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MEDFORD, Ore. - Police are looking for a man who robbed a coffee stand and paid for his cup of java with some of the money he had just stolen. ADVERTISEMENT Police said the man rode his bicycle up to the stand just before 7 a.m. on Thursday and ordered a coffee. He then told the female employee that he had a gun and demanded money. The attendant handed over an undisclosed amount of cash. Before he left, the man paid for the coffee with the money just handed to him. The man is described as white, in his mid...

LONDON (AP) - A deputy mayor in northwest England resigned Wednesday after a closed-circuit TV camera caught her using her ring to scratch a neighbour's car. Prentice Howarth, 68, stood down from her post as deputy mayor of Bolton after police questioned her about damage to the black Citroen car while it was parked in the Bolton district of Greater Manchester. "I would like to express my sincere regrets and offer my heartfelt apologies over this unfortunate incident," a statement from Howarth said. "It was, I believe, totally out of character. I have been under a great deal of personal...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin grandmother who has worked the city's diplomatic quarter as a prostitute for the last 49 years plans to retire when she turns 64 next year, according to Germany's Bild newspaper. Even though prostitutes were forced to leave the area after the Berlin Wall, fell because dead-end streets in the downtrodden district were re-connected to east Berlin and property values surged, Renate Dolle was allowed to stay, Bild said. "I've got a lot of regular clients," the blonde woman told the newspaper, pictured wearing a short red mini skirt and high-heeled white boots as she stood...

This is not an ad but a call to the odd music listener. The alternative band, They Might Be Giants (TMBG), are featured this month on DirecTV's Freeview as an alternative to Bryan Adams, for which "the Canadian government has already apologized" (South Park). Background http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants ...[They Might be Giants] duo released their self-titled debut album in 1986 , and it became a college radio hit. The video for " Don't Let's Start " became a hit on VH1 , earning them a broader following. In 1988 they released their second album, Lincoln . This album caused a major shock...

Straw at odds with US over brutality of terror war ally By Alec Russell, in Washington and Nick Allen, in Moscow (Filed: 16/05/2005) One of America's main allies in the fight against terrorism was accused yesterday of slaughtering women and children "like rabbits", placing the Bush administration in a quandary over its support for President Islam Karimov, the strong man of Central Asia. Witnesses said that women and children were among the demonstrators shot by soldiers in Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic which has become crucial for America's attempt to keep control in neighbouring Afghanistan. Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary,...

1 Cor 15:35-57 35 But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" 36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and...

A Glimpse Ahead Timothy Snodgrass The Impossible Will Come Alive In 2005 01/28/05 In January of 2004, as we began to intercede for the New Year the Holy Spirit gave us the prophetic slogan, "The Seas will Roar in 2004". This year we were given a new slogan, "The Impossible will come Alive in 2005". As the veil of darkness begins to come down over nations and regions, along with great shakings will come great breakthroughs; signs, wonders, healings and a spectacular release of miracles in impossible circumstances. This year, although we are ultimately poised to gain much ground, there...

Go to the website to see the footage. Its a bit slow right now because everyone is checking it out. Explanation: What in heavens-above was that? Not everything seen on the night sky is understood. The Night Sky Live (NSL) project keeps its global array of continuously updating web cameras (CONCAMs) always watching the night sky. On the night of 2004 December 17, the fisheye CONCAM perched on top of an active volcano in Haleakala, Hawaii, saw something moving across the night sky that remains mysterious. The NSL team might have disregarded the above streak as unconfirmed, but the Mauna...

For the past 30 years the only political slogan used in Iraq was "Vote Saddam or Die". To help the politicians in this budding democracy, come up with either a translation or photoshop of the Iraqi election poster.

What's the deal with all the dead scientists?

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

<p>This might be little bit hard, but I have to say what I feel, and it is just my feelings towards some things here. Ishmael ha, maybe somewhere down the road something got kind of f---k up, but when did Islam came to be? Who was before them? What tribe did Mohamed came from? What was his full life all about? Etc, etc... I am getting freaking tired of this Islam BS and bumble jumbo, don't preach to me about religion whose only goal is to conquer and destroy!</p>

WASHINGTON -- Every day, a commercial pilot or flight attendant notices something odd on a plane or at an airport that could be a terrorist probing for security weaknesses. A passenger asks an inordinate number of questions about airline procedures or takes pictures on the plane. Someone follows a pilot at an airport. Young, Middle Eastern-looking men change their seats during a flight or argue with a flight attendant.EXCERPT

<p>BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German TV network's regular early morning film of a burning log is playing havoc with night owls and even tricked a woman into calling out the fire brigade.</p> <p>A spokesman for police in the northern town of Luebeck said Thursday that the woman woke up thinking her television was on fire, called emergency services and alerted her neighbors.</p>

(Japanese) Cultists Fearing Microwave Attack Whitewash RoadsideGIFU, Japan -- Some 40 members of a bizarre cult have taken over a 200-meter stretch of road in Gifu Prefecture, covering up crash barriers and roadside trees with huge white cloths, it was learned Tuesday. Members of the 'Panawave' cult confront local residents in Gifu Prefecture. Officials of Hachiman and Yamato, the two central Japan towns that manage the Omami road, have urged members of the Fukui-based cult, the "Panawave Laboratory," to move out but they have refused to comply. "One of us fell ill while we were heading to Yamanashi Prefecture...

A woman has been accused of leaving her 3-week-old baby in the street in front of an Elgin salon where she was having her hair done after her boyfriend refused to watch the girl, police said. Jennifer Jones, 21, of the 1100 block of Fleetwood Drive, Elgin, was charged Thursday with reckless conduct and endangering the life of a child, police said. She was released on $100 cash bond and ordered to appear in court March 7.

Family thought dead granny was OK An 86-year-old Louisiana woman was dead up to six weeks before her family realised. Coroners in Denham Springs said Mable Spurlock had been dead for at least three weeks and her body had partially decomposed. Police were eventually called to investigate by her landlord even though her family had been several times in the weeks before. One of her granddaughters even claimed Mrs Spurlock had nodded her head and mumbled something a week before the police arrived. Police Chief Jeff Wesley said there is evidence the granddaughter had been in the house several times...

German priest brews beer in washing machine A German priest has found a way to brew beer in his washing machine. Michael Fey, 45, of Duisburg built a computer interface into the machine to let it run an automatic brewing programme. It consists of turning and heating, but no spinning, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports. "A priest without alcohol, that's the wrong combination," he argued. "Jesus didn't say, take this healthy camomile tea, he offered wine." The priest brews 30 litres every six weeks, the legal limit for home brewing, and says he was inspired by the tradition of monks who...

A German artist is planning to serve diners meals made from urine and human breast milk. Conceptual artist Karl-Friedrich Lentze has applied for a permission to serve soups enriched with urine and cakes made of breast milk in a restaurant in the town of Euskirchen. The 54-year-old told local daily Express he is convinced there are plenty of people who would be interested in tasting his recipes for urine-goulash and cakes called "mommy's muffins". He said: "I plan to run the restaurant as some sort of club with registered members. Everybody who goes there, knows what they will be served."