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The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars

Time Magazine - Sun Nov 8, 11:54 am ET

More people play Mafia Wars than live in Australia. Or maybe it's playing them

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Iran hangs four drug smugglers: report
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 4:28 am ET
Iran has hanged four drug smugglers in the southern province of Kerman, Watan Emrooz newspaper reported on Sunday, taking the overall number of executions so far in 2009 to more than last year's total.
Nepal emerges as 'poacher's paradise'
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 1:26 am ET
Forest warden Narendra Man Babu Pradhan is on the frontline of Nepal's battle against poachers and he grimaces as he recalls the recent discovery of an injured rhino whose horn had been cut off.
Narcs are tribal thumpers
New York Post - Sun Nov 8, 9:23 am ET
MOHAWK NATION OF AKWESASNE -- The NYPD has gone on the reservation -- sending its drug czar upstate to try to help cut off a massive pipeline of pot and ecstasy to the city run by Mohawk Indian smugglers on the Canadian border. "I was astounded at...
Former mob collector accused of sexual abuse
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - 2 hours 59 minutes ago
A former strong-armed collector for a faction of the Rochester mob has been indicted on charges that he sexually abused a Rochester boy.
Wall Street firms skittish about RUSAL IPO: report
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 7, 2:45 pm ET
Wall Street firms are in a quandary about getting involved with a planned public offering of Russian aluminum producer UC RUSAL because its founder has been barred from getting a U.S. visa on account of allegations that he is connected to organized crime, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Judge ejects two jurors from Gotti trial
YourNabe.com - 1 hour 8 minutes ago
Federal Judge Kevin Castel fired two rancorous jurors from the jury hearing John Gotti Jr.’s racketeering trial tody, setting off a screaming, profanity-laced protest from the mother of the reputed mobster.
Four drug smugglers hanged in Iran
WashingtonTV - Sun Nov 8, 12:37 pm ET
Washington, 8 November (WashingtonTV)—Iran hanged four convicted drug smugglers in the southern province of Kerman, the Vatan-e Emrooz newspaper reported on Sunday.
Defending Indonesia's wildlife a formidable task
The News Journal - Sun Nov 8, 7:08 am ET
The monkey, shackled to an iron stake, paced a narrow strip of dirt filled with its own excrement.
Readorama | Regional history; Missouri nature; notable nonfiction
The Kansas City Star - Sat Nov 7, 11:16 pm ET
New in paperback, “American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State” (328 pages, $21.95, Indiana University Press) by Stephen Aron, director of the Institute for the Study of the American West.
Extortion charges filed in ‘kidnap’
New Haven Register - Sun Nov 8, 2:56 am ET
Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — A wealthy health care executive came home one night in September to find a terrifying note from his wife, Quinn Gray: The 37-year-old housewife and mother of two had been abducted from her posh Florida beach community.
Hunting the hunters of endangered wildlife
Macomb Daily - Sun Nov 8, 6:11 am ET
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Mexican drug cartels recruiting youths
Macomb Daily - Sun Nov 8, 6:11 am ET
Replacements needed for tens of thousands killed, arrested in wars
Youths sucked into drug cartels
The Bryan-College Station Eagle - Sun Nov 8, 1:14 am ET
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- The number of minors swept up in Mexico's drug wars -- as killers and victims -- is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic culture of fast money, drug abuse and murder is creating a "lost generation."Al ...
Unsolved double homicide highlights fight against gangs
Bradenton Herald - Sun Nov 8, 12:00 am ET
MANATEE — Pastor Jerry Parrish counseled two young men trying to save them from a life of gangs, but the worst still happened: Irwin Figueroa and Rubin Gonzalez-Garduno, both 18, were gunned down on the streets of Manatee.
Drug trafficker receives 20-year sentence
The Allen American - Sun Nov 8, 1:38 am ET
A member of a large drug trafficking and money laundering operation was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Friday.