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Stump, the 10-year-old Sussex spaniel who only recently emerged from retirement, has been named Best in Show at the 133rd annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show. He’s the oldest dog to ever win that title. (An 8-year-old papillon won in 1999.)
The anonymous college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com, which stirred controvery at campuses across the country, shut down Thursday after a year and a half of operation, according to a press release from the company’s founder.
Twelve Prince George’s County public schools, most of them inside the Capital Beltway or in the southern part of the county, are targeted for closure next year in a plan to save the cash-strapped system $11.9 million.
Passengers on the US Airways flight that crash-landed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon praised the actions and courage of the pilot, a safety consultant with 40 years of experience in the aviation industry.
Club Pittsburgh at which a man died Sunday was threatened with closure by the city of Pittsburgh in August but it was allowed to continue to operate after its politically connected owners approached city officials.
Armed robbers stole diamonds valued at 85 million euros ($108 million) from the Paris branch of jeweler Harry Winston, the city prosecutors’ office said.
YOUNG girls are being sexualised by inappropriate toys and magazines, a Holyrood committee was warned yesterday.
Last year, Information Today, the organizers of the Internet Librarian conference, held a contest to find a “retronym” for a non-Internet librarian.
A JAPANESE piano teacher has been arrested on suspicion of killing her “virtual husband” after becoming enraged that he suddenly divorced her in an online game.
Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president and United Nations envoy, has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a mediator in international conflicts.