July 31, 2010 – U.S. military death tolls in Afghanistan are on the rise this summer. July has seen sixty-six American casualties. This has surpassed the previous record high set last month..
Right now there are approximately 95,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. By the end of the next month the total is anticipated [...]
July 22, 2010 – According to the Springfield News-Leader, three women enjoyed their breakfast and then fled from a local diner on Sunday without paying for their meal. However, they left in their wake two purses that contained their identification.
The general manager said that he thought that the women who skipped without paying their [...]
July 21, 2010 – Here’s the skinny on what’s happening on the streets of New York. Robert Burck has invested more than ten years of his life building his brand as New York’s Naked Cowboy.
He’s been wearing only a cowboy hat and briefs as he’s stood on corners strumming his guitar and singing for [...]
July 21, 2010 – A severe lightning and thunderstorm hit Grand Teton National Park around midday on Wednesday leaving 3 different climbing parties with injuries.
All three parties were within 570 feet of the summit of the 13.770 foot high Grand Teton mountain. Helicopters had to come in to rescue 16 injured climbers. [...]
July 13, 2010 – BP announced on Monday that they successfully attached a new cap to the Deep Water Horizon well that has been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20.
On Tuesday they are going to start a 6- to 48-hour test which will close the cap and effectively shut the well. [...]
July 12, 2010 – On Thursday researchers doubled their estimates on the amount of oil that has spewing into the Gulf of Mexico after BP’s oil rig exploded in April.
They now say that 1.7 million gallons per day – more than forty thousand barrels – have been gushing into the Gulf for weeks.
On Friday Gulf [...]
July 11, 2010 – In the 116th minute of an exhausting game, well into overtime, Spain’s Andres Iniesta broke free in the penalty area, took a pass from Cesc Fabregas, stayed on the right, put his right foot to the ball from 8 yards out, and kicked it just past Netherlands goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg’s outstretched [...]
July 9, 2010 – It looks like Colton Harris-Moore, the so called “Barefoot Bandit”, has eluded Bahamian police and has absconded from Great Abaco Island.
Harris-Moore is a fugitive U.S. nineteen year-old who allegedly stole a light plane almost a week ago and crash landed it in the waters off Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. [...]
July 8, 2010 – On Thursday Hawaii’s favorite golfer, Michelle Wie, played herself out of contention in the first round of the U.S. Women’s Open at the Oakmont Country Club.
The No. 10- ranked golfer in the world shot an 11-over 82.
Not too long ago Wie was supposed to be the next big thin in golf. [...]
July 8, 2010 – On Wednesday a BP executive told NBC and The Wall Street Journal that under the most favorable conditions the well that has been spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April could be killed as early as July 27.
Hearing the projection of an earlier kill date, a senior Obama administration [...]
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