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I've been spending a great deal of time at my main blog writing about the disappearance of Caylee Anthony and her ne'er-do-well mother Casey Anthony. So far there isn't a whole lot of ground being made in the case. I received an email from someone earlier wondering what was happening in the case and my honest opinion is that law enforcement has been pretty smart about it. If they were to arrest Casey Anthony right now and charge her for murder and she gets off, they can never try her again.
The best thing they can do right now is to hopefully convict her of the economic crimes she's been charged with and hope the body turns up soon so that the police can have DNA testing done on it. Once there's a body she's convicted for sure.
The Orange County Sheriff's department has filed new charges against Casey Anthony. There are also some other news items related to the search at http://tinyurl.com/56w8ud
The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel says U.S. universities are atop the global heap today, though competition from abroad is looming. Here's how one school -- Yale -- is gearing up.
Reuters has this report up on the 10 best social networks as rated by an anonymous expert in the field.
So which one is the best? Watch the video and judge for yourself. I belong to several different social networking sites but am not actually on them very often. I don't like chat very much, preferring email or forums where I can actually get my slow-moving brain functioning before typing out an answer to a question.
The son of philanthropist Brooke Astor was accused in an indictment Tuesday of looting his mother's $198 million estate and conspiring to have the Alzheimer's stricken socialite sign a new will leaving her fortune to him.
British oil giant BP has been fined a total of $373 million by the U.S. Government including $50 million related to the fatal Texas explosion two years ago.
A law firm in Philadelphia has filed a lawsuit against Blackwater on behalf of the families of the Iraqis killed and injured in last month's shooting in Baghdad. The lawsuit calls the incident a senseless slaying.
In a report released earlier this month Iraqi officials called the incident a premeditated murder. Blackwater gaurds U.S. diplomats and claim that a convoy they were protecting was attacked and the killings resulted from them doing their job.
Just one more lawsuit in a long line of them...
No wonder the state is so broke with politicians like this.
Since 2003 there have been more than 100 incidents at U.S. labs handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins. The Associated Press has obtained confidential reports detailing the incidents.
According to the CDC they have never put the public at risk but it's a pretty scary proposition. Who the heck wants Ebola or something worse going around? I sure as heck don't.
A jury sentenced a man to death by lethal injection Sunday for the 2003 murders of two real estate agents that he robbed, stripped naked and shot in the head in their office. Stacey Ian Humphreys was convicted last Tuesday in the slayings of Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown. The trial lasted two weeks and deliberations on the death sentence took nearly 19 hours.
