A new Bugatti will publicly be displayed for the first time at this years Pebble Beach Concourse dElegance, on August 16th, 2008
Molsheim, France/Wolfsburg, August 1, 2008 The last preparations are running at full speed. Two more weeks and then Bugatti Automobiles will present their new Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport for the very first time to the public.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers have arrested 16 people across Australia following what Customs is calling the world’s largest ecstasy bust.
The AFP says 4.4 tonnes of the drug has been seized and people have been arrested in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia.
The silver fox Anderson Cooper said while co-hosting “Regis and Kelly” the other day that he doesn’t care for the E! reality show “Living Lohan” which stars the vile Dina Lohan (vile is my word, not Anderson’s). He said Dina looks about 60 among other things.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, awaiting trial on perjury and other charges, has been sent to jail after violating bail by leaving the country.
Prosecutor Robert Moran argued that Kilpatrick should have told Judge Ronald Giles of a trip to Canada. The mayor, who is required to alert the court to all travel plans, went across the border last month on business.
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Kwame Kilpatrick apologized, but Giles ordered him into custody, saying he was giving the mayor the same treatment as any other defendant.
Kilpatrick faces charges of perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice stemming from a scandal in which he and ex-Chief of Staff Christine Beatty lied about having a sexual relationship and their roles in firing a police official.
Beatty and Kwame Kilpatrick denied under oath during a civil trial last year that they had a romantic relationship in 2002 and 2003.
Text messages allegedly exchanged between the two in April reveal sexually explicit exchanges and professions of love and promises of marriage.
Kilpatrick was also busted in a sordid love tryst with Carmen Slowsky … whoever that is. Something tells us it could be an alias. Just maybe.
His attorneys have questioned the authenticity of those and other allegations, fighting battles on several legal and political fronts.
Source: thehollywoodgossip.com
Fifty-six government employees — including a police officer, a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants — were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday.
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Sixty-two people were arrested in total and all face charges including racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering and grand theft, according to the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office.
Authorities estimate 130 medically unnecessary prescriptions for OxyContin — more than 12,000 tablets — were presented to pharmacies. The drugs have an estimated street value of $400,000, prosecutors said.
OxyContin is a popular painkiller, delivering an instant “high” when it is crushed or dissolved and ingested.
The scam began in January 2003, when six “recruiters” enlisted a group of people, most of them employees of local government, to participate in the ring, according to prosecutors.
Those employees provided their health insurance identification information, and with that information they obtained unnecessary prescriptions for OxyContin from another codefendant, who was a physician, authorities said.
The defendants filled those prescriptions at pharmacies and sold the pills for cash to another codefendant, authorities said.
In addition, prosecutors said, the defendants submitted claims to their insurance companies for reimbursement for the OxyContin prescriptions.
“There can never be an excuse for helping put dangerous drugs onto our streets,” said Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade state attorney. “When public employees are a part of the problem and when public medical benefits are used to make the scheme work, these are shameful events. They are also crimes.”
Source: CNN.com
There’s a one-of-a-kind cat in Wood County, Ohio and it has folks doing a double take. The little kitten has two faces.
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It was born a few days ago to a shop cat at Woodville Auto Finance in Northwood, Ohio.
It has four eyes, which all open, and two noses, but only one mouth.
The mother cat doesn’t seem to mind the abnormality. She’s nursing and caring for it like any other kitten.
Source: WPTV.com
Not much is sacred to Artie Lange, but the health of Howard Stern’s right-hand man is apparently no laughing matter.
Guess what, GTA IV is coming to pc. Who had expected that!? It will be released on the 18th of November for the US, and on the 21th of November for Europe. I hope the pre ordering can begin soon, and I’m curious what the Collectors Edition will be.(I know it’s not really Tech News, but we don’t really have a good category for this)
Here the article from Eurogamer:
Grand Theft Auto IV will be released for PC on 21st November in Europe, Rockstar announced today.
Pleasantly, that’s just a few days after the PC version arrives in North America on 18th November.
Rockstar founder Sam Houser says it “looks and plays beautifully on PC and we can’t wait for people to play it”.
A PC version of the game has been rumoured since before the PS3 and 360 versions were even released, but Rockstar has never previously confirmed it.
The most telling sighting was a rating on the ESRB website, although that was removed a few hours later.
GTA IV came out worldwide on 29th April and Rockstar said in early June that it had sold 8.5 million copies.
The game charts the course of hero Niko Bellic as he arrives in Liberty City – a caricature of New York – and has to embark on a life of crime to get his cousin and himself out of trouble.
That’s right, a pointless application was designed to make fools out of those that purchase it. The idea behind the application? To prove to others that you are rich enough to purchase the application. I Am Rich was designed by a college student by the name of Armin Heinrich. Who would be foolish enough to purchase this Application? Obviously someone has, I am Rich brings iPhone applications to a new level of stupidity.
The U.S. American Dollar has a higher concentration of cocaine residue then any other currency! Tests show that the average U.S. dollar contains 2.9 to 28.8 micrograms of cocaine, although bills from 1996 contain as much as 1,600 micograms. Crazy huh?