The body of a two year old boy was found around 1:30p.m on January 27, 2010, north of the Goat Canyon area of southwestern San Diego County. It was spotted near Hollister Street and Monument Road in Goat Canyon by a rescue worker of Desert Angels. The body is believed to be that of the pre-schooler ...

In 2007, a Minnesota man was arrested after police found him asleep at the wheel of his car, parked in his designated spot in front of his own apartment building. According to the Star Tribune, Daryl Fleck was drunk, and he was subsequently charged with driving under the influence. Recently, the Min ...

Well it is 2010, and the legislative branch balked on the issue of the estate tax for 2010.  So, as it stands 2010 is still an estate tax-free year--for NOW.  But, there is much talk that a law may be put in place that would be retroactive back to January 1, 2010. What ...

Last week, physicist and Nobel laureate Leon Lederman, and Catholic Bishop Howard J. Hubbard published a passionately worded op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution entitled "Nuclear threat demands a sustained U.S. effort". Here's an excerpt: Our leaders must embark on a step-by-step proc ...

I’ve written a number of times about the offensive silliness of arguments for “diversifying” science education (see, for example, here, here, here, here, here, and here for starters), but never as well as Roger Clegg did yesterday in Another Bad Idea: ''Diversifying'' Science Faculties at Minding Th ...

The title of this post is the headline of , which reports on  from California dealing with an interesting issue about conditions of probation.  Here are the details: this notable article from law.com this interesting state appellate ruling In an unusually contentious ruling Monday, Califo ...

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity By Dr. James Hansen Hardcover 270 pages Bloomsbury $ 25.00 To be a top climate scientist today means being up to speed in graduate level physics, advanced mathematics, planetary astronomy ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A Crown lawyer is getting some added police protection while spearheading a drug conspiracy trial involving two high-profile criminal gangs. These are the same gangs police believe are partially behind a bullet-flying gang war earlier this year in Metro Vancouver that ...

My daughter, Isabella loves animals. So far, she has not seen a cat, dog, horse or fish she didn't like. In fact, she can spend all day playing with our neighborhood dogs and cats. So when I told her recently we will have a chance to tour the Animal Samaritans SPCA operations on Ramon Road in T ...

Apple's ridiculous iPhone app approval process has hit a new low, with rejections for “ridiculing public figures" and using Apple's own APIs to access Apple icons. These are just the latest reasons why the U.S. Copyright Office should approve EFF's effort to legalize jailbreaking of the iPhone—custo ...