| Camden police again getting new leaders
TRENTON, N.J. - Camden is getting a change in police leadership for the fifth time in less than six years. The latest configuration makes the most sense for a city that has consistently ranked among the nation's most dangerous, said Attorney General Anne Milgram, who announced the changes on Monday. But it also promises more changes before long. The new structure creates two top leadership posts, a civilian police director and a uniformed chief of police. John Huertas, a former major in the state police who had been working as the head of security of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey becomes acting police director, filling a civilian post devoted largely to police policy. He is scheduled to take the position on Tuesday, replacing Arturo Venegas, who has resigned as the civilian head of the department.
Trump has made us look like a nation of parochial bumblers
I suppose that there's no way to avoid writing about Donald Trump this weekend, now that Alex Salmond's dealings with the hirsute property tycoon have landed him - we are told - in the nationalist government's first "sleaze scandal". Hmm. Even given the elastic nature of that term, I think it is stretching it to suggest corruption here. Favouritism, perhaps. Indecent haste, maybe. But improper behaviour? I don't think so. The affair does, however, betray a certain naivety on the part of the SNP and a want of good taste in leaping to the defence of a rather tacky real estate development as if it were a national treasure. Trump is a big mouth and a bully - just look at his books and TV show. He is drunk on his own vanity and his own dubious charisma. The SNP would be advised to use rather longer spoons in future when they sup with casino developers who appear to have made a career out of averting bankruptcy.
'Pizza! The Movie' is a terrific tale of the industry
Dorian now is working to get the 93-minute final product shown at about three dozen of America�s 1,500 independent film festivals. The goal is to have a film distributor buy the rights to it, show it at theaters and eventually reproduce it for DVD sales. Film documentary heaven "Pizza!" provides an in-depth look at the industry by addressing its history both in America and Italy. Cat Price visited Naples to film a few Italian pizzaioli in the city where commercial pizza got its start. Appropriately, however, more attention is focused on American pizza pioneers who turned the humble pie into a $33 billion-dollar industry. From aging pizza greats like Domenic De Marco, owner of Di Fara�s Pizza in Brooklyn, to Frank Carney, co-founder of Pizza Hut (and now a Papa John�s franchisee), seemingly everyone gets to present their takes on pizza.
China Raises 800-Year-Old Sunken Ship
After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported.
Archeologists have unearthed a Roman-era cemetery dating from the 3rd century A.D. in northeast Syria, one of several recent discoveries in the history-rich country.
U.S. and Puerto Rican archaeologists say they have found the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean, which could shed light on virtually every aspect of Indian life in the region.
Whenever the world's tropical seas warm several degrees, Earth has experienced mass extinctions over millions of years, according to a first-of-its-kind statistical study of fossil records.
The skeleton of what's believed to be a new dinosaur species -- a 32 meter (105-foot) plant-eater that is among the largest dinosaurs ever found -- has been uncovered in Argentina.
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