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Authorities have found the body of a San Francisco Bay man who they believe was killed by his co-worker after a fight last week, according to police. Investigators searching the area of Jameson Creek Road in Santa Cruz County found the body of Kyle Myrick, 28, around 4 p.m. Thursday. A medical examiner from the coroner's office confirmed Myrick's identity and family members announced the news at a vigil that evening. Myrick vanished Friday, Jan. 22. His co-worker at GP Sports in San Jose, 39-year-old Steve Hlebo, of Los Altos, was charged Wednesday with Myrick’s murder. According to a police...

'A SPINELESS retard with the character of pond scum." A "whacko," "greedy un-American idiot," "fascist," "whining liberal" and "nasty little gun grabber." Those are just some of the names I've been called since I published an Op-Ed article in the Washington Post to commemorate the fifth anniversary of my brother's death. After briefly stating that David and his fiancee were shot and killed by the fiancee's mother, who was angry that she had to move out of their L.A. apartment, I went on to argue for a national ban on handguns. The gun control lobby, led by the Brady Campaign,...

DNS seems hosed all over. Looks like a router went down close to the DNS root for .com. Traceroute is showing 100% loss at router Defender-1, and I am seeing lots of problems. http://www.networksolutions.com

when i hit enter to post at fr there's a delay of 5-10 seconds. i look down at the lower left hand and it says: connecting to free republic... transferring data from tinypic.com... transferring data from johntrapp.com... transferring data fromphotobucket.com... transferring data from homepage.mac.com... none of those are my doings. i have 6-month-old compaq, 64, running windows xp. i have zone alarm which routinely notifies me of children coming and going into and out of the house. i have ad-ware and use it weekly. i have spybot and use it weekly. they've eliminated a lot of stuff. do i have...