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Wednesday January 19 2011 Associated Press= AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A proposed Texas state budget would cut a staggering $5 billion from public schools. The draft of the two-year budget was released late Tuesday as Gov. Rick Perry and his supporters were dancing at an inaugural celebration. The...

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms...

The Queen Mary This grand old ship is quite haunted, according to the many people who have worked on and visited the craft. Once a celebrated luxury ocean liner, when it ended its sailing days the Queen Mary was purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1967 and transformed into a...

Athens, Georgia: Demetrius Robinson, 28, wanted to rob a Golden Pantry store late one night, but he needed to pass the time as naturally as possible until he and the clerk were alone, so he decided to fill out a job application. Not a bad idea, except he left his real name on the...

Independent The Arctic is to become the "new environmental battleground", campaigners warned yesterday after BP announced plans to drill in one of the last great unspoilt wildernesses on earth. Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have vowed to confront BP's...

BBC News Jan 18 Technology that links vehicles into "road trains" that can travel as a semi-autonomous convoy has undergone its first real world tests. The trials held on Volvo's test track in Sweden slaved a single car to a lorry to test the platooning system. Trains of cars under the...

BBC Researchers in Australia have discovered a secret weakness of one of the ocean's most impressive predators. Sharks, it seems, are completely colour blind. The scientists, who examined retinas of 17 different species of shark, discovered that the creatures had only one type of...

– Tue Jan 18, 12:14 pm ET LONDON (Reuters) – Sherlock Holmes is to be brought back to life in the first new novel about the great Baker Street detective to be officially approved. Anthony Horowitz, author of stories about teenage spy Alex Rider, has been chosen by Arthur Conan Doyle's...

– Tue Jan 18, 2:01 pm ET ATHENS (Reuters) – A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage on the weekend told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was detained at Athens airport on Sunday...

By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press – Tue Jan 18, 11:20 am ET WASHINGTON – Missing a plane connection cost Utah gun owner Greg Revell 10 days in jail after he was stranded in New Jersey with an unloaded firearm he had legally checked with his luggage in Salt Lake City. Nevertheless...

AP Tuesday Jan 18 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will decide whether to allow California to reduce its Medicaid payments to help close its massive budget gap. The high court on Tuesday decided to hear an appeal from state officials. Lower courts stopped California from enacting a 10...

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, AP Legal Affairs Writer – 1 hr 44 mins ago COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio Supreme Court justice who helped write the state's death penalty law three decades ago is calling for an end to capital punishment in the state. Justice Paul Pfeifer was one of the leading...

AP Jan 18 A letter to Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops has been revealed by the broadcaster RTE that contradicts the Vatican's frequent claim it has never instructed clergy to withhold evidence or suspicion of child abuse from police. The 1997 letter documents rejection of a 1996 Irish...

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Independent Jan 17 Ancient weather records, including details gleaned from monks' diaries, are helping scientists work out how and why climates have changed over the past 500 years. Researchers found the historic data, from the likes of weather station archives and harvest records...

AOL Waterproof Notepad Helps You Record Ideas in the Shower (E.L.) or ......something else to do instead of changing the shower head :D Some people do their best scrubbing in the shower; others do their best thinking. Just ask Mark Knudsen, a Michigan-based, self-professed "shower...

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Shorty to Cleveland OH yesterday - waiting for that load to take us South so we can go home for a little break - been out since November :D

Telegraph Jan 17 A cat has been summoned to do jury service, even after his owners told the court he was "unable to speak and understand English". Anna Esposito, wrote to Suffolk Court in Boston, US, to explain that a mistake had been made, but a jury commissioner replied saying the...