| 2 law leaders out over handling of slur
Two of South Carolina's top-ranking law-enforcement officials are out of jobs because the governor says they were too lenient on a state trooper captured on video using a racial slur as he threatened to kill a suspect. Gov. Mark Sanford announced Friday that Department of Public Safety director Jim Schweitzer, whom Sanford appointed in 2004, and Col. Russell Roark, who heads the Highway Patrol, had offered their resignations Friday morning. A video from a 2004 traffic stop in Greenwood County shows a suspect fleeing. From off camera, the trooper yells, "You better run, n-----, because I'm fixin' to kill you." The governor said the trooper, who is still on patrol, should have been fired. Schweitzer and Roark say they stand by the punishment they handed out -- anger management and diversity training.
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Chris Economaki, an auto racing commentator for ABC Sports, made an off-hand comment when our paths crossed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the day before the 500. "By the way," he said, "I'm going to be in your town next year for the race at the airport." "What??!!" I spent the rest of the day piecing together enough of a story to strip across the top of Page 1 on Sunday morning. It sounded like the fulfillment of a fantasy — racing on the lakefront with yachts and sailboats in the background. It was Monte Carlo in the Rust Belt and it was exhilarating. Several years earlier a Cleveland ad agency man named Saul Isler and I shared a vision for a race through the city streets. In our dream we had cars racing through the Innerbelt, Public Square and downtown streets. I wrote a column about it, even though it seemed outlandish.
Haitian soccer legend scored historic World Cup goal
Emmanuel Sanon, one of Haiti's most celebrated soccer players, died at his Orlando home Thursday from pancreatic cancer, family members said. He was 56. Sanon, affectionately known as Manno, was best-known among Haitians and soccer enthusiasts for his goal against Italian Dino Zoff in the 1974 World Cup match in Munich, West Germany. Haiti lost 3-1, but that didn't matter: The striker's goal marked the end of Zoff's record 1,142 minutes without yielding a goal in international tournaments. Today, Haitian soccer fans readily recall their whereabouts that summer day. ''To this day, we really feel -- it may be naive, it may be romantic -- that Manno Sanon won that game,'' recounted radio commentator Herntz Phanord, who watched the match in a crowded movie house in New York.
State Vote Allows Use Of Gas Chambers To Kill Unwanted Pets
More than 100,000 animals were gassed to death in North Carolina shelters in 2006. Of the 100 counties in the state, 37 use carbon monoxide gas chambers to eliminate unadoptable pets. The other 63 use what is regarded nationally as the more humane method, lethal injection. National and local organizations have worked for years to get the state to put an end to gas chambers and it looked like Wednesday it was going to happen. The State Board of Agriculture met to discuss and vote on a set of new regulations that would standardize, govern and make euthanasia more humane throughout the state. One of the key provisions of the new rules was the four-year phase out of gas chambers and mandate to use lethal injection instead. While the board agreed unanimously to make numerous positive changes, they removed the elimination of gas chambers from the vote.
Frist Fence Flakeout?
Frist is having trouble rounding up enough votes for a showdown over the fence this week. I'd tentatively file that under "fecklessness," especially given Frist's bravura last week. He could hold a press conference to shame Republicans as well as Dems into agreeing to a vote if he wanted to. (He might actually have more luck with the Dems--but their votes count too.) Plus, hasn't the Senate already agreed to cloture on the fence issue? Does Frist even need a supermajority? **--The grin is at about 9:18 in this video. There's an ominous sigh too (when the fence question first comes up, at about 8:00). ... .
Starbucks to temporarily close this evening
Beware: If you normally get your caffeine fix on the way home from work today, don't go to Starbucks for your double latte. Starbucks will temporarily close its 7,100 stores across the United States for three hours starting at 5:30 p.m. today to improve workplace morale and the quality of drinks, according to CNNMoney.com. .
Our View: Less talk, more action
If it is not Steamboat, most of the residents heart will not be broken. We will rejoice. And that will finally trigger the "AhA" moment for Chamber to market to more desirable level of tourists to visit Steamboat. Let's get started, don't wait another two years and whine that you had no time to get ready. .
Negro League baseball player finally gets time to shine
Joe Scott's heroes were Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. He once played in an all-star game against Joe DiMaggio, but he never lived the dream of playing in the major leagues as a teammate to baseball's idols. Scott had at least two strikes against him. He was black, and he was short. At 5-7 and 162 pounds, he was playing in an all-star game in Canada once when a recruiter for the New York Yankees scouted him. .
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I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed- more on this story More on Nine Inch Nails - Nine Inch Nails CDs - Nine Inch Nails Tour Dates/Tickets - - Comments .
Creating PCs that can learn, inventor's goal
Chip designers received an interesting challenge this month from Jeff Hawkins, the founder of Palm and Handspring and an expert on the human brain: If they really want to design something intelligent, they shouldn't be doing processors. They should be making memories. At the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Hawkins addressed the question, "Why can't a computer be more like a brain?" He has been preoccupied with that question for decades and has been working on the answers for his startup, Numenta. Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot, wrote about his research on the brain in 2005, in the top-selling book, "On Intelligence." Brainlike software He created the Redwood Neuroscience Institute in 2002 and in 2005 cofounded Numenta with his longtime partner Donna Dubinsky.
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A group of unhappy shareholders called a halt to the school's expansion schemes, and started talking profits. They brought in Career Education Corporation, a young but rapidly expanding company in the for-profit education business. Career Education was a favorite of Wall Street investors. In 1995 it had revenues of about $19 million; by 1999 revenues were up to about $217 million, according to annual reports. It grew through a decade-long buying spree, snapping up small or struggling schools and rapidly expanding their programs and enrollment. CCA was a typical acquisition. Career Education had already bought six culinary schools, and considered them a profitable and growing sector. The corporation paid about $31 million for CCA, then quickly nixed the New Orleans deal and shut down the satellite campuses.
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