Private companies could make a profit by selling water back to the public under a little-noticed provision in California's $11.1 billion water bond. In a state where water is an especially precious resource, critics worry that giving control of this resource to private companies is a recipe for disaster.
A 9-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed to death by a 25-year-old "friend" because of a Tony Hawk game, and this is possibly one of the most messed up game-related stories we've ever seen.
Scotland's Andy Murray believes he enters 2010 primed to make the quantum leap from contender to champion and finally end Britain's 74-year drought in Grand Slam singles tennis.
A terminal at the Newark, New Jersey, airport was closed Sunday night after a man walked through the wrong side of a checkpoint exit, the Transportation Security Administration said.
Feeling a tad headachy, are we? Should we whisper and walk around in stocking feet? Keep the shades drawn? Bring you black coffee or some other home remedy for your pounding head and shaky equilibrium? Perhaps what you need to cure your New Year's Eve hangover on New Year's Day would be something nice and restful — like a movie.
Puppies chosen for the program live in the cells with their primary caregivers, and attend classes .They also spend two or three weekends a month in the homes of puppy sitters so they can be exposed to things they won't experience in prison, such as the sound of a doorbell or learning how to safely ride in a car or walk down a crowded sidewalk.
FORT WORTH, Texas - About 169 people have been arrested in a cockfight raid northwest of Fort Worth.Authorities said sheriff's deputies also seized 114 roosters Saturday near Poolville in north Parker County. Sheriff Larry Fowler said Child Protective Services workers also took custody of 10 to 15 children ages 7 to 15.
As if it needed to do more to win our love, Better Off Ted revealed the graveyard of failed Veridian Dynamics robots last night... Including a very familiar killer in the back left. Who knew Davros worked in corporate America?
Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox Live gaming to Windows Mobile phones, according to a range of job adverts the company published just before Christmas.
In the past four years, 34-year-old Detroit resident Hans Steiniger has cheered for the home team in all 31 National Football League stadiums from coast to coast.
A 35-year-old mother of nine is suing a Springfield hospital, three doctors and two nurses, claiming they permanently sterilized her against her will, violating her reproductive rights, according to a lawsuit filed in Superior Court. Tessa Savicki, who has nine children aged 3 to 21, claims...
On this last day of 2009, I asked people on Facebook and Twitter to summarize 2009 in a single word. I received around 5,000 replies in just a few hours. Not surprisingly, the words used were generally more negative than positive, but we did receive quite a range of them nonetheless.
The music industry has made it quite clear that the Internet is a scary place full of pirates. These same fears have spread into the minds of book publishers, who are about to make the same mistakes as the major record labels did. It's not too late though.
Mexican police have captured alleged drug lord Carlos Beltran Leyva, just two week after his even more powerful brother was killed in a shootout with troops.
A video uploaded to YouTube on Friday shows former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach screaming and swearing at wide receiver Adam James, the player he was fired for allegedly mistreating.
After an intense double-elimination process that left Howie Mandel and Ann Coulter in tears, Movieline has selected the defining 5 television figures of the decade. Some dispensed jokes, others news, and still more gave us brilliant scripted television. And as for our #1 choice, he gave us the cruelest gems of all.
A Goldman Sachs spokesperson has confirmed that its new headquarters will reach "full operational status" in 2010. Constructed adjacent to the site of the former Twin Towers, the structure is within range of all of the firm's nearest competitors.
The St. Louis Rams lost a sloppy 28-6 season finale Sunday to the San Francisco 49ers, assuring the 1-15 Rams of the NFL's worst record and the No. 1 pick in April's draft, which they likely will use on highly coveted Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.
Thanks to astronomic word-of-mouth, inflated 3-D ticket prices, and consecutive holiday weekends that began on a Friday, Avatar continued its seemingly...
Efforts to save the tiger from extinction will be stepped up this year after the World Wide Fund for Nature placed the animal at the top its list of the most endangered species.
Brittney Griner and No. 5 Baylor put on a show—at the expense of Texas State.Griner dunked twice, set the school record for blocked shots in a season and the Bears nearly set an NCAA record for fewest points allowed in a 99-18 thrashing of Texas State on Saturday night.
We go on vacation for a few measly days, and look what happens: James Cameron's ecstatically reviewed, box-office-conquering Avatar is suddenly, improbably, the front-runner in this year's Best Picture race.
Indeed, the social-media blowback has begun in earnest as more and more media outlets publish tales of Web 2.0 woe, detailing how sites like Facebook have eaten the lives, grades, and productivity of legions unable to take their eyes off the glowing feeds detailing the tiniest minutiae of the lives of everyone they've ever known.
An European Parliament delegation is scheduled to visit Tehran next week, drawing a rebuke from U.S. lawmakers concerned the visit could legitimize Ahmadinejad's government.
A phony new email chain letter is claiming that the case against President Barack Obama's citizenship has reached the Supreme Court, based on a forged and typo-riddled Associated Press report.
A little-known fact in many states' Motor Vehicle Departments is that there are often several vehicles that share the same license plate numbers. We know from experience that that fact doesn't always make a difference to lazy enforcement officials.
If you've ever had trouble choosing between the time-honored and the modern, you've come to the right place. Even though a web developer has a limited number of font choices to choose from, ill-thought font selections often cancel out all the hard work that goes into a site's design.
The death toll climbed to 99 on Sunday after a suicide car bomb exploded Friday in the middle of a group of men playing volleyball in northwest Pakistan, police said.
Drawing on his experience first as state attorney general and later as governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer addresses a wide range of issues having to do with the relationship between the government and the marketplace. He predicts we will see meaningless Wall Street "reforms".
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