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A Sacramento Superior Court jury today awarded the survivors of Jennifer Lea Strange $16,577,118 as a result of her death nearly three years ago in a water-drinking contest conducted by a local radio station. In making the award, the seven-man, five-woman panel voted unanimously to find that Entercom Sacramento LLC, the local subsidiary of Entercom Communications Corp. of Philadelphia was negligent in putting on the contest that ultimately resulted in Strange's death.......Strange, 28, died Jan. 12, 2007, after participating in what KDND "The End" 107.9 promoted as its "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest that promised the popular Nintendo...

<p>A Sacramento County jury has awarded $16.5 million to the family of a 28-year-old woman who died after participating in a radio station's water-drinking contest.</p> <p>Jennifer Strange, a mother of three, died of acute water intoxication in January 2007 after the challenge to see which contestant could drink the most water without using the restroom. A Nintendo Wii video game was the prize for winning the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest.</p>

Overall Winner "The Storybook Wolf" This nighttime shot of a wolf leaping into a farm in northern Spain has been named overall winner of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 competition. The picture, by Spanish photographer Josi Luis Rodrmguez, was selected from more than 43,000 entries. Iberian wolves--a subspecies of the gray wolf--are extremely wary of humans after centuries of persecution. Rodrmguez captured the photograph using motion sensors and an infrared barrier to operate the camera. "This wolf jumping over the farmer's enclosure with the supposed intent of killing his livestock speaks for itself--thousands of years of...

When Dylan Lynch captures a winning shot, it usually involves a hockey game, not a yawning cat. But it was the photo of his tired, three-year-old tabby, Ben, that won him top spot in our Kitty City photo contest. Lynch, a photographer and editor for the Edmonton Oilers and Oil Kings, likes to try out his new equipment on his three feline roommates. “I don’t always have a hockey game going on at my house, so I’ve got to test them on something,” he jokes.

Women's rights groups have slammed a Miss Homeless contest in Belgium that ended when a 58-year-old woman won the first prize of a rent free flat for a year. Miss Homeless finalists /Europics Therese Van Belle, 58, beat nine other finalists in the contest who will now all go back on the streets. Organiser Aline Duportail said the competition was meant to draw attention to the plight of the homeless. But woman's rights activist Jacqueline Aubenas said: "I am outraged. These girls that turned into puppets parodying their own life is an absolute pathetic." The contest was judged over...

Announcing a new contest to come up with 10 verses for our own Obama Song, not to be sung by children, but to be clean enough for children. The verses can be serious or funny, but they should reference Obama, his Administration, Policies or Actions. Suggested topics: Health Care, Gun Control, Czars, Background, Foreign Policy, Spending, ACORN... This is the format for the verses: Barack Hussein Obama (your verse) Hmm Hmm Hmm Go here to enter: http://barackhusseinobamahmmhmmhmm.blogspot.com/ Spread it around and join in, let’s keep up the dialog.

A boy with no official nationality who lives in Thailand captured third place in a Japanese paper aeroplane contest on Sunday after his tearful pleas to be allowed to attend prompted authorities to grant him a rare temporary passport for the event. Mong Thongdee prepares to let fly during the individual indoor flight competition Mong Thongdee, 12, won a national paper aeroplane championship in Thailand in August 2008 after he threw a plane that flew for 12 seconds, and was later chosen to attend the Japanese contest in Chiba, near Tokyo. But Mong, who lives in Chiang Mai in northern...

Video game developer John Carmack, better known for his work on Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein, has qualified for a million dollar prize from NASA. America's space agency challenged the nation's brightest minds to come up with a design contest known as the Lunar Lander Challenge. Carmack's team, known as Armadillo Aerospace, won $350,000 after taking first prize last year in NASA's Level 1 competition. Now they are aiming for Level 2 and the million dollar prize. As MSNBC.com describes it: "The alcohol-fueled, pressure-tank-equipped rocket has to hang in the air for a minimum of 3 minutes during each leg of...

A new contest at ConservativeHQ.com asks visitors for their ideas for slogans to go along with this Obamacare poster. The winner of the contest will receive a copy of the poster with their slogan, signed by ConservativeHQ.com Chairman and conservative fundraising legend Richard A. Viguerie. To enter the contest, simply visit http://www.conservativehq.com/contest.

CONTEST: Obamacare, "Win one for Teddy; KILL Grandma and Grandpa NOW!" Lets take this issue away from the left, run with it and turn this back on them by using this slogan against them. FR is full of talented graphics designers. I propose a CONTEST for creative people here on FR need to create some HIGH RESOLUTION graphic posters and bumper stickers with the above slogan done with nifty graphics like our "Sore Loserman" campaign with the following slogan: Obamacare, "Win one for Teddy; KILL Grandma and Grandpa NOW!" Please submit your entries on this tread so that freepers can...

Today, as the Administration holds a day-long summit on H1N1, we're excited to announce that HHS is launching a new PSA campaign contest to encourage more Americans to get involved in the nation's flu preparedness efforts by making a 15, 30 or 60 second video Public Service Announcement (PSA). The goal of the contest is to tap into the nation's creativity to help educate Americans about how to plan for and prevent the spread of the flu and the H1N1 virus.   The videos can be funny, cute, dramatic, but most of all, they should help make a positive impact....

HELSINKI (AFP) — Finland put an end to Estonia's 11-year reign and took gold and bronze on Saturday at the annual Wife-Carrying World Championships held in Sonkajaervi, central Finland, organisers said. Taisto Miettinen raced through a 250-metre (273-yard) course with two hurdles and a pool in 62 seconds, carrying Kristiina Haapanen on his back. The winners beat Estonia's Alar Voogla and Kristi Viltrop by 0.1 seconds. Miettinen has been attending the competition for a decade now and said he was pleased to finally win. "A couple of times I have lost by 0.1 seconds and I have stumbled. Our win...

WASHINGTON, June 17, 2009 – As it gears up for its 7th Annual Children’s Freedom Art Contest, a North Carolina-based troop-support group is looking for patriotic drawings or paintings that signify the unyielding spirit of America after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “We initially started as a group that put up exhibits of patriotic photos sent to us,” said Eileen A. Schwartz, founder of Flags Across the Nation. “About a year after the 9/11 attacks, we decided to launch a Freedom Art Contest for children. Throughout the year, we still do art-related exhibits and activities honoring our flag...

WORLD WIDE CELEBRATIONOF THE HALYARD MISSION HEROES!THE FORGOTTEN 500 BOOK REPORT CONTEST!Apart from the generous financial rewards kindly donated by various individuals as the prizes for the top three best book reports, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and the “Runner Up” reports that finish in the “Top Five” will be posted on my three websites on the internet dedicated to recognizing and celebrating Serbian heroes, among them General Draza Mihailovich, who was ultimately responsible for the success of the Halyard Mission Rescue Operation and the saving of the American airmen whose story shines in The Forgotten 500. The top five...

in the spirit of the Original Obama teleprompter photoshop thread, I would like to start a new contest, Original Teleprompter Photoshop threadFor this contest please photoshop Air Force One into your favorite pics to create the perfect Obama Air Force One Photo Op below is my entry

WASHINGTON, April 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- The deadline for enrolling in the 2009 National Bible Bee Competition is April 30, 2009. The Bible Bee Headquarters is urging families interested in participating in the National Bible Bee to contact the nearest Local Bible Bee and sign up now! To locate a Bible Bee in your community, you can visit the National Bible Bee website at www.biblebee.org and click the U.S. Google Map. Simply zoom in and click one of the green markers in your area for contact information! The Shelby Kennedy Foundation is excited to introduce this first-of-its-kind annual National Bible...

I think we need to have a contest and design our next automobile.If GM is now Government Motors, and we the people are the employers of the governmant, we should have some input on how to design a car.

A popular Detroit radio station has held a unique Valentine’s Day contest: a free divorce to the most deserving dysfunctional couple. On at least one previous occasion the local Detroit news media publicized an objectionable radio stunt that was subsequently stopped due to public outrage. In this case, however, the news media is AWOL. Every year the media covers the Hallmark holiday we call Valentine’s Day with shallow, mushy stories about marriage proposals, make-your-own-valentine treats and the area’s most romantic restaurants. But this year, when 95.5 WKQI, a highly rated station in the market, had a very different, more cynical...

This sounds like fun! Write a letter to President Obama and post it on the RegularFolksUnited.com website and the two letter writers with the greatest number of "thumbs" over 100 will win the prizes! (Winning submissions must have more than 100 thumbs).

The short story of how I won a $140 messenger bag from the "Why Buy Made In USA" blog, followed by me encouraging people to enter their weekly contest and win some cool stuff too.