Detroit police and EMS workers said Leslie Brooks died of natural causes during the weekend. But when his body arrived at a funeral home, the mortician saw it differently.As she prepared to embalm the 59-year-old Brooks on Saturday morning, mortician Gail Washington peered at a small burned area on his skin, right above his heart. Her assistants had pointed it out, and Washington now agreed: This was no natural death.Brooks had a small-caliber gunshot wound in his chest. And now Detroit police are scrambling to figure out what happened.That may be tough, since their initial determination ruined a possible crime scene in the east-side basement where Brooks was found. Police technicians did not scour the room or take photos until later. There was no immediate ... Continue reading →

WINTER HAVEN -- Legoland Florida has broken a world record for the most beach balls in the air at one time. They had more than 1,000 balls in the air at one time. The final total reached 1,355 balls simultaneously in the air, smashing the previous record of 401 beach balls. The next step, to make it official, is to file it with the Guiness Book of World records. Guinness auditors will evaluate the attempt for authentication over the next several weeks. The first 400 guests to the park received free admission and a beach ball. Beginning at around 10am this morning, the balls went airborne. It was also a chance for guests to get a sneak peek at the new water park that officially ... Continue reading →

While watching all the tweets about today's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearings in DC and Chicago on the agency's proposed carbon pollution safeguards, we saw this tweet from the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago: Hmm, is the coal industry astro-turfing again? The coal industry has to pay people to say they support coal? A little internet digging found us the ad on Craigslist, only the ad was already deleted, and the best we could find for a while was just this Google search showing part of the text (this is a screenshot - click to enlarge it): Here's the ad on Craigslist - it's been deleted. Using some Google search skills with those words, we were able to piece together this much ... Continue reading →

Google chairman Eric Schmidt said it was very difficult to identify the source of cybercrime and stop it. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Guardian Nations that carry out cybercrimes and wreak online havoc pose the greatest threat to the future of the internet, the chairman of Google has warned.In a speech delivered at London's Science Museum on Wednesday, Eric Schmidt said the internet would be vulnerable for at least 10 years, and that every node of the public web needed upgrading to protect against crime. Fixing the problem was a "huge task" as the internet was built "without criminals in mind" he said."While threats come from individuals and even groups of people, the biggest problem will be activities stemming from nations that seek to do harm. It is ... Continue reading →

"The unusual aspect of our finding is the way this human-ready drug actually kills cancer stem cells; by changing them into cells that are non-cancerous," said Mick Bhatia, the principal investigator for the study and scientific director of McMaster's Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. Unlike chemotherapy and radiation, thioridazine appears to have no effect on normal stem cells. The research, published today in the science journal Cell, holds the promise of a new strategy and discovery pipeline for the development of anticancer drugs in the treatment of various cancers. The research team has identified another dozen drugs that have good potential for the same response. This video is not supported by your browser at this time. ... Continue reading →

Rabies-infected bats have killed 7 children in rural Peru, Fox News Latino reports. Ana Maria Navarro, a Peruvian Health Ministry official, said Wednesday that the children, aged 11 months to 14 years, contracted rabies after been bitten by bats in a remote community of 720 people in the Peruvian Amazon, approximately 721 miles from the capital, Lima. "According to the symptoms and medical reports, it appears the seven indigenous children died of rabies," she said. Additional health officials have been dispatched to vaccinate members of the children's Amazon community. According to the BBC, the settlement is so isolated that it can only be reached by river. Fox News Latino reports that one Peruvian lawmaker suggested that the deaths had been caused by poisoning from a ... Continue reading →

[ [ [['Connery is an experienced stuntman', 2]], 'http://yhoo.it/KeQd0p', '[Slideshow: See photos taken on the way down]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['Connery is an experienced stuntman', 7]], ' http://yhoo.it/KpUoHO', '[Slideshow: Death-defying daredevils]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['know that we have confidence in', 3]], 'http://yhoo.it/LqYjAX ', '[Related: The Secret Service guide to Cartagena]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['We picked up this other dog and', 5]], 'http://yhoo.it/JUSxvi', '[Related: 8 common dog fears, how to calm them]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['accused of running a fake hepatitis B', 5]], 'http://bit.ly/JnoJYN', '[Related: Did WH share raid details with filmmakers?]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['accused ... Continue reading →

An estimated 2 billion Christians around the world celebrate the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. While those believers take the stories of Jesus as told in the New Testament on faith, archaeologists have scoured the Holy Land and beyond in search of clues about the real life of Jesus and his followers. Click the "Next" arrow above to learn about eight of their finds. — John Roach, msnbc.com contributor First reference to Christ? Does the world's first known reference to Christ refer to him as a magician? An inscription on a bowl uncovered from the underwater ruins of Alexandria in Egypt reads "DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS," which archaeologists translate to mean either "by Christ the magician" or "the magician by Christ." The bowl dates ... Continue reading →

You must enable JavaScript to use foursquare.com We use the latest and greatest technology available to provide the best possible web experience.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings to continue. Download foursquare for your smart phone and start exploring the world around you! Continue reading →