2 Canadian Scouts sent to hospital after bus crash in Sweden (Toronto Star)
(A bus carrying dozens of Canadian scouts returning from the World Scout Jamboree crashed in Sweden on Sunday, sending three teens to hospital with minor injuries. Police in the town of Lund, located about 500 kilometres southwest of Stockholm, said the bus with 50 Canadian scouts on board crashed with a truck that was entering the highway, and then hit the concrete barrier. Lund police spokeswoman Annika Lindvall said three scouts, aged between 16 and 17, were sent to hospital where they were treated for shock as well as hand, neck and shoulder injuries. The bus driver was also injured.)
Bus shooting video takes things to "new level" (CBS News)
(High-quality surveillance video of gunmen shooting up a crowded Philadelphia bus comes from a camera that was only recently installed. And the prosecutor in the trial of four suspects in the case says the video takes things to a "whole new level." It was, remarks CBS News Correspondent Elaine Quijano, like a scene from the Wild West, but with a modern twist - the video. According to prosecutors, Penny Chapman, seen in the video -- boarded the bus with her young on June 18, and can be seen in the video spanking him, for running through the aisles. A male rider intervened, saying he would report her to child services.)
Rioters set police cars and bus on fire (The Telegraph)
(Two police cars, a double-decker bus and a shop were set alight in north London on Saturday night during riots sparked by the fatal shooting of a man by officers last week.)
London Bus Stop Shooting Victim Is Named (Sky News)
(A man shot dead at a bus stop in south London in an early morning attack has been named as Daniel Famakinwa. Scotland Yard said officers were called at 4.15am on Saturday to Waylett Place, West Norwood. The 20-year-old victim from Manor Park, east London, was taken to hospital suffering from gunshot wounds to the chest, and died just after at 5.30am, a police spokesman said. A post-mortem examination gave Mr Famakinwa's cause of death as a gunshot wound.)
Police to Monitor School Bus Routes (The Snellville Patch)
(With school starting tomorrow, Gwinnett Police will be throughout the county conducting special safety details. Gwinnett County students return to school Monday, Aug. 8. With the start of school, GCPS buses will once again take to the roadways. Each day, roughly 120,662 students are transported morning and afternoon making GCPS the second largest transporter of students in the country. GCPS’ 1,834 buses run 7,534 routes covering more than 130,800 miles each school day.)
Another bus robbery in Bolgatanga, 15 arrested (Ghana Web)
(Armed robbers on Saturday morning August 6, attacked a Metro Mass Transit (MMT) bus conveying students of the St. Francis Girls Senior High School at Jirapa in the Upper West Region. The students, on holidays, were travelling to the Upper East Regional capital Bolgatanga. The gun-wielding robbers molested and assaulted some of the students and crew on board.)
Cote d’Ivoire mourning after bus crash kills dozens (IRIN Newa)
(Côte d'Ivoire's President has announced three days of national mourning after a bus crash in a lagoon Friday killed at least 37 people. The bus, part of the state-owned transport company (SOTRA), crashed at about 0600GMT. The Interior ministry's provisional toll of the accident which took place in the Plateau district, downtown Abidjan, was 37 dead and 10 survivors. In a statement, the ministry said, however, that "a search to find other victims was going on".)
Weekend Box Office: "Apes" Rise to the Number One Spot (HDR)
(Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the latest chapter in the 43-year old Planet of the Apes franchise, easily rose to the top of the North American box office in its debut. The prequel beat out the other newcomer for the week, the Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman comedy The Change-Up, which opened to underwhelming numbers in fourth place. Overall, the top ten was up a huge 43.3% over the top ten one year ago. )
Cathay Pacific to investigate saucy cockpit photos (The Australian)
(CATHAY Pacific says it has launched a "full investigation" into photos which appear to show a flight attendant performing oral sex on a pilot aboard an aircraft of the Hong Kong carrier. Several pixellated photos of the act have been published in local Chinese-language media, showing the woman in a red outfit resembling Cathay's cabin crew uniform giving oral sex to a man who the reports said was a pilot."We are conducting a full investigation into the matter and there are some indications that the female shown in the photos may be a member of our cabin crew," a Cathay spokeswoman said.)
Blue shark found decomposing in the woods in NH about 45 miles from ocean (Washington Post)
(Authorities are investigating the discovery of a decomposing blue shark in the woods of New Hampshire. Police say they found the 6- to 8-foot shark Thursday night after someone reported smelling something decomposing.)
Racism row puts NY fire dept in hot seat (AFP)
(The New York Fire Department, one of the Big Apple's most iconic institutions, is in the hot seat over allegations that racism keeps its ranks almost lily-white. Thundering around on immaculately maintained red trucks, the city's "Bravest" are local heroes, admired for their professionalism and lauded for their self-sacrifice on 9/11, when 343 died in the collapsing Twin Towers. But a trial that started this week in Brooklyn federal court is tearing up that perfect picture. The plaintiffs, led by a group of black firefighters called the Vulcan Society, claim systemic bias in favor of whites and want Judge Nicholas Garaufis to force drastic change.)
Man with breast cancer denied Medicaid coverage because of his gender (Nerve.com)
(Breast cancer is not commonly associated with men, but according to CDC statistics, over 2,000 men, representing about one percent of cases, are diagnosed with the disease each year. Raymond Johnson, a twenty-six-year-old tile layer from South Carolina, is one of those men.)
NO•WAY: DMV Has 'Blue Plate' List Of Banned Phrases (Hartford Courant)
(Certain combinations of letters and digits are never intended to be seen on a Connecticut license plate — and they're all on a special list that is maintained and continually updated by the Department of Motor Vehicles. One of the most unusual public records kept by the state government, the compilation of offensive license plate combinations — labeled "MVOFFEN LISTING JUL 27 2011" when provided to The Courant late last month — now stands at 938 entries. It serves as evidence of the human capacity to turn almost anything, be it a number, noun or other part of speech, into something sexual, vulgar or racist.)
Man uses old BBQ tanks and mop handles to build a full size Fokker DR1 (the Red Baron's plane) (Toronto Star)
(Barbecue tanks, TV antennas, swimming pool walls, apple juice cans, farm gates, rebar, floor mop handles. Put it together and what have you got — a pile of junk? Not in Ian Baron’s hands. Try life-size replicas of old fighter planes. Four in total, all made from recycled bits and pieces. They’re parked proudly on the front lawn of his rural home a few minutes north of Bowmanville. He owns 4.5 hectares and a good thing, too. The wingspan of his largest and favourite creation, a 1944 Spitfire Mark IX, is 11 metres.)
Teenager discovers he's been juggling with bombs (The Mirror)
(A boy of 13 had a lucky escape yesterday when his juggling clubs turned out to be World War Two BOMbS. Ben Stannard, who found the 12-in cylinders in a field, had no idea they could have exploded if dropped.)
Man Busted for Growing 24 Pot Plants at Mia Farrow Property in Connecticut (The National Ledger)
(A man has been charged with growing 24 pot plants on a Connecticut property owned by actress Mia Farrow, reports the Associated Press. State police say they found "24 marijuana plants and 2 pounds of marijuana Thursday at Robert Girard's apartment in Bridgewater, a town of about 2,000 residents" the wire service reveals in a report. It appears that Ms. Farrow (pictured, above) has little to do with the case other than owning the property and having a famous name.)
Man dies during triathlon in New York (CNN)
(A 64-year-old man died Sunday during the swim portion of Sunday's Nautica New York City Triathlon, according to officials. "We are deeply saddened to report the death," said a statement from Race Director Bill Burke. The man was treated by emergency medical staff at the event site and then transported to Roosevelt Hospital.)
Ancient Graves Reveal When Elderly Gained Power (Live Science)
(It's not easy to study the elderly in a society where life was all too often cut short by disease, childbirth and injuries. But new research on people living in the Bronze Age suggests the elderly began to gain power over a 600-year period in Austria. The findings rely on skeletal aging and a comparison of objects placed in graves of individuals of different ages. As time passed in the small farming hamlets of lower Austria, researchers reported online July 15 in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, older men began to be buried with copper axes, a privilege not granted to younger men.)
NASA Wants Gas Stations In Space (Space.com)
(If humans are ever to live and explore in deep space for extended periods, space gas stations may prove a vital necessity. Toward that end, NASA has awarded contracts to four companies with plans to study how to store and transfer fuel in space. It's not simply a matter of building a Shell station in orbit. Rocket fuel is cryogenic, meaning super-cold substances like liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. If not kept extremely chilled and protected, some of those liquids tend to boil off into gases.)
Psychologist: Facebook Harmful To Kids (My Fox New York)
(Facebook can turn kids into narcissists and lead to health complications, a California psychologist said in Washington on Saturday. Larry Rosen, a psychologist at Cal State Dominguez Hills, presented a conference paper on the potential harm the hugely popular social networking site can have on children, the Los Angeles Times reported.)
Hacking encouraged, even prized, at Vegas geek fest (Reuters)
(There was a whole lot of hacking going on in Sin City this weekend -- and right under the noses of federal agents. But in a sign of a time when cybersecurity is at the forefront of national security concerns, the feds were not lurking in the shadows to keep a watchful eye. They came as invited guests at the Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, which drew more than 10,000 attendees in its 19th year.)
Campaign bid after son’s Xbox death (Sheffield Telegraph)
(A SHEFFIELD father has launched a campaign to warn computer games fans of the dangers of deep vein thrombosis after his 20-year-old son was killed by a blood clot caused by all-night sessions on his Xbox. David Staniforth, aged 54, of Dore, said his son, Chris, who lived with his mother in Sothall, would sit up playing on his Xbox against people around the world. Chris spent so much time playing online he was even invited to one of his fellow gamer’s weddings in America next year. A post mortem examination found deep vein thrombosis, caused by sitting in one position for long spells. The condition, more commonly associated with long-haul flights, leads to blood clots which can then travel around the body. The clot had reached Chris’s lungs.)
FBI releases its first iPhone app: Child ID (Tuaw)
(The FBI has released it first iPhone app called Child ID. As the name suggests, Child ID works as a kind of digital passport for information about your children. With it you can store their photos along with physical identifiers such as height and weight. The app has several intended uses, the first a which is as something you can quickly show a security official to help identify your child if they go missing, say at an airport or a theme park. The app also has allows you to call 911 with the tap of a button and also call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. You can also choose to email your child's information to authorities.)
Eight dead, including gunman, in Ohio shooting spree (CNN)
(Seven people, including an 11-year-old child, were shot and killed in a small town in northeastern Ohio on Sunday in a rampage that ended when police killed the suspected gunman, authorities said. The shootings occurred shortly before 11 a.m. in Copley Township, about seven miles west of Akron, according to the Copley Police Department.)
White teens targeted black man in Mississippi hate crime, ran over him with pickup truck (Yahoo)
(Two young white men were looking for a black man to assault in Mississippi's largest city when one of them ran over a 49-year-old African-American with a pickup truck after he had been assaulted, killing the man, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The hate crime allegations resonated in Mississippi, which long had a history for racial violence against blacks, particularly during the civil rights struggle. James Anderson was run over by a Ford pickup outside a Jackson hotel near dawn on June 26 and died later in hospital, District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith said during a bond hearing for Deryl Dedmon, who is accused of driving the truck.)
Harry Potter hit by hi-tech conmen (BBC News)
(Cyber conmen are cashing in on interest surrounding the Pottermore website. Through Pottermore, JK Rowling will release more stories and background from the world of Harry Potter.Pottermore officially opens in October, and scammers are selling fake accounts for the site that claim to give fans early access.)
Man raised suspicions of hotel staff on day of collar-bomb hoax (The Australian)
(NSW police would not confirm reports that a man was seen acting suspiciously and running from a hotel close to Madeleine Pulver's home on the day of the Sydney bomb hoax. The man, wearing dark clothing, possibly a navy blue or black jumper, entered the Buena Vista Hotel on Middle Head Road at Mosman, in Sydney's north, last Wednesday afternoon. Appearing stressed, the man ordered a drink but later ran from the hotel when police and emergency services vehicles drove past, sirens blaring, on their way to Madeleine's house about 2.30pm.)
Gotham's boys: Steelers play on-field roles in new 'Batman' film (NFL.com)
(Holy Batman, the Steelers are coming! Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and about 12 of his veteran teammates participated Saturday in the filming of "The Dark Knight Rises," playing football players at Heinz Field, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And the Gotham coach? Why it's Bill Cowher, the former Steelers coach who left the team after the 2006 season and is now an analyst for CBS Sports. Kevin Colbert, the Steelers' director of football operations, will reunite with Cowher as a Gotham assistant coach.)
South China city ends dog ban (China Daily)
(A controversial dog ban has been lifted only nine days after going into effect in the city of Jiangmen in south China's Guangdong province. The local government issued the regulation in June; local authorities began enforcing it on July 26. The regulation banned dogs from the city's urban areas. Dogs found to be roaming urban areas would have been put down under the regulation. Agitated by the ban, pet owners complained to local media and voiced their discontent online. Several of the dog owners even considered moving elsewhere with their "best friends.")
Rangers' Sean Avery after police run-in, arrest: 'It'll all work out' (Sporting News)
(New York Rangers forward Sean Avery, out of jail after reportedly calling police officers "fat little pigs" and shoving one of them when they shut down a party at his Los Angeles home, is maintaining his optimism."I'm all right, I'm good," Avery told the New York Post at his house in West Hollywood after posting $20,000 bond.)
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