| Two traders recovered, Afghan kidnappers arrested
RAWALPINDI: The city police have busted a six-member gang of Afghan kidnappers and recovered two businessmen and three pistols from their custody, said City Police Officer (CPO) Saud Aziz while addressing a press conference at his office on Friday.
Aziz said the six-member gang, including two women, was most wanted on their list and was busted on Jan 13. He said the gang kidnapped two well-known businessmen, Shahid Mehmood and Shahbaz Bhatti of Islamabad Fruit Mandi, on November 29, 2007 from New Town police limits.
The kidnappers demanded a ransom of Rs50 million from the family members of the abducted businessmen for their safe release. The families agreed to pay the ransom but police asked them to delay the payment.
The CPO said the kidnappers brought the ransom down to Rs 30 million.
PBS lurching ever more to the left
Most of the cooking shows are bland and greedy asking a premium for second rate food and recipes in a cheap book. Quality shows (like both Antiques Roadshow) could make it commercially. The cooking from cable TV is much better and most is available on the web so leave PBS to those with more good feelings than sense and skip the channels and the unending pledge breaks. Oh yeah, also cut off the government money so they are totally free to do as they like and produce anything they think necessary. That is, IF they can afford it. Whenever someone suggests cutting the funds they always whine that government funding is only a timy part, so make up the tiny part and save that pittance for the budget. .
Cleanup begins in Soutgate apartment fire
SHERMAN — Residents of Sherman's Southgate Apartments spent Tuesday salvaging what they could from their homes burned Monday when someone's dinner caught fire and that blaze ate through walls and roof.Sherman Fire Chief J.J. Jones said he and Fire Marshal Danny Fuller traced the fire to apartment 223 to a frying pan encased in a melted stove vent hood. Tortillas were on the counter next to it, but the occupant who was seen leaving the apartment just before flames were visible in the window has not been located. Jones said they do not suspect that he was injured or intentionally set the fire. Thirty to 40 residents of the apartment at 915 S. Travis went to an emergency shelter the Texoma Chapter of the American Red Cross set up Monday evening. However, the apartment complex's owners and manager were able to have the electricity reconnected before midnight.
Cancer's immortal archenemy: compassion
Rob and Leslie Killette grew up in South Tampa. They root for the Bucs. They go to Gasparilla. They graduated from Plant High. "We're never leaving," Rob said. "We'll be here forever." They got married in 1992 and had two kids, Robby and Tyler Anne. Today, Rob, 40, is a sales manager for Sprint; Leslie, 37, is a prekindergarten teacher. They're the couple who can't have a small cookout because they can't invite So-and-So without asking So-and-So, and on and on. So when the sad news came, it quickly filtered through the community, into schools, churches, youth athletic leagues. Just 10 years old, Robby Killette had cancer. The fifth-grader was getting ready last fall for his day at Mabry Elementary School, where his mom also works, when she noticed that his left jaw was swollen.
Joe Sixpack: Chocolate beer: For Aztecs, not wusses
AS VALENTINE'S Day rears its head, it seems appropriate to examine the unmanly topic of chocolate and beer. I say "unmanly" because of all the strange, new brews that are challenging our palates these days, it's chocolate-flavored beer that seems to draw the most viscerally negative response from the mainstream lager crowd. Offer a taste to one of these guys, and it's as if they'd been asked to wear pink underwear and sip their suds from Lennox teacups. A new body of archeological and chemical research, however, provides a completely different image. Namely: Aztec warriors dragging their human sacrifice to the top of a pyramid, ripping his still-beating heart from his chest, then cooking up the beaten corpse for a festive orgy. And what did they wash it all down with? Chocolate beer, of course.
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