Posts Tagged ‘U.S.’

A San Clemente man was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and three years’ probation after he was convicted of killing a dog by slamming its head on concrete. Bayron Reyes Lopez, 26, pleaded guilty to one felony count each of animal cruelty and vandalism related to a December incident in which a 5-year-old miniature schnauzer named Kokanee was killed, according to the Orange County ... Full story

Image via Wikipedia What Can We Do? Some in the know have suggested using a reverse osmosis filter that should take care of the immediate problem. I guess the question at this point: do all the estimated 41 million people that are presently sourcing their drinking water from the basins that have been tested thus far for these water-borne drug pollutants ... Full story

On Tuesday, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, called for the abolition of municipal fire departments. Firefighters, he declared, "won't solve the problems that led to recent fires. They will make them worse." The existence of fire departments, he went on, "not only allows for taxpayer-funded bailouts of burning buildings; it institutionalizes them." He concluded, "The way to solve this problem is to let the ... Full story

One million U.S. children, and about 30 million worldwide, have already received GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine. Now a research team has discovered it is contaminated with “a substantial amount” of DNA from a pig virus. What is pig virus DNA doing in a vaccine intended to prevent rotavirus disease, which causes severe diarrhea and dehydration? It’s anybody’s guess, although CNN reported that GlaxoSmitthKline ... Full story

Federal customs inspectors shot and wounded a man who tried to crash through the border crossing Saturday morning at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, according to San Diego police. The suspect, a man in his 50s, ignored orders from an inspector directing him to a secondary inspection area, triggering a port runner alert. When barricades trapped the suspect’s Chevrolet Tahoe, the man accelerated and rammed ... Full story

Guess which metropolitan areas are the biggest users of Apple products? Click to enlarge. Source: Experian Simmons In a report issued Friday, Experian Simmons surveyed 206 so-called DMAs (designated market areas, or what we used to call "cities") and identified those that have the highest concentration of Apple (AAPL) users. The idea was to anticipate in what ... Full story

Lt. Gen. Keith AlexanderThe U.S. Cyber Command must strike a balance between securing national security assets and protecting individual privacy, according to Lt. General Keith Alexander, currently serving as head of the NSA and the man nominated to run Cyber Command. Gen. Alexander also said in his remarks at his Senate confirmation hearing that ... Full story

In a world where journalism was free of hype the above headline would have been atop the many stories this week relating to a press release by the CDC about food-borne illness.  The numbers are far less sensational than the headlines. The CDC report reviewed statistics about food-borne illnesses in 2009.  Overall there were 17,468 laboratory-confirmed food-borne infections in 2009.  What the CDC press release doesn’t ... Full story

Secretaries Clinton and Chu Praise Energy Cooperation Across the Americas in Joint Op-Ed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu praised growing cooperation on energy and climate issues among the nations of the Western Hemisphere in an op-ed published today by the Miami Herald. Their piece also appeared in Spanish in La ... Full story

In Illinois … On Tuesday, lawmakers traveled back to Springfield to begin the second half of their regular session. High on the agenda is a proposed rewrite of the state's telecommunications regulations, which is being pushed by politically-connected communications companies such as AT&T (pic 6). The State Senate also passed a redistricting reform bill that may or may not see the light ... Full story