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Getting laid off is never easy.
Employees hope at the least that their managers would do it in a personal and compassionate way.
RadioShack did it by e-mails.
Associated Press reported:
Tuesday morning about 400 workers at RadioShack Corp.'s headquarters received one of those mass e-mail notifications that companies use to let workers know about everything from picnics to promotions.
But this e-mail was Radio-Shack's way of cutting jobs: "The work force reduction...
There is nothing more tragic than children dying accidentally.
But two grade-school children, Andrew Etcheverry, 8, and Jenie Marie Klawitter, 7, died Tuesday in an explosion that injuried six other children, ages 7 to 12.
One grieving parent said a day care center was being operated at the site of the blast.
The incident happened at about 4:43 p.m. at 1913 Maple Avenue in the Oleander neighborhood.
The coroner's office reported there was an accidental detonation of an explosive...
This probably doesn't come as any big shock — Colorado prosecutors declined to file any charges against John Mark Karr, citing a lack of evidence linking him to the killing of JonBenet Ramsey.
Tests showed the DNA of the 41-year-old Karr does not match the DNA found in the underwear of the 6-year-old victim.
Amid skepticism over Karr's claims to have been with the former Little Miss Colorado when she died, legal experts said that it would be difficult to bring the case...
Get a tissue ready. This is a story on how hard it is sometimes to be Wal-Mart.
You're a huge firm. You have the biggest truck fleet in the world. And as such, some people don't like you.
So you reach out to them.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based company is joining the corporate advisory council of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Not everyone is feeling good about the company's attempts at diversity.
Including gay and lesbian...
I am not an expert on this.
But I have some life experience dealing with young and older people who are chemically imbalanced.
Depression, violence and risky behavior are just a few of the symptoms when the imbalance — rather than brain — takes over a person's actions.
The Donna DeWitt and Solon DeWitt tragedy is the latest example of this. Solon was fighting depression and Valley Fever at the same time.
It shows up in far less publicized ways — suicides....
Phil Burress, a self-described ex-porn addict, is doing what he can to ensure than you don't succumb to his former addiction.
To that end, he is trying to keep porn out of hotel rooms.
He heads the Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values and has pressured about 15 Ohio and Kentucky hotels to stop offering adult movies.
He contends such movies make hotels "as dangerous as environments around strip joints and porn stores."
He concedes he is unable to cite specific...
Mel Gibson's attorney, earning whatever Mel is paying him, slipped into court Thursday and settled the actor's first-time drunken driving case.
The plea came a month and 10 days before Mel's case was scheduled to be in court.
As a misdemeanor, Mel didn't have to appear. The attorney entered the plea for him.
He got a regular result -- $1,300 in fines, three years' probation, attend Alcohol Anonymous, license restricted for 90 days and go to rehab treatment. He also volunteered...
Well it only took ten years but they have finally arrested someone in connection with the death of Jon Benet Ramsey.
For those of you who have been visiting another planet for the past decade, here is a good summary of the case on CNN.com.
Actually, here is an even better summary from CourtTV.
So folks, what do you think? I for one never thought there would an arrest in this case. And after all these years you've got to wonder if they'll make the charges stick.
Very rarely, events are so profound that we know where we were when we learned of them.
Older folks know where they were when President Kennedy was shot.
The attack on America on Sept. 11, 2001, when commercial airplanes struck New York City's Twin Towers and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. is another one.
I remember as I was waking to go to work, I heard an initial report on KUZZ that a small plane had crashed into one of the towers.
Soon the news became more horrific.
And...
I like self-serve at the gasoline station, but not at the grocery or home improvement store.
And it turns out that self-serve at the grocery store is saving people money and calories.
A story by Patti Bond of Cox News Service says, "Shoppers are flocking to self-checkout lanes like never before —and, apparently, zipping right past the candy rack.
Last-minute buys such as magazines and snacks, a sweet spot as retail
profits go, have dropped sharply with the growing...
A 64-year-old woman was left with severely damaged sight after ordering steroids online.
She got her drugs from Thailand. Doctors say it is well known that steroids can cause eye damage.
I didn't know that. Neither did she, until now.
But what I do know is ordering drugs online is frightening.
I have the same fear of that as I did taking LSD in the 60s. I would note that I never took LSD, but the stories about how people tripped out on the psychedelic drug left me thinking that...
Mike Polyniak, who lives near Thompson Junior High School and is tired of neighborhood cats fouling up his yard, wants the City of Bakersfield to clamp down on the felines.
I'm with you, Mike. That's a great idea. But I'm afraid you're in for a war.
For example, one of your neighbors, Anne Giddings, who is a responsible cat owner — she has two cats and has neutered and vaccinated seven strays — says Mike is unneighborly and needs a life.
She said some of the neighbors put...
Some people really need a dog to help them get around in public.
They may have "invisible disabilities" or other problems which prevent them from going to a store, a restaurant or a doctor's office without their dog.
America has a program for that, called service dogs. The dogs are specially trained to, for example, help save the life of their master in a panic attack or a medical emergency.
They are different from seeing-eye dogs.
Californian reporter Emily Hagedorn...
Arizona is considering a plan to offer $1 million to a randomly selected voter during elections as an incentive to get more people to vote.
A story by Associated Press reporter Paul Davenport says the proposal will be on the Nov. 7 ballot.
No one is being offered $1 million in that election so the turnout — just people who vote because it's the right thing to do — may not be extraordinarily high.
Is this what America needs to get its duff into the ballot box?
I wonder...
I'm sure this must be a bookkeeping error, because I know doctors are too ethical to rip off Californian's health care system for prisoners.
But state Controller Steve Westly reported that in the midst of a 437 percent increase in prison health care spending — $153 million in 2001 and $821 million this year — an unnamed urologist charged $2,036 an hour to treat inmates and an unnamed orthopedic surgeon billed the state for 30 hours work in one day.
So there's a lot in that...
So reporter Gretchen Wenner has a story about some bobcat sightings along the river. She even went out with a video camera to try to find one of these critters.
There is nothing like an alleged bobcat or mountain lion sighting to get the newsroom fired up. I think it has something to do with all the cat owners we've got around here.
So have you folks seen any big cats roaming around Bakersfield recently?
Do you even pay attention when sightings are publicized?
The Food and Drug Administration has indicated it may allow the "morning after" drug, Plan B, to be sold without a prescription to women 18 years and older.
An initial proposal was to make the pill available to females aged 16 and older, but the FDA after much review decided to set the age limit at 18. Negotiations are underway to possibly make the pill available within the next few weeks.
The morning-after pill is a high dose of the most common ingredient in regular birth...
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