A1A News: Sunday - December 14, 2008 - Where the Jobs Are, !REVO OVEM, the 2008 Speedo Santa Run, KB Toys Goes Bankrupt, Weight Loss Camp in China, Klitschko!

Elam field goal gives Atlanta Falcons(9-5) 13-10 win in OT over Tampa Bay Buccaneers(9-5)
Jaguars(5-9) eliminate Packers(5-9) from playoffs, 20-16
Surging Houston Texans(7-7) win fourth straight, squeaking by Tennessee Titans(12-2) 13-12
Miami Dolphins coaching staff moves paying off
Dolphins(9-5) beat 49ers(5-9) 14-9 with their defense not allowing a TD for third week in a row
Jets(9-5) get last minute reprieve and skate by Bills(6-8) 31-27 after Buffalo's quarterback, Ellis, fumbles and Jets run it into end zone for TD

More NFL

Did magnetic blip cause mass extinction?

Gem of a 13 year old Brit girl win's a prize from a radio station and in a selfless move, gives the gift to her best friend on her birthday. Read the story, it will make you smile.

Happy dog and owner reunited after much guilt, searching, and hope

Recently laid off Vancouver, B.C. man goes univited to his ex-employer's Chrismas party and shoots dead the CEO who fired him

In Russia, Nationalist group sends photo of foreign immigrant they decapitated as a grisly message to two groups which track hate crimes

One American Wakes Up $207 Million Richer Today

In the face of deflation, Peter Schiff still thinks hyper-inflation will be the end result

Do you need a job? The U.S. Economy's Best Bet: The Intangible Sector

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) serves with his Air Force Reserve unit in Afghanistan

A Quick Must See and Read: Business Week's 31 photo slideshow of "Vanishing Jobs - The Recession Slams the Workforce"

A fascinating murder story: Invitation To A Murder - A Husband Becomes A Hero For Trying To Stop His Wife’s Murder. But Then The Twisted Plot Unravels. (Video from 48 Hours also)

British child molester murdered and mutilated (“Damage was caused to his genitals.”)

China to post a negative 1% (-1%) GDP for this current fourth quarter?

Left lane slowpokes drive you crazy? !REVO OVEM

Jim Jubak gives us 3 ways to fix the ratings agencies: Standard & Poors, Fitch and Moody's, listen up, you either change the way you do business or we put you out of business

One for the ladies . . . and guys: 35 photos of the Santa Speedo Run 2008 up in freezing cold Boston

If you want to run in next year's Santa Speedo Run, here's the info: http://www.santaspeedorun.com/details.php

Disgraced Illinois governor weighs legal options

A vignette of "Here's what it's going to be like if the Automakers are not bailed out"

GOING OUT OF BUSINESS: Say good-bye to KB Toys

Hear, Hear: Slate says "It's really time you started watching Dexter"

"Green" companies hit Hard Times

Slingin' Sammy Bradford, Oklahoma QB, wins the Heisman Trophy Award for 2008

While the Dallas Cowboys were trying to downplay a possible rift between Terrell Owens and Jason Witten, the two nearly came to blows on Friday

Miss Russia, Kseniya Sukhinova, 20, from Nizhnevartovsk, wins Ms. World title

Sadaam Hussein's palace is a hot ticket in the old town of Bagdhad for Iranian tourists

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog takes us into Guantanamo Bay's "Camp Justice"

Mexico Kidnapping Death Stokes Outrage

U.S. proposes a UN force to take on Pirates and Islamist militants in Somalia

NYT spotlight: An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq shows one blunder after another, poor planning, and little or no follow up

Since Friday in Afghanistan: 3 Afghan policmen, 3 Canadian troops and 4 British troops have died from in IEDs

Found: 2,000 year old preserved brain

Layoffs: Alcatel-Lucent plans 1,000 job cuts

Uplifting story: Alonzo Bland from Green Bay, Wisconsin, arrived in Beijing wieght-loss camp weighing 640 pounds . . . the largest client they ever took in. So far he has lost nearly 240 pounds -- a result of diet, exercise and traditional Chinese medicine such as acupuncture, which doctors say reduces appetite and increases metabolism.

Read this now, don't put this off: Why we procrastinate and what we can do to follow through

Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had contact with corrupt Illinois Governor Blagojevich about possible Senate seat candidates

Arsonist(s) sets fire to Sarah Palin's church, doing $1 million in damage. Palin "apologizes" for undeserved negative attention she may have brought the church during her campaign.

How a Gift Allegedly Triggered the Murders of Members of Jennifer Hudson's Family

Canada will supplement any aid the US Government extends to battered Big 3. Thank you to our best allies up in the Great White North!