Police remind residents of holiday crime precautions
With the holiday shopping season underway, area police departments are reminding residents of ways to avoid being targets of holiday-related crime.
Virginia State Police recently published a press release in conjunction with U.S. Cellular offering safety tips for shopping and driving during the holiday season.
150 stranded whales die in Australia
A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.
Officials from Tasmania state’s Parks and Wildlife Service rushed Sunday in four-wheel-drive vehicles to the remote site at Sandy Cape after the long-finned pilot whales were spotted by air a day earlier.
Wal-Mart shoppers who trampled NY worker sought
Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges.
Nassau County police and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said no new information was available Saturday on the employee’s brutal death, which rattled shoppers even as they flocked to the Valley Stream store a day later.
Police: Pakistani militants behind Mumbai attacks
The only gunman captured by police after a string of attacks on Mumbai told authorities he belonged to the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, a senior police officer said Sunday.
Police said 10 gunmen terrorized Mumbai during a 60-hour siege, and all but one were shot dead.
PETA claims of abused pigs fails to sway probe
An investigation concludes that pigs were humanely treated after a truck hauling them overturned on Virginia Route 10 in Suffolk in September.
The investigation was conducted by Suffolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Phil Ferguson, who responded to a complaint by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Va man, daughter among Mumbai terror victims
A father and his teenage daughter from a Virginia community that promotes a form of meditation were among those killed in the terrorist attacks in India, a colleague said Friday.
Alan Scherr, 58, and daughter Naomi, 13, were in a café Wednesday night in Mumbai when they were killed, said Bobbie Garvey, a spokeswoman for the Synchronicity Foundation.
John Warner applauds Obama’s national security picks
Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia says the three people President-elect Barack Obama is considering to lead his national security team would instill great confidence at home and abroad.
Democratic and transition officials have said Obama has picked or is considering picking Sen.
Rams turn it on late, beat Tulane
Going into Friday night, the VCU Rams were looking to bounce back from a tough loss at North Carolina last Sunday. The team did just that against Tulane in a third-round consolation game of the WNIT, 63-49.
Early in the first half, the Rams appeared to be playing flat.
UEFA Champions League Pick’em Matchday Five
With only two matchdays left until the springtime knockout stages, Barcelona, Sporting Clube de Portugal and Juventus sit comfortably knowing they’re already through. Twelve of the thirty-two teams are looking for a one-game cushion before the competition becomes even more exciting.
The Rome report
President-elect Barack Obama,
There is an enormous problem that requires your immediate attention. No, it isn’t the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. No, it isn’t the slumping economy. It is a problem that is much greater than those problems combined. Mr. President-elect, the American people need you to get rid of the Bowl Championship Series and implement an eight-team college football playoff.