| Cardinals release Spiezio
IRVINE, Calif. | Utilityman Scott Spiezio was cut by the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, released after being charged in a six-count complaint involving drunken driving and assault in a December car crash.</p><p>“We had heard some things about this,” Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said. “Ultimately nothing was ever confirmed to the level it was today. To have this warrant put out there, it completely changes the landscape of what we're dealing with.”</p><p>A warrant was issued Tuesday for Spiezio, who missed more than a month last year while getting treatment for substance abuse. The warrant was recalled Wednesday after Spiezio's attorney appeared in court, and the arraignment was continued to March 26.</p><p>The Orange County district attorney charged Spiezio with misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence, driving under the influence with a blood alcohol content of .08 percent or more, hit and run, aggravated assault, assault and battery.</p><p>Spiezio, 35, did not play in Wednesday's exhibition game against St.
Firefighting teams take over high-rise, race up 10 flights for ...
Three times yesterday, separate teams of 60 or so firefighters raced to put out imaginary fires at the 11-story building. The San Diego Fire and Rescue sent teams from as far away as Rancho Bernardo to the north and the Mexican border to the south. Between 10 and 12 fire-fighting vehicles were involved in each drill, including a helicopter that circled the unfinished building, radioing commands to the firefighters inside. Although the exercise involved 60 percent of the fire department's vehicles, enough were left behind to cope with actual fires that might have taken place yesterday, said Battalion Chief Jon Handley. The firefighters raced to the 10th floor to put out the nonexistent fire as well as check to see whether anyone needed help. "Fire Department!" they called out.
TV screens to get bigger, smaller
In Las Vegas, the world's top equipment makers gather for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, probably the best place in the world for getting an insight into what devices are expected to set the market afire in the coming year. Soon after, the focus shifts to San Francisco, where Apple gathers its faithful for MacWorld, its main annual conference. Below are some of this year's highlights from the two events. Flash memory ONE development certain to drive innovation in electronic gadgets this year is the growth in capacity and versatility of flash memory. So fast is flash capacity growing that these small cards are beginning to challenge hard drives as the main medium for storage. At this month's CES, for example, Panasonic upped the ante by announcing a 32GB SD card capable of storing more than five hours of high-definition video footage.
Marine program aims to beef up brainpower
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Marine Capt. Brian Iglesias saw a man go from store to store, talking with shopkeepers in Ramadi, Iraq. Outwardly, there was nothing unusual about the man. He looked like everybody else. Later, as Iglesias and his unit rolled through town, they saw shopkeepers board up their stores. And then it happened. The Marines were shot at -- caught in a rolling street fight in which one of their own was killed. .
Ex-mobster a big hit warning college, pro athletes about gambling's ...
FAIRFAX, Va. -- It's clear right away - long before the woman sitting up front asks, ''Did you shoot anyone?'' - that this guy with the straight-out-of-central-casting Brooklyn accent and gold chain is not your typical college lecturer. It's clear from Michael Franzese's life story - the 17 years in the mafia, the millions upon millions of ill-gotten gains, the ''Yuppie Don'' nickname, the prison term - that he is a breed apart from the professors usually addressing this crowd. And it's clear, from the wide eyes and dropped jaws in a George Mason University auditorium on a recent evening, that these kids in their gray hooded sweat shirts are listening intently, drawn in by Franzese's message and mien. They're hearing Franzese deliver the same, simple points he makes to college athletes and coaches, to NBA rookies and Major League Baseball players and umpires, to professional tennis players and NFL veterans.
Terry McCrann
WE are caught between the US slashing interest rates and our Reserve Bank putting them up. And it's against the backdrop of an Australian broker failing to settle trades for the first time since the Australian Stock Exchange switched to computers almost 20 years ago. For almost five hours last Tuesday, hundreds of millions of dollars of share trades were frozen in limbo. Video: Terry McCrann's business wrap Throw in that $8 billion forex loss by giant French bank Societe Generale, another multi-billion dollar sub-prime write-off by Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS, and it all adds up to disturbing confusion and complexity. Certainly, we are living in "interesting times". Are they about to turn interestingly nasty? For investors? For jobs? For your standard of living? In fact, the local outcome from all of this is encouraging resilience.
FEATURE: No holiday for many domestics
In Chinese societies, the most important festival is the Lunar New Year, when families reunite in a holiday atmosphere. Many migrant workers in Taiwan, however, do not have the luxury of a holiday. Lunar New Year's day falls this year on Thursday and most people have six days off, although many workers from Southeast Asia will see their workloads increased, particularly the 160,000 domestic workers and caregivers who make up almost half of the 360,000 foreign laborers in Taiwan. Such is the case for Mary, a young Indonesian who came to Taiwan one-and-a-half years ago. Working as a domestic helper, she starts her day at 6am by preparing breakfast, then goes to market, cleans the house and takes out the garbage. She doesn't get to call it a day until after 11pm. Ostensibly hired to take care of an elderly member of her bosses family, in reality that is only a small portion of her strenuous workload.
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