Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 3:42:31 PM CET
Intel executives cleared of balloon-popping charges
Intel executives have been found not guilty of damaging the property of rival Via Technologies -- including allegedly popping Via's balloons at a trade show -- by a Taipei court, as the legal hostilities between the two companies entered a new year.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:54:23 PM CET
The case of the dog doo
When Rover does his business on the narrow strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk, is he doing it on private property, or in some public doggy domain?
That's the question a court must decide after a homeowner claimed a dog walker trespassed and left behind a memento of the visit.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:48:09 PM CET
Drunk teacher arrested for stealing neighbor's beer
An Osaka high school teacher has been arrested for sneaking into a neighbor's apartment and drinking his beer, it was learned Monday.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 1:08:02 PM CET
Check out Franz-Stephan Strambach Webpage about
Judith Resnik created by the dopehead who hijacked the plane in Frankfurt.
Astronaut Judith Arlene Resnik (1949-1986) - Links
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 1:27:45 PM CET
Teenagers caught with chocolate face drugs charges
Four German teenagers are facing drug charges despite the fact they were ripped off and paid £450 for two blocks of chocolate.
Police noticed the four, aged between 15 and 17, acting suspiciously inside Duesseldorf's main station.
When questioned, they admitted they had just come from the Dutch town of Venlo.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:01:08 AM CET
Police Foil Drug-Smuggling Chicken Legs
British police said on Friday they had foiled an attempt to smuggle fried chicken legs stuffed with cannabis to a gunman involved in one of Britain's longest armed sieges on record.
Detectives agreed to let the gunman order the food in a bid to persuade him to end the stand-off at a house in east London where he has been holding a man hostage for more than a week.
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Topic: - on January 3, 2003 at 11:42:39 AM CET
Raging boss flattens own pub with digger
FURIOUS Robert Tyrell knocked down his own pub with a digger when staff refused to serve him — as customers drank inside. Stunned regulars fled for their lives when he called time in spectacular fashion. Witnesses said the boss — who only bought the inn last month — demanded a drink and “went bananas” when staff refused because they were locking up.
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Topic: - on January 3, 2003 at 11:10:31 AM CET
Judge halts release of Diana Ross arrest video
A judge Thursday temporarily prevented police from releasing video shot during singer Diana Ross’ drunken-driving arrest.
Through her attorney, Greg Davis of Phoenix, Ross argued the video isn’t public record because it wasn’t made by the officer who made the traffic stop. Davis said the officer who shot it did so only after learning that the driver was Ross.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 6:26:06 PM CET
Police make record drug bust
When two men driving a new truck worth tens of thousands of dollars asked for a quarter to make a phone call, a station attendant got suspicious.
His quick thinking led area police to at least $2 million in pure cocaine that may be one of the biggest drug busts in Ohio history.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 2:21:42 PM CET
Villagers chase out "witches" over lightning bolts
South African villagers have hounded two elderly men from their homes after accusing them of using witchcraft to direct lightning bolts on to other houses, police said.
Police spokesman Ntobeng Phala told Reuters on Thursday villagers from Bokna Farm in the country's northern province of Limpopo met after three houses were set ablaze by lightning strikes.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 1:08:52 AM CET
Pakistan man says he's pictured in FBI alert
Pakistani jeweler said Wednesday his picture is among those of five suspects who the FBI says may have entered the United States on falsified passports. The man said he has never visited the United States.
An Associated Press photograph of Mohammed Asghar taken at his shop in Lahore on Wednesday was a near-perfect match for the one included on the FBI list under the name Mustafa Khan Owasi, down to the prominent mole on Asghar's left cheek.
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Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 2:21:42 PM CET
South Africans hurl beds to greet New Year
New Year revellers in South Africa's commercial capital Johannesburg have rung in 2003 by hurling beds, televisions and other missiles from their windows, injuring 46 passers-by, police say.
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