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Hunting season for people with disabilities begins today, runs through Sunday by Chris Killian | Special to the Kalamazoo Gazette Thursday October 16, 2008, 9:15 AM AUGUSTA -- A special, four-day deer hunting season for people with disabilities begins today in Michigan.People who have a permit to hunt from a standing vehicle and who are 100 percent disabled as defined by the U.S. Veterans Administration or are legally blind can participate in the hunt, which runs through Sunday.The hunt is open on all private lands and in limited public land areas.Hunters are allowed to utilize technology that is otherwise...

Philly Anthrax Scare CENTER CITY-February 5, 2004 — City officials and federal officials are at the Windsor Hotel at 17th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, where early field tests have shown an envelope found in a room may contain anthrax. Soemone found an envelope in a 9th floor room of the hotel this morning. That envelope contained a white powder. The first set of early field tests showed that the substance was anthrax. Another set of early tests showed that is was not anthrax. More tests are underway. Phil Goldsmith/City Managing Director: "We are now in the process of...

Man stuffs nine rattlesnakes in mouth in world record stuntWHISKEY FLATS, Texas (AP) - A man stuffed the tails of nine live rattlesnakes in his mouth Tuesday, besting his record of eight. "I have to break my own records. Heck, there's nobody else who can do it," Jackie Bibby told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for its online edition Tuesday. "I think I could do 12 or 13, but probably no more. My mouth is only so big." Bibby holds the world record for sitting in a bathtub with the most live snakes - 75 Western Diamondbacks, according to Guinness...

--> Jared the Subway Guy, superstar Trying to enjoy the whirlwind of celebrity TAMPA, Florida (AP) --Like many famous people, Jared Fogle rarely gets through a meal in a restaurant without being interrupted by well-meaning people introducing themselves.Fogle is "Jared the Subway Guy," famous because he lost 245 pounds a few years ago by eating Subway subs and not much else. Instantly recognizable now from his TV commercials for the sandwich maker, he's evolved from unwitting part-time celebrity to something of a pop-culture icon, making a comfortable living traveling around with his old 60-inch waist jeans and telling his story.Fogle...

Hotel Online  News for the Hospitality Executive   Las Vegas Casino Seeks to Recover $1.4 Million It Wired Palo Alto, Calif., Man By Dan Reed, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 15--Sometimes in Las Vegas a person gets lucky. The Las Vegas Sands thinks Umar Siddiqui got a little too lucky. The Sands has sued the Palo Alto man for keeping more than $1.4 million the casino says it wired to him by mistake. Siddiqui has suggested that he has no plans to return it, the lawsuit claims. Friday, a Santa Clara County judge signed a...

Sunday, November 16, 2003 · Last updated 5:20 p.m. PTMan armed with knife kills hungry bearTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia -- John Hirsch went toe-to-claw with a black bear - and won. Hirsch had only a 3 1/2-inch knife blade when he came across the bear in his backyard in Williams Lake, about 190 miles northeast of Vancouver. "He came out of nowhere," said Hirsch, 61, an avid hunter and outdoorsman. "I can remember thinking that he's not stopping - he's coming," said Hirsch. "I just didn't feel I had any place to go." He was attacked Oct....

Baldwin says Feds have seized his debut film Alec Baldwin says The Devil and Daniel Webster, his first film as a director, will never be seen because it has been seized by federal authorities. The film, which stars Anthony Hopkins, was made last year but is being held as evidence in a fraud case, Baldwin told journalists in Los Angeles. "Some of the film's investors are being investigated for bank fraud," he explained. "They claimed they had the money to make the movie but it turned out they didn't, so while we were making the movie they were bouncing...

Suicide after wrong diagnosis 13 November 2003  A nurse who hanged herself after a doctor said she had a brain disease had nothing wrong with her.  Sally Moth, 31, mother of a four-month-old son, had depression which got worse after the misdiagnosis by a Canadian doctor in Norway, an inquest in Dorchester was told.  A postmortem examination found nothing wrong with Miss Moth. She died at her home in Weymouth in May. The coroner recorded a verdict of suicide.

<p>JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- Two South African military pilots were killed on Wednesday after ejecting from a stricken jet fighter over a highway -- one of them hit by a truck as he parachuted to the ground, officials said.</p>

Scientist To Tackle "Thundersnow" Rarity By BILL DRAPER KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Sometimes in the middle of a Midwestern snowstorm, thunder growls and lightning sends dull flashes among the clouds. A University of Missouri researcher has received a $460,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to find out when and why. Missouri scientist Patrick Market said for the past four years he's been looking into a phenomenon known as thundersnow, an apparently rare event that some researchers believe foreshadows an intense snowstorm with heavy accumulation. Part of his five-year study, which began in July, will try to determine...

Anger at Red Cross 'shop ban on Jesus'   The British Red Cross was criticised today for 'banning' Jesus from its shops for fear of offending minority faiths. The charity has told volunteers not to create nativity scenes or put up advent calendars if they have pictures of Mary and Joseph or the three wise men. Customers wanting to support the charity by buying Christmas cards with a religious message will have to settle for 'Season's Greetings'. The British Red Cross earns about £30million a year from its 392 shops. It said the policy is designed to to underline...

Thief agrees to return car for cash, but police are waiting BILLINGS, MT (AP), Nov. 11 - Police say most victims of car theft rarely see their vehicles again. But a car theft in Billings had a better outcome.  Tiffany had left her cell phone in the car. She dialed it, and the thief answered. He demanded cash for returning the car. The Johnsons notified police, and officers were on hand to scoop up the car thief.

Feisty Grandma Doesn't Back Down From Robber 'I'm Sick Of What They Do To Elderly People,' Woman Admits POSTED: 8:42 p.m. EST November 11, 2003UPDATED: 8:59 p.m. EST November 11, 2003 PHILADELPHIA -- She's feisty, she's fearless and she refuses to be a victim. An elderly Philadelphia woman described to NBC 10 News how she took the law into her own hands, and ran an intruder right out of her home. In just a few weeks, Bunny Bennaleel will be 80 years old, or in her case, 80 years young. We could easily be telling you a story about how...

Posted on Wed, Nov. 12, 2003 Northwest Worker Sentenced for IncidentAssociated Press DETROIT - A Northwest Airlines flight attendant who spiked a toddler's apple juice with an anti-anxiety drug to stop her crying was sentenced Wednesday to four months of home confinement.Daniel Cunningham, 39, of Ann Arbor, pleaded guilty in May to federal charges that included assault and distribution of a controlled substance on an aircraft.The incident was discovered by the 19-month-old girl's mother, who took the juice off the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight last August after noticing that it was bitter and foamy and had blue and white specks floating...

Soldier Might Face Court Martial For Radio Comments According to the Illinois Leader, a National Guard soldier based in Rockford, IL, who blasted President Bush on a local radio talk show Friday, may face court martial for her public comments. The husband of Sergeant Jessica Macek, who returned from leave back to Kuwait on Saturday, told WNTA Talk host Chris Bowman that his wife says she may face a court martial for comments she made Friday. IllinoisLeader.com Rockford correspondent David Hale heard Macek's comments on the Friday morning show. According to Hale, Macek said the President lied about the...

  2003 Generosity IndexNOVEMBER 5, 2003Here is the complete 2003 Generosity Index listing broken down by state and listed in order of the most generous states to the least generous states.Additionally we've color enhanced the list to show how the states voted in the 2000 Election. Red states voted for George W Bush, blue states voted for Al Gore. State Having Rank Giving Rank Ranks Relation Generosity Index Mississippi 50 6 44 1 Arkansas 47 5 42 2 South Dakota 45 8 37 3 Oklahoma 43 10 33 4 Alabama 41 9 32 5 Tennessee 35 3 32 6...

     Sept. 24 ? The return of batwing sleeves, pedal pushers and ra-ra skirts, while quintessentially 80s, are not the only high street items that are dipping into the past to help push sales.    IN A REVERSAL of the ever increasing push for the new this year’s top toys for Christmas have a distinct 80s flavor.        According to research from the British Association of Toy Retailers, favorites from almost 20 years ago are making a comeback, among them are the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles, back from the sewers of New York and riding on...

Thu Sep 25,11:02 AM ET Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) receives a framed portrait of American peace activist Rachel Corrie from her parents Cindy and Craig Corrie at Arafat's office in the West Bank town of Ramallah Thursday Sept. 25, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer on March 16, 2003, while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Hussein Hussein, HO)

Notice the pentagram in middle of the eye.Hurricane Isabel - Satanic Storm?See NASA photo here Yes I'm joking, but this is a wild pic...

<p>BOUDOIR BOMBSHELL: Michael Jackson was sensational in the sack, a new book claims ex-wife Lisa Marie told friends.</p> <p>September 14, 2003 --  Wacko Jacko's sex romps with ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley left Elvis' daughter breathless and wanting more.</p> <p>But the bizarro 45- year-old pop star never went to bed without makeup on - and beat it out of the bedroom anytime Lisa Marie would switch on the lights, according to a sensational new book on Jacko's weird world.</p>