Filed under: Retail The Clarendon Apple Store in Arlington, VA is closed today as police investigate a shooting that took place there this morning. The Washington Post reports that a woman was injured via a gunshot to the shoulder during an armed robbery attempt.I've shopped at the Clarendon store, and the staff has always been unfailingly helpful and courteous. I hope that the victim of the shooting enjoys a complete and prompt recovery, and tha
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A Texas woman will serve at least nine years in prison for drowning her 3-month-old granddaughter in what the defense said was a misguided effort to teach the infant to swim.

Colin Daymude was out of work last year after his business failed and eagerly filed his taxes in mid-January, figuring he'd get his refund sooner. He was wrong.

Sheriff's deputies searched Friday for a serial killer blamed for four deaths over the past six days as terrified residents wondered who might be next.

Doing what Java never did "Can you integrate this with my e-mail?" It's one of the more dreaded questions in software development. For any programmer who has been around the block a few times, it evokes a long repressed fear of Sendmail m4 macros or Outlook COM objects. When a non-technical managerial type asks this question in a group meeting, and your boss assures him that Internal System from Hell X can easily be integrated with the company's
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? Staples Centre has a capacity for 20,000 at most? 11,000 tickets to be distributed freeLos Angeles police and city officials will be scrambling through the weekend to prepare for a memorial for Michael Jackson on Tuesday in an attempt to prevent the scenes of chaos and confusion that have marked the eight days since his death.With the family finally settled on a Tuesday morning event at the Staples Centre in downtown LA, the city now is now bra
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Push is part of US-led Sword Strike operation to oust insurgents from HelmandBritish troops have seized crucial canal crossings in the Taliban heartland as part of the US-led Operation Sword Strike to oust insurgents from the opium-producing province of Helmand, officials said today.The push, said to be one of the largest British soldiers have made, is part of a wider offensive which has seen 4,000 US marines pour into the lower Helmand river val
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After success with China, US targets Russia in strategy to reach separate agreements with world's biggest pollutersBarack Obama will move to seal a deal with Russia for joint action on climate change during his summit in Moscow next week, the Guardian has learned. Obama arrives in Moscow on Monday at the start of a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana that will focus heavily on energy and climate change. From Moscow, Obama travels on to Italy for a me
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Ever since the Egyptians invented zero, curmudgeons have argued that technology creates as many problems as it solves, but I've never encountered a product that does exactlythat, until now. I'm talking about a litter box. We all know there are plenty of products that cause more problems than they solve. As a professional technologian, my job is to sift through innovations to see which ones make for an improved life, and which ones are too trouble
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Another controversy where the Obama administration is walking in the footsteps of BushCo! I will say here that I'm no more optimistic that Hillary Clinton's response would have been any different. The nature of power is such that one can always find a strong enough argument for retaining it "just in case" once it's been exercised. But then again, Clinton wasn't the one who sold herself to us on the basis of a new transparent era, either: A docum
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A highly regarded Cuban pitching prospect has defected from the national team while playing in a tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands. His next stop could be in the major leagues, possibly with the New York Yankees.

What's July Fourth without fireworks? Many cities across the U.S. will find out Saturday. Expensive pyrotechnics displays are becoming victims of the recession. "I think there's going to be a lot of people complaining about it," said Terry Mertins, whose city, Tuscon, Arizona, is forgoing fireworks.

Is there a filmmaker in the world with worse luck than Terry Gilliam? He was directing late actor Heath Ledger in "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus," when he died -- and it's not the first time he has lost a leading man.

A new specimen from Ethan Persoff's "Comics with Problems" archives: Early NAACP Comic Book History - Your Future Rests In Your Hands and The Street Where You Live (1960 and 1964)...

Behold, gentlemen! Ript, "the revolutionary torso-enhancing undershirt." The designer of this undergarment is described as "the creative force behind P. Diddy's Sean John clothing line, where she mastered her understanding of what appeals to the most sophisticated and discriminating men." Ah, so we can blame Diddy. "Ript" is so technologically advanced, it comes with a HOWTO, bitches: Ript, via Book of Joe....