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Police have made a number of arrests during a raid on a motorcycle club, located on Detroit’s west side at Plymouth and Hartwell.
The raid went down at the Soul Devil’s Motorcycle Club at 3 a.m. early Monday morning. Officers loaded some of the 130 people were arrested onto a police bus.
According to police, a late night party was taking place inside the club. Neighbors had filed complaints about previous parties because of noise levels and difficult parking situations.
Once federal agents from the ATF were able to get inside the club, they confiscated at least 14 guns.
30 of the people taken into custody on nuisance complaints had outstanding warrants for their arrest, and half of those were felony warrants.
By Charlie LeDuff
The New York Times LOS ANGELES — Billy Queen has a bounty on his head, a bounty on his kneecaps, a bounty on his mustache.
Word has worked its way from the bike underworld to the precinct houses in Los Angeles that the Mongols, the most cutthroat bike gang in America, would be happy to see him dead. Working as an undercover federal agent, Queen sent 54 of its members to prison after he infiltrated their club for 28 months.
Retired now, Queen is supposed to be hiding in a witness protection program, but he popped up in Hollywood, in the heart of Mongols territory, swaggering around in a ball cap with ATF on it.
"Maybe I'm a little bit crazy," he said at an outdoor cafe and laughed.
From the way he talks, Queen has not fully extricated his real life from his undercover personae of Billy St. John.
He speaks fondly of those days, the parties, the bullying of the Hell's Angels. "I had a good time," he said. "It wasn't all bad. I wish now and then I could talk to some of them guys. I saw the club president, Doc, at court. He said: 'Billy, I know you want to be back. You liked us.' And you know what? Yeah, I did."
News from New York International Auto Show
"BMW is a good example of the second wave" of sophisticated in dash electronics," said Chris Sams, head of public relations for the New York International Auto Show. "It's not new, but it's going into many more vehicles than before. Where it used to go into flagship vehicles, it's making its way into cars that are less money in a given brand, and even into lesser-priced brands such as Hyundai."
Overall, carmakers will introduce about 50 concept and production models at this year's show, Sams said. There, they'll attempt to generate buzz during two days of back-to-back press conferences and then bedazzle the projected 1.2 million auto enthusiasts who are expected to visit the show at Manhattan's Jacob Javits Center.
Toyota's Lexus division plans to unveil a gas-electric hybrid luxury sedan, the GS 450h, at the show. It will use the drive train to pair relatively miserly fuel consumption with luxury and performance.
Ford, whose Escape SUV is available with a hybrid drive train, will also show off a diesel electric hybrid concept called the Mercury Meta One. The car, first introduced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January, sports reconfigurable displays that allow drivers to size and place gauges to suit their needs, as well as a technology called "collision mitigation by braking." CMB uses a camera, radar and onboard computer to sense other vehicles and determine, based on their location, speed and direction, whether a collision is imminent. It can then warn the driver and deliver extra braking power if needed.
GM's Sequel concept car, first unveiled at the Detroit show, uses a fuel cell that converts hydrogen into electricity.
The Sequel, which also uses a drive-by-wire throttle, is meant to show off GM's vision for fuel cell vehicles of the future. The company said in January that
its goal is to create, by 2010, a fuel cell propulsion system that's
competitive with current internal combustion systems with regard to durability
and performance. The Sequel can travel up to 300 miles on a tank full of
hydrogen and accelerates to 60 mph in less than 10 seconds, GM said in a
statement.
From Wrestling News Today
Late Saturday night (3/19) WWE SmackDown Superstar Shannon Moore was involved in a head-on collision with a fairly high ranking sergeant in the US Army near Fort Bragg. A resident of Whispering Pines, NC, Moore was returning home from meeting with friends from the WWE RAW roster following their show at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, NC. Moore was driving his Hummer and was hit head-on by the soldier, who was arrested for drunken driving. Moore was being followed home by fellow WWE Superstar Matt Hardy, who lives nearby.
Hardy had been in the lead, but Moore had passed him when the accident happen. Had Hardy been hit instead of Moore, he would probably have been killed as he was driving a Corvette. Moore is injured, and it is unknown how long it will be before he is able to return to competition at WWE.
An anonymous sperm donor is often a college student, a hospital employee, or another male in need of a few bucks who the sperm bank has paid to contribute his sperm. Many cases have come up in which the woman was married when she was artificially inseminated, but when she and her husband divorced, he tried to absolve himself of any future financial (or other) responsibilities for the child by insisting he isn't the natural father. In most instances, the courts have come to the rescue by declaring the husband to be the father. In fact, the United States has adopted the Uniform Parentage Act, which says that the husband is the legal father and treats the donor as if he never existed.
Raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted kids while going solo with the help of Single Parenting For Dummies, by Marion Peterson, MFT, and Diane Warner.
InterActiveCorp has agreed to a $1.85 billion buyout of Ask Jeeves, a search engine that has long been overshadowed by Google and Yahoo.
Barry Diller, CEO, InterActiveCorpThe Internet conglomerate, which is headed by media entrepreneur Barry Diller, said Monday it is hoping to move aggressively into the Web search market through the deal and pointed to growth in the online advertising market as another major incentive in making the acquisition.
Ask Jeeves differs from other search engines in that it responds to plain English questions such as "What is March Madness?" rather than simple keyword searches. That was one of the elements of the company that made it most appealing as an acquisition target, Diller said.
"We believe that in the future (Ask Jeeves) has the potential to become one of the great brands on the Internet and beyond," Diller said in a teleconference Monday morning. "And by 'beyond,' we mean in wireless (and) in the search for anything on any device."
The buyout comes during a period of intense activity across the search market, as the leading players have been aggressively expanding their efforts around emerging business models and trends in the sector, including local search, blogs and sponsored advertising. Blogs, which let people create their own Web pages on which to share information and opinions, have been an especially hot topic of late. Yahoo, for instance, recently made a beta launch of its Yahoo 360 blogging section.
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Yahoo on Tuesday said it plans to once again boost its free e-mail storage limit--this time to 1GB, the same amount offered by archrival Google.
Beginning in late April, Yahoo will upgrade free users to the new storage limit of 1GB, up from its current 250MB.
The company said it will take about two weeks for all Yahoo Mail users to see the boost.
Yahoo's storage upgrade comes one week after Google started offering Gmail accounts to random visitors of its home page. This has led to heightened speculation in news articles and blogs that Google plans to open Gmail's doors to the public on April 1, a year after it launched in its current test
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The U.S. Postal Service currently has three 45-cent fundraising or "semipostal" stamps available for purchase at Post Offices, online at The Postal Store, and by toll-free phone order at 1 800 STAMP-24: the Breast Cancer Research stamp, the Heroes of 2001 stamp, and the Stop Family Violence stamp.
The price of a semipostal pays for the First-Class single-piece postage rate in effect at the time of purchase plus an amount to fund causes that the Postal Service determines to be in the national public interest and appropriate.
By law, revenue from sales (minus postage and the reasonable costs of the Postal Service) is to be transferred to a selected executive agency or agencies.
Breast Cancer Research Stamp The Breast Cancer Research semipostal was issued on July 29, 1998, at a first day ceremony held in the White House. It was the first semipostal in U.S. history.
To date, the stamp has raised more than $37 million for breast cancer research. By law, 70 percent of the net amount raised is given to the National Institutes of Health and 30 percent is given to the Medical Research Program at the Department of Defense.
Designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, MD, the stamp features the phrases, "Fund the Fight" and "Find a Cure"
and an illustration of a mythical "goddess of the hunt" by Whitney Sherman of Baltimore.
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