07 February 2011
Further analysis of a previous marijuana study reveals there may be a relationship between the use of marijuana and the onset of psychosis. Researchers believe that people who use pot develop psychosis three years sooner than people who don’t. There are theories to the contrary – people may develop schizophrenia as a result of inflammation [...]
07 February 2011
Stephanie Roqumore pled guilty to 2 counts of wire fraud for her scheme to defraud several natural gas companies. Roqumore was a gas trader in Houston, Texas, who defrauded 12 natural gas companies of nearly $8 million from March 2002 to April 2010. Roqumore was the owner/employee of 3 natural gas trading companies – SRR [...]
07 February 2011
The U.S. Treasury collected the lowest percentage of the U.S. economy in income taxes since 1950. U.S. workers paid less in taxes because the country’s workers made less as a whole and the are more tax breaks in place. 13% less tax money will be collected this year than in 2008. U.S. corporations will earn [...]
04 February 2011
Another snow storm enveloped north Texas and caused numerous delays of football fans headed for Sunday’s Super Bowl in Dallas. Over 300 Dallas bound flights were canceled as snow covered the runways at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and smaller Love Field was closed to commercial flights. The snow came after a week of ice [...]
04 February 2011
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ husband will command the mission scheduled for April 19, 2011. Kelly will resume training for the mission after taking nearly month off to attend to his wife after she was seriously wounded in the Tucson, AZ shooting. Giffords’ recovery from her wounds is going much better than medical experts have predicted due [...]
04 February 2011
The January unemployment numbers have economists confused. The statistics showed that the unemployment rate fell from 9.4 percent to 9 percent. The jobless rate was expected to jump by a few tenths of a point.This is the lowest rate since April 2009. The number of jobs created fell to 36,000, when economists predicted a number [...]
