Staying safe at home means securing your property - and takingsimple steps to prevent crime.
Police recommend checking to see who a caller is by looking outof your window or using a door viewer, sometimes known as a spyhole.
They also recommend fitting a door chain.
A Grampian Police spokesman said: "Make sure your door is lockedwhen you are at home and do not unlock the door until you are surewho is on the other side.
"When possible, put the door chain …
"Hold Ya Ryme" is a Tony Green CD that he cut approximately two years ago. However, he is working on another one that will be dropping soon. "Well who is Tony Green?" one asks. In the entertainment arena he's also known as the "Paraplegic MC," entertainer and articulate rapper.
His life just didn't have tacks in his path to success -- there were large nails that were preventing him from even moving. However, he possessed an overwhelming amount of intestinal fortitude and plenty of ambitions to use the innate ability with which he was born.
Green's life began with severe problems. He was born with Muscular Dystrophy in the Robert Taylor Homes, but he received a lot of love …
Mayor Michael Bloomberg faces a new fight now that he has won a major victory by convincing the City Council to back his plan to extend term-limits, clearing the way for him to run for another term.
As he gears up for a re-election campaign in 2009, the billionaire independent must try to win over his detractors _ the people he upset by the way he went about getting what he wanted.
Critics said he ignored the will of the people by going through the City Council instead of the voters to change the law by giving officeholders a third, consecutive four-year term. They also say Bloomberg disappointed New Yorkers by reversing his long-held view that voters had …
After a string of impressive performances in Bangladesh earlierthis month, Jos Buttler has retained his place in the England Lionssquad for their second winter tour, with the team now moving on to Sri Lanka.
The Somerset County Cricket star was the Lions' leading scorer inthe five-match one-day series against Bangladesh A, smashing 161runs at an average of 53.66 as the visitors lost the series 3-2.
Modest scores of 14 and 12 followed in the tied t20 series, withButtler blaming the difficult sub-continent conditions for England'sfailure to win more matches.
"The cricket in Bangladesh was a real challenge for the team,"said the …
We don't know yet what really happened in the Virginia Techmassacre of Monday -- seemingly the worst in American history -- andwhen we do know more of the details, we will still be ignorant ofthe deeper causes. From Columbine to the Washington snipers we havesupped our fill of horrors in recent years. But even when themurderers candidly describe their motives and their modus operandi,it is still a mystery as to how and why they calmly set aboutdisposing of fellow human beings as if they were so many insects.
It is curious how often the killers are described as calm. Thatseems to have been true of Monday's murderer as he calmly shot downpeople whom he knew either scarcely …
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian judge has prohibited scores of news media outlets from publishing anything related to a fraud investigation that mentions a governor running for re-election, an electoral court said Monday.
Electoral judge Liberato Povoa ruled last week that 84 media outlets cannot report on the investigation that refers to Carlos Henrique Amorim, the governor of the northern state of Tocantins.
The judge made the ruling because the investigation into alleged fraud on a government contract bidding process has not been completed and is not yet open to the public, so he said the reports were based on information obtained illegally.
Reports published prior to …
FULLERTON, California (AP) — A U.S. city has approved the hiring of a law enforcement consultant to investigate the death of a mentally ill homeless man after a violent confrontation with police that sparked outrage and protests by residents.
The Fullerton City Council on Tuesday agreed to sign two contracts with Michael Gennaco to probe the death of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas and conduct a top-to-bottom review of department policies and procedures. Gennaco specializes in examining law enforcement agencies and is chief attorney for the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review, a civilian oversight body that monitors that county's sheriff's department.
Councilman Bruce …
