Saturday - December 20, 2008 - Winter Storm Slams Midwest and Northeast, China Says No More New York Times Online, Richmond Wins FCS Crown

The world ran out of trust in 2008 -- but there is no shortage of money because the Fed is printing like mad. It's the wrong approach, with potentially dire consequences, says James Grant in the Wall Street Journal

The benchmark US crude price sank below the $33-a-barrel level on Friday.

NYT: Bush Aids Detroit, but Hard Choices Wait for Obama

Health care reform up in air as economy sinks

Neurosurgery breakthrough tool: complex CO2/mirror laser device made for DOD now hailed as exciting tool in brain operations

A simple sneeze may be a tell-tale sign of sexual arousal for a select few, research suggests

Sleep in the limo tonight: Paris Hilton's bedroom is plundered

Nude Edmonton, Alberta woman lands in snowbank; man lands in jail

A first: Unregulated hedge funds ask for and receive access to $200 Billion in bailout money

Need a job? Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is offering cash and free dinner inducements to applicants to fill hundreds of positions. There's a catch: many jobs require highly specialized skills and a security clearance.

Maine man finds cash on the floor of a store twice this week and returns it both times to rightful owners . . . he plans on playing the lottery next

Banks Try New Ways to Handle Bonuses


University of Richmond Spiders beats University of Montana Grizzlies 24-7 in the FCS title game

NFL Scores, Schedules and Standings

Wearing a Jacksonville Jaguars warmup shirt and a huge smile, Richard Collier drove off the field in his new motorized wheelchair Thursday night as fans chanted his name amid a standing ovation.

NBA Scores, Schedules and Standings

D. Wade and the Miami Heat defense defeat the Western Conference leading L. A. Lakers 89-87. It was the lowest score for the Lakers this season


Winter storm slams into the Midwest and Northeast, power out for hundreds of thousands in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio

How do you think this will end? Pentagon decides to hire private contractor . . . to oversee private contractors

Excellent read . . . Paul Krugman: The Madoff Economy

Dysfunctional Family from Hell: Parents Drug, Shackle Daughter in Forced Marriage Bid in Bangladesh


Was it something they said? China, begins blocking access to the NY Times website

Florida becomes 3rd state in the US to imprison more than 100,000

A Missouri man who impersonated a federal drug agent, conducting raids and making arrests, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

FAA cuts back weather staff at airports all over the US, meteorologists freak out and predict deaths