The Greatest Heists In History [Infographic]
Or, how to steal the Mona Lisa in a few easy steps. By Colin Lecher Posted 06.19.2013 at 2:00 pm Well-executed heists make for good stories, but history’s greatest heists, as this infographic shows, are so unbelievable they’re almost art. Take, for example, this: a man on board a Portland-to-Seattle flight in 1971 passed a [...]
June 19, 2013
Police at Patriots tight end’s home for 2nd day
Police at Patriots tight end’s home for 2nd day NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile away. Two troopers knocked on the door of Hernandez’s sprawling house in an upscale subdivision [...]
June 19, 2013
Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at age 47
Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at age 47 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who wrote the Mitch Rapp counterterrorism thriller series and sold more than 15 million books in the U.S. alone, died Wednesday in Minnesota after a more than two-year battle with prostate cancer, according to friends and his publisher. He was [...]
June 19, 2013
Wall St. edges lower as Fed statement looms
Wall St. edges lower as Fed statement looms By Alison Griswold NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks dipped on Wednesday as investors awaited a Federal Reserve statement that could provide clues about the central bank’s future stimulus efforts, a key to the market’s current rally. The Fed will release a policy statement at 2 p.m. which [...]
June 19, 2013
NASA wants backyard astronomers to help track asteroids
NASA wants backyard astronomers to help track asteroids By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA called on backyard astronomers and other citizen-scientists on Tuesday to help track asteroids that could create havoc on Earth. The U.S. space agency has already identified 95 percent of the potentially planet-killing NEOs – near Earth objects – with a [...]
June 19, 2013
Murkowski becomes third GOP senator to support same-sex marriage
Murkowski becomes third GOP senator to support same-sex marriage Not too long ago, I had the honor of nominating an Alaskan family as “Angels in Adoption,” a celebration of the selflessness shown by foster care families and those who adopt children. They arrived in Washington, DC, a military family who had opened their doors to [...]
June 19, 2013