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1 MILLION LAYOFFS: US Defense Firms Preparing To Send Notices

Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney are going forward with plans to issue layoff notices to thousands of employees due to looming defense cuts under sequestration, despite administration claims that such warnings are unnecessary.

U.S. defense companies planned to start handing out pink slips in November under federal mandates outlined in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, due to the anticipated $500 billion automatic cut to defense coffers are [...]

Moment a New York cop had his FOOT run over by Ferrari driver as he gave him a ticket (as reality star girlfriend looked on)

The next time this Ferrari owner is handed a parking ticket he’ll probably just accept it. 

However, when the driver of a $257,000 Ferrari 458 returned to his car yesterday to find a policeman issuing him a fine he did just the opposite.

He refused to listen to the policeman, hopped behind the wheel and then seemingly drove over the officer’s foot.

As his girlfriend – MTV The Hills’ star Stephanie Pratt – [...]

Town Refuses To Let Woman Post ‘Lost Dog’ Signs

ACTON (CBS) – Among the jumble of signs and sandwich boards along Route 27 in Acton, you won’t see one for Bridgett the missing Husky.

And that makes her owner frustrated.

“It makes me really angry and I don’t understand it,” says Pat Panek. “Frankly, I just can’t wrap my brain around it.”

Getting Bridgett back has been Panek’s mission since the six-year-old Siberian Husky bolted from her Littleton yard last November.

Panek maintains [...]

4-Year-Old Boy Shot While Watching Baltimore Fireworks

BALTIMORE (WJZ) –  After the Fourth of July fireworks show ended, violence erupted all around the area.  It left a child shot, a man dead and police using all their resources to get control.

Andrea Fujii reports police are combing through footage from more than 90 city surveillance cameras, trying to put as many faces to crimes as they can.

Minutes after the celebratory fireworks stopped, two separate incidents [...]

32-FLOORS, EMPTY NO MORE: Lonely high-rise condo owner finally gets company

Sean Pratt, left, Andrew Doster, and Clint Mann, right, relax by the pool at the Oasis condominiums on Sunday, April 17, 2011, in Fort Myers. Seventy of the units have sold in the last year, including 40 that were sold at auction last fall.

For two years, Victor Vangelakos was the only resident of a 32-story riverfront tower in Fort Myers.

Now, he has dozens of new [...]