| Two Children Killed in Schuylkill County Blaze
The search for the cause of a deadly fire is underway in Schuylkill County. Two children were killed when flames wrecked a home in Ashland. The fire also wiped out a part of Ashland history. The fire on West Centre Street broke out around 1:30 a.m. The flames apparently got their start in a single-family home. Four businesses and four apartments were destroyed. Four families were left homeless. The hardest hit was the Klinger family. Audrey Klinger, 3, and her five-year-old brother, Victor, were found in a second floor bedroom area. Their 17-month-old brother, Gunner, was rescued by his father. "You just couldn't get in. You just couldn't get in," said Rich Ludwig, with tears in his eyes. He was there when the flames were the highest. He helped in the life and death struggle of the father trying to rescue his 17-month-old son.
Michigan's shooting is bound to get better
No matter how poor Michigan shoots, this team won't change its free-shooting ways anytime soon. The Wolverines' 31 attempts Sunday at Michigan State tied for a season-high. But that's nothing compared to the 45 Beilein's West Virginia team shot in a three-point loss to Louisiana State during the 2005-06 season. .
A raid, a shoot-out, and questions
One of the wounds was self-inflicted, Bucks County Coroner Joseph Campbell said, but it remained unclear whether that wound was fatal. While scant information has been released about what happened in the Hill house Monday, Bucks County District Attorney Michelle Henry did confirm last night that "the federal search warrant was for the possession and distribution of child pornography." She did not have a detailed list of what was seized but said it included computer equipment. Law enforcement authorities did not disclose the shooting for nearly 24 hours. The FBI refused to comment, other than to say that the shooting was being investigated internally. Henry said that Bucks County detectives were investigating whether the use of deadly force was justified, and she confirmed that Darius Hill was holding a handgun.
Argonne's Blue Gene/P to Host Large Cadre of INCITE Researchers
DOE has allocated more than 265 million processor-hours for supercomputing and data storage resources located at Argonne, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories. "The Department of Energy's Office of Science has two of the top ten most powerful supercomputers, and using them through the INCITE program is having a transformational effect on America's scientific and economic competitiveness," DOE Under Secretary for Science Raymond L. Orbach said. "Once considered the domain of only small groups of researchers, supercomputers today are tools for discovery, driving scientific advancement across a wide range of disciplines. We're proud to provide these resources to help researchers advance scientific knowledge and understanding and thereby to provide insight into major scientific and industrial issues." At Argonne, new and returning INCITE researchers will conduct projects ranging from large-scale simulations of potentially dangerous heart rhythm disorders to running detailed numerical experiments of thermal striping in sodium-cooled fast reactors.
Surfers protest wave cams
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - Ever since Jimmy Minardi mounted his $8,500 video camera last summer and aimed it at the Atlantic Ocean, the surfers here have been complaining. The camera streamed video straight to Minardi's website, letting surfers check the waves without having to pack up their boards and wet suits and heading to the beach with fingers crossed. These surf cams, or wave cams, which have gained in popularity in recent years, help advertise lesser-known beaches to outsiders who are looking for new surfing spots. But the cameras have also caused problems in the territorial world of hard-core surfers, many of whom blame them for leading crowds to once-secluded beaches. Today, there are perhaps a dozen cameras along the South Shore of Long Island and another dozen along the Jersey Shore, surfers said.
Bridgend suicides: 'It just seems normal, fashionable almost... '
Under a sky that is an unappealing mix of muddy brown, tinged with grey, an old man treads carefully past the charity shops along Nolton Street, in the centre of Bridgend. A couple of gloomy-faced teenagers, in Reebok Classics and hooded tops, hang out in front of the cut-price fashion stores, but otherwise the place is deserted. It is 9am and a thick mist swathes parts of this small town on the edge of the South Wales valleys, reducing visibility to a few feet. It is a ghost town in more ways than you could imagine. .
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