Ophelia strengthens but is expected to stop strengthening as the weekend draws near
Ophelia has strengthened more than what was expected over the last 36 hours and as of yesterday (22) morning, the storm has 65 mph maximum winds (9 mph weaker than hurricane strength). The strengthening is expected to stop as a…
UK holds 1st Olympic safety exercises since riots
LONDON (AP) — British authorities are holding their first major planning exercise for the 2012 London Olympics since riots in the capital last month forced police to reassess their security plans for the games. The government’s emergency committee, known as…
“Please, sir, I want some more?” “That boy will be hung.”
The quotes are famous and come from Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” about an orphan boy who has a miserable existence in a workhouse and then an undertaker. He escapes and joins a gang in London although he is unaware of the…
Pa. man gets 2 DUI arrests in 1 night
WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Police have charged a man in western Pennsylvania with driving drunk twice in the same night — the second time about 15 minutes after they released him into the custody of a friend. Online court records…
HELP! We need somebody RCIPS to ask Merseyside cops for aid
Police Commissioner David Baines has written to a top UK force asking for help to curb the recent spate of senseless violence that yesterday claimed its fifth life. Asher McGaw was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday morning…
Dudus begs for mercy
Confessed Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has written a letter to a New York judge asking for leniency, according to a report in the New York Times. Coke is facing a maximum 23 years behind bars following a guilty…
Fans charged after Leeds-Manchester cup clash
Police in the UK have charged 14 fans for a number of offences following the tempestuous Carling Cup tie between Leeds and Manchester United at Elland Road on Tuesday night. The match was marred by vile chanting from both sets…
The end of the world: R.E.M. split up
NEW YORK (AP) — The alternative rock group that shook up the music world with its experimental, edgy sound and then earned multiplatinum success and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced on its website that…
Man killed in East End shooting
Another man has been shot and killed – this time in East End. Police have confirmed the 21 year olds body was found around 3am on John McLean Drive. It takes the death toll to five killed in just over…
