Dog laws strengthened in Virginia county

Thursday, May 12, 2005 Amid publicity that arose from deaths and injuries due to dog attacks in the region, the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to impose tougher penalties on dog owners who let their dogs run free. After a public hearing Tuesday evening, the board voted for a new animal control ordinance. Now dog owners who are […]

Wikinews interviews Chilean Paralympic skier Jorge Migueles

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Recently, Wikinews spent time with with Chilean Paralympic skier Jorge Migueles who was in Copper Mountain, Colorado for the IPC Nor-Am Cup. ((Wikinews)) I’m interviewing Jorge Migueles, he is here from Chile. And you’re from Santiago. Jorge Migueles: Yes, from Santiago. ((WN)) What you’re what classification? Jorge Migueles: LW4, I have a prosthetic I ski with, […]

Iraq, Syria, Iran form friendly relations

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 24 years ago Iraq and Syria severed diplomatic relations because Syria accused Iraq of giving support to the Muslim Brotherhood who were causing disorder in Syria. Now, as an outcome of meetings between Walid Moallem the Syrian Foreign Minister, the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, relations will be restored. Both countries are […]

Boosting My Macintosh

Click Here To Find Out More About: Brisbane Storage Submitted by: Donnarb Johnson Overview of Free Macintosh Cleaning Utilities Any kind of laptop or computer should be clean to exhibit fast and steady overall performance also this type of perfect Computer as Macintosh . The apple company pcs are known as quick as well as extremely reputable, on the other […]

Talk-therapy can make a difference in early treatment of severe depression

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 An individual in the initial stages of moderate to severe depression may experience relief from cognitive therapy equivalent to careful drug therapy. This is the conclusion from the April issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, a publication of The Journal of the American Medical Association’s “Archives.” Although antidepressant medications are the most widely used and […]

Storing IP-addresses of Swedish copyright infringers deemed illegal

Friday, June 10, 2005 The Swedish organization Antipiratbyrån (The Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau) suffered a massive blow today when the Swedish government’s Data Inspection Board stated that the Bureau’s storage of Internet user’s IP addresses is illegal. Antipiratbyrån is an organization representing the movie and software industry in Sweden, working to protect the intellectual property of its beneficiaries. This spring they […]

News briefs:August 2, 2010

Wikinews Audio Briefs Credits Produced By Turtlestack Recorded By Turtlestack Written By Turtlestack Listen To This Brief Problems? See our media guide. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=News_briefs:August_2,_2010&oldid=1451857”

How Sports Trading Pins Are Awarded

Click Here To Find Out More About: Foreign Exchange Market Trading Hours How Sports Trading Pins Are Awarded by Brett Woodson A number of trading pins are awarded for a variety of reasons in different sports. For example, in football and baseball athletes and teams sometimes can win trading pins for winning championships and tournaments. In soccer and hockey, certain […]

Ten-year-old computer glitch prevents delivery of 1,380 Canadian health results

Sunday, May 24, 2009 The Saskatoon Health Region in Saskatchewan, Canada recently discovered a fax machine problem which had not relayed almost 1,500 X-rays, Computed tomography (CT) and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, ultrasounds, and other medical imaging test results to doctors. The fax machine is part of the automated Radiology Information System. An audit revealed that medical diagnostic tests […]

Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” wins Man Booker Prize 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 The 2009 Man Booker Prize has been awarded to British author Hilary Mantel for her historical novel Wolf Hall. 57 other authors were short-listed, including former winners AS Byatt and JM Coetzee, as well as Sarah Waters, whose book, The Little Stranger, has sold more copies than Wolf Hall. I can tell you at this moment […]