The man awaiting trial for a bloody escape at the Atlanta courthouse in 2005 is suspected of enlisting his pen-pal girlfriend, a paralegal and at least two sheriff’s deputies in a scheme to break out again, according to law enforcement documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Brian Nichols allegedly plotted to cut his way through the [...]
The man awaiting trial for a bloody escape at the Atlanta courthouse in 2005 is suspected of enlisting his pen-pal girlfriend, a paralegal and at least two sheriff’s deputies in a scheme to break out again, according to law enforcement documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Brian Nichols allegedly plotted to cut his way through the [...]
The man awaiting trial for a bloody escape at the Atlanta courthouse in 2005 is suspected of enlisting his pen-pal girlfriend, a paralegal and at least two sheriff’s deputies in a scheme to break out again, according to law enforcement documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Brian Nichols allegedly plotted to cut his way through the [...]
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Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come.
An Associated Press analysis of financial data from the country’s largest card issuers also found that the greatest rise was among [...]
Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come.
An Associated Press analysis of financial data from the country’s largest card issuers also found that the greatest rise was among accounts more than [...]
Lighting the Menorah this year might save the planet. The Associated and its agencies are urging Jews to replace one halogen, incandescent light with one compact fluorescent light every night of Chanukah, which lasts for eight days beginning Tuesday at sundown.
This project is a part of a national campaign to counter climate change, launched in [...]
Identity theft struck more than 27.3 million Americans between April 1998 and April 2003, reports Timothy L. O’Brien, with more than a third being victimized in the last year alone. In that one-year period, businesses and banks lost $48 billion while individuals had to personally pay $5 billion in order to straighten out their [...]
Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Washington University Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, combined the wireless sensors with special controls called magnetorheological dampers to limit damage from a simulated earthquake load.
Her demonstration is the first step toward implementing wireless sensors for structural control [...]
A study of flesh flies and a handful of other insects suggests that they have an arsenal of protective heat-shock proteins that are turned on almost as soon as the temperature dips. Until this new study, researchers knew of only two such proteins that were activated in flesh flies during cooler weather.
%26ldquo;Insects need heat-shock proteins [...]
Even more shocking was the finding that 38 percent of controlled asthmatics and 54 percent of uncontrolled asthmatics reported having had an asthma attack during which they feared for their life, said Stephen P. Peters, M.D., Ph.D., lead author and a professor of pediatrics, internal medicine-pulmonary and associate director of the Center for Human Genomics [...]