I hear that oil is up to $120/barrel this morning. You have to wonder why non-OPEC countries are not taking advantage of this by pumping more oil.
CNN did a report about luxury sales being way up due to those of us not experiencing the recession. These people seem to be out bargain hunting while the rest of the world taking advantage of the US dollar. Meanwhile, we are paying more at the grocery store and everywhere else.
The California wildfires are back at it again. You've got to read this story about the father who kept his daughter captive. Scroll down for more info.
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In Calif. - Fire crews battling a wildfire had a close call as winds, which had been fairly tame, unexpectedly kicked up and sent flames within yards of several houses. There have been at least 1000 people who have had to leave their homes in the LA area.
A sweet deal. Snickers and M&Ms candy maker Mars Inc. is buying Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., which makes Juicy Fruit and Doublemint gum and Life Savers, for about $23 billion in cash.
Family owned Mars is the world's largest chocolate seller.
An 300 pound inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge is suing the county, complaining he has lost more than 100 pounds because of the jailhouse menu. The inmate, says he isn't happy that he's down to 308 pounds after eight months in the Benton County jail. He has filed a federal lawsuit complaining the jail doesn't provide inmates with enough food. The inmate weighed 413 pounds when he was jailed in September. Police say he and a co-defendant fatally beat and stabbed a man, then set his home on fire.
Have you heard this one??? A 73-year-old Austrian electrical engineer has confessed to holding his daughter captive in a secret, windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children by her. The daughter, now 42, told police that her father lured her into the basement of the plain, grey block where they lived with other families in 1984 and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her.
Three of her children, aged 19, 18 and 5, had been locked up in the basement with her since birth and had never seen sunlight, police said, raising worries about their physical and mental state. The younger two were boys, the eldest a girl.
Gets worse.
The father had also admitted to burning the body of one of the children when it died shortly after birth . Austrian media reported he had burned the corpse in a boiler.
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