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Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has launched a mobile-to-mobile text-message campaign in an effort to reach more of America’s 236,000 cell phone users. Users who text the word "Join” to 77007 will receive regular updates about the Clinton campaign, which will "ask for voters’ input and offer a feature allowing supporters to surf Hillary’s Web site on their mobile phones,” according to a statement from her campaign. "By harnessing the power of text messaging, we can engage voters in the political process using the latest technology and provide personalized, local campaign updates to our supporters nationwide.” The text-message initiative is "a...

PHOENIX -- Hell hath no fury like a state legislator whose cell phone has eaten her calendar. That's what happened to Sen. Pamela Gorman. And the Anthem Republican said that repeated efforts to get that and other problems resolved proved fruitless. And that, she said, left her with two options: Live with what she said was substandard equipment or service or move to another company. But that would result in an early termination fee, which Gorman said effectively traps the customer. So Gorman is pushing legislation to say that if a cell phone company violates any terms of the contract,...

Uh, no, I'm not a terrorist...I don't know how that phone got there... The Courier-Mail's headline for this one is "Terror link probed." Yes, that's right. By Greg Stolz and Paula Doneman in The Courier-Mail, with thanks to Warren: A SELF-proclaimed British multi-millionaire named Mohammed Islam who was arrested on the Gold Coast with almost $120,000 in cash is under investigation as to whether he has terrorist connections. Queensland police yesterday refused to comment on their investigation into the man, 22, but at this stage there is reportedly no evidence to link him with terrorist activity. Islam allegedly had $118,000...

I was just on C-SPAN. The host asked if I was going to vote, and I said yes. Then he asked why. I proceeded to explain, but it seems like the phone may have been cut off - did anyone else hear it? In hindsight, I should have had the closed captionig on, but oh well!

Cell phones found inside four prisoners 1 hour, 40 minutes ago SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Cellular telephones were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, authorities said Wednesday. The discovery was made Tuesday at the prison in Zacatecoluca, in central El Salvador, after suspicious officials took X-rays of each of the inmates, federal corrections chief Jaime Villanova said. The names of the prisoners, all members of the dangerous Mara Salvatrucha gang, were not released in order to avoid jeopardizing an ongoing investigation that began a month ago, he said. Capt. Juan Ramon Arevalo, director of the prison...

Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro. Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three. The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register. They also paid cash. An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects...

MADISON, WI (AP) -- A driver faces hit-and-run charges after he allegedly plowed into man while chatting on his cell phone with his ex-girlfriend. Justen Brock, 30, of Mount Horeb, was charged Friday with hit-and-run causing the death of Gregory McCullick, 20, early last Sunday in Dane County. Brock was driving on a country road in the town of Springdale after attending a wedding reception at a farm. McCullick, also of Mount Horeb, was at the reception, too. Brock was talking to Tara Endres on his cell phone when he suddenly said "Oh my God. Something just jumped out at...

Man accused of shoving phone down throat 2 hours, 56 minutes ago INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - The assault trial of a man accused of shoving a cell phone down a woman's throat has begun. Prosecutors say 24-year-old Marlon Brando Gill was angry and jealous when he forced the phone into Melinda Abell's throat in December. But defense attorneys insist the 25-year-old victim swallowed the phone intentionally to prevent Gill from finding out who she'd been calling. Gill is charged with felony first-degree assault. A doctor at a Kansas City hospital's emergency room used a tool called a "pincher" to remove the...

Just saw on CNN that 23 tons of explosives were dropped on a Hezbollah bunker. Top Hezbollah officials are believed to have been inside. No story on the website yet.

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators granted the Navy a permit Tuesday to use sonar in a maritime exercise despite environmentalists' concerns it could disturb or even kill whales and dolphins. It was the first such permit granted to the Navy, and one environmental group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, said it would file a lawsuit Wednesday to prevent the sonar's use. The monthlong exercise, which includes anti-submarine training, involves naval forces from eight nations. It began Monday off the Hawaiian Islands. The sonar part of the exercise begins after July 4 and lasts three weeks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

SAN FRANCISCO - An owner of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player filed a federal lawsuit against the computer maker, claiming the device causes hearing loss in people who use it. The portable music players are "inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss," according to the complaint, which seeks class action status. The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, seeks compensation for plaintiffs' hearing loss and upgrades that will make the iPods safer. Apple has sold more than 42 million of the devices since they...

First they came for the funny ones Published February 1, 2006 Kathleen Parker Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of political cartoonists. Not this time for the ones losing newspaper jobs, but for those whose lives are literally on the line thanks to outraged Islamists offering a bounty for their heads. The cartoonists in question are a dozen Danish artists who drew Muhammad-themed cartoons last September for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten during an exercise to test the limits of free speech. The cartoon-a-thon was conceived in response to complaints from a Danish author...

Monday night, a record number of noise complaints were received by Residential Security Officers in Roger Revelle College. Officers responding to the calls found the sexual activity of a deaf couple to be the source of the noises, which were described as "cacophonous" by witnesses. The first officer on the scene, Frank Zipelli, reported, "I could hear those two all the way from the parking lot." According to Zipelli, "It sounded as if they were bludgeoning a cow. There would be a low moan, like a ‘moo,’ and then a ‘bang’ and a higher-pitched ‘moo.’ It was like ‘MOO…BANG…MOOO!’" Upon...

A Tennessee prison warden on Wednesday fired a guard who loaned the use of his personal cell phone to George Hyatte three weeks before the prisoner and his wife mounted a bloody escape in Roane County. Randall Ridenour lost his job at the Brushy Mountain Correctional Institution because he allowed Hyatte to use the phone twice while taking him to and from a court appearance in Kingston on July 18. On Aug. 9, authorities allege Jennifer Hyatte killed correction officer Wayne "Cotton" Morgan during a shootout at the Roane County Courthouse and fled with her husband to Ohio, where they...

Syria's interior minister, Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan, who was believed to have been questioned by UN investigators on the assassination of a former Lebanese leader, committed suicide on Wednesday, Syria's official news agency said. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday night he hoped that Kenaan was not Syrian President Bashar Assad's “scapegoat.” Shalom claimed that Israel does not yet know the full circumstances leading to Kenaan's death, but noted that there were murder cases in the past that had been presented as suicide. Official sources in Jerusalem doubted that Ghazi Kenaan would commit suicide voluntarily, and he may not have...

Villa Rica, Ga. -- A home invasion was solved by a phone's redial button when an accused burglar in this west Georgia town allegedly used the phone to call his mother for a ride after breaking in. According to sheriff's investigator Alan Lee, a resident of Villa Rice returned home Sunday from a few days out of town and was missing credit cards, a check book, cell phone and jewelry. The victim tried hitting redial on her phone, and the mother of 23-year-old Kevin Tucker answered. The call led to the arrests of Tucker and 18-year-old Brittany Leigh-Anne Smith, said...

Lexi Phillips answered the call of nature and soon heard an alarming splash: Her cell phone toppled into the toilet. Lexi Phillips has dropped two cell phones into the toilet but keeps her minutes to fewer than 30 per day. It wasn't the first time the 19-year-old had lost her Motorola to the Kohler. "Both times, my cell phone was in my back pocket. . . . It fell out and went right into the bowl," said Phillips, a cosmetology student who lives in Milwaukee. Mobile phones are the most popular personal technology around, but the ability to take them...

hello all of you ,why you don't accept the fact that usa is an occupation power in irak,what are we doing there:killing innocent people,steeling their oil,distroying their country,burning their houses,they don't tell us to come,usa invade irak without the support of un,neither the support of international community,american soldiers in irak are terrorising children ,men and women killing babies ,throwing heavy bombs on their heads,it is a murder ,it is a genocide ,it is a crime it is not a liberation,it is a colonisation,a destruction of a soverein country,that's why the bush administration is a threat to our word they are...

US slips in word for web boss OUR BUREAU New Delhi, Dec. 18: The school sex-clip scandal appears to have found its way into Indo-US relations. National security adviser and secretary of state-designate Condoleezza Rice has urged Delhi to look into the safety of Avnish Bajaj, the arrested CEO of Baazee that runs the online auction site on which video discs of the escapade were sold. The India-born US citizen was today sent to judicial custody for seven days by a Delhi court, but not before a flip-flop by the prosecution on seeking remand or “conceding” to grant of bail....