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| Kosovars tell of harrowing trek. At first glance, Furtune Troni, clutching a bagel in one hand and a half-empty cup of McDonald's orange drink in the other, acts like any other 10-year-old: staring at strangers from under her father's elbow, playing with her braided hair, thoughtfully eating her food. |
Calling the Shots Denver police shootings are rarely fully investigated -- or disciplined -- because of a secretive and outdated internal review system. Calling the Shots: an investigative series featuring interactive maps, a searchable database, graphics and eight stories. |
GameGeek review: Max Payne This world is filled with the sort of background noise that a New Yorker can never escape: the wail of sirens, the occasional squeak of a mouse, leather-soled shoes walking across wet cement. |
| 50 homes gone in St. Lucie Blaze at least 500 take flight as flames roar through city It finally happened. Wildfire, pushed to the brink by days without rain and a climbing drought index, erupted Thursday and destroyed 50 houses as it raged through nearly 5,000 acres of dense neighborhoods. |
Atlantis: Nonresidents just the ticket In one year's time, 99.3 percent of all tickets written by Atlantis police went to out-of-town drivers, according to a Palm Beach Post computer analysis. In the past five years, fine collections jumped from about $5,400 to more than $63,000 -- a 1,067 percent increase. |
Can virtual money buy happiness? Deep down I guess I always knew it would end this way: lying in a puddle of my own urine next to a “magic fingers” vibrating bed in a room filled with blaring high definition big screen tvs. It was inevitable. |
| Deputy revives boy hit by lightning Melven Febres died twice Tuesday - first when a bolt of lightning slammed into his hip, stopping his heart and lungs and again as the 14-year-old was loaded into an ambulance minutes later. Both times he was revived by emergency workers. |
Fashionable brutality: dogfighting on the rise Shack died amid the discarded cans and cigarette wrappers of Northwest Second Street, his bitten and bruised body lying in the knee-high weeds of a South Florida dirt alley. Tossed into a fighting pit with a trained and vicious dog, the pet pit bull lasted only 15 minutes. |
Click Here: The happy face of death. There's something funny about death. Sure the humor's not right there on the surface like a pie in the face or Three Stooges short, but look a little below the surface.... maybe sort of cross your eyes a little while your looking... |
| Brancaccio unfazed by second conviction Victor Brancaccio's mother fainted and his grandmother had to be helped out of the courtroom in a wheelchair, but the man who angrily beat to death 81-year-old Mollie Mae Frazier in 1993... |
Internet, Sex Addictions Similar, Researcher Says Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, Dave Saunders sat bleary-eyed in front of his computer living a virtual life. It wasn't his job. It wasn't his hobby. It was his addiction. |
GameGeek: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura review Somewhere, some when, in a place where magic forgot to die, is a land of elves and ogres, of zephyrs and guns. It's a land of changing times, a Victorian backdrop... |
| 2 children killed when school bus hits truck Two children and an adult were killed and 14 children injured Monday afternoon when a packed school bus ran a stop sign and collided with a citrus-trailer truck at an intersection, police said. |
In this world of dungeons and dragons... He assumes a fake identity and wanders the city streets and forest paths of Britannia, a virtual realm populated by hundreds of thousands of people from around the world who also live fictional lives through a computer game called Ultima Online. |
Click Here :Nothing like a little mental sadism Anybody up for a little mental self-abuse? You won't have the satisfaction of popping your tormentor, unless you're into slapping computers, but you can be insulted in dozens of languages and even from a few time periods. |
| Soon as I saw that hat, I knew... Chip Iatauro knew who had died when he saw the Miami Dolphins' hat in the road. Even before he bent over the crumpled form of Matt Jacobson, looked into his wide open eyes and checked his pulse, Iatauro knew ... |
Fatal vehicle crashes: mistake or negligence? A 55-year-old Fort Pierce city employee burned to death Oct. 22, 1998, after the motorized utility cart she was in was side-swiped by a speeding 30-year-old and exploded: The driver was fined $200. | Click Here :Mything something? Ever wonder if Mikey of Life cereal fame kicked the bucket after downing a fatal concoction of Pop Rocks and Coke? Or if you should worry about having your kidney stolen the next time you go to Mexico? |
| Deputy loses both legs after wreck A veteran St. Lucie County sheriff's deputy had to have both legs amputated after a car sideswiped the motorcycle he was riding Thursday en route to another crash, authorities said. |
The iSmell brings common scents to your computer It won't be long before your computer is stinking up the joint. The iSmell — no kidding, that's its name — is a boxy gizmo that looks like a pencil sharpener and attaches to your computer like a printer. |
Can virtual money buy happiness? Deep down I guess I always knew it would end this way: lying in a puddle of my own urine next to a “magic fingers” vibrating bed in a room filled with blaring high definition big screen tvs. It was inevitable. |