Seattle police identified Larry Shawn Taylor, 18, as the man who robbed two women at gunpoint, after the victims described the robber as a short black man with deformed ears who had "MOB" shaved into one side of his hair and "GET MONEY" on the other and "GET" tattooed on his right hand and "MONEY" on his left. Detectives used their database to match the tattoos to Taylor, who was apprehended after an officer stopped a car for reckless driving and recognized him by his ears and tattoos. (KOMO News) Col. Russell Williams, 47, the former commander of Canada's largest air force base who served as the pilot for Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip during their 2005 visit, pleaded guilty to the murder of two women, two sexual assaults, two charges of unlawful confinement and 82 counts ...
COLONIAL HEIGHTS - Colonial Christian Church, 295 Dunlop Farms Blvd., will hold its annual yard and bake sale from 7 a.m. until noon. Proceeds will be used for youth programs and other area projects to help those in need. HOPEWELL - Friendship Baptist Church, located at 1305 Arlington Road, will celebrate Choir Day at 4 p.m. Special musical guests will include Luther Barnes, Bert Boisseau and Unity, and the Hood Temple A.M.E. Zion Male Chorus. The worship leader for the afternoon will be Johnny J. Branch. Tickets are $15 at the door; $6 for children under 12.
When Jeffrey P. Cannon, 20, arrived at Washington's Dulles International Airport from Ireland, customs officers detained him because a check of the passenger list turned up an outstanding DUI warrant. Officers searched his luggage and found "a large amount of tea bags," Border Patrol official Steve Sapp told The Washington Post. The bags' bulky shapes aroused suspicion, and officers found they contained 3.2 grams of hashish and 2.3 grams of marijuana. "If you know you're coming into the U.S. with bad stuff," Sapp said, "be prepared to be greeted rudely by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Eugene Michael Falle, 35, admitted stabbing intruder Shane Chalifoux, 18, but claimed self-defense because he feared Chalifoux, a gang member who had tried to kill him before, had returned to "do my...
This study compares Google News to LexisNexis for finding stories in the New York Times, eight large-circulation U.S. newspapers, and all English-language news outlets in each database. Inter-database agreement between Google News and LexisNexis ranged from 29% to 83%, with much of the discrepancy due to wire service exclusions: LexisNexis missed half or more of stories appearing in major papers and in broad searches of English-language news because it is blind to wire stories. Wire-service blind spots in news archives can be a substantial limitation.
Tina Brown wanted to create a big splash with the first issue of the "new" Newsweek - the magazine Sidney Harman bought for a dollar and put her in charge of returning it to relevance. What could be more original than putting a fresh face on the cover? So here's Hillary Rodham Clinton, 11 years older than the last time Tina Brown launched a magazine, called Talk, and put her there. You've come a long way, baby. Talk magazine was all about Bill Clinton's infidelities. The new Newsweek shows how the former first lady has risen on the world stage and has become a formidable presence on her own. It's Women's History Month, after all, and this year's theme is "Our history is our strength." Mrs. Clinton is one of 150 famous females "who shake the world.
Because newspaper production was well beyond the means of most people, people relied on newspaper and magazine publishing companies with the requisite resources to produce the news for them, and in return, they charged large sums of money for display and classified ads -- and they thrived. Today, that's all changed. The cost of content production and delivery on the Web has plummeted to almost zero. As a result, newspapers and magazines are failing at an accelerated rate. Whatever the reasons, as a business, newspapers can no longer afford to sit back and hope to recover when the economy rebounds. They need to try new ways of doing business and find alternate means of raising revenue. While newspapers are facing competition on the Web due to lower entry barriers, it's also true that if ...
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