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| NYC comptroller candidate arrested for illegal drug sales Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 04:20 PM PDT By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Manhattan madam who is running for New York City comptroller was arrested and charged with selling prescription pills for cash, the FBI said on Tuesday. In the latest twist to the city's scandal-hit campaign season, Kristin Davis, 38, allegedly sold prescription pills to a federal informant four times in four months this year, the FBI said. Davis is running for the post of comptroller - in effect the city's chief financial officer - also being sought by former Democratic New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. skydiver frees himself from locked box, lands safely Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 04:20 PM PDT By Mike Robinson CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. daredevil Anthony Martin escaped Tuesday from a locked box dropped from an airplane at 14,500 feet after freeing himself from handcuffs and picking the lock in under a minute. "I praise God it all went good," the 47-year-old an escape artist from Sheboygan, Wisconsin told reporters afterward in comments carried on the Website of Chicago television station WLS. "It's good to be here. It's good to be alive." He was reprising a stunt he did 25 years ago that his closest associates considered one of his most dangerous. ... Full Story | Top |
| Traffic ticket spurs fight over state services in Hawaiian language Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 03:24 PM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky (Reuters) - A Hawaiian-language activist unable to renew his driver's license after addressing Honolulu motor-vehicle officials in his traditional tongue is using a traffic court case to push for the hiring of more Hawaiian speakers in government posts. Daniel Anthony, 35, does not contest that he was speeding when he was pulled over on Oahu in January. ... Full Story | Top |
| Boys in Canada believed killed by snake that escaped cage: police Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 11:39 AM PDT  By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) - Two young brothers found dead in an apartment over a reptile store in New Brunswick, Canada, were believed to have been strangled by a snake that escaped its enclosure and slithered into the building's ventilation system, police said on Monday. The boys, ages 5 and 7, were sleeping over at a friend's apartment above Reptile Ocean in the city of Campbellton. Their bodies were discovered on Monday morning, said Constable Jullie Rogers-Marsh of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. ... Full Story | Top |
| First taste of test-tube burger declared 'close to meat' Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 08:44 AM PDT  By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - The world's first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan on Monday, with food tasters declaring it tasted "close to meat". Grown in-vitro from cattle stem cells at a cost of 250,000 euros ($332,000), the burger was cooked and eaten in front of television cameras to gain the greatest media coverage for the culmination of a five-year science experiment. ... Full Story | Top |
| French woman offers breast-feeding service to gay parents Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 04:31 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - A woman has posted an offer on a French website to breast-feed babies of homosexual male couples for 100 euros ($130) a day, stirring up media interest just weeks after a divisive same-sex marriage law was passed. The post, which the website said it verified as genuine and legal, reads: "I am a young mother in perfect health, a trained nurse of 29, and I am renting my breasts to milk-feed infants." The offer, addressed to male homosexual couples who can marry legally in France since May, promises up to 10 breast-feeds a day. The woman is mobile and based near Paris, it says. ... Full Story | Top |
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