Monthly Archives: December 2009
One killed in blast at Texas oil refinery
By Calvin Palmer An explosion at a Texas oil refinery yesterday killed one person and injured two others. The blast occurred around 9:30 p.m. at a Valero refinery in Texas City, according to a police spokesman. Valero spokesman Bill Day … Continue reading
Filed under Business, Environment, News
Amanda Knox and former boyfriend found guilty of murder
By Calvin Palmer American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have been found guilty of the murder of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. Knox, 22, was sentenced to 26 years in prison. Sollecito, 25, received a sentence … Continue reading
Police hunt for suspect in ‘domestic killing’ of women and young girls
By Calvin Palmer Police in Wisconsin are a searching for a “person of interest” in connection with four fatal shootings of two women and two young girls last night. Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said Tyrone Adair, 38, had a … Continue reading
Rolling Stone Wood accused of being a street fighting man with his girlfriend
By Calvin Palmer Not so long ago trees fell victim to Dutch Elm disease. Now it appears that woods on both sides of the Atlantic are falling victim to foreign spouse syndrome. After the widely-publicized auto accident suffered by Tiger … Continue reading
Breast-feeding mother smothers baby during transatlantic flight
By Calvin Palmer A four-week-old baby girl being breast fed during a United Airlines transatlantic flight was apparently smothered to death when her mother fell asleep for an hour. The cabin crew were alerted by the 29-year-old Egyptian woman’s screams … Continue reading
Brain surgery sinks to the level of kitchen design
By Calvin Palmer Have you got a brain tumor? I know just the man to help. Yesterday if you had asked me, I would not have had a clue. But today I received a flyer in the mail from a … Continue reading
Filed under Advertising, Health, Media
Gators star arrested on DUI charge
By Calvin Palmer Top-ranked college team Florida could go into Saturday’s crunch football game in the Southeastern Conference against Alabama, ranked number two, without the services of defensive end Carlos Dunlap. The 20-year-old junior from North Charleston, South Carolina, was … Continue reading
