Youngsters bundle up for Easter egg hunt; some tips to help keep kids safe

Bundled in winter coats, stocking caps and scarves, a sizeable crowd of area children braved the chilly weather Saturday morning for the chance to fill their Easter baskets with candy and brightly colored eggs.
All participating kids were released at the same time into VFW Memorial Park, where they picked up the bags of jelly beans [...]

Nissan Leaf’s $25,000 electric car to go on sale in December

By keeping the sticker price low, the Leaf will be profitable for Nissan, said Mark Perry, Nissan’s director of product planning. That means customers should expect more variants of the Leaf in coming years, he added.
Nissan has already said that there will be a luxury Infiniti version of the car.
Industry analysts have frequently said that [...]

Modern Warfare 2 update dissevers Xbox users

An update to blockbuster game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which disconnected gamers from Microsoft’s Xbox live service, has been fixed.
The problem was caused by the release of the Stimulus Package, an update for the game which contained new levels.
Gamers who purchased the update found they were unable to log on to the online [...]

New Verizon iPhone to be released June or July

Up until today we speculated that the new iPhone will be dubbed iPhone 4G and will debut around June or July. Well folks, if the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Apple’s new device will be called iPhone HD and will “debut this summer”. But it looks like Cupertino will now target Big Red [...]

Too much water: East Coast flooding to break century-old records

The Red River is approaching record flood levels, likely to break century-old records this weekend. Flowing north toward Manitoba along the Minnesota-North Dakota border, the river is jammed up by ice and is being fed by rain, snow and meltwater. The National Weather Service has issued projections of a crest of 43 feet near Fargo, [...]

Ricky Martin says he is proud to be a gay

Ricky Martin has revealed what a lot of people thought they already knew: he’s gay. The singer has decided to come out while working on his autobiography, and wrote on his blog yesterday that he was finally proud to declare himself “a fortunate homosexual man”. He said:
“Because all this advice came from people who I [...]

Large Hadron Collider succesfully smashed protons

After 16 years and $10 billion—and a long morning of electrical groaning and sweating—there was joy in the meadows and tunnels of the Swiss-French countryside Tuesday: the world’s biggest physics machine, the Large Hadron Collider, finally began to collide subatomic particles.
The $10-billion structure at Geneva collides particles at three times previous energy levels. It [...]

Lady Gaga goes sentimental; Green Day gears up for concert tour

When MTV News spoke to director Ryan James Yezak earlier this month, he told us all about the making of his totally excellent “Telephone” tribute vid and then, in passing, mentioned that he was also working on a special birthday present for his muse, Lady Gaga.
Yezak was asking for “Happy Birthday” messages from his [...]

Russian leaders vow to avenge Moscow Metro bombing

The masterminds behind a double suicide bombing on the Moscow Metro will be destroyed, Russia’s leaders have said.
The attacks, in the morning rush hour, killed at least 38 people and injured more than 60, officials say.
No group has said it carried out the attacks, but security services have blamed rebels from the North Caucasus–which [...]

Man who death-threat Eric Cantor arrested

Federal authorities have arrested a Philadelphia man and charged him with threatening to kill House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his family.
The office of House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican who is his party’s No. 2-ranking House leader, has confirmed reports that a man has been arrested for making threats on the [...]

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