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A New York man is accused of biting off his friend’s ear and spitting it out on Interstate 95 during an argument. Spotsylvania County dispatchers received calls at 8:02 a.m. Thursday from drivers on I-95 stating that a man was running in and out of traffic near the 121 mile marker and had blood running down his shoulder. Capt. Jeff Pearce of the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said deputies found the victim on the right shoulder of the southbound lane of the interstate near the 123 mile marker, just north of Thornburg. Pearce said the victim told police that he...

Thornburg Mortgage has said it is trying to raise almost $1bn (£500m) in extra capital to avert a possible bankruptcy filing. The lender, which specialises in big home loans, also plans to offer its lenders a 27% stake in the company. The measures will significantly dilute the stakes of existing shareholders and the company's shares fell 47%. Thornburg said that without the new capital it may be forced to seek bankruptcy protection. Jumbo loans In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company warned that bankruptcy would be a possibility because it would have to sell off the...

March 7, 2008 Major US homes lender near bankruptcy Tom Bawden in New York Thornburg, the American mortgage lender, was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy last night as a key creditor demanded that it liquidate assets after failing to put up $28 million (£13.9 million) in extra collateral. Thornburg’s escalating credit crisis coincided with new data showing that foreclosures on American properties hit a record in the fourth quarter of 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 12,040.4, down 214.60, and the S&P 500 index fell by 29.35 points to finish at 1,304.35 as investors were forced to...

James Carville, the man who said Zell Miller was probably drugged while delivering the RNC keynote address, deserves a little scrutiny of his own recent actions and associations.Carville and CNN stand to benefit from CBS's plummeting ratings. Carville's friends, the Clintons, stand to benefit from the defanging of any Kerry attacks on Bush's national guard service. He has connections to Burkett's lawyer, Van Os. He's got connections to Joe Lockhart.

Did Richard Thornburg advocate murder? I would not bring this up, but it goes straight to the character of the man that CBS has chosen to investigate Rathergate. I don't trust Richard Thornburg.I also know that memory is fallable. If mine is correct,video tape evidence exists that Richard Thornburg advocated murder. I remember that during the Waco crises, after the Davidians had beaten back the ATF assault, and the FBI was negotiating, Richard Thornburg was on one of the talk shows. They were talking about the standoff, and one of the comentators asked: If Koresh (Vernon Howell) was the key...