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Brett Richard Nicholas Kuzimski charged over burnt bodies murder

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

A MAN has been charged with the murder of two women whose charred bodies were found in a burnt-out four-wheel drive vehicle in Perth. In the Perth Magistrates Court on Monday, Brett Richard Nicholas Kuzimski, […] […]

California Supreme Court to consider age bias case against Google

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

When a then-emerging Google recruited engineer Brian Reid in the summer of 2002, it appeared to have landed a Silicon Valley superstar. Reid had managed the team that built one of the first Internet search […] […]

Pay to stay: Visa program offers green cards to immigrants — for a price

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

OAKLAND — In bustling Oakland Chinatown, an office full of empty cubicles sits ready to greet executives — all of them newly arrived immigrants who have paid as much as $500,000 for the privilege of […] […]

Two people killed by same NY-Toronto train

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

A 30-year-old man is the latest train fatality this long weekend, after he was struck by an American train that had already killed another person earlier in the day. The Amtrak train was reversing on […] […]

SFO to Ontario flight makes emergency landing

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

ONTARIO, Calif. — A small jet carrying 24 passengers from San Francisco made an emergency landing at Ontario International Airport after its front landing gear failed to deploy. Airport spokesman Harold Johnson says nobody was […] […]

Hundreds march in Utah to honor slain 4-year-old

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

LAYTON, Utah—Hundreds of Utahns gathered for a 10-mile walk to honor a 4-year-old Virginia boy whose badly beaten body was dug up from a Utah mountainside grave nearly two weeks ago. Ethan Stacy’s mother and […] […]

Grace Foods recalls cans of corned beef

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

MIRAMAR, Fla.—Caribbean food products maker Grace Foods USA is voluntarily recalling two batches of its canned corned beef because they have higher than acceptable levels of a drug used to treat cattle for parasites. There […] […]

Why did Ottawa ignore warnings of Rwandan genocide?

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

Newly-released documents detailed building crisis, but they hit bureaucratic wall. Months before the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a steady stream of detailed messages about the killings of Tutsis arrived in Ottawa from Canadian diplomats stationed not […] […]

Street shut down, armed man arrested

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

Toronto police confirmed they arrested a man with a gun at 156 Munro St., near Dundas St. E and Broadview Ave., Sunday evening. Pat Aitken, a resident in the area, said the street has been […] […]

DiManno: Body in barrel among grim discoveries this weekend

24th May 2010 sandrea 0

Body in a cement-filled drum found in Toronto harbour; two sets of human remains found in cottage country As the boom on a Marine Police launch cranked up its winch, the rusty oil drum broke […] […]