Blog Heap of Links for the day 17 February 2009

just as the wife and the mistress planned... The deputy on scene noted that Katherine wasn't injured — and that Warren had several scratches on his face, neck and chest. But because Warren was the first one to get physical, he was deemed the primary aggressor in the fight.

You'll be able to charge any new mobile phone from the same universal charger beginning on January 1, 2012. -- Except the iPhone.

stopped his car to answer a call of nature - and watched in horror as it slid over a cliff... wife and children... in the passenger seats... all escaped unharmed.

Former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean left their cells in solitary confinement to reunite with their families in El Paso, Texas, today. ... After serving two years in federal prison in solitary confinement for shooting a fleeing Mexican drug smuggler who had brought 750 pounds of marijuana into the U.S., Ramos and Compean are being released into home confinement until March 20. The news came only two weeks after the Federal Bureau of Prisons told WND they could be eligible to finish sentences at home.

ConocoPhillips says it plans to relocate 750 jobs out of Ponca City within two years... 180 going to Houston, and the rest to Bartlesville...

stone carvers got George Washington's words wrong on the landmark Manhattan Supreme Courthouse

A House committee passed a bill Monday intended to stop the "silent auction" of children by cracking down on attorneys who sell and traffic children up for adoption.

captured and tackled by a woman 50 pounds lighter than him. The woman we are told used a wedgie

Disney is creating a film with an African-American princess... animated musical "The Princess and The Frog," is the first princess introduced by Disney since Mulan in 1998.