Danville, VA - We have an update on that suspicious briefcase found at the gas station in Danville. The bomb squad did blow it up and turns out it was just someone's old paint kit. The area is back open and traffic is moving.
Around 7:30 Thursday morning someone dropped the briefcase off at the Pilot Gas Station on the corner of Route 58 and River Park Drive, that's near the Institute for Advanced Learning.
Police blocked off and evacuated the area. The bomb squad was on the scene to assess the situation and actually blow up the briefcase.
A German factory worker stole over a million screws from his employer and skewed the market with his cheap stolen goods, police said yesterday. "In the end, it became obvious that screws were being sold for much less than they usually cost," said a spokesman for police in the southern city of Wuerzburg.
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It is probably a serious offense in Germany to evade the "Schraubemehrwertsteuer", or screw value added tax. All legal screws would receive not only a serial number, but the proper paperwork for the "Schraubeumsatzsteueridentifikationsnummer", in triplicate.
An anonymous telephone bidder has paid a £29,400 for a 157-year-old bottle of whisky. McTears auctioneers in Glasgow sold the Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850. The price, a record for a Scotch whisky at auction, was almost double pre-sale estimates, despite the fact that the whisky's cork had dropped into the bottle.
Twin brothers William and James Mutter operated the Bowmore distillery from the 1850s until the early 1890s when Bowmore Distillery Company Limited was formed.
The bottle was presented to William Mutter in 1851 at the time of him giving up his share of the distillery and has remained in the family for generations.
In 2005, a bottle of Dalmore 62 Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky is thought to have become the world's most expensive after it was bought at a hotel in England. A businessman paid £32,000 for the rare bottle, produced in 1943.
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despite the fact that the whisky's cork had dropped into the bottle
What an idiot. The liquor will be "corked" from exposure to the stopper floating in it. It seems doubtful that the distillery or its operators are of historical significance, so all this amounts to is someone with dangerous quantites of extra cash on hand.
'Spook, that Balvenie Doublewood is a true classic. I've had few other single malts that were so smooth and full-bodied. "Burn water" or no, Laphroaig tastes like scorched tires by comparison.
London: Undercover police officers have been ordered to put up no-smoking signs in their unmarked cars. Detectives on stake-outs are also banned from having a cigarette in their vehicle under new anti-smoking laws.
Ministers say officers carrying out surveillance are not exempt from the new smoking legislation which came into force on July 1. However, MPs raised concerns that covert operations could be blown by criminals spotting no smoking signs.
Shadow home secretary David Davis said: "Whilst everyone understands the need for a smoke-free environment, it seems to me that this legislation has gone beyond common sense."
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg called for undercover police cars to be exempt from the smoking sign legislation. He said: "It's obvious that these rules should have some common sense exemptions. Hopefully those responsible for this rule can be made to come quickly to their senses."
However, the government said no-smoking signs should not hamper the police. Is it time to have a separate tag for "Britain Gone Mad"?
NEW YORK (AP) - Haiti's president said Friday that former dictator Jean-Claude ``Baby Doc'' Duvalier would have to face justice for his regime's corruption and abuses if he returns to the Caribbean country from exile.
Duvalier, whose rule came to an abrupt end in February 1986 when he fled during a popular uprising, ended years of silence over the weekend with a Haitian radio address in which he apologized for ``wrongs'' committed under his rule. He did not say whether he would return to Haiti, but his unexpected address came amid a quiet campaign by some of his hardcore supporters to bring him back from in France.
President Rene Preval, who earlier this week rejected Duvalier's apology, said he could not prevent the former dictator from returning because Haiti's constitution prohibits the forced exile of any citizen. Asked if Duvalier would be brought to trial, Preval said his ``dictatorship killed thousands of people'' and stole millions of dollars. ``There is also the clamor of the people ... I think justice has to have its say,'' Preval told a news conference in New York, where he was attending the U.N. General Assembly.
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Too bad, so sad...
When he fled to France he lived a luxurious life on the Riviera, driving a Ferrari, shopping in designer boutiques and shuttling between his chateau and several apartments. The money appears to have run out several years ago after a costly divorce from Michelle Bennett Pasquet.
Duvalier's inability or unwillingness to get a job has forced him to rely on handouts from friends. He reportedly lives in a one-bedroom flat in Paris. Last month Switzerland extended a freeze on a Duvalier-linked bank account containing £3.1m.
Here's some job hunting advice for him, "You want pomme frites with that, monsieur?"
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Sheesh, shows how much I know...I thought this schmuck had died ten years ago!
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That would be "Papa Doc", Abu Babaloo. It is highly doubtful that "Baby Doc" will ever face any real justice as it necessarily involves methods that would make even a Spanish Inquisitor blanch.
(AKI) - A court in the Iran's second largest city, Mashad, has sentenced to death by stoning a mother-of-three for having an extra-marital affair, an Iranian newspaper reported Friday. The daily Quds said the married woman's lover had confessed to having had sex with her and that the court sentenced him to 100 lashes.
There are currently eight women in Iranian prisons waiting to be executed by stoning, a practice usually reserved for those found guilty of adultery according to the Islamic republic's laws. Earlier this year it was reported that a man had been put to death by stoning, the first person to be executed in this way for several years. Capital punishment in Iran - after China, the country to carry out the highest number of executions - usually involves death by hanging.
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No. Usually it involves death by strangulation ...
(AKI) Iran's pro-government Fardanews has described as a "Zionist" Luciano Benetton, main stakeholder in Italian clothing conglomerate Benetton as a "Zionist who is about to open a chain of stores in the Islamic Republic."
Benetton is not liked by the world's Muslims, either for his publicity campaigns, for his links with international zionism,"
The Treviso based Benetton Group has been negotiating with Iran for years to be able to operate directly in the Iranian market. Benetton clothing is currently sold in many boutiques in Iran which import its goods directly from Dubai.
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(AKI) - A court in the Iran's second largest city, Mashad, has sentenced to death by stoning a mother-of-three for having an extra-marital affair, an Iranian newspaper reported Friday. The daily Quds said the married woman's lover had confessed to having had sex with her and that the court sentenced him to 100 lashes.
