A body found in a Georgia landfill is that of missing 7-year-old Somer Thompson. Sheriff Rick Beseler said that the identification was based on clothing on the body and a birthmark that matched an "odd-shaped" mark on Somer Thompson's left shin. Investigators followed garbage trucks from the neighborhood where Somer disappeared on Monday to a landfill in Georgia where they discovered the body after searching through 100 tons of garbage.
NASA's "comeback kid" has done it again.
After astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis made a risky servicing mission in May, the Hubble Space Telescope is back and better than ever, once again capturing astonishing images of the cosmos and sending them back to Earth
read moreDominick Dunne, a best-selling author and special correspondent for Vanity Fair, died today at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. The cause of death was bladder cancer, said his son Griffin Dunne.
Dunnewho joined Vanity Fair in 1984 as a contributing editor and was named special correspondent in 1993famously covered the trials of O. J. Simpson, the Menendez brothers, Michael Skakel, William Kennedy Smith, and Phil Spector, as well as the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. He wrote memorable profiles on numerous personalities, among them Imelda Marcos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Blow, Adnan Khashoggi, and Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. His monthly column provided a glimpse inside high society, and captivated readers.
"Make sure you get plenty of sleep before going to court. Clifton Williams didn't and he's been sentenced to six months in jail for yawning. "I was flabbergasted because I didn't realize a judge could do that," [said] Williams' father, Clifton Williams Sr.,"... "It seems to me like a yawn is an involuntary action." Williams, 33, attended his cousin's July hearing at Will County Courthouse in Joliet. His cousin, Jason Mayfield, pled guilty to a felony drug charge. As the judge sentenced Mayfield to two years probation, Williams let out a yawn, an involuntary faux pas in such a formal setting. Circuit Judge Daniel Rozak thought the yawn was criminal and sentenced Williams to six months in jail, the maximum penalty for contempt of court without a jury trial."
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I nearly banned myself once. I needed a little "me" time.
#175 | Posted by rcade at 2009-11-07 10:51 PM
For awhile I kinda hoped I'd get banned for two weeks so I'd get some things done I'd been putting off and wouldn't be tempted to spend time any time on DR.
Guess I needed to be meaner? I'm in the company of such pros on here when it comes to zingers and throwing out "will get you banned" remarks that anything I say still just makes me sound like a wuss.
I'll practice harder. : )