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Over the last few days I've been getting these awful Vonage spyware pop ups on my home computer. They randomly popped up no matter what site I was looking at. I managed to develop a theory that it was Hugh Hewitt's site that gave it to me based on my web traffic...and so today, while I was at work (and on a different computer), I visited Hugh's site and bam! Vonage! If someone has an alternative explanation, I'm willing to listen but it seems to me to be Hugh related. Dammit, and I was just beginning to love his radio...

A Wisconsin man is warning others about the dangers of binge drinking after he jumped over the edge of a parking garage wall and fell four stories to the pavement below. Matt Mathe survived the fall, which was caught on surveillance video. The video shows him running full speed and flipping over the wall. For a split second, he tries to catch himself, but by then it is too late. Mathe said he was so drunk that he thought he was on the first floor and could simply hop over the wall onto the street. "It was a mistake," he...

A Minnesota homeowner charges VoIP provider Vonage put him on hold when he called 911 to report his house was on fire. The home was a total loss. Loren Velthamp of Chanhassen, Minnesota, said he grabbed the phone and called 911 when he realized a fire has started in his home. "I called 911 using Vonage broadband and they put us on hold," Velthamp told KSTP-TV in Minneapolis. “Unbelievable… your house is burning down, and you're put on hold by Vonage.” Fire department officials say that by the time fire crews arrived on the scene, the fire had become a...