In a scene scripted for a bad 'B' movie - but happened in reality:
Police said a man wearing a ski mask walked into the store at Biscayne Boulevard and 54th Street and demanded money from a clerk.
A customer, who has a concealed weapons permit, pulled a gun, said Officer Jeff Giordano, a Miami police spokesman.
The customer and robber exchanged fire.
The robber was shot dead at the scene.
A Tennessee man who was rushing his 83 year-old mother to a hospital says a sheriff's deputy stopped him for an expired tag and wrote up the ticket while the man's mother died in the back seat.
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The deputy should be publicly horsewhipped for this - he could have followed the man to the hospital and written his ticket there or like most deputies I know, he could have escorted the man to the hospital with lights flashing, got them checked into the hospital and then worried about writing a ticket!
On Monday, managers at the Market Basket confronted a 46-year-old man, telling police he was attempting to take more shrimp and that he pushed a manager to try to get away.
Police took the man into custody.
He was arrested on charges of shoplifting, simple assault and being a fugitive from justice. He was arraigned and held on $100,000 bail.
Police said the man was wanted in Oklahoma on a charge of drug trafficking and in Massachusetts on a larceny charge.
The report said the new guard was locked with the inmate for 20 minutes by a guard who wanted to see what the new hire was made of.
The inmate, accused of shooting at Altoona police in November, filed a complaint with the NAACP.
But Blair County Commissioner Terry Tomassetti said the new hire was the target, not the inmate.
Tomassetti says it was "just picking on a new employee," but still serious, and officials don't want it to happen again.
Deputies made the teen clean the area, but did not file any charges.
The spray paint cans were sent to environmental officials to see if the chemicals pose any harm to the beach.
Department of Health and Environmental Control spokesman Thom Berry said it is impossible to determine if the agency will fine the teen until the cans are analyzed.
No word on whether she said yes.
Norse pioneers chose where to settle by following signs from the god Thor, but the practice was based on sound science too (Image: Bridgeman Art Library/Getty)
Old Kveldulf knew it was time to get out of Norway. He had pushed his luck by refusing to swear allegiance to Harald Tanglehair - a king not to be trifled with. When the king slew his son Thorolf, Kveldulf went berserk. He and his surviving son Skallagrim ambushed two of the king's emissaries, killing them and 50 companions, and fled to sea.
Rangers in Africa's oldest national park photograph a first-time mum with its new baby
A Detroit couple accused of trying to cremate their slain 2-year-old son on a barbecue grill and then collecting his welfare benefits have pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.
With the economy not doing so well, many people are looking for ways to save money and get on more solid financial ground.
And while it’s great to cut out little things, such as lattes and Gucci bags, what most people need are big savings. You know, thousands of dollars in savings, not $50 a month.
Three juvenile Triceratops, a species thought to be solitary, died together in a flood and now have been found in a 66 million-year-old bone bed in Montana, lending more evidence to the idea that teen dinosaurs were gregarious gangsters.
Triceratops were ceratopsids, herbivorous dinosaurs that lived until the the very end of the Cretaceous Period. They have been found in enormous bone beds of multiple individuals, but all known Triceratops fossils up to now have been solitary individuals.
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The “Daily News” is a blackboard on a major road in Monrovia, Liberia which is run by a fellow named Alfred Sirleaf. Everyday, he writes out the news in neat letters for those who can't afford newspapers, radio, or a generator to run a TV. Mr. Sirleaf might be considered an "analog blogger", and this is how he is changing the world one letter at a time.
Some people are saying that Earth Hour is silly and doesn't save a watt; others say it has become too corporate. But in much of the world, corporations and individuals are taking it very seriously. In the UK, IKEA is turning off its signs, turning down its lighting and donating 10% of its revenue from CFL sales to the WWF. In Canada, IKEA is also turning down the lights, but also doing what some think is manifestly silly: Giving out 4,000 candles to all of its employees "so they can flick their lights off at home in safety."
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Nice piece on the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, from the early 1950s. This was the most elaborate Atomic Energy educational set ever produced, but it was only only available from 1951 to 1952. Its relatively high price for the time ($50.00) and its sophistication were the explanation Gilbert gave for the set's short lifespan. Today, it is so highly prized by collectors that a complete set can go for more than 100 times the original price.The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own short-lived alpha source (Po-210), an electroscope, a geiger counter, a manual, a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom) and a government manual "Prospecting for Uranium."
