12 dead as bus falls into gorge in Chamba (India Times)
(Twelve people were killed and one sustained grievous injuries when a bus carrying them fell down an 80ft deep gorge to plunge into the swollen Bihali river in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday morning. Some passengers were also reported missing from the ill-fated vehicle, which was on its way to Dalhousie from Bhanjraru and was carrying 25 passengers. Rescuers recovered 12 bodies and were searching for missing passengers, who may have been washed away in the fast flowing current, SP, Chamba, Madhusudan Sharma said. "One passenger was rescued alive, but he lost both his legs in the accident," he added.)
Video of Angry Parent Assaulting School Bus Driver (ABC News)
(The video of the frustrated parent attacking a school bus driver in Louisville, Ky., in March 2010, was released on Tuesday. For the first time, we could see and hear what happened on that school bus. Jefferson County public school bus drivers are responsible for 66,000 children who ride the bus to and from school each day. But what do those responsibilities entail? One angry parent, Chesica White, thought the driver of bus no. 0243 failed in her duties because she didn't intervene when White's 7-year-old son was being bullied.)
4 Wounded in Brazil bus stick-up (Fox News)
( Four people were wounded in a gunbattle between Brazilian police and armed assailants trying to carry out a robbery on a city bus in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said. The shootout came after three men commandeered the bus around 8:00 p.m. Tuesday and what began as a robbery turned into a hostage situation. Three bus passengers and one police officer were injured.)
22 hurt in bus smash terror at city airport (Glasgow Times)
(A fleet of ambulances took more than 20 people to hospital today after a bus crash at Glasgow Airport. The vehicle crashed through the airport’s perimeter fence at about 7.30am, after leaving the A726 Barnsford Road, between Inchinnan and Paisley.)
Deputies Arrest GET Bus Slaying Suspect (Kero 23)
(A man was arrested Tuesday afternoon following a fatal stabbing on a GET bus. Kern County Sheriff's Department deputies were sent at about 10 a.m. to a GET bus that had stopped in the 3100 block of Pioneer Drive. Deputies said they found 24-year-old Lorenzo Hernandez on the bus.)
Obama bus tour hits states he carried in 2008 (USA Today)
(President Obama's team has announced the stops for next week's bus tour, and they're all states he carried in 2008. The tour on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will roll though southern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa and western Illinois, the administration announced.)
Woman hurt as car spears into bus shelter near Spearwood school (Perth Now)
(A WOMAN has been seriously injured and four others hospitalised after a car cannoned into a bus shelter in a spectacular crash near a Spearwood school early today. Witnesses said a Toyota Camry was being driven at speed by a young mother, who was believed to have been taking her son to school, when the car ran over a centre island and mowed down a road sign, before crashing into a Toyota Hilux on Rockingham Rd about 8.40am. The impact of the crash caused the Hilux ute to spin and flip before the Camry speared boot-first into the bus shelter, outside the Spearwood Alternative School, pinning a female commuter.)
Teen ordered to secure detention for TSC bus fires (JC Online)
(A 15-year-old Lafayette boy will spend 22 more days in secure detention, followed by placement at Cary Home for Children, for intentionally starting a fire that destroyed four Tippecanoe School Corp. buses in June. He'll also remain under the jurisdiction of Tippecanoe Superior Court 3, the county's juvenile court, until he turns 21.)
Matt Damon for president? (Daily Caller)
(As some progressives become increasingly vocal in their grumblings against the once-revered President Obama, leftist movie maker Michael Moore has decided to show his support for an unlikely candidate: actor Matt Damon. Damon has never expressed an interest in running for elective office, but Moore is lavishing praise on the liberal film star anyway. “I think that he has been very courageous,” Moore said Sunday in a discussion hosted by the blog FireDogLake, ”in not caring about who he offends by coming out and saying the things that need to be said here.”)
Marvel Bribes Retailers to Destroy DC Comics (Weird)
(This week it came out that Marvel Comics is offering retailers a variant cover of “Fear Itself #6″ by artist Ed McGuinness. But, there is a catch: To get the coveted cover, retailers have to rip the covers from 50 copies of any No. 1 issue of DC Comics Flashpoint tie-ins. This is not a figure of speech, they literally have to tear the covers off and send them to Marvel to get the special edition, rendering the issues unsalable.)
Alice Cooper Preps 'Welcome To My Nightmare' Sequel (Rolling Stone)
(Thirty-five years ago, Alice Cooper ditched his longtime band, teamed up with producer Bob Ezrin and created his legendary concept album Welcome To My Nightmare. "I don't live in the past at all," Cooper tells Rolling Stone. "But I recently started working on a new project with Ezrin. He reminded me about the anniversary and we started wonder what Alice's nightmare would be 35 years later. The first nightmare was a seven-year old's, with 'what's in my closet' and 'my toys are coming to life.' Now his nightmare would be hip-hop and technology and working 9 to 5 in a cubicle.")
US woman let niece, 6, drive from snug spot (AP)
(Police say a woman endangered her 6-year-old niece by having the girl back the woman's car out of a tight parking spot, wrecking two other cars in the process. Fifty-five-year-old Rebecca Beatty and her attorney have not returned calls on the charges she waived to Beaver County Court on Tuesday.)
A dancing carrot proposes marriage in China (Forbes)
(If your girlfriend's favorite color is orange and you want to propose, maybe dressing yourself and 48 friends as giant carrots is the best way to get her to say yes. According to Chinese news reports and photos posted online, that is what one lovestruck Chinese man did recently for China's Valentine's Day in the center of the eastern city of Qingdao.)
Police capture 'Dougherty Gang' in Colorado (BBC News)
(Three siblings wanted for bank robbery and the attempted murder of a police officer have been arrested in Colorado, ending a nationwide manhunt. State police said the two brothers and sister, dubbed the Dougherty Gang, were captured after a 100mph (160 km/h) car chase that ended with a crash. Last week they allegedly shot at police in Florida and robbed a Georgia bank.)
Cow escapes sausage maker - pretends to be deer (News Lite)
(A cow in Germany has not only managed to escape from a Bavarian sausage maker, but has spent 10 months hiding out with a herd of deer in woodland. The brilliant bovine called Yvonne is said to have last year escaped from a sausage-based future after somehow escaping and going on the run in Bavaria.)
UFO files: Mork and Mindy visited East Dulwich (Telegraph)
(The latest batch of UFO files released today contain sightings of mysterious lights over the Glastonbury Festival, a ''flying saucer'' outside Retford town hall and the bizarre story of ''Mork and Mindy's'' visit to East Dulwich.)
Boy's ode to fallen dad inspires tearful responses (CNN)
(The story of a 10-year-old who posted an iReport honoring his dad who died in the recent Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan has sparked a huge outpouring from CNN.com readers. It was Braydon Nichols' desire, his mother, Jessica Nichols, told CNN that his dad not just be another faceless casualty in the nearly decade-long war. The boy wanted the world to see his father's face, just as news reports showed the faces of other soldiers who lost their lives in the crash. So on his iReport, Braydon posted a picture of Army Chief Warrant Officer Bryan Nichols, a pilot, in his jump uniform sitting next to other soldiers.)
Building Blocks of DNA Found in Meteorites from Space (Live Science)
(The components of DNA have now been confirmed to exist in extraterrestrial meteorites, researchers announced. A different team of scientists also discovered a number of molecules linked with a vital ancient biological process, adding weight to the idea that the earliest forms of life on Earth may have been made up in part from materials delivered to Earth the planet by from space.)
Rob Lowe, comic Peters to star in hockey comedy (Vancouver Sun)
(A hockey drama set in an Indo-Canadian community will take centre ice in the Toronto International Film Festival's homegrown film lineup for 2011. Breakaway stars comedian Russell Peters and actor Rob Lowe. "When I first started doing standup, I did a joke about an all-Sikh ice hockey team called the Toronto Maple Sikhs," Peters says in a video that producers posted on YouTube.)
Apple surpasses Exxon as most valuable US company at the market's close (Yahoo News)
(It doesn't take a visit to the Genius Bar to figure out how Apple became the most valuable company in America. Its lineup of sleek phones, computers and iPods, irresistible to customers even in tough economic times, propelled it to the No. 1 position by market value Wednesday, surpassing Exxon Mobil. Apple's stock on the open market is now worth more than any other company's.)
Facebook to close U.S. prison inmate accounts (Globe and Mail)
(Facebook has begun closing the accounts of California prison inmates after a convicted child molester viewed the pages of his victim from behind bars, authorities and the social networking site said. Facebook has shut down the accounts of at least two prisoners and officials are working on identifying other accounts that had been accessed from behind bars, said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.)
NYPD creates Twitter-sniffing, Facebook-frisking unit (CNET)
(Why walk the streets when you can sit back at Starbucks, open your laptop, and listen to them? Why pay snitches when you have some of the finest snitches of all in Facebook and Twitter? Not the companies themselves, you understand. Just the people on their sites. That seems to be the spirit of a new unit created by the New York Police Department.)
Charges filed over leaked iPhone 4 prototype (CNN)
(Misdemeanor charges have been filed against the two men responsible for shopping around a lost iPhone 4 prototype to various websites before the iPhone 4 was officially unveiled, though no one from Gizmodo -- the site that eventually bought the prototype -- will be charged. The San Mateo County, California District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday its decision on who to charge, noting in its brief press release that 22-year-old Brian Hogan -- the one who allegedly found the device in a Silicon Valley bar -- and his 28-year-old friend Sage Wallower had both been charged with misappropriation of lost property.)
Stem cells used to create sperm in infertile mice (CNET)
(Welcome to mating 2.0: the sexual act itself might not change, but when the parts don't work, we'll simply build new ones. So say scientists in Japan who, using stem-cell techniques, are the first to engineer sperm in infertile male mice that successfully fertilized eggs and produced offspring.)
This is why Sony's PlayStation Phone failed (DVICE)
(For years, gamers clamored and begged for a PlayStation phone. Sony kept everybody in the dark for six years after the original PSP launched. Then the iPhone and iPod Touch blew up the scene in 2007, along with the App Store and the rest is history. Sony missed the boat. This past Spring, Sony Ericsson released the Xperia Play — a real PlayStation-branded smartphone with a real gamepad that slides out. Although there was much hype and anticipation for the Xperia Play on video game blogs, it flopped hard — discounted down from $200 to $100 at a great many retailers, only after a few weeks on sale. It really didn't help that that Verizon, the only U.S. wireless carrier to sell the Xperia Play didn't really trumpet it, either.)
Parents devastated after morgue mix up leads to the cremation of their baby boy (Daily Mail)
(The family of a child who was wrongly cremated, after a tragic mix-up at a funeral home, is to receive $50,000. The body of 14-month-old Jaylen Talley was mistakenly released to the Marlan J. Gary funeral home in Ohio last year. The funeral home had been asked to handle the body of another boy, a 22-day-old baby whose family wanted a cremation.)
Loss of 38 lives in crash tragic (Delmarvanow.com)
(Saturday's helicopter crash in Afghanistan and the tragic loss of 30 American lives is significant on many levels. Of the 30 American fatalities, 22 were Navy SEALs and of the additional eight fatalities, seven were Afghan commandos and one was a civilian interpreter. Most of the SEALs who died were members of SEAL Team 6, the same unit whose members killed Osama bin Laden (but none of those involved in the bin Laden raid were killed in the crash.)
Son charged with murder for mother's stabbing death (News 1130)
(The 24-year old son of a woman stabbed to death in Burnaby on Monday night has now been charged. Benedict Tomajin has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his mother Josie. She died after being found on the road outside a house on Elwell Street.)
Batman filming fills downtown with snow and fans (Times Online)
(Batman couldn't easily hide Wednesday in Pittsburgh. "The Dark Knight Rises" filmed smack dab in the heart of downtown on a busy workday made much busier by curiosity seekers. "It's a tremendous distraction, but it's really neat," said Ellwood City native Alecia Allison, who spent her lunch break, like thousands of others, checking out the four-block section of Oliver Avenue, between Grant and Smithfield streets, set aside for filming.)
London riots see baseball bat sales rise 5,000 per cent (Metro)
(The London riots have seen sales of baseball bats rise more than 5,000 per cent on Amazon's UK website as the unrest spreads across the country.)
Google+ On Track to Rival Facebook (PC World)
(Google's fledgling Google+ is set to become the second-largest social network in the U.S. within the next year, according to a study released this week.)
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