| Deputy Shoots Man With Taser Gun for Allegedly Riding Without Proper ...
A Glenn County sheriff's deputy shot a man with a Taser gun for allegedly riding his bike at night without proper lighting. According to a sheriff's spokesman, the bicyclist ignored warnings from the deputy he would use the stun gun, then fled on foot. .
2008 high school soccer season preview
Smunk's height is a huge advantage on corner kicks as his flying header attempts are quickly becoming legendary at Beaufort. "He just has a knack," Greenlee said. Mozzo's calm under pressure was a big key to his success last season. In Beaufort's two shootout wins in region play last year, Mozzo didn't allow a single goal. With Beaufort's defense taking a hit because of graduation, Mozzo will be asked to do a little more this season "We had a tremendous defense last year (and) lost a lot of those guys to graduation," Greenlee said. "Most importantly, Erik is there. His leadership is back." Returning starters Matt Stewart, Nash Brace and Ashby West will provide support for Smunk, Jaramillo and Mozzo. The versatile Stewart could be used on defense or play more of an offensive position.
DAVID LEASK and DOUGLAS FRASER
Our research scotches five key myths, concluding that Scotland does well in some ways, but does not get special treatment within the UK. Scotland, with pockets of deprivation, one-third of the UK's land-mass and far-flung communities, does indeed receive substantial state spending, but its average of £9631 public money per head is still less than London's at £9748 or Northern Ireland's £10,271. Latest estimates show the tax take from Scotland - buoyed by the financial success of companies such as Royal Bank of Scotland - is higher than anywhere outside London. Arguments rage over North Sea oil and gas, but there is no doubt revenue from the natural resources found in waters off Scotland is being used fill the coffers of the UK exchequer. While cities such as Glasgow have high levels of incapacity benefit, the overall welfare bill at £3086 per head is actually lower in Scotland than in swaths of northern England.
Iraq: The trauma and the mistakes
They had clearly fled before the Americans got in and left behind anything that would identify them as soldiers. It was March 2003, a few days into the invasion. I was in the small southern city of Nasiriya, travelling with the US Marines as an embedded reporter. They had expected little resistance here. Instead, they found themselves in the midst of heavy fighting against Iraqis employing mainly guerrilla or insurgent-style tactics. The marines were coming under fire from people in civilian clothes, who melted into the backstreets. As well as the hospital, Iraqi fighters were using schools and other civilian buildings as cover - tactics that have since become very familiar. Faced with the overwhelming firepower of the Americans, guerrilla tactics, trying to merge in with the local population, seemed a logical response by the Iraqis who wanted to fight the invaders.
Robber shoots Bojangles' cook 4 times
When two men in ski masks tried to rob him at the trash bin behind the Bojangles' on Monday night, Charles Hamilton thought it was a joke. He didn't even have a dollar in his pockets. Hamilton, 39, a cook at the fast-food restaurant on Ashley Phosphate Road, was recovering from surgery Tuesday at Medical University Hospital. He was shot four times in the failed robbery attempt and is expected to survive, though he lost a kidney and part of his liver, his family said. The North Charleston High School graduate who never married or had children was sedated Tuesday evening and unable to speak. But he told his family the story earlier in the day. Hamilton took out the trash just before closing time and was met near the trash bin by two men wearing camouflage jackets and black ski masks.
Fitting the female form:Do new prosthetic knees for women really make ...
Dr. Thomas Hoerner, wearing a surgical mask and gown, slipped a metal prosthetic piece over the end of his female patient's thigh bone during a knee-replacement procedure last month. It fit nicely. "A woman's femur tends to be narrower," he said, pointing out how this new implant, made specifically for women, fits the bone without sticking out at the edges. A traditional implant, used in men and women, would have been slightly wider for the same length, he said, maybe even a little wider than her bone. Doctors have known for years that women's knees are different from men's. Women's knees are narrower, they attach at a slightly different angle, and they are more prone to injury. Now the business world is catching on. As scientists learn more about the biomechanics of women's bodies, companies are using the information to market everything from women's mountain bikes to women's knee braces.
Xbox is crack for kids
I soon stamped on this heresy, of course, since children doing vaguely energetic, imaginative things must be celebrated, at whatever cost to the nerves. These days the mother who parks her kids before the Dave channel in order to work is no better than the one who shoves chips through the school railings to her children or feeds the family dog two-quid unhappy chicken just to hack off Jamie Oliver. A study this week by Childwise, a market research company, claims that four in five children have televisions in their bedrooms: that means 80 per cent of Britain is now officially common. It's a class thing, children and TV: there is kudos in abstention, a snobbery in not living in one of those frightful working-class homes where the telly blares away in the background.
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