Police: Reality star accused in ex-model’s slaying left suicide note professing love, anger

September 8th, 2009 Report: S'pore teen 'slayers' planned mass suicideSINGAPORE — A Singapore newspaper says eight teen fans of the video game Slayers planned to commit suicide together last month, but most backed out after watching two of them jump to their deaths. The New Paper says Tuesday that according to a police investigation, 16-year-old Ku Witaya, a self-proclaimed Taoist medium, convinced his younger brother and six other boys that they had to die to become 'slayers' who would kill demons in a World War III.

September 8th, 2009 Del. trooper nabs man wearing colleague's watchWILMINGTON, Del. — Delaware State Police said a thief has been caught red-handed — and that hand happened to be wearing a watch stolen from a trooper nearly two years ago.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unidentified robbers engaged a former Indian intelligence officer in a conversation to divert his attention and lifted a laptop from his car parked in an upscale south Delhi market, police said Thursday. S.S. Bhutalia, a retired Colonel of India's external intelligence wing RAW, told police that he had gone to South Extension market with his wife for shopping Wednesday evening when the incident took place.

January 19th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Vintage World War I era firearms like the .303 rifles are no match to the new face of terror - heavily armed with sophisticated weapons and gadgets, said top Indian police officials here advocating the need for replacing them with sophisticated weapons like the Israeli Uzi and the German MP5 submachine guns. 'We are still using the .303 rifles which are accurate and good in the field, but not in a combat situation while fighting terrorism in cities.

July 22nd, 2009 Chinese worker commits suicide over missing iPhoneGUANGZHOU, China — An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after a prototype went missing, and Apple Inc. responded Wednesday by saying its suppliers are required to treat workers with dignity and respect.

April 29th, 2009 Motorola ex-CFO denies destroying evidenceCHICAGO — Motorola Inc.'s former chief financial officer denies that he destroyed evidence by wiping files from a company laptop. Paul Liska left the company on Jan.

April 17th, 2009 VANCOUVER - In a freak incident, a young Canadian woman was killed by her laptop during an accident in the Indian-dominated city of Surrey near here, investigation reports said Thursday. According to police, investigation has established that 25-year-old Heather Storey was killed when she was hit by her laptop while driving to work last month.

June 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - China has promised to provide security gadgets worth 280 million dollars to Pakistan to support country's law-enforcement agencies, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said The Daily Times quoted Malik, as saying that the Chinese government had made the commitment to provide the gadgets during his recent visit to that country. Addressing a posthumous award-distribution ceremony to the policemen, he said the gadgets included vehicle scanners, mobile scanners and other equipment.

September 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - What do hide-and-seek, police searches and video games have in common? More than you would think, say two University of Alberta (U-A) researchers. Experimental psychologist Marcia Spetch and computer scientist Vadim Bulitko at U-A are using their research to understand the reasoning and decision-making process involved in hide-and-seek objects.

July 28th, 2009 Taiwan's Foxconn agrees on suicide compensationTAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taiwanese employer of a young Chinese man who killed himself after being interrogated over a missing iPhone prototype has agreed to pay compensation to his family, a company official said Tuesday. Sun Danyong, 25, jumped from his high-rise apartment in southern China last week after officials of Foxconn Technology Group questioned him about the whereabouts of the iPhone model that was in his possession.

September 30th, 2009 Suspected killer of labor boss charged with murderCARACAS, Venezuela — Prosecutors have brought murder charges against a man suspected of gunning down a union leader at a Toyota car assembly plant in Venezuela, but are saying nothing about a possible motive. A statement from the Attorney General's Office says prosecutors have charged Jesus Acuna with murder for the May 5 killing of Argenis Vasquez, who led a monthlong strike last year that paralyzed the Toyota plant in the eastern city of Cumana.

September 24th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A sportswear company has come up with an iPhone application and a related website where models can be seen peeling off their layers as the Australian share market takes a tumble. The application, available for free from Apple's App store, also shows the models, male and females, dressing themselves again as the market index increase in value.

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September 13th, 2009 LONDON - A firm in Edinburgh has designed a Bluetooth-based alarm that can tell absent-minded technology geeks when they have left their mobile phone or laptop behind. The device called 'Nio', a result of years of research, is soon to hit the shops.

August 4th, 2009 OC man charged with modifying video game consolesLOS ANGELES — A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 27-year-old Matthew Crippen was released Monday night after posting $5,000 bond.