Godmother Makes 15 y/o Boy an Offer He Can't Refuse

A 15-year-old boy told a judge yesterday that his former teacher, who is also his godmother, demanded that he have sex with her over a four-year period in exchange for gifts, alcohol and other favors. He said Carmina Erica Lopez had sex with him in her car, on a table in her classroom, in her bedroom, in her toddler's bedroom and in a guest room.

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Brett Favre rebuffs Vikings, will stay retired

(From the story) The Minnesota Vikings will not sign free-agent quarterback Brett Favre, a source close to the team said Thursday. The source said Favre told Vikings coach Brad Childress that he wanted to remain retired in a phone call that took place sometime in the last day. Favre is expected to publicly explain his decision soon.

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Caught on Camera -- The Best of Google Street View

Street View allows you to virtually roam the streets of towns to which you may never have even been. While this is useful for figuring directions, it's also turned out to be useful for finding amazing pictures of people doing stuff they should not be doing.

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Homo Erectus Crosses The Open Ocean

If we can find evidence of this situation in the dim past, in the early days of Homo erectus, then archeologists are fixing the time and place for one of the extraordinary events in all human history, a major advance in the evolution of the human mind.

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Ron Artest’s Throat Attacks Kobe’s Elbow

Ron Artest's throat almost injures Kobe's elbow in Game 2 of the Rockets - Lakers western conference semifinals.

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Manny Ramirez to be suspended 50 games for positive test

Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended 50 games starting today.

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Capcom preparing to release between 20 and 40 PS1 and PSP ..

Capcom is going to make its PlayStation Network presence a lot more robust as it begins releasing ports of PS1 titles and providing downloadable versions of previous PSP titles throughout the year. Joystiq spoke with Capcom’s Chris Kramer, who let them know that the company would be listening to what the community wants and figuring out internally

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New Sony motion control to take stage at E3

With the 2009 E3 just around the corner, the rumors that Sony will soon add full motion-control to the PlayStation 3 seem more plausible than ever...

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Rehabilitate Them, or Break Them: Prison Tycoon

This game might as well be called Abu Ghraib Tycoon.

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Yahoo uses "the Internet" as a source

heir general stupidity is pretty funny in its own right, but when a site as big as Yahoo utters the words "according to the Internet" you know journalism has hit a new low. That's right, evidently the Internet is a legitimate source for news. Not a specific site, the entire thing.

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Fat Princess Beta Impressions

Fat Princess is one of the most highly anticipated PSN games coming out in 2009, and many PS3 fans are looking forward to this combination of cutesy cartoon characters and blood and gore. It is quite the interesting mix, and I was lucky enough to get a chance to try it out...

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After 10,000 simulations, the top 100 NFL draft picks are...

To come up with statistical inputs for rookies, we run a very complex set of algorithms that factors collegiate performance, role in college, strength of collegiate competition, "measurables," likely NFL role, previous performance of a similar player in that NFL role for this coaching staff and trends of similar rookies in the past.

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Ladies And Gentlemen - Presenting- The Red Neck Tank Top

What is this world coming to. A friend of mine sent this to me. I know it has absolutely NOTHING to do with movies, but I just had to share this. I want to make a movie about the person… nay… VISIONARY wearing this.

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Windows 7 RC goes live

The wait is over folks, Microsoft has published the download page for the Windows 7 RC. As we noted earlier, the download was scheduled to launch tomorrow and was to be available worldwide. Coming straight from the download page, here are Microsoft's notes for the release candidate

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Ovechkin and Crosby Both Get Hat Tricks as Caps Win Game 2

Alex Ovechkin scored a hat trick, including the winner on the power play in the third period, to lift the Capitals to a 4-3 win over the Penguins Monday night at the Verizon Center in Washington. Washington's win spoiled a stellar game by Crosby, who also registered a hat trick.

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Wolverine Succeeds, MPA Now Claims Piracy Supports Terrorism

There is "substantial evidence" that D-Company -- the organized crime syndicate-turned-terrorist group controlled by India's most wanted criminal, Dawood Ibrahim -- "has used the proceeds from film piracy to fund its terrorist organization and activities in India," according to a Rand Corp. report shared Monday by the MPA.

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Swine Flu Genes Show Virus May Be Weak

Preliminary evidence suggests that swine flu may prove relatively mild, though scientists warn against drawing firm conclusions from on-the-fly early research.

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4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding

Days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal "by definition if it was authorized by the president," former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was pressed again on the subject yesterday by a fourth-grader at a Washington school.

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