BISMARCK, N.D. (CBS Seattle) – Talk about an awful first day on the job.
A news anchor in North Dakota has been fired after uttering obscenities for his first words on-air in a video that has gone viral across the country.
KFYR-TV in Bismarck, N.D., fired A.J. Clemente, a recent West Virginia University graduate, after an open microphone caught him saying “f***ing s***” as Sunday’s newscast began. The station apologized following the incident.
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/04/22/news-anchor-suspended-for-uttering-obscenities-for-his-first-words-on-air/
From the blog of Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch:
I live a fairly simple life and that didn’t change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn’t buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat.
Nothing too fancy or large. I live near Seattle and there’s a big boating culture up here. I found a small company that builds boats [...]
SEATTLE (AP) – An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax.
While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Polis of Colorado plan to introduce Tuesday, Blumenauer told The [...]
YOUNGER Americans will have to take our word for it: there was a time, way back when Ronald Reagan was president, when your countrymen ordered coffee by simply asking for “coffee”. Ordering a “venti skinny chai latte” or a “grande chocolate cookie crumble frappuccino” would have earned, at best, a blank stare.
But that was before Howard Schultz took Starbucks from a single coffeehouse in downtown Seattle to a chain with more than [...]
from nationofchange.org:
“We are standing up to live better,” say Walmart’s retail workers, playfully twisting Walmart’s slogan of “live better” into a rallying cry for better conditions and treatment. In a taste of what the nation’s largest retailer can expect on Black Friday, frustrated Walmart workers have again started walking off their jobs to protest their employer’s attempts to silence outspoken workers.
Workers from both the retail and warehouse sectors of Walmart’s [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Twinkie-maker Hostess Brands said Monday that it could go into liquidation if its bakers continue striking in protest against a new contract imposed in bankruptcy court.
The company announced Monday that it was closing bakeries in Seattle, St. Louis and Cincinnati in response to the strike, cutting 627 jobs in total. The bakers’ strike, which began last week, continued Monday at around 24 of Hostess’ 36 plants, [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. -
Officials in Florida have issued a warning about a new trick trying to prevent voters from going to the polls.
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“This is a major concern,” said Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Mike Ertel, who received a letter from a voter mailed from Seattle with no return address. “You should not expect a letter from your elections office saying, ‘You’re not registered to vote, please don’t go to the polls.’ [...]
A woman who’s dying of leukemia says that agents with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle forced her to lift up her shirt in front of a crowd so they could check underneath her bandages.
The TSA told KOMO 4 News in Seattle that they did nothing wrong, insisting: “At no point did a TSA officer open the passenger’s medically necessary liquids and the passenger was never asked to remove or [...]
ZOLLIKOFEN, Switzerland (CBS Seattle) – Swiss dairy cows may now be able to tell farmers that they are in heat using text message technology.
Sensors implanted in the cows are reportedly able to detect the shift using electronic heat detectors, according to The New York Times.
These sensors then send a text message to the farmer’s phone. In addition to getting an alert, participating farmers can also opt to receive messages in either German, French [...]
LONDON (CBS Seattle) — Nestle is using GPS inside its candy bars to track its customers.
The candy company launched the “We Will Find You” campaign in the United Kingdom where GPS tracking devices were placed inside six candy bars. Once the winning candy bar wrapper is opened, the tracking device will go off and Nestle officials will be able to find the exact location of the customer.
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/09/26/nestle-puts-gps-devices-inside-candy-bars-to-track-winning-customers/
BERKELEY, Calif. (CBS Seattle) – It sounds like something out of the movie “Johnny Mnemonic,” but scientists have successfully been able to “hack” a brain with a device that’s easily available on the open market.
Researchers from the University of California and University of Oxford in Geneva figured out a way to pluck sensitive information from a person’s head, such as PIN numbers and bank information.
The scientists took an off-the-shelf Emotiv brain-computer interface, a [...]
From HUFFPOST:
Michael Baumgartner, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Washington State, took exception to an article written about him this week, emailing the author to tell him to “go fuck yourself.”
Josh Feit, a reporter for PubliCola blog atSeattle Met Magazine, had interviewed Baumgartner earlier in the week andwritten a story about how the Republican state senator’s views on abortion were similar to those of embattled GOP congressman and Missouri Senate [...]
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) — Boeing engineers and researchers from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory successfully demonstrated a “swarm” of drones to be used in battle.
According to a Boeing press release, the researchers and engineers conducted the test flights in Oregon in June using two ScanEagle drones which performed like a “swarm of insects.”
Read more: http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/08/10/boeing-demonstrates-drones-that-perform-like-swarm-of-insects/
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) – A new study claims that obesity could not only increase a driver’s risk of being in a car accident, but also result in more severe injuries.
The study, conducted by Canadian scientists at the University of Laval and published in the Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, claimed that morbidly obese drivers may be at increased risk of a crash due to weight-related health complications.
Additionally, car designs that are [...]
A Washington state couple are hoping for a miracle after spending the last week watching their yard fall piece-by-piece down a 200-foot cliff, that’s growing.
With heavy hearts Roy and Rosalee Ballinger stand by what’s left of their property in Whidbey Island, about 30 miles north of Seattle, as it quickly crumbles away without anything able to be done.
‘We planted all those,’ Mrs Ballinger told KOMO while fighting audible tears in her voice [...]
VANCOUVER, Canada (CBS Seattle) – Although illegal aliens are an issue on our southern border, our neighbor to the north might have its own problem with aliens — from another world.
Ufology Research reports that there were about three UFO sightings per day in Canada, with 986 sightings total last year. The record for UFO sightings was in 2008 when a surprising 1,004 sightings were reported.
The report entitled “The 2011 Canadian UFO Survey” states that [...]
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft says an accounting adjustment to reflect a weak online ad business led to its first quarterly loss as a public company.http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/07/19/microsoft-reports-first-ever-quarterly-loss/
CLEARWATER — This city could soon outlaw a harrowing crime: sitting.
Sitting or lying down on sidewalks or other public rights of way on Clearwater Beach, downtown or in the East Gateway neighborhood could mean a $500 fine, 60 days in jail or both.
The sitting ban is among a flurry of new ordinances the City Council will consider Monday as part of its crackdown on homeless people.
The council also could drop [...]
CLEARWATER — This city could soon outlaw a harrowing crime: sitting.
Sitting or lying down on sidewalks or other public rights of way on Clearwater Beach, downtown or in the East Gateway neighborhood could mean a $500 fine, 60 days in jail or both.
The sitting ban is among a flurry of new ordinances the City Council will consider Monday as part of its crackdown on homeless people.
The council also could drop [...]
One reason the human body cannot fight off an HIV infection is because a single protein the virus produces thwarts human defenses, a new study says.
When HIV enters the human body, it produces a protein called vpu that directly combats a critical defense protein of the human immune system, the study showed.
Normally, this immune system protein stops invading viruses from replicating and spreading throughout the body. But vpu disables this defense [...]
EATTLE (CBS Seattle) – Data released recently by the Keep It Real campaign – a joint effort between Miss Representation, the SPARK Movement, Love Social, Endangered Bodies and I Am That Girl – states that 80 percent of all 10-year-old girls have, at some point in their lives, gone on at least one diet.
The campaign was created as an effort intended to get everyone from major magazines and media outlets to mothers [...]
As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don’t actually create jobs.
The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject.
National Journal reports today that TED officials decided not to put Hanauer’s March 1 speech up online after deeming his remarks “too politically controversial” [...]
Thieves stole 70,000 pounds of copper cable from Sound Transit’s Link light rail line between Tukwila and Sea-Tac Airport, the agency reported Friday.
Thieves ripped the wire from inside an elevated guideway that supports the tracks, probably over the last several months. From end-to-end, about four miles of cable was stolen, Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray said.
“This isn’t something that would have been done overnight,” Gray said. “Whoever did this knew [...]
A video of cancer-stricken kids singing along to Kelly Clarkson’s hit song Stronger has become an internet sensation with over one million views.
The shoot was set up by Chris Rumble, a regular twenty-something from Seattle with a passion for hockey and making amateur movies.
Until, that is, he was suddenly diagnosed with leukaemia, which had effected up to 95 per cent of his white blood cells.
Watch the videos:
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143380/Truly-stronger-The-cancer-ward-children-wowed-Kelly-Clarkson-touching-viral-video-hit-song.html#ixzz1ui3Peb7F
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations and in some cases clashing with police.
In Oakland, Calif., stinging gas sent protesters fleeing a downtown intersection where they were demonstrating. It was unclear whether police fired the gas, but officers took four people into custody.
Black-clad protesters in Seattle used sticks to [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska polar bears are losing their fur and U.S. Geological Survey scientists don’t know why.
In the past two weeks, nine of 33 bears checked by scientists in the southern Beaufort Sea region near Barrow were found to have alopecia — loss of fur — and skin lesions, said Tony DeGange, chief of the biology office at the USGS Science Center in Anchorage.
Three of four bears inspected Thursday [...]
LONG BEACH (CBS) — A Skywest crew radioed authorities Tuesday when two children refused to fasten their seat belts on a flight from Long Beach to Portland, Ore.
Officers with the Port of Portland Police Department were called to meet the Skywest-operated Alaska Airlines plane when it landed at Portland International Airport at 7:20 p.m., Alaska spokeswoman Marianne Lindsey told CBS2.
“During the flight, the children became disruptive and wouldn’t stay in their [...]
(Reuters) – Robert Bales built a life around a call to arms. A call that emanated from the ashes of the World Trade Center in New York and took him to the mayhem of faraway Iraq and Afghanistan. A call he may have heard one time too many.
The 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant suspected of gunning down 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, had struggled to make financial ends meet and [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — Facebook’s automatic efforts to connect users through “friends” they may know recently led two Washington women to find out they were married to the same man, at the same time.
That led to the man, corrections officer Alan L. O’Neill, being slapped with bigamy charges.
According to charging documents filed Thursday, O’Neill married a woman in 2001, moved out in 2009, changed his name and remarried without divorcing her. The [...]
WASHINGTON – A growing number of people are traveling really long distances to work.
Researchers call them “super-commuters.” Many of them travel hundreds of miles from their homes to work. They take a combination of cars, planes, trains and buses to get from home to the office.
New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation reports from 2002 to 2009 the number of super-commuters grew in eight of the 10 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. [...]
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