Obituary: Vernon 'Lou' Hlubek hunted WWII submarines from a blimp

Vernon "Lou" Hlubek, a Navy veteran who hunted enemy submarines from blimps and served on a military operation in Antarctica, died Sunday of complications from a recent fall, his family said. He was 89. Vernon "Lou" Hlubek

sacbee.com (1 month and 25 days ago)

Wachowskis, 'Babylon 5' creator making Netflix series

The show is a sci-thriller and "a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted," a statement said

nj.com (1 month and 25 days ago)

Blip: Netflix snaps up Matrix makers to create new sci-fi show

Andy and Lana Wachowski are making the next Netflix original series, a sci-fi show called Sense8. The siblings, behind such films as The Matrix when it was good but also when it was bad and the criminally underrated Speed Racer, are teaming up with J. Michael Straczynski who created Babylon 5. Netflix says it's a...

techradar.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

Going, going, gone - dodo bone up for sale in London

LONDON (Reuters) - A rare four-inch fragment of a dodo bone will go on sale in Britain in April, around 300 years after the flightless bird and icon of obsolescence was hunted to extinction.

reuters.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

Wachowskis to make sci-fi series "Sense8" for Netflix

Netflix calls the 10-episode series, which will debut late next year, "a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted"

cbsnews.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

Straczynski and the Wachowskis Bringing "Sense8" Exclusively to Netflix

Filed under: Investing Netflix continues its push into original programming with supernatural series Sense8 , backed by genre veterans J. Michael Straczynski and Andy and Lana Wachowski. Sense8, a "gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted," will be coming exclusively to Netflix in late 2014, the...

dailyfinance.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

Bear Hunt Vote Today By Legislative Committee

A state legislative committee is voting today on a bill that would establish a bear hunt, and if the measure eventually became law, it would be the first time since 1840 that bears are hunted legally in Connecticut.

courant.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

Brazilian chief uses technology to help save his tribe, and curb deforestation

SEVENTH OF SEPTEMBER RESERVE, Brazil — As a small boy in the early ’80s, Almir Surui hunted monkeys with a bow and arrow, wore a loincloth and struggled with Brazil’s official language, Portuguese. At 38, he is the techno-savvy, university-educated chief of the Paiter Surui, or “the real people,” of this western...

washingtonpost.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

Bald Eagle Cam Gives Birds-Eye View Of Hatching Eggs

A bald eagle live cam on California's Catalina Island is streaming live footage of two majestic eagles keeping watch over a trio of precious eggs expected to hatch around March 31. The live stream features two eagles, a female named Wray and a male nicknamed "Superman," who have made their home in a nest high up on...

huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 27 days ago)

Great apes pushed to brink of extinction by illegal animal trade as 'orangutans are hunted down...

The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife — clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction — is also threatening the survival of great apes, a new U.N. report says.

nydailynews.com (1 month and 27 days ago)

THE TOP SPIN: Hunted England wear haunted look as they struggle in New Zealand

LAWRENCE BOOTH: Put simply, England have become a self-conscious side: vulnerable when all eyes are on them, they tend to thrive when expectations and gazes have been lowered.

dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 27 days ago)

Salisbury travel tips: great bustard birdwatching on the plain

Salisbury Plain is the perfect spot for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts to catch a glimpse of the once extinct great bustardBetween the middle of the 19th century and the early 21st, the heaviest wild breeding bird in the UK was the mute swan at around 11kg. In 2004, a retired policeman from Wiltshire hatched...

guardian.co.uk (2 months ago)

'The Croods' leads a crew of weekend box-office contenders

The animated caveman tale "The Croods" may have hunted down the competition this past weekend, but it still couldn't light a fire under the box office.

miamiherald.com (2 months ago)

Police hunt for dispensary burglars

Police hunted Saturday for at least two burglars who stole from a medical marijuana dispensary. Officers responded to a burglar alarm just after 2:30 a.m. Saturday at Discreet Treats on 288 S. Academy Blvd. The store's front window was broken and...

gazette.com (2 months and 2 days ago)

Victim hunted their land, widow once baked them bread: Hearing reveals deteriorating relationship...

Please customize "Site Name"WILLMAR — Timothy Larson’s widow testified Friday morning that her husband’s relationship with Timothy Huber soured after Huber allowed the Larsons to hunt deer on his father’s land in 2005...

wctrib.com (2 months and 2 days ago)

Duke, Doug McDermott, UCLA: NCAA Tournament Day 2

It's Friday and by now, your so called flu-like symptoms should be in full effect. You're still home, battling the elements, and watching the NCAA Tournament. To this, I applaud your efforts. With Thursday in the books, let the round of 64 roll on again. Here are 10 things to watch for when you're not puking or...

huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 3 days ago)

Richmond man's '95 death sentence upheld

Richmond man's '95 death sentence upheld A defense psychologist testified at Pearson's trial that Pearson was psychotic and delusional, but prosecution witnesses disagreed, and the jury found that the killings were premeditated. The court unanimously rejected defense challenges to Pearson's convictions and sentence,...

sfgate.com (2 months and 3 days ago)

Hungry Otters A Problem In B.C.

VANCOUVER - How many otters is too many?In the early 1900's, these adorable-but-ferocious predators were hunted to near extinction for their luxurious fur.With continual conservation efforts, the sea otter population is growing, and along with it the marine mammal's appetite for shellfish.First Nations and other...

huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 3 days ago)

Senate Hopeful Admits Eating a Lion

Political candidates often eat their words, but less often jungle cats. Congressman Paul Broun is the exception to that rule. Broun, R-Ga., said in an interview published this morning that he once hunted and ate a lion. “The lion wasn’t particularly tasty,” he told the...

abcnews.com (2 months and 4 days ago)

Lion-Eating Senate Hopeful Has Taste for Controversy

Political candidates often eat their words, but less often jungle cats. Congressman Paul Broun is the exception to that rule. Broun, R-Ga., said in an interview published this morning that he once hunted and ate a lion. “The lion wasn’t particularly tasty,” he told the...

abcnews.com (2 months and 4 days ago)

Obituary: Robert Brizendine / Consummate outdoorsman

The active outdoorsman who hunted, fished, hiked, raced stock cars and shot trap and skeet, died at age 71.

post-gazette.com (2 months and 4 days ago)

The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review

Personal lust and political drama unite in this devilish carousel of a novel, says Nikita LalwaniStanley Kubrick's celebrated 1964 satire on the atomic bomb, Dr Strangelove, famously ends with the eponymous character stepping out of a wheelchair, thrilled that he can suddenly walk. As he does so, mushroom clouds...

guardian.co.uk (2 months and 4 days ago)

Candida Moss: The Myth Of Christian Persecution

Christians of all denominations maintain that the Early Church was widely persecuted. They state that in the first few centuries after the death of the Messiah, Christians were hunted, tortured and killed just for following Christ. This persecution is believed to have begun with the deaths of Stephen, the Apostles,...

huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 5 days ago)

Is a Twitter Music Service a Threat to Pandora?

Filed under: Investing CNET recently reported that Twitter has acquired We Are Hunted, a music discovery service similar to Pandora . CNET asserts that Twitter plans to use the acquisition to launch its own music discovery service through an iOS app that could come as early as the end of this month. In the video...

dailyfinance.com (2 months and 5 days ago)

Chinese fraudster finds there is such a thing as a free lunch

A middle-aged and clearly well-fed fraudster is being hunted in China after he posed as a high-ranking government official and went on free junkets for years.

independent.co.uk (2 months and 5 days ago)

Lowell child-rape suspect caught in Puerto Rico

A Lowell man hunted for two years on a warrant charging statutory aggravated rape of a child was captured today at a relative’s home in Caguas, Puerto Rico, by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force.Jose Rodriguez, 33, is being held at the Bayamon Regional Institution in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and will be charged as a...

bostonherald.com (2 months and 5 days ago)

Video: ECE students entertain residents at The Glen

Students from 81st Street Early Childhood Education Center entertained residents at The Glen Retirement Center this morning before they received Easter baskets and hunted more than 1,000 eggs.

shreveporttimes.com (2 months and 6 days ago)

Mich. jury deliberates fate of grandson-killing grandma

Sandra Layne says she acted in self-defense; prosecutor says she 'hunted' grandson.

usatoday.com (2 months and 6 days ago)

Prosecutor: Michigan grandma 'hunted down' grandson

thetimesherald.com (2 months and 6 days ago)

Jury deliberates case against Michigan grandmother

A woman "hunted down" her teenage grandson in her suburban Detroit home and shot at him 10 times over a six-minute span, ignoring his desperate pleas for help to a 911 dispatcher, a prosecutor told jurors Monday, urging them to convict her of first-degree murder.

pjstar.com (2 months and 6 days ago)