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WCVB TV/DT

Nick Hogan’s Car Flipped Around, Back End Hit A Palm Tree

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Hulk Hogan’s son Nick was seriously injured in a car crash Sunday night.

Police said a Toyota Supra driven by Nick Bollea was traveling at a high rate of speed earlier Sunday evening. Bollea, which is Hogan’s real name, lost control and hit a raised median. The car flipped around, and the back end hit a palm tree.

Bollea and an unidentified male passenger were extricated from the car by paramedics. Then they were airlifted to a St. Petersburg hospital. Police described the injuries of both men as serious.

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The East Valley Tribune
By Mike Branom

Camaraderie, competition and money makes fantasy football real. The National Football League kicks off its season in less than two weeks, which means this is crunch time for “owners” preparing to select their “teams” of actual flesh-and-blood pro players.

Valley taverns are hosting draft parties, where the bragging and insults fly like the ball in a run-and-shoot offense.

“Edgerrin James, gone,” said Jesse Kessler, manager of Duke’s Sports Bar and Grill in Scottsdale. With that matter-of-fact statement, Kessler performed his duty as commissioner of the bar’s fantasy league, taking a marker to a dry-erase board and scratching out the name of the Arizona Cardinals running back.

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The Mercury News
By Shay Quillen

Two weekend concerts reflect evolution of group

They’ve traded their track-suits for tailored suits, but after 25 years, the Beastie Boys still know how to throw a party.

Or two.

That’s what they did in the Bay Area this weekend, with a “dress to impress” instrumental gala Friday at the Warfield followed by a more informal bash Saturday at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre.

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Internationa Herald Tribune
Americas
Associated Press

KAHULUI, Hawaii: Loaded with people paying a discount fare of just $5 (€3.65), the $95 million (€70 million) Hawaii Superferry made its maiden run Sunday with a rushed launch for a three-hour voyage to Maui — the first passenger ferry service between the islands.

Legal problems threatened to beach the giant catamaran like one of the whales that environmentalists fear it will run over, so the company moved up the debut by two days.

More than 500 passengers and crew, and 150 cars, were aboard when the four-deck, blue-and-white vessel emblazoned with manta rays pulled away from the dock to a chorus of cheers.

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The Enquirer (Cincinnati)
BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - After a series of U.S. currency makeovers, the most amazing is yet to come.

A new security thread has been approved for the $100 bill, and the change will cause double-takes.

The new look is part of an effort to thwart counterfeiters armed with ever-more sophisticated computers, scanners and color copiers. The C-note, with features the likeness of Benjamin Franklin, is the most frequent target of counterfeiters outside the United States.

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The Denver Post
By Kimberly S. Johnson

There are an increasing number of software tools available to keep personal online activities safe from hackers and spyware programs.

But even if a user has firewalls, up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware programs installed on a PC, there are other ways for your personal information to make it into the wrong hands.

“Applications leave traces of information behind. That information can be telling of certain things,” said Mike Irwin, chief operating officer for Webroot Software Inc. in Boulder. “For people that know where to look, it provides a distinct visibility into specific aspects of computer usage by the user.”

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Austin Amercian-Statesman
By Asher Price

Long polluting, lawn mowing is getting converted from gas-powered to electric-powered.

Mowing lawns is not, conventionally, an environmentally friendly activity.

One hour of tending the lawn with a gas-powered mower produces as much pollution as driving your car for four hours, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

But a few Austin companies are now trying to make quick lawn mowing the next frontier in the green movement.

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Compiled by John Ryan
Mercury News

59-YEAR-OLD DECIDES TO USE UP ELIGIBILITY AT A D-III COLLEGE

Sul Ross State, an NCAA Division III school in Alpine, Texas, is going to have some serious senior leadership this season.

Mike Flynt, a 59-year-old grandfather and AARP member, is back to play out his eligibility.

“I think it was Carl Yastrzemski who used to say, `How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?’ I’d be in my late 20s or early 30s, because that’s how I feel,” Flynt told the Associated Press. “That’s been my approach to this whole thing. I feel that good. I’m just going to find out if I can perform and make a contribution to the team.”

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The Star-Telegram
By Jason Buch

FORT WORTH — A woman eluded an attempted kidnapping Friday by grabbing the would-be abductor’s crotch.

The 18-year-old woman was walking in the 3800 block of Maurice Avenue at about noon when a man in a car offered her a ride. After she refused repeatedly, the man got out, grabbed her by the hair and ordered her to get in, said Lt. Paul Henderson, a police spokesman.

When the woman fought back, the man threw her to the ground and kicked her in the ribs, Henderson said.

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International Herald Tribune
By Michael Lewis

It was Aug. 24, 2005, and New Orleans was still charming. Tropical Depression 12 was spinning from the Bahamas toward Florida, but the chances of an American city’s being destroyed by nature were remote. An entire industry of scientists who calculate the likelihood of various natural disasters had set the odds: A storm that destroys $70 billion worth of insured property should strike the United States only once every 100 years. From Miami to San Francisco, the nation’s priciest real estate faced beaches and straddled fault lines; its most vibrant cities occupied its most hazardous land. And virtually no one fully understood the true odds.

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The Mercury News (San Jose)
By Bay City News Service

Bird paraphernalia found along with painkillers and steroids

Police broke up a suspected cock-fighting event this morning in unincorporated Santa Clara County that could have ended with up to 100 roosters dead, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.

Around 10:30 a.m. sheriff’s deputies responded to a neighbor’s report of loud bird noises at 3770 Quimby Road, Santa Clara County Sgt. Ed Wise said.

As soon as police arrived at the four-acre ranch, a group of men at the premises took off running, Wise said.

Approximately 70 to 100 roosters were located on the property, all being kept in separate cages, according to Wise.

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