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Babe Ruth's nephew convicted of defrauding IRS
During a three-week trial, prosecutors said the pair operated their scheme from January 2003 to December 2004 while they were inmates at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution. Ruth had been serving a 33-month sentence for mail fraud. Pilkey was serving 10 years for a drug conviction. They were charged with filling 178 false individual income tax returns that contained fraudulent claims for refunds. Prosecutors said the pair used their own names and names of others, including fellow inmates and former inmates, to file false returns for tax years 2000 through 2003. They mailed the returns to third parties, who then mailed them to various IRS service centers. Sentencing is scheduled for May 2. .
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Nearly a fourth of the nuclear reactors in the U.S., 24 out of 104, are in drought afflicted regions. Nearly all, 22 of these 24, rely on lakes and rivers for their water needs. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. government body which regulates the nuclear power industry, has set minimum allowable water levels for these water sources. Most of the water sources are approaching these minimum levels. Falling below means a government mandated plant closure. Even if the government relaxes its restrictions, the water levels are forecasted to drop below the level of the intake pipes for many of these plants. At other plants, the water is becoming too hot under the sun and from stored up heat to be used for cooling purposes. Robert Yanity, a spokesman for South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.
Chasm widens between rich and poor in U.S.
I agree with Darren from Atlanta wholeheartedly. But then I'm a little biased, I suppose, since I was a college drop out surf bum who found himself washing windows for a buck in my mid-twenties and living in my van. That was a result of stupid choices I made thirty years ago. Eventually I got motivated, tired of going nowhere, and knowing nothing but surfing and washing windows, I got off my as* and got motivated. Before too long and after knocking on at least a thousand doors my window washing business soon had a dozen local college students working evenings, then it turned into a janiotorial service for business offices and banks. Now my company cleans some of the largest buildings in Southern California and I have over 200 employees whom I treat well and fairly, and my family lives "The American Dream" - a high school drop out who started out washing windows and living in his van is now a millionaire.
Baidu, Alibaba ranked among top ten search engines
BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Baidu.com and Alibaba.com, two of China's major Internet search engines, ranked the world's 10 most popular search engines last month by comScore, an Internet research firm. Nasdaq-listed Baidu ranked third, with 5.2 percent of worldwide searches, according to the survey of 66.2 billion search queries. Baidu is often referred to as China's version of Google due to the Chinese-language search engine's soaring popularity and profits. It made a net profit of 24.2 million U.S. dollars in the third quarter of 2007. Alibaba.com got 0.8 percent of global searches, worked its way to 10th place, its first appearance in the top ten, according to the survey. Hong Kong-listed Alibaba.com, the business-to-business unit of Alibaba Group, is one of China's fastest growing Internet companies.
Local Pharmacies Who Do and Don't Carry Plan B
Plan B, the emergency contraception, is known as a back-up method for preventing pregnancy. It's been available at Planned Parenthood, but now you can get it without a prescription at pharmacies if they carry it. You have to be 18 or older to get it.
But, we found out some pharmacies in Lufkin, do not even carry it.
Michelle Green, with Planned Parenthood, said, "The FDA approved this emergency contraceptive to be available over the counter status for individuals. The whole purpose is that women could have access to this medication. If you don't carry it you have no access."
The East Texas News spoke to Abeldt's Pharmacy, who says they won't carry it because of the controversy involved. Timberland Discount Pharmacy won't carry it for personal reasons.
Republicans trade harsher charges as top Democrats wrangle over ...
I sincerely hope people will see through these sneaky tactics the sheer numbers of Obamabots who DISPROPORTIONALLY FLOOD to all these articles with message boards attached to them, are using. Also, does anyone else see the contradiction between Obama's message of "unity", & these nasty, uncivilized, & vitriolic Obamabot attacks of Hillary on these online article message boards? It's my estimation this was all a very well constructed attack plan by Oprah's gigantic, & extremely well oiled multimedia machine, when she decided to influence the next presidential election, with her power parlay move. And to these same throngs of mindless Obamabots who keep bringing up this "experience issue" when comparing Hillary to Obama, one only has to compare the first day of occupancy of the next couple to get into the White House with all previous couples who've occupied the White House to understand how experience matters.
4 Charged in String of Bank Robberies
McPherson Church Road was robbed at about 1 p.m. Wednesday, and the RBC Centura branch at 2897 Village Drive was held up about 90 minutes later, police said. The McPherson Church Road branch also was robbed on Dec. 18, and a First Citizens Bank branch at 3604 Ramsey St. was robbed on Dec. 27, police said. McFayden and Deregt were charged in all four robberies, while Figueredo was charged in the First Citizens robbery and the two Wednesday hold-ups and Seidel was charged in the two Wednesday robberies, police said. No one was injured in any of the robberies. Police didn't indicate whether a weapon was used in any of the incidents. An officer spotted a vehicle matching the description of one seen leaving the second robbery Wednesday and arrested all four men during a traffic stop on Blount Street near Robeson Street, police said.
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