December 17, 2008

‘Heinous’ pedophile raped his daughter and put video of attack online

By Calvin Palmer
A man who raped his daughter and posted videos of the attack online and then fled to China pleaded guilty in a federal court yesterday as part of a deal with prosecutors.
 
Kenneth John Freeman, 46, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography and interstate transportation of a minor for the purpose of unlawful [...]

December 17, 2008

Texas schoolgirl, 13, killed by suspected drunk driver

By Calvin Palmer
A schoolgirl was killed yesterday just yards from her home after being hit by a driver police say was drunk.
 
Lilly Lalime, 13, had just got off her school bus when she was struck by a white Lexus driven by John Jacob Winne, 30.
 
Winne is being held in custody, charged with intoxication manslaughter and [...]

December 17, 2008

Time magazine names Obama “Person of the Year” 2008

By Calvin Palmer
Time magazine has named President-Elect Barack Obama as “Person of the Year” for 2008.
 
Who else could it have been?  Well, the runner-up was Henry Paulson, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, followed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Zhang Yimou, the director of the opening and closing ceremonies at [...]

December 17, 2008

Bakery refuses to ice birthday cake for little Hitler

By Calvin Palmer
The father who was refused a birthday cake,with the message “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler,” by a New Jersey supermarket is calling for a little tolerance.
 
The cake’s decoration was not in honor of the Fuhrer but Heath Campbell’s three-year-old son, Adolf Hitler Campbell.
 
Campbell, 35, and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only by the [...]

December 17, 2008

Survey finds the Internet rated better than sex

By Calvin Palmer
The Internet has become so essential to the daily lives of Americans that 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would rather go without sex for two weeks than give up Internet access for the same period of time, according to a survey conducted on behalf of Intel Corp.
 
The survey, carried [...]

December 17, 2008

Woolworths to cease trading by January

By Calvin Palmer
The “Wonder of Woolies” is about to come to end.  The mainstay of the British high street for almost 100 years will cease trading by January 5 when it closes 807 stores and lays off 27,000 staff.
 
Deloitte, the administrator, said that it had not got “very close” to a sale since Woolworths went [...]