Friday, February 6, 2009 Denny’s 1,600 chain restaurants across North America, Puerto Rico and Canada, were slammed for eight hours Tuesday with hungry patrons standing on sidewalks for nearly two hours to take advantage of the $5.99 “Grand Slam Breakfast” giveaway. Denny’s, a dining chain with annual revenue of about $900 million, has advertised in […]
Prominent Texas attorney dead, just days following daughter’s suicide
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 Media reports indicate Brian Loncar, a prominent attorney based in Dallas, Texas was found unresponsive in a car outside his office Sunday morning. Loncar was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later. He was found in the front seat of his Rolls Royce Wraith. […]
US fans turn out for 2012 Phoenix Comicon
Saturday, June 2, 2012 Phoenix, Arizona — Last weekend, Phoenix fans of comics, science fiction, horror, fantasy, cos-play, anime and manga, Society for Creative Anachronism, and more, marked a milestone as the city held its tenth annual Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center. The event — which is entirely the work of more than […]
Michelin’s tyre mistake sends US Formula One Grand Prix into farce
Sunday, June 19, 2005 The Indianapolis Formula One Grand Prix descended into farce when just six cars started the race on Sunday. The problem arose when Michelin discovered that its tires were incapable of more than ten laps at race pace. The first indication of trouble was when the rear left tire of Ralf Schumacher’s […]
Ventilation In Your Homes Now Easy
Ventilation In Your Homes Now Easy by Harry willsation There are two rooms in a house that no matter who it is-the wife, the husband or the kids, will visit numerous times a day. The bathroom & the kitchen form the two most frequented parts of a home any given day. But often it is […]
Fire reported at One HSBC Center in downtown Buffalo, New York
Saturday, January 19, 2008 Buffalo, New York — According to scanner frequencies of the Buffalo, New York fire department, smoke was reported on at least five floors at the northeast side at One HSBC Center in downtown Buffalo. The call came in around 10:50 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Friday January 18, not long after the […]
Karcher High Pressure Pumps: Fas Calls Car Spa Owners To Book For Free Demos}
Karcher High Pressure Pumps: FAS calls Car Spa Owners to book for free demos by Force Auto Solutions Force Auto Solutions , Coimbatore’s based supplier of leading brands of Automotive Garage Equipments calls Car Washing Business Owners for a free demo for Karcher High Pressure Pumps. Force Auto Solutions invites Car Washing Centre and Spa […]
Californian computer company lodges antitrust suit against Microsoft
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 Tangent Computer, a computer services and hardware company based in Burlingame, California has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft. The lawsuit filed on February 14, 2006 claims that Microsoft continues to breach federal antitrust laws. Tangent alleges that Microsoft fosters tactics “to prevent and destroy competition” while raising prices of its software […]
Semapedia introduced to Africa: Powered by “Made in Ghana” technology
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation or one of its projects. Please note that Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Semapedia is not associated with the Wikimedia Foundation. Friday, April 7, 2006 Accra — The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in ICT introduced the Semacode technology and the Semapedia application to a […]
Archaeologist finds earliest tools used by non-human apes
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Archaeologist Julio Mercader at the University of Calgary has discovered hammer-like tools dating back 4300 years. The tools are thought to have been used by non-human primates to crack nuts. The large size of the stones are of too great a weight to have been favoured as tools by humans. Further, […]