Trash collector, Christopher McGowan was convicted yesterday, in the brutal rape and murder of fashion writer, Christa Worthington. Worthington was found stabbed to death in her Truro, Massachusetts home in January 2002. McCowen will serve three concurrent life sentences.
Sony's PS3 Release sparks violence. . .
*Early this morning, Boston Police responded to the Copley Place Mall where a crowd of 400 people, all waiting in line for the new PlayStation system, overwhelmed mall security. Luckily, the crowd dispersed and no one was hurt.
*In Putnam, Conn., a person was shot during a confrontation in a line of people waiting outside a Wal-Mart to buy the video game console. The victim was taken to the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester with a gunshot wound.
There was no immediate word on the victim's condition.
*In Palmdale, Calif., authorities wee forced to shut down a Super Wal-Mart after some shoppers got rowdy late Wednesday.
*In West Bend, Wisconsin a 19-year-old man was injured when he ran into a pole racing with 50 others for one of 10 spots outside a Wal-Mart.
Recently, Umass Lowell received 15 proposals to design and build its new eighty million dollar advanced nanomanufacturing and biomanufacturing building. The University submitted a request for proposals from developers and is considering five different locations, including two sites in downtown Lowell; the Hamilton Canal area and a site close to the Paul E. Tsongas Arena. Other possible locations include two Lowell campus sites and one on the University's Western campus in Chelmsford.
** Yes, there is such a thing! On 3A! **
UMass Lowell's Assistant Professor Fred Martin of the Computer Science Department, was recently awarded a six hundred thousand dollar, five-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation. CAREER grants are awarded to promising pre-tenure faculty researchers to support their early works. The grant will help Martin bring science education to nearby middle schools, in hopes that someday they will continue studying science at UMass Lowell.
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Sydney, Australia- Steve Spalding of Dallas, Texas recently caught one hundred and sixteen tossed grapes in his mouth in three minutes, hoping to win a spot in the Guiness Book of World Records. He has also set a personal goal of endurance grape catching. He believes he can catch one thousand two hundred and three grapes, thrown from a 15 foot distance, in his mouth in just over a half an hour. Guiness has yet to include an endurance grape catching record.
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