Miscellaneous News.

Just as it seemed the Mogul/Verdi/Reno earthquakes were subsiding, another quake shook the area last night. It was a 3.8.

I didn't feel anything. I was just dozing off after trying to watch a DVD.
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A woman who won a $5 million Georgia lottery last year on her birthday was slain by her ex-boyfriend, according to authorities.

The woman, Doris Murray, wanted to receive the winnings in annual payments and lived modestly.
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Bill Hargrove, 106, the oldest league bowler of all time, has died just a few days before his 107th birthday.

Here is some trivia:

In May 2007, just after turning 106, Mr. Hargrove was feted and fussed over at Suburban Lanes in Decatur. Cameras flashed and spectators oohed as the United States Bowling Congress presented him with a custom-made plaque inscribed to "the oldest league bowler ever."

The organization said as far as it knew, he was the oldest bowler in the world.

The honor did not slip up on him unawares.

"I was hell-bent on getting it," he said in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article at the time, knowing full well that a Florida bowler had previously made it to 105.

William C. Hargrove, 106, of Clermont was admitted to Northeast Georgia Medical Center a few days after his last game and died there of congestive heart failure Monday, four days shy of his 107th birthday.


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Another politician couldn't keep his pants zipped.
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The platypus is as strange on the inside as on the outside.
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Could the Burma/Myanmar cyclone have a death toll greater than the 2004 tsunami?

If the death toll is a half million, that would rival the East Pakistan/Bangladesh cyclone of 1970.
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