the absence of diabetes, may help in preserving cognitive health in the elderly, U.S. researchers suggest. Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York say that although it is widely known that the early...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Fake heart attack stops home invasion
EXETER, England, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A 54-year-old British woman stopped a violent home invasion by three armed men by faking a heart attack, her husband says. Graham Eaton of Ashington, England, said his wife, Lesley, reacted to the presence of three men in their remote home by faking a heart attack...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Five rescued from Md. water main break
BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Rescue crews using boats and a helicopter Tuesday plucked five Maryland motorists whose cars were swamped by water from a broken utility main, officials said. The rupture of a 44-year-old, 66-inch diameter water pipe created a fast-rising, 4-foot high cascade of...
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Felt, Watergate 'Deep Throat,' dies at 95
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Mark Felt, an FBI official who became known as "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, has died, his family said. Felt, who lived in Santa Rosa, Calif., was 95. Felt died Thursday, his grandson, Rob Jones, told The New York Times. No cause of death was disclosed....
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Remains off-limits to Anthony defense
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The defense team for Florida resident Casey Anthony must wait to examine the remains of a child thought to be Anthony's daughter, Caylee, a judge says. Circuit Judge Stan Strickland ruled this week Anthony's defense team, which is defending the 22-year-old mother from...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Body discovery reinvigorates Caylee search
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The search for evidence in the case of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony has intensified in Orange County, Fla., after a child's remains were found, police say. Orange County Sheriff's Office spokesman Carlos Padilla said investigators spent the early part of the...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Colo. schools will no longer offer soda
DENVER, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Schools in Colorado school system will no longer be allowed to sell sodas or other sugary drinks to students, state officials say. The Colorado Board of Education implemented new regulations Wednesday that ban the sale of all sodas, including diet sodas, in school vending...
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Teen gets college degree in just 2 years
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A teenager graduates from the University of Texas this weekend at 16, an age when most students have yet to receive their high school diplomas. Andrew Brisbin of Denton, Texas, entered North Central Texas College at 14 and transferred to the university a year later,...
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
Simpson Gets Prison Term For Robbery
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- O.J. Simpson was sentenced to at least nine years in a Nevada prison Friday for holding up two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel. The 61-year-old former football star apologized tearfully, telling a judge he did not realize he was doing anything...
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