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Relatives of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe are ready to go federal court to win the return of his body to Oklahoma. The Olympic gold-medal winner and football MVP has been buried out east in a town that changed its name to Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania, to give him a final resting place - although Thorpe never set foot there.
After his death, Thorpe’s wife said she didn’t have the money to give him the burial she thought he deserved. In their lawsuit, Thorpe’s family members are planning to cite a 1990 federal law requiring the return of American Indian remains to their peoples.
The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading “in the wild” in Australia.
The self-propagating program changes the phone’s wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message “ikee is never going to give you up”.
The worm, known as ikee, only affects “jail-broken” phones, where a user has removed Apple’s protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.
An Atlanta city bus driver has been suspended for five days after passengers complained that he insisted they hold hands as he led them in prayer. On the bus.
The prayer last four to five minutes.
The bus driver has worked for the Atlanta city bus system for six years.
No word what they were praying for.
A key U.S. Senator says he will begin an investigation into whether the U.S. Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology. Sen. Joe Lieberman’s call for the investigation came as word surfaced that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.
Gamers are geeked about this.
“Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2″ comes out at midnight tonight, (Monday, November 9,)
It’s projected to be at least One of the biggest selling games of ALL time (including release day sales, and general sales).