A seventh person has been arrested in a gang rape on a high school campus in northern California, police said Tuesday.
The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: "Why are our kids so messed up?" "Why didn't these students try to stop the crime?" "What's happening in our schools?"
Police investigating the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl have arrested five people, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
Investigators say as many as 20 people were involved in or stood and watched the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance Saturday night.
When people say this year's Chase for the Championship is the strongest in history, they really mean it. As my colleague Brant James pointed out, earlier this week, the 12-car field is composed of four former champions and drivers who have combined to win 282 races on the Cup level. With such depth and no team with a clear momentum advantage, this year's fight for the title trophy is wide open.
Ryan Newman hadn't been in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship since 2005, and it wasn't expected in the first season of Stewart-Haas Racing. But the Rocketman has re-entered the 10-race playoff thanks to a composed and gutsy run to 10th at Richmond that put him 77 points in front of 13th-placed Kyle Busch.
Five things we learned on Saturday night at Richmond in the final race of the regular season:
Editor's Note: This column was written at the end of August, but drivers' positions in the standings are current entering Richmond this week.
As we head to Richmond this weekend, the most competitive Chase race in history will feature 11 drivers in a quest for the final eight spots in the 12-car field. With just 105 points separating fifth-place Carl Edwards from Brian Vickers in 13th, that leaves dozens of potential playoff scenarios. There's only one thing we know for sure among the madness: it's the best possible scenario for a sport that's been all too predictable in recent years.
Patience is a requirement in Sprint Cup, not an option. There are situations that call for racing as hard as you can for position, those when you ride and hold and those when you let somebody go. It has everything to do with how good your car is, keeping it under control and getting to the next pit stop to make it better.
A seventh person has been arrested in a gang rape on a high school campus in northern California, police said Tuesday.
The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: "Why are our kids so messed up?" "Why didn't these students try to stop the crime?" "What's happening in our schools?"
Police investigating the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl have arrested five people, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
Investigators say as many as 20 people were involved in or stood and watched the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance Saturday night.
When people say this year's Chase for the Championship is the strongest in history, they really mean it. As my colleague Brant James pointed out, earlier this week, the 12-car field is composed of four former champions and drivers who have combined to win 282 races on the Cup level. With such depth and no team with a clear momentum advantage, this year's fight for the title trophy is wide open.
Ryan Newman hadn't been in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship since 2005, and it wasn't expected in the first season of Stewart-Haas Racing. But the Rocketman has re-entered the 10-race playoff thanks to a composed and gutsy run to 10th at Richmond that put him 77 points in front of 13th-placed Kyle Busch.
Five things we learned on Saturday night at Richmond in the final race of the regular season:
Editor's Note: This column was written at the end of August, but drivers' positions in the standings are current entering Richmond this week.
As we head to Richmond this weekend, the most competitive Chase race in history will feature 11 drivers in a quest for the final eight spots in the 12-car field. With just 105 points separating fifth-place Carl Edwards from Brian Vickers in 13th, that leaves dozens of potential playoff scenarios. There's only one thing we know for sure among the madness: it's the best possible scenario for a sport that's been all too predictable in recent years.
Patience is a requirement in Sprint Cup, not an option. There are situations that call for racing as hard as you can for position, those when you ride and hold and those when you let somebody go. It has everything to do with how good your car is, keeping it under control and getting to the next pit stop to make it better.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- After a successful Labor Day weekend race at Atlanta Motor Speedway that drew perhaps the track's biggest crowd this decade, the pressure to make the Chase is increasing on one of the biggest names in NASCAR Sprint Cup racing.
The fine folks at my favorite NASCAR blog, All Left Turns have a very interesting probability table that analyzes the Chase-qualifying chances of several drivers. I'm not too sure about the methodology, but the table does confirm what most of us already know: Kyle Busch is just about the only driver outside of the top 12 with a decent chance (43 percent to be exact) of making the Cup series' postseason.
Twenty-year-old Sean Branch searched for eight months for a job with no success.
Three years after the floodgates opened on an open-wheel NASCAR invasion, it appears the bleeding has finally stopped for the IRL. As the curtain rises on this year's Indy 500, Dario Franchitti finds himself running open-wheel after just one failed season attempting to transition into Sprint Cup. He joins Jacques Villeneuve, Sarah Fisher and Patrick Carpentier as recent examples of how success in one form of motorsports doesn't always translate somewhere else -- failures that make others wary of attempting to make the jump (Danica, are you listening?).
A fast group of defensive linemen were center stage at the NFL combine on Monday and were followed by a faster group of linebacker prospects. Scouts had to be pleased as a number of potential top-flight pass rushers and defensive linemen really brought their A-games to Indianapolis. Here's the breakdown.
In an election where accusations and acrimony were flung back and forth for months, a wave of calm and civility washed over millions of Americans who lined up to vote Tuesday.
Behind every good war are many good women. Using their feminine (and in at least one case masculine) wiles, the following five spies would make James Bond proud.
Part of a retail and residential building under construction in a Richmond suburb collapsed Wednesday, and authorities were searching for up to 12 workers who may have been inside
Five things we learned on Sunday at Richmond, the final race before the start of the Chase.
(With NASCAR's 12-man Chase field being finalized this weekend, with or without cooperation from Hanna and Mother Nature, SI.com's team of writers will weigh-in with periodic updates and musings throughout the weekend.)
If you ever want to coax a sly smile out of Matt Kenseth, just ask him about the Chase for the Championship format. Kenseth, after all, is the reason the Chase exists.
Are we witnessing the end of NASCAR's open-wheel era? Just one season after Juan Pablo Montoya electrified the racing world by moving from Formula 1 to NASCAR, the whole experiment seems to be stumbling towards a ghastly conclusion.
After 25 races and over 10,000 miles of circling 20 tracks across the country, NASCAR's regular season comes to an end Saturday night with a 400-lap contest in Richmond. Once the checkered flag falls, the sport's playoff field will be set, with the Top 12 qualifying drivers eligible to compete for the 10-race Chase for the Championship ending in Homestead, Florida this November.
With the half of the season complete, it's time for a little midseason review of each driver on the Sprint Cup circuit. Here's a look at how each of the full-time competitors has fared this season -- note that to be included on this list, a driver had to have started at least eight of eighteen races on the year:
Heading into Sunday's race at New Hampshire, an anonymous NASCAR driver shares his thoughts about the latest happenings in the circuit.
In the national recruiting rankings for the high school class of 2004, down past the Dwight Howard-led contingent that leapt straight to the NBA, and beyond a crowd of players who completed their college eligibility this March, was a 6-foot-3 point guard from George Wythe High in Richmond, Va., named Tyree Evans. He had scored more points in his senior year than all but two players in Virginia prep history -- Allen Iverson and Moses Malone -- and had earned a three-star rating and the 121st spot overall from Rivals.com. He had committed to Cincinnati, a supposed future gunner in Bob Huggins' backcourt.
Five things we learned at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday night:
You would have thought Carl Edwards was a politician by the way he shook hands, smiled his toothy smile and patted backs while striding down pit road at Talladega last Sunday, 20 minutes before the Aaron's 499.
Heading into Saturday's race in Richmond, an anonymous NASCAR insider shares his thoughts about the latest vibes in NASCAR nation:
Virginians faced a massive cleanup project Tuesday after at least three tornadoes damaged dozens of homes and injured more than 200 people.
At least three tornadoes caused massive damage in Virginia and injured more than 200 people on Monday, officials said.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Throughout the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, trends that begin at one track often given an indication of what to expect in the following race on the schedule.
Dear FSB: My uncle would like me to take over the family commercial caulking business, and right now, I am working with the caulkers in the field, learning the job and making sure they do not drag their feet. Unfortunately, the workers, who are paid by the hour, do just that. They are in no rush to get the job done, and though we profit-share at the end of the year, it seems like that is not enough motivation. What are alternative wage methods that other businesses like mine use to pay their employees and increase production?
For three of NASCAR's four manufacturers, there was plenty to cheer about this week.
Business was brisk at polling places in Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday, where primaries could answer key questions in the Democratic and Republican nomination races.
Dear FSB: Do you have any suggestions or advice for local business marketing? We offer a computer repair service and would like to expand our customer base within a two-to-three-mile radius of our office location. What would be some low-cost but effective ways to expand our business?
Three Chinese nationals accused of importing thousands of counterfeit luxury handbags in the United States have been arrested in the past two days, federal authorities announced Thursday.
Days and nights in Richmond, Virginia, sparkle during December more than a socialite draped in jewels. Legions of stringed lights hang like tinsel on trees. Candy-colored bulbs decorate foliage at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. And James River plantations treat guests to a colonial-style Christmas. From candlelight tours to light shows, this town offers more weekend choices than a travel agent's checklist.
It happens in sports almost every year. A team in control of its own playoff destiny goes up against one that is just playing out the string. Underestimating its foe, the "better" team stumbles and comes up short, leaving the underdog smiling with glee as they watch their opponent's postseason hopes go up in smoke.
SI.com's experts weigh in with their predictions for Saturday night's race in Richmond, Va.
U.S. economic activity expanded further in June and early July, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday, as slower housing markets contrasted with improvements in manufacturing and commercial real estate.
The hidden ball trick gone horribly wrong. -- Brian, Milwaukee, Wi.
Here are five things we learned on Sunday in Richmond, the windiest day in recent memory at a Cup race.
SI.com's experts weigh in with their predictions for this Saturday's race in Richmond, Va.
Here are five things to watch for when the engines fire on Saturday night at Richmond (Va.) International Speedway:
As his customers grow old, a Richmond pharmacist seeks new ways to reach young urbanites.
IndyCar opens its 12th season Saturday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway with an accomplished, maturing and stable group of drivers and teams that, just as important, has demonstrated signs that bigger things are still possible for the series.
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Year After lives on, for at least another day.
Start saying goodbye to Styrofoam containers and plastic cutlery. Since these polystyrene products are nonrecyclable and nonbiodegradable (unlike other plastics), West Coast cities are voting them ...
A bowl of broth--that was lunch the day I arrived in Richmond. For dinner, two bottles of lemon-flavored Fleet Phospho-soda and four bisacodyl tablets. You see where this is heading? I went to bed ...
(FORTUNE Small Business Magazine) - As doctors become more adept at predicting heart attacks, they're paying increasing attention to calcium, whose presence can signal trouble long before a patie...
It's no surprise that mayonnaise, that creamy, tasty staple of the American fridge, is well beyond its salad days.
Since gracing our cover in March 2005, sunken-treasure recovery firm Odyssey Marine Exploration has been working toward a huge payday: the exploration of the HMS Sussex, sunk off Gibraltar in 1694 ...
Jerry Kilgore, a Republican candidate for governor whose mountain twang kept him out of his own ads for much of the campaign, was looking starched and chipper Sunday as he shook hands outside the Falls Church, a 273-year-old Episcopal congregation near Washington that has a number of Bush Administration luminaries in its pews. Falls Church is a Democratic oasis, but these were his people. "In Falls Church, of all places, a landslide!" Kilgore said delightedly before heading inside. He is Baptist, but joined fellow parishioners in kneeling for prayers. The service ran long and so he sneaked out the side after receiving Communion and headed to McLean Bible Church, a non-denominational mega-church where he was greeted with applause at the Welcome Center.
A man sought in the shooting deaths of three men in 15 minutes Wednesday was arrested and bound for a Richmond jail Thursday night.
Douglas Wilder rose from what he describes as "gentle poverty" in his youth to become the first elected black governor in Virginia -- and the nation. Fifteen years later, the outspoken Democrat is still in Virginia politics, serving as Richmond's mayor.
After 26 years with steel giant LTV, Betty Boyce was ready to have fun. From her retirement income, she budgeted $600 a month for winter skiing, summer golfing, three-day-a-week workouts and salsa ...
With armed guards and metal detectors in some schools, peanut butter might seem a low-level threat. But many school districts aren't treating the creamy lunchtime staple that way. An increasing num...
In the murky environment that MONEY's investment strategist Michael Sivy sees for stocks in 1997, double-digit returns could be hard to find--except in so-called special situations. This is the ter...
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Hungry? You've come to the right place. America has about 30,000 supermarkets, some 13,000 discounters selling food, 93,000 convenience stores, and about 400,000 fast-food joints, diners, and resta...
Textile companies' overstuffed manufacturing capacity has hurt industry profits for the past five years. But finally the economy has expanded enough for the firms to begin to raise prices -- and ma...
As women fill the corporate playbill, they increasingly are the ones relocating their families to take advantage of job prospects in far-away cities. So say several relocation firms now being hired...
A $4.1 billion (revenues) Richmond company that operates electric utilities, Dominion Resources (d); New York Stock Exchange, $47.50; yielding 5.2%) has a performance record that makes it worth a l...
CARDINAL DISTRIBUTION Recessions are usually contagious, but this Dublin, Ohio, company is feeling just fine. Reason: Cardinal distributes pharmaceuticals to hospitals and drugstores throughout the...
Richmond, Virginia, once the capital of the Confederacy, is rising again. It is home to ten FORTUNE 500 corporations -- including Reynolds Metals, Ethyl, James River Corp. of Virginia, Media Genera...
In a dry season for brokers, Kidder Peabody, Smith Barney, and Wheat First Securities of Richmond pulled off the largest initial public offering ever. Investors pumped $2 billion into MFS Intermedi...
Not since Central States Electric of Richmond, Virginia, went into receivership in 1942 has a major U.S. utility gone bankrupt. Several power companies are vying for the honor of being next. The Gr...
RICHMOND, Va. -- The need for security during visits with prison inmates outweighs an infant's right to privacy, a federal appeals court has ruled . . . The United States Court of Appeals for the F...
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