Hackers reportedly have embedded code in power grid WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Computer hackers have embedded software in the United States' electricity grid and other infrastructure that could potentially disrupt service or damage equipment, two former federal officials told CNN. The ex-officials say code also has been found in computer systems of oil and gas distributors. The code in the power grid was discovered in 2006 or 2007, according to one of the officials, who called it "the 21st century version of Cold War spying." Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano would not confirm such a breach, but said Wednesday that there has been no known damage caused by one. "There have been, to my knowledge, no disruptions of power on any grid caused by a deliberate cyberattack on our infrastructure -- on the grid," Napolitano said. "Nonetheless, we remain in constant protection, prevention, education, resiliency mode and we work with the utility sector particularly on that." Watch security officials explain threat » The U.S. power grid isn't the only system at risk. The former officials said malicious code has been found in the computer systems of oil and gas distributors, telecommunications companies and financial services industries. Napolitano said the vulnerability of the nation's power grid to cyberattacks "has been something that the Department of Homeland Security and the energy sector have known about for years," and that the department has programs in place to fight such attacks. Security experts say such computer hacking could be the work of a foreign government -- possibly Russia or China -- seeking to compromise U.S. security in the event of a future military conflict.

The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. While 90 percent of the guns traced to the U.S. actually originated in the United States, the percent traced to the U.S. is only about 17 percent of the total number of guns reaching Mexico. FOXNews.com Thursday, April 02, 2009 EXCLUSIVE: You've heard this shocking "fact" before -- on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States. -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it to reporters on a flight to Mexico City. -- CBS newsman Bob Schieffer referred to it while interviewing President Obama. -- California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at a Senate hearing: "It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors ... come from the United States." -- William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that "there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States." There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one: It's just not true. In fact, it's not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S. What's true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S." But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S. "Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market," Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News.

Health News U.S. middle-school youth engaging in sex April 9, 2009 HOUSTON , April 9 (UPI) -- By age 12, 12 percent of U.S. students had already engaged in vaginal sex, 7.9 percent in oral sex and 6.5 percent in anal sex, U.S. researchers have learned. Christine Markham of the University of Texas School of Public Health and colleagues examined sexual risk behaviors among middle-school students in a large southeastern U.S. urban public school district. "This is one of the few school-based studies conducted with this age group to look at specific sexual practices in order to develop more effective prevention programs," Markham said in a statement. "This study shows that although most seventh graders are not engaging in sexual risk behaviors, a small percentage are putting themselves at risk." For the purposes of the study, Markham and colleagues defined sexual intercourse as vaginal, oral or anal sex. The findings are alarming because youth who start having sex before age 14 are much more likely to have multiple lifetime sexual partners, use alcohol or drugs before sex and have unprotected sex, all of which puts them at greater risk for getting a sexually transmitted disease or becoming pregnant, Markham said. The study, published in the Journal of School Health, said one-third of the sexually active students reported engaging in vaginal or anal sex without a condom within the past 3 months and one-fourth had four or more partners, the study said.

Apr 8, 5:55 AM EDT Texas judge allows collection of dead son's sperm AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A judge has granted a mother's request to have someone harvest sperm from her dead son's body, so she can have the option of carrying out his wish to have children. Nikolas Colton Evans, 21, died Sunday at a Brackenridge hospital after being punched and falling outside an Austin bar March 27. His mother, Marissa Evans, told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that he wanted to have three sons someday and had even picked out their names: Hunter, Tod and Van. "I want him to live on. I want to keep a piece of him," she told the newspaper. Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman ruled Monday in an emergency hearing requested by the mother, because of the urgency of collecting the sperm intact. Court documents said the sperm had to be collected within 24 hours of Nikolas Evans being removed from life support unless the body was cooled to no more than 39.2 degrees. Herman ordered the county medical examiner's office to continue storing the body at the proper temperature until the sperm could be collected. Other organs and tissues were already going to be harvested from Evans' body, the judge noted, and there would be no other remedy for the mother if time expired. Evans and her attorneys were trying on Tuesday to find a urologist or other medical professional willing to collect the sperm for a possible surrogate pregnancy in the future. University of Texas law professor John Robertson, who specializes in bioethics, said state law gives parents control over a child's body for organ and tissue donations but its use for sperm "is very unclear." "There are no strong precedents in favor of a parent being able to request post-mortem sperm retrieval," he said.

Problem gambler suing OLC for $3.5 billion Man alleges casinos let him keep playing even after he sought ban Apr 08, 2009 04:30 AM A Markham man who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on slot machines is suing the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. for $3.5 billion, claiming staff allowed him to gamble even though he had authorized them to deny him entry to casinos or throw him out if he went in. In a statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court and served on OLG this week, Peter Dennis argues the province's voluntary "self-exclusion program" failed to prevent him and others from gambling, and the OLG actually profited from "problem gamblers" unable to stop themselves. The self-exclusion program allows problem gamblers to sign a form granting casino and racetrack staff the right to use their "best efforts" to bar them or remove them if they are caught inside. About 12,000 people have signed up. Rob Moore, a senior OLG vice-president, said he finds it troubling that people might think of the program as a way to not be responsible for dealing with their addiction. "It's quite dangerous and misleading to think that one could transfer the responsibility they have once they've confirmed they have an addiction onto a third party," he said. Dennis, a married father of two, became anxious and depressed after losing about $350,000 between August 2000 and May 2004 on slot machines, the unproven statement of claim alleges. He lost a further $59,000 during an 11-week binge, after which he signed a self-exclusion form at Woodbine Racetrack. The claim, filed on behalf of Dennis and his wife, Zubin Noble, asserts that OLG still allowed Dennis into gambling venues and did not detect or remove him, leading to further losses of $200,000. Dennis could not be reached for comment. His Mississauga-based lawyer, Hassan Fancy, declined to comment when reached last night. Dennis lost his two homes to foreclosure and was fired from his job as an account manager after failing to repay a loan from a client. TheStar.com | Canada |

Lightning Hybrids Unveils Prototype Hydraulic Hybrid at Denver Auto Show On Monday at the Denver Auto Show, Lightning Hybrids unveiled their concept 100-MPG hydraulic-hybrid that will vie for the Automotive X Prize. The four-door sports sedan, called the LH4, is expected to average 100 mpg on biodiesel and will compete for the Automotive X Prize in 2010. According to the company’s press release, the car will be available to the general public for $39,000-$59,000 sometime in 2011, and apparently already has a waiting list.

2011 Tesla Model S Concept Tech Deep Dive—300-Mile Range HAWTHORNE, CALIF. – It's not hard to see the drawbacks of the Tesla Roadster . Though the tiny electric sports car has plenty of speed, its two-seat configuraton and $109,000 price tag will keep it out of most garages. But the Tesla Model S sedan unveiled at SpaceX headquarters yesterday seeks to change all that and, by late 2011, offer a commercially viable electric-powered sedan that seats seven, for $57,400. That's still not an inexpensive automobile. But the figure does dip to $49,400 after the maximum $7,500 Federal Tax Credit for plug-in electric vehicles kicks in.

FVT When We Last Saw Them: The company was called Fuel Vapor Technologies . Comprised of six guys and a small garage, their prototype could already hit 100 mpg. While it contained a fuel efficient gas engine, the vehicle had no battery. The Changes: FVT has radically modified its car. It’s now a series hybrid, like the Chevy Volt , with a carbon fiber Kevlar body, a custom motor with no transmission and no differential and an aluminum frame. The body is lighter, to boost battery mileage (125 miles on the battery alone, 250 miles with the gas generator) and rather than going for lithium ion batteries, as they had planned, FVT ended up using the less expensive lithium manganese batteries. This kept the cost of the car at its target price of $40,000. The Bottom Line: With a gas-only engine, FVT was already giving 100 mpg. Now, they have a lighter hybrid-electric designed for mega mpgs. “We want to make gasoline a condiment,” said Todd Pratt, head of business operations for FVT.

Robots That Hunt in Packs The Department of Defense wants your designs for a collaborative robotic team 11.05.2008 at 12:09 pm Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle: The Department of Defense has put out a call: design a pack of robots. A so-called Multi-Robot Pursuit System would be used to "search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject." Each robot has to weigh 100 kilograms or less, act autonomously (with a human squad leader), negotiate obstacles, and provide immediate feedback. The robots would report back to a human operator, and defer to that human when the robot AI determines that a "difficult decision" is required.

Miss Maryland USA Busted for Drugs 03 Apr 2009, 7:19 PM EDT GERMANTOWN,Md. - Life has certainly changed for a Maryland beauty queen, now busted on drug charges. Police arrested Tia Shorts, Miss Maryland USA 2004, on Wednesday at her home in Germantown. Police say she and her boyfriend were dealing drugs from their apartment. She's now charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana.. It all went down at Shorts' apartment on Pickering Court. Police staked out the place Tuesday night after getting a tip from a source that her boyfriend, Joey King, had heroin. Court documents say they spotted King leaving the apartment and pulled him over a short distance away. Officers say he had heroin, crack cocaine and large amounts of cash on him. The next day, police kept the apartment under surveillance. Police say King's brother and mother showed up at the apartment. When they left, officers pulled the car over. Court documents say the pair had cocaine, a gun and more cash. Police say King's mother stuffed some of the cocaine into her bra. Inside the apartment, police say they found 29-year old Shorts and more drugs, including marijuana. She was released on 10-thousand dollars bond. No one answered the door at her apartment today. Miss Maryland USA organizers say they lost touch with Shorts after she ended her term. The onetime beauty queen was also named Miss Amity, the equivalent of the Miss Congeniality Award.

Girls dance on stage at a Spring Break dance contest at the Coca-Cola Beach at the Radisson hotel on South Padre Island, Texas Wednesday March 11, 2009.

Teacher Lindsay Massaro admits to sex with middle school boy The Star-Ledger April 08, 2009. New Jersey, Hackettstown - A student teacher at a Sussex County elementary school admitted having sexual encounters with a pupil in her car and in her bedroom prior to her arrest last week, according to an affidavit of probable cause released today by the county prosecutor's office. In a videotaped interview with law enforcement officials, Lindsay Massaro, 23, a senior at Centenary College in Hackettstown, said one of the encounters occurred in her car in Branchville. During that encounter, the two performed sex acts on each other, according to the two-page affidavit. During another encounter, on the night of March 27, Massaro stated she picked the boy up in Branchville and drove him to her house on Morris Avenue in Frankford, where they had sex "several times" in her bedroom. Massaro said she then drove the boy back to his home, according to the affidavit filed by New Jersey State Police Detective Sgt. Howard Brown. Massaro was arrested March 30 and charged with second-degree sexual assault, third-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact. The case brought to the attention of law enforcement officials earlier on the day of Massaro's arrest when Brown was contacted by the boy's father. The father claimed his son was having an "ongoing sexual relationship" with Massaro, an eighth-grade student teacher at his son's school, the K-8 Frankford Elementary School. According to the affidavit, Massaro admitted during her interview with Brown and Detective Sgt. Donald Peter of the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office to having a "consensual sexual relationship" with the boy, whom she met and befriended while student-teaching. Massaro's attorney, James Porfido, has said he would "vigorously defend" Massaro against the charges. She was released from the Sussex County jail on March 31 after posting $75,000 bail with no 10 percent option.

American bodybuilder Kai Green poses during the International Federation of Bodybuilding 2009 Australia Pro Grand Prix on Mar. 14 in Melbourne, Australia.

Sarah Hannon and Daniel Melia Cover girl rages as fella romps on jet A DRUNKEN model flew into a rage on a jet after catching her boyfriend romping with a woman next to him, it was claimed yesterday. Blonde Sarah Hannon, 35, is said to have woken from a stupor to find Daniel Melia enjoying a sex act. Daniel had got friendly with the other woman, pretty toff Clare Irby, after Sarah dozed off on a nine-hour flight to London from the Indian city of BANGALORE . Magazine covergirl Sarah went mad and had to be calmed down by the crew at 30,000ft. Armed cops boarded Kingfisher Airlines Flight IT001 at Heathrow and arrested the trio. Daniel, 36 tomorrow, and Clare, 29, were nicked for alleged gross indecency while Sarah was held for being drunk on an aircraft. All three were released on bail. The source said Sarah fell asleep after boozing with Daniel before and during the flight. Daniel then “got on well” with Clare under a blanket but was stopped by hostessess — at which point Sarah awoke and started screaming. Sarah and Daniel, of Birmingham, would not comment. Sarah’s dad Patrick said: “Her phone’s been turned off.” Clare, of Fulham, West London, whose dad is descended from Guinness brewers and whose stepdad is the grandson of a baron, had no comment.

Teacher arrested on charges of secretly filming students having sex The Tennessean • April 7, 2009 A man who taught in Murfreesboro and Metro city schools has been arrested on charges he’s been secretly taping teenagers having sex in his house. According Metro police, Louis Levine was arrested this morning by sex crimes detectives on federal charges of producing child pornography. Levine, 52, was a science teacher in Murfreesboro City Schools and an occasional substitute teacher at Metro Nashville Public Schools. He was placed on administrative leave April 1 in Murfreesboro and taken off the substitute list at Metro, according to police and school officials. According to police, Levine had an outbuilding where teenagers were given marijuana and alcohol and had sex. Levine had an elaborate monitoring system with cameras installed in the outbuilding as well as other rooms in the main house on Alton Road, according to police. Also in the home was a room with a waterbed with a wooden box over it that was wired for videotaping, police said. Hundreds of homemade videotapes were recovered from his bedroom. Teenagers interviewed by police who spent time at Levine’s house said they didn’t know they were being videotaped. According to police, people who were teenagers as far back as the 1980s told police they engaged in similar activity at Levine’s house. A neighbor said Levine had only lived in the Alton Road address for about eight to 10 years. The house once belonged to his parents and Levine moved into that house after his parents died, the neighbor said. Levine is being charged federally under a provision for interstate and foreign commerce, because the video camera and tapes he used were made in Japan, according to federal prosecutors.

Researchers suspect oral sex to blame for rise in tonsil cancer The incidence of tonsil cancer has tripled in the city of Stockholm since the 1970s and doctors at the world-famous Karolinska Institute there think they know why. Oral sex. Or perhaps French kissing. And changes in sexual behavior that took place 20 or 30 years ago, says Tina Dalianis, a professor of tumor virology at Karolinska. Her research has directly linked the increase in tonsil cancers to the human papillomavirus (HPV). There are more than 100 different types of HPV, some of which cause cancer. One, for example, is responsible for 99.7% of all cervical cancers. The study found that patients with HPV in their mouths are much more likely to get tonsil cancer than patients who don’t have it. In fact for patients who are HPV-positive, the rate of tonsil cancer has gone up seven times since the '70s, Dalianis says. It takes between 20 and 30 years for an HPV infection to result in cancer, so the people getting sick now were infected in the '70s and '80s. “It’s an epidemic,” she says. Prior to this, the greatest risk factor for tonsil cancer was drinking and smoking. As smoking rates have dropped, the number of tobacco-linked tonsil cancers has declined. Researchers monitored everyone in the Stockholm area diagnosed with tonsil cancer between 2003 and 2007. Their study, recently published in the International Journal of Cancer , found that of 120 patients who got the cancer, at least 83 were HPV-positive. Tonsil cancer is dangerous because it has almost no symptoms, so many people don’t seek medical attention until it has spread to their lymph nodes and is much harder to treat. “If they have a lump in their throat, especially if it’s on one side and it doesn’t go away with antibiotics, they should see a doctor,” Dalianis says. One bright spot is that a vaccine against the cancer-causing HPV16 virus has been available since 2006 and is now being given to many girls between the ages of 10 and 12 to prevent cervical cancer. Dalianis hopes that it may help prevent tonsil cancers as well. --By Elizabeth Weise , USA TODAY

A rare two-seat Spitfire with an estimated value of between £1.5 and £2 million, which will be sold by a private seller on April 20 at the RAF Museum in Hendon, north London, by Bonhams.

Mom drugged 13-year-old daughter so she’d get pregnant By Associated Press April 2, 2009 - UNIONTOWN, Pa. - A western Pennsylvania mother has been charged with giving her 13-year-old daughter drugs and alcohol so the woman’s boyfriend could get the girl pregnant, police said Thursday. Shana Brown, 32, is no longer able to have children but wanted to have a baby with her current boyfriend, Duane Calloway, said Uniontown Police Det. Donald Gmitter. The pair decided to drug the girl so Calloway, 40, could have sex with her without her knowledge, he added. Calloway faces several counts of attempted rape. Calloway attempted to rape the girl three times. The first time, in February, the girl was alone with Calloway while her mother went out to buy pizza, according to the criminal complaint. Calloway began groping her and she kicked him away, the documents stated. A few weeks later, the girl believes her mother spiked her Pepsi with rum, according to police. The girl told them she felt ill after drinking the Pepsi, passed out and later threw up. She was also partially naked when she woke up and Calloway was in the room, according to the criminal complaint. The third incident occurred in mid-March, when the girl told police she came home early from school because she was not feeling well. She said her mother forced her to drink tea, and then she immediately fell asleep. The girl said she pretended she was asleep until Calloway made a move, at which point she bolted upright and he left the room. In a search of the Brown residence, police said they found an empty rum bottle, Tylenol PM and a pill crusher.

ShamWow: But Wait, There's More... Crime scene pics document TV pitchman's brutal encounter with hooker APRIL 8- - On the following slides you will find a selection of police evidence photos memorializing the recent bloody battle between TV pitchman Vince Shlomi and a Miami hooker. As you've likely heard, the ShamWow chieftain, 44, paid Sasha Harris $1000 for "straight sex," which was to occur in Shlomi's $750-a-night room at the lavish Setai hotel. But things went sideways when, according to an account Shlomi gave cops , he kissed the 26-year-old Harris, who responded by biting his tongue and not letting go. Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. Prosecutors subsequently decided not to pursue charges against either combatant.

In Thailand the ‘Ladymen’ are highy respected and admired by the Thai women for their beauty. For a single man visiting Pattaya Beach in Thailand, chances are his night begins with escorting his ‘girlfriend to the ..…..‘Ladyman Show’. The cost of a ‘girlfriend’ in Thailand for one night? ………say 800 Baht / $25.00 The price for a ‘Ladyman’ in Thailand for one night? ……..3000 Baht / $85 …. I t has been said that this has to do with the (Buddhist) ‘girlfriend’ usually not caring to place her head in a man’s lap for any reason. But legend has it…that if a ‘Ladyman’ cares to cavort with a paying ‘Falang’… he / she can remove the ‘chrome off a trailer hitch’. Whatever that means………

Good-bye Megan Joy ….you can’t sing and you can’t dance but If Hugh calls…. please pick up the phone and say “ yes ”.