David Oliver Relin, a journalist and adventurer who achieved acclaim as co-author of the best seller “Three Cups of Tea” (2006) and then suffered emotionally and financially as basic facts in the book were called into question, died Nov. 15 in Multnomah County, Ore. He was 49. David Oliver Relin was a co-author of “Three Cups of Tea.” Some readers questioned...
Nokia Siemens to sell optical networks unit
Label: TechnologyFRANKFURT (Reuters) – Mobile telecoms equipment joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks, which is focusing on its core business, is to sell its optical fiber unit to Marlin Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum.Up to 1,900 employees, mainly in Germany and Portugal, will be transferred to the new company, NSN said on Monday.The company, owned by Nokia and Siemens, has sold a number of product lines since...
Alison Eastwood Is Engaged
Label: Lifestyle 12/03/2012 at 01:45 PM EST Stacy Poitras and Alison Eastwood Vivien Killilea/FilmMagic There's more excitement for Clint Eastwood!Fresh off the heels of Friday's news that his daughter Francesca Eastwood was named Miss Golden Globe 2013, one of his other daughters,...
US flu season starts early, could be bad, CDC says
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say flu season is off to its earliest start in nearly 10 years — and it could be a bad one.The primary strain circulating is one that tends to cause more severe illness, especially in the elderly.But officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the nation seems to be fairly well prepared. More than a third of Americans have been vaccinated, and...
Girl, 12, held as sex slave, forced into prostitution by couple, police allege
Label: Business An Oceanside couple are scheduled to be in court Monday to face accusations that they kept an underage
Mexican immigrant as a sex slave, forcing her into prostitution and
beating her severely.Marcial Garcia Hernandez, 45, and Inez Martinez Garcia, 43, were arrested Thursday on suspicion of 13 felony counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child under age 14.The girl had been smuggled...
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Taliban Bombers Attack Air Base in Afghanistan
Label: WorldKABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban forces attacked a large coalition airfield in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, detonating three car bombs near the entrance and engaging in a two-hour gun battle that killed nine insurgents, four Afghan guards and at least four civilians whose vehicle was caught in the cross-fire, Afghan officials and witnesses said. Noorullah Shirzada/Agence France-Presse...
Larry Hagman, Boy Meets World Re-Boot Get Top Reactions This Week
Label: Lifestyle 12/02/2012 at 12:25 PM EST Danielle Fishel and Ben Savage; Larry Hagman Everett, Hulton Archive/Getty It was a post-Thanksgiving week of delightful highs and solemn lows. From the passing of favorite actors to confusion over the recent Two and a Half Men drama,...
Asperger's dropped from revised diagnosis manual
Label: HealthCHICAGO (AP) — The now familiar term "Asperger's disorder" is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD. But "dyslexia" and other learning disorders remain.The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic guide used by the nation's psychiatrists. Changes were approved Saturday.Full details...
Church volunteer molested boys 'for years,' police allege
Label: Business Newport Beach police arrested a Costa Mesa man Saturday suspected of
having inappropriate sexual relationships that spanned years with at
least two boys.Christopher Bryan McKenzie, 48, allegedly sexually abused at least
two victims between the ages of 8 and 16. Newport Beach police said both
victims, now adults, contacted police separately early last week.One victim was abused from the...
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