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Studies are finding that cholesterol lowering drugs may also decrease your chance of catching the flu.

The partners of Wolf Block voted Monday to dissolve the 106-year-old law firm due to a combination of effects of the recession on the firm’s core real estate practice, the constriction of credit and the anticipated departures of significant partners and practices. The firm said it would remain in business for several months to protect [...]

(AP) WINNENDEN, Germany – A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black opened fire at his former high school in southwestern Germany on Wednesday then fled in a hijacked car, killing at least 15 people before police shot him to death, state officials said.
The gunman entered the school in Winnenden and opened fire, shooting at random, police [...]

BEND, Ore. – A sign hangs amid the bottles of vinegar at Newport Avenue Market. It’s simple, to the point: “Thanks to the Balsamic Vinegar Thief this area is now under surveillance. We will get you.” The last sentence, it should be noted, is underlined. For about a year, a thief pinched bottle after bottle [...]

SYDNEY - Parents of a five-year old boy, who was last week swallowed by crocodile in north Queensland in Australia, requested that the reptile does not die, reported today the local authorities.
Jeremy Doble (5) jumped in the Daintree River for his dog. The elder brother observed the crocodile in the river, but it was too [...]

(AP) Police said a 58-year-old man stabbed his teenage son after he refused to take off his hat at church earlier in the day. The father and his 19-year-old son got into an argument on Sunday afternoon. That’s when police said the father went to a car, got a knife and stabbed his son in [...]

(AP) Sheriff’s officers said a 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customers laptop after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account. According to officers, the man then grabbed the customer’s laptop and ran out of the coffee shop, located in an outlet mall.
Two people in the parking lot tackled the man [...]

In an unprecedented move American Express is paying certain card holders 300 dollars to close their accounts. They have evaluated risk and are trying to shore up any acccounts that would get maxed out and not pay their company. While closing or opening credit cards can hurt your credit score by ten points or so, [...]

Rather than go into criticizing Christian Bale himself, there is someone else who deserves their fair share of blame for the controversy. After all, Christian Bale is merely an employee in a contract with a company in order to make a film that will hopefully make money for a film that is being produced. Ultimately [...]

(AP) A New York City man who fought a parking ticket he got while dressed as Santa Claus and giving out toys says the city’s response is more ho-hum than ho-ho.
Chip Cafiero says he learned Friday he’d lost his attempt to contest the $115 ticket he got in Brooklyn on Nov. 28. A spokesman for [...]