September 25, 2011

News in a Nutshell

 

September 24, 2011
Headlines that caught my eye





Facebook Charging In 2011:Chain Letter Spreads False Rumor

The chain letter claiming Facebook will begin charging this year alleges that the site must charge its users a fee to pay for the new profile design.


Satellite likely in ocean, but may have hit US


NASA space junk scientists believe that all — or nearly all — of the parts of their 20-year-old dead satellite safely plunged into the Pacific Ocean, likely missing land.


NASA urges anyone who thinks they've found satellite debris to call police. It's government property and illegal to keep it or try to sell it. The debris has no toxic contamination, but there could be sharp edges, NASA officials have said.


Flood-ravaged Schoharie village had Top 10 reasonons to love Letterman for support


Letterman is expected to reminisce about Schoharie's lighthearted 2002 visit en masse to the Ed Sullivan Theater and to encourage contributions to the Schoharie Recovery Fund, a tax-exempt 501c3 organization that village officials set up this week.

The stunt of bringing the village for a taping grew out of a "Late Show" segment on "Biff Henderson's America" that chose Schoharie at random as a typical rural upstate village.


Notary commission at risk
 

East Greenbush - The state Department of State is seeking to strip a town councilman of his notary commission over allegations that he notarized petition signatures of voters who never appeared before him.

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