Rarely does a one-term mayor of a small, largely anonymous suburb gain national acclaim. But Judith B. Petrucci was not your ordinary one-term mayor.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters): Google Inc is making another push to bring its Web savvy to television sets, hoping to tap into a vast new market despite consumers’ lukewarm reaction to one of its initial offerings. The Internet search engine unveiled a revamped version of its Google TV service and announced plans to create about one ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Sri Lanka on Sunday to make progress on human rights before it hosts the next Commonwealth leaders meeting in 2013 to prevent the likelihood of boycotts, AFP reported. Cameron said he pressed President Mahendra Rajapaske during this year's Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Australia to show that Colombo did not "have things to hide" fol...

Nugegoda (Srilankamirror) - editor of ‘The Sunday Leader’ Fredericka Jansz complained to Mirihana Police around 7.30 last night (Oct. 27) that she has been threatened with death. According to police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana, the complainant says she has received an anonymous letter threatening her with death. She is the main witness in the ‘white flag’ case, of whic...

The Sunday Leader Editor Frederica Jansz  lodged a complaint with the Mirihana Police today that she has received an anonymous letter asking her to stop writing her articles and threatening her with bodily harm.   The letter which she had received on Thursday was also handed over to the Mirihana Police.   Members of the Special investigation unit of the Mirihana Police have been assigned to invest...

By Champa Fernando KACPAW (Kandy Association for Community Protection through Animal Welfare) These ownerless pups, now barely one month, were cut up by veterinarians who have taken the tender to sterilise dogs in the Central Province on  September 26, when the pups would have been barely three weeks old, having just opened their eyes. We ...

When we make amends, we begin to see the freedom of non-attachment and to see ourselves in more generic terms: as humans, prone to error, but doing our best. Read more: Recovery, Buddhist Meditation, 12 Steps, Mindfulness, Twelve Steps, Mindful Recovery, Buddhism, Ego Attachment, Religion and Recovery, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, Buddhism and Recovery, Making Amends, ...

Woman arrested after anonymous tip, official saysA Cook County Forest Preserve District employee has been charged with growing marijuana, county officials said Friday.

An anonymous band of artists paints a huge pair of scissors and a long dotted line on obsolete Matilija Dam near Ojai. The message? Tear the thing down already.If life imitated art, it would be a simple matter to follow the dotted line and snip a 200-foot dam near Ojai off the face of the earth.

An anonymous caller who had called the UNP Secretary Tissa Attanayake had warned him to be cautious over an attempt of harming his life, said the Cinnamon Gardens Police to...

Sept 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Computer Emergency and Readiness Team (SLERT) chief engineer Rohana Palliyaguru says there is no information to indicate that an anonymous Sri Lankan group has hacked into the DNS servers of several large international and local organizations.

No complaints have been made regarding the hacking of the DNS servers of many international company websites by the Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous while no serious effects have yet to be felt following the breach, the Computer Emergency and Readiness Team (CERT) stated.

The Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous claims to have hacked into the DNS servers of Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and several other large organizations over the past few days. .

Anonymous Sri Lanka says that it's breached the DNS servers of several major companies, including Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Skype, and Cisco.

Downtown San Francisco train stations and a swath of busy Market Street close as followers of the 'hacktivist' group Anonymous protest alleged police brutality. No arrests or injuries have been reported.Law enforcement and transit officials shut down four downtown San Francisco train stations and closed a swath of busy Market Street during the height of the evening commute Monday in response to a ...

The effort by the group Anonymous in response to the deaths of two men was apparently thwarted in Fullerton. But officials at Bay Area Rapid Transit had to shut down a marketing site.A group of activist hackers launched attacks Sunday against the websites of the Fullerton Police Department and the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in response to the recent deaths of two men in confrontations with the ...

Aug 01, Colombo: The A Singapore-based international arbitrator has dismissed a Citi Bank claim against Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on the payment of soured hedging deal, Reuters report said citing anonymous sources .

Once a year, the department's captains are picked apart and ranked by anonymous underlings in a union-sponsored newsletter delivered for all to see. The scorecards often are viewed with dread — and rarely ignored.James Hellmold got the call from a fellow captain in the middle of the workday.

Mike Molina, former deputy executive director, quit after his boss, Gina Maria Lindsey, received an anonymous complaint. Molina said he did not send or receive sexually explicit messages.A high-level executive who recently resigned from his post at Los Angeles World Airports said Thursday that he improperly used his city-issued cellphone for personal communications but denied that sexually explici...

TNA Parliamentarian E. Saravanabhavan says he had received death threats through the phone yesterday (June 06) demanding that he leave the country within two days. The MP claims to have received the anonymous call at 9.25pm last night.

"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities." The recent New York Times article about the 11th Tradition and anonymity stirred up a lot of controversy. But I think the 12th Tradition is ultimately more important. When you walk into a 12-Step meeting you drop a big part of your identity. Certainly you drop your...

19-year-old arrested in shooting of cabdriver in alleged robbery attemptActing on an anonymous tip, Evanston police have arrested a 19-year-old Chicago man who has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery in the shooting death of a cabdriver in Evanston.

New Delhi, May 4 (PTI): An anonymous call threatening to kill Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has prompted security agencies to conduct searches in the National Capital Region to identify the caller, sources said today. ....

The report of the UN Advisory Panel was finally released and the government moved into top gear to get the country behind the regime. The government informed the state media of a press conference on Thursday last week. The Ambassador for Russia in Sri Lanka was agreeable to grant an interview against the Ban panel ...

In my ongoing effort to find ways to adapt Buddhism to modern American life, I have long been influenced by the example of Vimala-Kirti, the "householder sage" of ancient India (pictured). According to the Vimala-Kirti Sutra ("sutra" means scripture), Vimala-Kirti was a wealthy layperson or householder who was one of the Buddha's leading lay disciples. Even though he was a householder...

Before Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment he was a confused 20- and 30-something looking to learn how to live a spiritual life. Each week in this column we look at what it might be like if Siddhartha was on his spiritual journey today. How would he combine Buddhism and dating? How would he handle stress in the workplace? What Would Sid Do? is devoted to taking an honest look at wha...

by Prof Michael Roberts Many Sri Lankan fans expected the cricket team to win the World Cup and even stocked up with firecrackers to mark the celebratory moment. The disappointment has been commensurate with this high expectation. It has generated...

The letter accused Geoff Dolan of getting so intoxicated at a 2009 retreat that he tried to grope a fellow worker. The letter was made public only last month after the city was sued for failing to notify the public the council was secretly meeting to hammer out details of Dolan's departure.The former top administrator of Manhattan Beach is considering suing the city for releasing an anonymous lett...

The UK vs. Wijesinha By Vimukthi Yapa The British High Commission in Colombo last week told The Sunday Leader they had no idea what ‘note’ UPFA MP Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha was talking about when he told the BBC Sinhala Sandeshaya Service that the former defence attaché at the BHC had handed him a typed note ...

The BBC Sinhala Service, in asking for comments on the 2010 US Report on Human Rights in Sri  Lanka, gave me little notice, and suggested I could just glance through the synopsis with which the report began. As it happened, I was able to look through some of the rest, which was good, because I ...