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An Alabama high school student walked into the school gym Thursday morning and shot himself in front of 150 other students, WKRG.com reported. Jajuan Homes, 18, reportedly fired one shot into the ceiling of the gym at Davidson High School in Mobile before turning the revolver on himself as other students watched.

Alabama And Mobile Excited Over $40 Billion Deal By Emily Forrester Last Updated: Feb 29 2008 - 9:49 pm Alabama, Mobile, and Mobile County leaders are excited about the $40 billion tanker project deal that the United States Air Force Awarded to EADS and Northrop Grumman. Here are some of the enthusiastic comments for area and state leaders: * Alabama Governor Bob Riley: "To say this is a great day for Alabama is a monumental understatement. This will go down in history as one of our greatest days." *Mobile Mayor Sam Jones: "In my judgment, the best proposal won. Mobile...

The U.S. Air Force today named Northrop Grumman Corp. and EADS North America to build its next-generation fleet of aerial refueling tankers, spurning a bid from rival Boeing Co. with a decision that could bring an aircraft assembly plant to Mobile. The Air Force made its choice after a fierce competition between the two teams for one of the single largest defense contracts in U.S. history. Estimated at up to $40 billion, the deal includes 179 planes to be delivered over the next 10-15 years. Boeing was considered a heavy favorite due mainly to its political clout and its legacy...

Radiation From Mobile Phones Changes Protein Expression In Living People, Study SuggestsA new study on effects of mobile phone radiation on human skin strengthens the results of the human cell line analyses: living tissue responds to mobile phone radiation. (Credit: iStockphoto/Luis Pedrosa) ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2008) — A new study completed by the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) on effects of mobile phone radiation on human skin strengthens the results of the human cell line analyses: living tissue responds to mobile phone radiation. Earlier studies have shown that mobile phone radiation (radiofrequency modulated electromagnetic fields; RF-EMF) alters protein...

Heavy mobile phone use a cancer risk By Lucy Cockcroft Last Updated: 1:09am GMT 18/02/2008 People who use a mobile phone for hours a day are 50 per cent more likely to develop mouth cancer than those who do not talk on them at all, new research has shown. The study also suggests that mobile users who live in rural areas may be at an increased risk of cancer because handsets need to emit more radiation to locate fewer antennas. Studies in recent years have found no link between cancer and mobile phone use Research author Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, a...

India has already built the world's cheapest car – the £1,250 Tata Nano – now the country has unveiled the telecoms equivalent: the £10 "people's phone". The mobile handset, developed by Spice, the Indian telecoms group that is listed in Bombay and worth £1 billion, is angled at the very lowest end of the market. This means the phone has jettisoned all "non-essential" features – such as a screen. "It is just a phone," said Bhupendra Kumar Modi, the Spice chairman, who hopes to sell about 10 million in the next year. Mobile phones priced under about £20 account for...

Mobile no. 1 Friday, February 01, 2008By JEFF AMYBusiness Reporter Mobile County will have the fastest growing economy over the next five years among all 363 American metropolitan areas, according to a new forecast by Moody's Economy.com, growing 34.31 percent from 2007 through 2012. Forbes.com highlighted that projection in a story published Wednesday. The Web site arm of the business magazine credited the $3.7 billion ThyssenKrupp AG steel mill, Austal USA's continued growth in shipbuilding, and the possible Northrop Grumman/EADS airplane assembly plants as among Mobile's strengths. Forbes also cited the city's port and highway access as positives. Such an...

Headaches linked to mobile phones By Lewis Carter Last Updated: 1:02am GMT 21/01/2008 Radiation from mobile phones damages sleep and causes headaches, according to a study by telephone makers. People using a handset before going to bed take longer to reach deeper stages of sleep and spend less time in them, researchers found. This gives their bodies less time to repair wear and tear during the day, and gives them headaches. advertisementThe findings are particularly alarming for children and teenagers, most of whom, surveys suggest, use their phones late at night. The young need plenty of sleep and failure to...

A 33-year-old South Korean quarry worker was found dead with a burning mobile phone stuck to his chest, police and the doctor who examined the man said today. The man, who was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital, had burns on his chest, fractured ribs and internal bleeding, the doctor said. "When he was admitted into the emergency room, the melted mobile phone was stuck to the left side of his shirt," said Kim Hoon, professor at emergency department at Chungbuk National University Hospital, who examined the victim. "I cannot think of any other cause of his death other...

Mobile phone study to establish long-term risks By Nic Fleming Science Correspondent Last Updated: 3:42am BST 08/09/2007 Ministers will launch a multi-million pound, large-scale study next week into long-term health risks of mobile phone use. Some experts warn that children should only make mobile phone calls in emergencies The decision indicates that mobile phone use has not yet been given a clean bill of health even though a Government committee is poised to report that research shows no proven health hazards associated with mobiles. The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) programme, which has provided funding for 28 studies since...

Mobile phone use and cancer linked By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 2:11am BST 30/08/2007 Fresh fears over the health hazards linked to using mobile phones have been raised after scientists found that handset radiation could trigger cell division. Mobile phone radiation could trigger cell division A study found that exposure to mobile phone signals for just five minutes stimulated human cells to split in two - a process that occurs naturally when tissue grows or rejuvenates, but that is also central to the development of cancer. Previous research on the safety of mobile use has led to conflicting...

Soldiers Bring Mobile Communications to Battlefield New vehicle gives commanders more choices, faster. By Spc. Ben Hutto3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq, Aug. 21, 2007 — Staff Sgt. Matthew Hancock looked over the schematics the 82nd Airborne had put together for a mobile tactical operations center and knew that he could build something similar for his battalion. "This is the first time a mechanized Army unit has engineered, built and deployed a vehicle like this. We are proud of what we’ve done. We feel like we have raised the bar for the Army."Staff...

Staff of the “Reader’s Digest” magazine has organized a series of unusual experiments around the world. The journalists “lost” 960 mobile phones in 32 countries and got 654 back, which means that the average world’s honesty level is 68%.

Hidden Dimensions - Apple is Outsmarting the iPhone's Competition Friday, July 13th, 2007 at 1:15 PM - by John Martellaro "You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." - Benjamin Lipson There are people with good sense, industry experience, and a feel for the wireless market who see the iPhone as just another smartphone. One with limitations and some serious weaknesses in terms of big business. I don't think they're looking deep enough, or with an Apple perspective, or with a view to the future. The Apple iPhone is going to make some serious inroads into our...

Bush defends freedom, even for Jeff Sessions Friday, June 22, 2007By BRIAN LYMAN Capital Bureau President Bush repeated common themes of his presidency at a fundraiser in Mobile on Thursday, saying the United States must stay in Iraq, the government must cut taxes and Republicans like Jeff Sessions must stay in the U.S. Senate. "We are facing ideologues with a vision of how they want the world to look," Bush told a crowd of about 850 people at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center. "They can't stand freedom. They can't stand the idea of people expressing their vision in...

WASHINGTON -- A Fort Worth congresswoman wants manufactured and mobile homes to come equipped with weather radios. Congresswoman Kay Granger's proposal comes after this week's deaths of at least six people in flooding in North Texas. The Fort Worth Republican is co-sponsoring legislation requiring that every manufactured home be supplied with a weather radio. The radio would automatically carry emergency broadcasts of the National Weather Service. The requirement would be part of the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards. The bill is named after CJ Martin, a two-year-old boy killed in a 2005 tornado. His mother helped get a...

Daphne teacher chargedPolice say Kathy Chason lied about being raped by an officer Saturday, June 16, 2007NADIA M. TAYLOR Staff Reporter A Daphne High School teacher on a leave of absence was charged Friday with filing a false report after police said she lied about being raped by a Mobile police officer in an effort to reconcile with her ex-husband. Kathy Chason, 48, of Mobile was arrested and taken to Mobile County Metro Jail, police said. Chason told police that she was walking near Interstate 65 and Airport Boulevard late on June 3, headed from a restaurant to the Ramada...

Officials: 9-year-old poisoned his family Thursday, May 17, 2007By SUSAN DAKERStaff Reporter A 9-year-old Irvington boy was charged Wednesday with four counts of third-degree assault for poisoning his stepmother and siblings, according to the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. About 10 a.m. Wednesday, the boy confessed to putting TetraAqua Aquasafe water conditioner in his stepmother's drink on Saturday, sheriff's spokeswoman Kate Johnson said. Sometime this week the 30-year-old stepmother fell ill and is now being treated in the Intensive Care Unit at Mobile Infirmary West, Johnson said. The woman's injuries are not life-threatening, Johnson said. The 9-year-old also admitted to sheriff's...

A jeweller shot in the chest during an armed robbery escaped injury because the bullet hit his mobile phone, a court heard yesterday. Shop manager Darren Prior, 25, was chasing the raider who had looted his shop of diamond rings worth £50,000. Despite the raider firing a "warning shot" past him, Mr Prior continued the pursuit down an alleyway, where the gunman suddenly stopped and turned before firing at him from just 20 feet away. Store manager Darren Prior was shot during an armed robbery, but escaped injury because the bullet hit his mobile phone

Operators deploy equipment to detect VoIP traffic over their networks.Mobile phone operators around the world are investing in equipment to counter what they see as a growing threat to their voice revenues from Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The moves add impetus to a petition that leading VoIP player Skype lodged with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last month demanding that mobile phone network operators allow their customers access to VoIP services via their mobile phones. The gear in question is Deep Packet Investigation (DPI) equipment, which analyses and identifies data packets as they flow across a carrier’s network....