Contador wins third Tour de France title
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(Reuters) – Spaniard Alberto Contador claimed his third Tour de France title on Sunday as seven-times champion Lance Armstrong made his final exit from the race.
The 27-year-old Contador stayed safe in the main bunch and the last stage, over 102.5 km from Longjumeau, went to Briton Mark Cavendish for the second year in a row.
Over three weeks, Contador showed some weaknesses in the mountains and almost cracked in the final time trial but it was enough for him to beat Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck by 39 seconds. Russian Denis Menchov took third place, 2:01 off the pace.
Sunset Boulevard closures bring more traffic pain to Westside
Posted in News on July 25th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to commentU.S. and South Korea begin drills
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The first of four days of a powerful show of joint U.S. and South Korean sea and air power ended without incident Sunday, despite North Korea’s pledge to start a “sacred war” over the maneuvers.
Dubbed “Invincible Spirit,” the joint military exercises, featuring about 20 vessels including the Nimitz-class USS George Washington aircraft carrier, left port just after dawn, shadowed by hundreds of U.S. and South Korean fighter jets.
The drills provided a potent reminder for Pyongyang of the consequences of escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula. The exercises have been in the works since the March 26 sinking of a South Korean naval ship that killed 46 crewmen. A probe led by South Korea concluded that the ship was struck by a North Korean torpedo; North Korea has denied involvement.
Taliban negotiating over captured Navy personnel in Afghanistan
Posted in News, Video on July 25th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to commentA Taliban faction that said it had killed one U.S. serviceman and captured another offered to exchange the slain man’s body for an unspecified number of insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday.
The two Americans, identified by Western officials as U.S. Navy personnel, were last seen Friday in a dangerous part of Logar province, south of the Afghan capital. A massive ground and air search by NATO and Afghan forces was underway, with the men’s photos plastered at military checkpoints and a reward offered for information about them.
Afghan officials in Logar said the two, who were driving an armored sport-utility vehicle, may have taken a wrong turn and accidentally ended up in a Taliban-held area. NATO has not disclosed why the pair traveled to Logar after leaving their base in Kabul, or said whether the trip was authorized by their superiors.
Raw-food raid highlights a hunger
Posted in Entertainment, Health, News, Science, what on July 25th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to commentWith no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.
Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid’s target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk.
“I still can’t believe they took our yogurt,” said Rawesome volunteer Sea J. Jones, a few days after the raid. “There’s a medical marijuana shop a couple miles away, and they’re raiding us because we’re selling raw dairy products?”
Cartons of raw goat and cow milk and blocks of unpasteurized goat cheese were among the groceries seized in the June 30 raid by federal, state and local authorities — the latest salvo in the heated food fight over what people can put in their mouths.
U.S. charges top leaders of Tijuana-based drug cartel
Posted in Crime, News, Video on July 24th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to commentFederal authorities announced a wide-ranging criminal case Friday against top leaders of a Tijuana-based drug cartel that ran much of its operations from the San Diego area, allegedly ordering murders, kidnappings and torture of rival traffickers in Mexico.
The racketeering conspiracy case charges 43 cartel lieutenants, enforcers and drug traffickers, among them half a dozen current or former Mexican law enforcement officers, including a top official in the Baja California attorney general’s office who allegedly passed along information obtained from U.S. law enforcement to cartel leaders.
The organized crime group, an offshoot of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, moved some operations to San Diego in recent years, seeking a safe haven from gang wars and law enforcement crackdowns south of the border, said Laura Duffy, the U.S. attorney in San Diego.
Safety systems were bypassed, rig worker says
Posted in News, Politics, Tech, economy, what on July 24th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to commentKey safety systems were bypassed or disabled on the doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig — some for months or years — a top technician on the vessel testified Friday, as offshore cleanup crews hurried toward port ahead of a tropical storm system.
In testimony in the third round of investigative hearings in Louisiana, a rig technician described an operation in which alarm systems and safety devices were turned off, computers didn’t work and maintenance was long overdue.
“The rig was in very bad condition,” said Mike Williams, a chief electronics technician who worked for rig owner Transocean Ltd. aboard the Deepwater Horizon.
Walk of Fame polisher is the keeper of the stars
Posted in Celeb, Entertainment, News on July 24th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to commentIf anyone can restore Hollywood’s luster, John Peterson figures it’s him.
The one-legged man has spent 14 years polishing celebrities’ stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
With 2,412 of them along nearly three miles of sidewalk, it’s a full-time job.
Police and community work together to arrest a murder suspect in South L.A.
Posted in Crime, News, economy, what on July 24th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to commentVenus Mason wasn’t wearing her uniform at the Los Angeles Police Department’s press conference outside the Starbucks on Crenshaw Boulevard. With her bright blouse, matching necklace and auburn-tipped dreadlocks, she looked more like the folks watching from the sidewalk than like her fellow police officers behind the microphones.
That seemed fitting to me, given Det. Mason’s role in the drama that brought us together to mark the arrest of a local man on a murder warrant.
This was no high-profile case, like the Grim Sleeper. The crime took place in Georgia, so nobody here knew the victim. The capture didn’t rely on DNA or generate much outside attention.
Doubts surface on North Korea’s role in ship sinking
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