| Busy air traffic controllers keep eyes on skies
It happened too quickly to stop but slowly enough for onlookers to watch. Two Cessna planes collided in mid-flight while approaching Corona (Calif.) Municipal Airport on Jan. 20 as dozens of observers watched helplessly. Within a matter of seconds, five people were dead, including one on the ground. It’s a terrifying thought — your plane crashing into another in mid-flight — but last month’s mid-air collision in Corona makes clear the real possibilities of such accidents occuring. In fact, there has been an average of 30 mid-air collisions each year in the U.S. since 1978, resulting in an average of 75 deaths per year, according to Defense Safety Oversight Council’s Web site, www.seeandavoid.org. According to the site, there are more than 450 near mid-air collisions reported each year.
Valley public radio station leaders threaten to cut services
Home values advanced on a curve never before seen. This led to market speculation which caused demand to go up much higher than should have. Another factor was the subprime mortgages being sold as securities. Some subprime borrowers should have never qualified for loans. Easy mortgages also caused home values to rise because of higher demand. Rising home values led to home equity loans which led to excessive spending. Now comes the bill for all the partying. Everybody is talking recession, we will be lucky to avoid an all out depression. Home values are starting to fall with no end in sight. People will not start buying until home values hit bottom. This will cause buyers to have the attitude, I will wait until the price comes down more. I have already heard this line and heard it from more than one person.
Two Oxygenation Events In Ancient Oceans Sparked Spread Of Complex ...
ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2008) The rise of oxygen and the oxidation of deep oceans between 635 and 551 million years ago may have had an impact on the increase and spread of the earliest complex life, including animals, according to a new study. .
Obama, Clinton divide blacks
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. - When Hillary Rodham Clinton started running for president, Wanjulia Ezekiel was thrilled.
"I was looking forward to the advancement of a female," she said.
But Sen. Barack Obama is getting her vote in this week's Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina.
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Boxer Floyd Mayweather Busts Big Show's Nose In WWE No Way Out
WBC Welterweight Champion "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather Jr. participated in an in-ring situation at the WWE NO WAY OUT pay per view in Las Vegas last night, and broke returning giant Big Show's nose in what is will be the most replayed piece of videotape going in to WWE's biggest pay per view of the year -- Wrestlemania XXIV on Sunday, March 30 from The Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. Recent news has Mayweather in a video clip tossing cash at a WWE press conference, taunting them with chants of "I'm the Money Man."
According to www.wrestlingnewsdesk.com, Big Show, real name Paul Wight, has been ironically training to be a boxer since leaving World Wrestling Entertainment in December 2006. The 7-foot tall giant from Aiken, South Carolina was going to be part of a Miami-based promotion owned in part by Hulk Hogan.
For the Enterprise/PATRICIA SADDLER (click to enlarge)
Mill Creek Police Officer Jason Didricksen, right, assists in the arrest of a woman with a felony warrant for fraud, Saturday, Jan. 13, near her home in Mill Creek. Area police agencies were having trouble finding qualified officer candidates to fill open positions this year. .
Advertising.com co-founder Scott Ferber's latest venture lands $15M in ...
Advertising.com co-founder's new venture lands $15M in funding [Washington, D.C.] Time Warner to split up AOL division [Baltimore] Advertising.com strengthens retail reach with AOL purchase of U.K. e-marketer buy.at [Baltimore] Google, Yahoo and Ask.com Internet search market share up in January [East Bay] AOL launches Spanish-language site [Baltimore] .
Rock: no new bidders
It is just a festering mass of UK sub-prime. The banking community has realised this. Branson is just enjoying posing as the white knight trying to rescue a British business. He's probably trying to work out what sort of bid he can make which he can be sure Brown WONT accept. .
Chat with former Ga. Tech RB Tashard Choice
He began his career at Oklahoma, playing one season as the backup to Adrian Peterson. According to Choice's Scouts Inc.'s draft profile, Choice "projects as a solid backup in the NFL and should come off the board in the mid-round range of the 2008 draft." Send in your questions now, then join Choice on Monday at 2:30 p.m. ET! MORE
Check what other draft prospects have said in chat!
Go to ESPN.com's 2008 NFL Draft index Buzzmaster: (1:56 PM ET ) We've got Tashard! Mark H. (Bowling Green, OH): What current NFL running back to you compare your game to? Tashard Choice: (1:57 PM ET ) I really think Brian Westbrook from the Eagles. He's really shifty. He cuts back. That's how I see myself running. Techfan: Atlanta, GA: Hey deuce have you talked to Calvin at all about the draft and the combine? Tashard Choice: (1:57 PM ET ) I'm actually living with Calvin.
Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition)
"From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes a thrilling battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. When their epic struggle comes to Earth, all that stands between the evil Decepticons and ultimate power is a clue held by Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf)." "Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition)" is rated PG-13. The Movie: I've been a fan of Transformers as long as they've been around. I bought the original G1 toys. I read all the Marvel Comics. I watched the cartoons. I saw the animated movie. I bought the soundtrack. I have "The Touch." So it was with a mixture of eager anticipation and dread that I awaited the live action "Transformers" movie. I was glad to hear that Steven Spielberg was involved, but I was a bit worried about Michael Bay's storytelling abilities.
Blue-eyed son set to farewell SCG
There are times when you think, 'Gee, we could have done with him at NSW', but your brief in cricket administration is to give players the best chance to represent Australia." Gilchrist was in the Australian one-day side within three years of going to Perth. Back in Sydney, he would have spent most of that time playing second fiddle to Emery, whose Test came in 1994. Bernard is now Australian manager and will be with Gilchrist in the SCG dressing room today. "It's been a privilege to see him [become] the kind of player and man he is now. There are some very good qualities there." Gilchrist's first NSW match was forgettable. While McGrath stormed onto the first-class scene with 5-79 off 30 overs, and an 18-year-old Ponting cracked 125, Gilchrist batted at No.7 and made 16 before being trapped lbw by Tasmanian Shaun Young.
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