Baby Lisa?s mom: I was drunk when she vanished

In the latest twist in the case of a missing Kansas City infant, the child?s mother admitted that she was drunk on the night of her baby?s disappearance and expects to be arrested.

    1. Baby Lisa?s mom: I was drunk when she vanished

      Deborah Bradley admitted in an interview that aired Monday that she was drunk the night her baby disappeared, and said she fears that ?if they arrest me, people are going to stop looking for her.? Baby Lisa Irwin has been missing since Oct. 4.

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Breaking a nine-day silence, Deborah Bradley, the mother of missing 10-month-old Lisa Irwin, told NBC News about her behavior on the night of Baby Lisa?s disappearance and her fear of possibly being arrested given the nature of the latest questioning by investigators.

?Judging on how the questioning went, that?s kind of the fear that I have,?? Bradley told NBC?s Peter Alexander in an exclusive interview alongside the baby?s father, Jeremy Irwin, that aired on TODAY Monday. ?The main fear is that if they arrest me, people are going to stop looking, and I?ll never see her again, and I?ll never know what happened.??

Video: Missing baby?s parents: ?We just need her back? (on this page)

A surveillance video from a local market on the day of the baby?s disappearance showed Bradley purchasing boxed wine as well as baby supplies shortly before 5 p.m. Bradley admitted to drinking ?enough to be drunk?? that night, which led to the question of whether she could have harmed her own child under the influence of alcohol.

?No, no, no,?? she said. ?If I thought there was a chance, I?d say it. I don?t think that alcohol changes a person enough to do something like that.??

Changed timeline
Nearly two weeks after her child was reported missing on Oct. 4, Bradley also has changed her story about when she last saw baby Lisa. She now says the last time she saw her daughter was at 6:40 p.m. on the night of her disappearance, nearly four hours earlier than the time of 10:30 p.m. that she originally told police. Irwin, the child?s father, was asked if he believed there was anything that Bradley was withholding from the police in light of this change in her story.

?No, there?s no question to be had there,?? Irwin replied. ?I know the kind of mother she is, and I know what kind of person she is in general.??

Former district attorney Jeanine Pirro weighed in on Bradley?s inconsistencies on TODAY Monday. Pirro spent the last two weeks in Kansas City and has interviewed the parents at length.

?(Being drunk) would explain why she didn?t hear the baby monitor, she didn?t hear the dog barking,?? Pirro told TODAY?s Ann Curry. ?People were believing her because her story was consistent. Now she comes out with, ?The last time I saw my baby was at 6:40 and by the way, I was drunk.? This isn?t the kind of thing that you want to bring out after the fact when time is essential here.??

Police have accused Bradley of killing her daughter, she said. The family is expected to announce later on Monday that it has retained an attorney.

?The last thing I want to have to worry about is something like that,?? Bradley said. ?I shouldn?t have to put any energy, any time or effort into anything but finding her.??

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Bradley has also admitted to failing a police-administered lie detector test.

?They said that I failed when they asked me where she was (and) if I knew where she was,?? Bradley said.

The night of the child?s disappearance also marked the first time that Irwin worked a night shift as an electrician. He said that when he returned home at 4 a.m., he found the front door unlocked with several lights on and a window screen tampered with. Police have tried to recreate how the baby might have been abducted by an intruder entering through that window.

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?Our bedroom is on the exact opposite corner of the house, and (Bradley) sleeps with the fan on high,?? Irwin said.

?Yeah, they (the intruders) must have been doing it much quieter than police,?? Bradley added.

The couple has refused to let investigators re-interview Baby Lisa?s 8- and 5-year-old half-brothers, who were in the house at the time of the child?s disappearance.

Video: Missing baby Lisa: What are police doing? (on this page)

?They said they heard noises, but I don?t know if that was before they went to sleep or after,?? Bradley said about her two sons. ?I have not sat down and talked to them about it, specifically to not have to put them through anything else.??

Story: Mo. National Guard to help search for missing baby

With police still producing no suspects in the case, 25 members of the Missouri National Guard joined the search on Saturday. Police also searched a nearby abandoned house after receiving a tip about a backpack and diapers inside, but investigators said the items were in the house longer than two weeks.

Video: Mom of missing baby Lisa admits drinking (on this page)

Police have also questioned a local handyman with a criminal past but have not made him a suspect in the case. A wealthy benefactor has put up a $100,000 reward for any information that leads to Baby Lisa?s safe return. Hundreds of tips have poured in from as far away as England and Barbados, but still no concrete leads.

?Please think of Lisa,?? Bradley said. ?She needs her family, and they need her.??

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What's The Difference Between Collision And Complete Automotive ...

Liability insurance coverage, which covers the associated fee to repair damages attributable to you, is normally your state?s minimum automotive insurance requirement; nonetheless, if you?re nonetheless making funds on your car, your financer might require you to purchase further automotive insurance protection till you own the vehicle.

There are a lot of completely different sorts of additional automotive insurance, and collision automotive insurance coverage and comprehensive automotive insurance are in all probability the preferred sorts of extra automotive insurance. But what is the difference between collision automotive insurance coverage and comprehensive automotive insurance coverage? Don?t they each cover every little thing?

No. Collision automotive insurance coverage and complete automotive insurance coverage are actually quite different.

Collision automotive insurance is automotive insurance that will cowl the associated fee to restore damages to your car that result in an accident attributable to you. If repairs to your vehicle cost more than the value of your car, the automotive insurance firm might deem your vehicle a total loss, during which case you?ll be compensated for the current and actual money value of the vehicle.

Collision automotive insurance is normally the most costly of the additional automotive insurance coverage choices, which is understandable for the reason that automotive insurance firm is paying for damages attributable to their own policy holder.

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Stocks slide as IBM, French debt weigh on markets (AP)

NEW YORK ? Stocks slid in early trading Tuesday after disappointing corporate earnings reports and concerns that France and Germany may not reach an agreement to provide additional support for Greece.

Moody's also warned late Monday that it may downgrade France's top-notch credit rating in the next three months. On Tuesday, that country's finance minister said that the French economy will likely grow a rate of less than 1.5 percent next year. France is Europe's second-largest economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 76 points, or 0.7 percent, to 11,320 at 10 a.m. Eastern.

The S&P 500 shed 7, or 0.6 percent, to 1,193. The Nasdaq composite fell 21, or 0.8 percent, to 2,593.

Investors were also troubled by reports that France and Germany remain divided on a plan to provide more support for Greece. An agreement between the two countries, the two largest economies that use the euro, is seen as the bedrock for a rescue package that can pass all 17 countries that share the euro.

Concerns about the possibility of a European credit crisis have driven many of the market's big swings lately. The Greek government is widely expected to go through some kind of default or restructuring of its debt. If that process becomes disorderly, European banks could suffer big losses on their holdings of Greek government bonds, which might plunge in value. If those banks become jittery enough they could pull back on lending to each other and trigger another freeze in credit markets, delivering another blow to an already weak European economy.

Tuesday brought full day of corporate earnings reports in the U.S. International Business Machines Corp. fell 4 percent after missing Wall Street's revenue estimates last quarter. It reported after the markets closed Monday.

Bank of America Corp. rose 3.4 percent after it said accounting gains and the sale of a stake in a Chinese bank helped it beat Wall Street's earnings estimates. Goldman Sachs rose 0.1 percent, even after reporting only its second quarterly loss since going public in 1999. The loss was more than analysts expected.

Coca-Cola Co. lost 0.6 percent after narrowly beating Wall Street's earnings estimates. Johnson & Johnson slid 0.2 percent after posting a 6 percent in decline in third-quarter profit, roughly in line with analyst expectations.

Apple Inc. and Intel will report their results from the last quarter after the market closes.

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Low birthweight infants five times more likely to have autism

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Autism researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have found a link between low birthweight and children diagnosed with autism, reporting premature infants are five times more likely to have autism than children born at normal weight.

The children, some born as small as about a pound, were followed for 21 years making this study, published in the prestigious journal Pediatrics, one of the most remarkable of its kind. The infants were born between September 1984 through July 1987 in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties in New Jersey at birthweights from 500 to 2000 grams or a maximum of about 4.4 pounds.

"As survival of the smallest and most immature babies improves, impaired survivors represent an increasing public health challenge," wrote lead author Jennifer Pinto-Martin, MPH, PhD, director of the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (CADDRE) at Penn Nursing. "Emerging studies suggest that low birthweight may be a risk factor for autism spectrum disorders."

Links between low birthweight and a range of motor and cognitive problems have been well established for some time, but this is the first study that establishes that these children are also at increased risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

"Cognitive problems in these children may mask underlying autism," said Dr. Pinto-Martin. "If there is suspicion of autism or a positive screening test for ASD, parents should seek an evaluation for an ASD. Early intervention improves long-term outcome and can help these children both at school and at home."

In future studies, Penn researchers will investigate possible links between brain hemorrhage, a complication of premature birth, and autism by examining brain ultrasounds taken of these children as newborns.

The researchers, including a team at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, followed 862 children from birth to young adulthood finding that five percent of the children were diagnosed with autism, compared to one percent of the general population in what researchers called "the first study to have estimated the prevalence of ASD . . . using research validated diagnostic instruments."

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Autism researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have found a link between low birthweight and children diagnosed with autism, reporting premature infants are five times more likely to have autism than children born at normal weight.

The children, some born as small as about a pound, were followed for 21 years making this study, published in the prestigious journal Pediatrics, one of the most remarkable of its kind. The infants were born between September 1984 through July 1987 in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties in New Jersey at birthweights from 500 to 2000 grams or a maximum of about 4.4 pounds.

"As survival of the smallest and most immature babies improves, impaired survivors represent an increasing public health challenge," wrote lead author Jennifer Pinto-Martin, MPH, PhD, director of the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (CADDRE) at Penn Nursing. "Emerging studies suggest that low birthweight may be a risk factor for autism spectrum disorders."

Links between low birthweight and a range of motor and cognitive problems have been well established for some time, but this is the first study that establishes that these children are also at increased risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

"Cognitive problems in these children may mask underlying autism," said Dr. Pinto-Martin. "If there is suspicion of autism or a positive screening test for ASD, parents should seek an evaluation for an ASD. Early intervention improves long-term outcome and can help these children both at school and at home."

In future studies, Penn researchers will investigate possible links between brain hemorrhage, a complication of premature birth, and autism by examining brain ultrasounds taken of these children as newborns.

The researchers, including a team at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, followed 862 children from birth to young adulthood finding that five percent of the children were diagnosed with autism, compared to one percent of the general population in what researchers called "the first study to have estimated the prevalence of ASD . . . using research validated diagnostic instruments."

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The $3 million study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.



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Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete

The installer for Webroot's 2012 antivirus is so small it would fit on a 3.5" diskette with plenty of room to spare. I was amazed to learn that feeding a different activation code into this same installer causes it to install Webroot's full security suite, Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete ($79.95 direct for three PC and three mobile licenses).

The core components of the installed suite occupy less than 600KB of disk space. The backup and password management components are licensed from SugarSync and LastPass respectively, and they haven't been painstakingly rewritten for small size the way Webroot itself has. Together these components take a bit over 50 MB.

Even with the third-party add-ons this suite is still tiny. The last ten suites I reviewed averaged about 450MB apiece. Bitdefender Total Security 2012 ($79.95 direct for three licenses, 4 stars), while very nice, set a size record with over 1 GB of disk space needed.

Impressive Antivirus Protection
The suite's antivirus protection is the same as what's found in the standalone Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus ($39.95 direct, 4.5 stars). Please read the antivirus review for full details; I'll summarize the good news here.

Webroot runs a scan immediately after its lightning-fast installation. After any scan that finds threats, it runs another scan to clean up remaining traces, continuing until it finds no more. Each scan takes just a few minutes.

Webroot detected 94 percent of the threats infesting my test systems and scored 6.9 points for removal. Norton AntiVirus 2012 ($39.99 direct, 4.5 stars) didn't detect as many but did a better job removing what it did find. With 7.1 points Norton is the only product tested using the current malware collection with an overall malware removal score higher than Webroot's. Webroot also scored well at removing rootkits and scareware. For an explanation of how I test malware removal, see How We Test Malware Removal.

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The way Webroot handles protecting a clean system from malware attack is a bit different from most. Its heuristic analysis detects some threats the moment they load into memory. A program that makes it past this initial check will be watched closely. The moment Webroot's behavioral analysis recognizes a threat it wipes it out and rolls back all changes made by the program. After detection it runs a quick scan to clean up remaining traces.

This unusual system definitely works. Webroot detected 100 percent of the sample threats and scored a perfect 10 of 10 points for overall malware blocking, rootkit blocking, and scareware blocking. see How We Test Malware Blocking.

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If there's no Internet connection Webroot can't communicate with its online database to evaluate the behaviors it detects. Since the vast majority of malware attacks enter your system via the Internet that's not such a big problem. Even when offline, Webroot tracks and record the behavior of all running processes. When the connection is restored it checks recorded behaviors against the cloud database and wipes out any it deems malicious.

I re-tested the product by cutting the Internet connection, launching malware samples, and then restoring the connection. Even with one arm metaphorically tied behind its back Webroot still managed better than average malware blocking.

Normally I would also check with the independent antivirus testing labs, to see how the product fared in their tests. However, this totally new product has not yet been tested by any of the labs.

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Webroot's suite and antivirus both work to steer users away from fraudulent (phishing) sites. Webroot protects Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, and Chrome, but rather than waste space on a plug-in for each it filters out frauds before they reach the browser.

In my antiphishing test, Webroot's detection rate was 55 percentage points behind Norton Internet Security 2012 ($69.99 direct for three licenses, 4.5 stars). It did manage to beat Internet Explorer's built-in Smart Screen Filter by 9 percentage points, but only because Internet Explorer had a very bad week for phishing detection. The article How We Test Antiphishing explains exactly how I derive these scores.

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Despite their tiny size, both the suite and the antivirus pack along a surprising number of security tools for expert users. You can view all active processes and kill or monitor specific ones, run a suspect process in the "SafeStart Sandbox," where it can't do any harm, and even leverage Webroot's behavioral records to remove a program along with its Registry traces. An average user shouldn't touch these or the other advanced tools unless advised to do so by tech support.

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Seeser laser pico projector is always in focus, powered by Android

ESPlus Seeser
We've seen our fair share of pico projectors, so takes a bit to actually get us excited about one, but the Seeser from ESPlus is showing a lot of potential. Inside the tiny black box is a laser-based projection system which, unlike traditional lamps, doesn't need to be focused and can output a 25-lumen, 800 x 600 image up to 100-inches in size. There's an SD card slot around the side, which appears to be of the micro variety and it has an integrated 1seg tuner for pulling in broadcasts. All of this is powered by a 1GHz processor running Froyo -- so there's no actual need to hook up an external content source. Sadly it doesn't appear that it boasts access to the Android Market though, without a touchscreen, you wouldn't be able to make good use of the apps anyway. The Seeser should be available in Korea soon, but there's no word yet on how much it'll cost.

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Dan Wheldon Dies: Indy 500 Winner Dead After Massive Wreck

LAS VEGAS -- Race car drivers always know the worst can happen whenever they get behind the wheel.

On Sunday, it happened to one of IndyCar's biggest and most popular stars.

Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died after his car became ensnared in a fiery 15-car pileup, flew over another vehicle and hit the catch fence just outside turn 2 in a season-ending race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

"Things happen in this kind of racing," said Wade Cunningham, also caught up in the wreck. "It's so close. Not much room for error. I was near the front of what caused all this, so I'm not thrilled about it. At this point, whose fault it was is kind of immaterial."

The green flag had barely stopped waving when disaster struck.

Wheldon, driving from the back of the field for a chance at $5 million, was in the middle of the pack when he drove into a tangle of cars careening off each other in every direction.

Unable to avoid the massive wreck unfolding before him, Wheldon clipped another car and went hurtling through the air, his car bursting into flames as it flew into a fence.

After just 11 laps, the race was over. Two hours later, track officials announced that Wheldon was dead. The Englishman was 33.

"One minute you're joking around at driver intros and the next, Dan's gone," said Dario Franchitti, whose wife, actress Ashley Judd, had to bring him a box of tissues. "I lost, we lost, a good friend. Everybody in the IndyCar series considered him a friend. He was such a good guy. He was a charmer."

With the speed ? close to 225 mph during practice ? and a crowded 34-car field, a big worry was aggressive driving early in the 200-lap race.

Chaos started when two cars touched tires and almost no one had time to react.

Within seconds, several cars burst into flames and debris covered the track nearly halfway up the straightaway. Some points of impact were so devastating workers had to patch holes in the asphalt.

Video replays showed Wheldon's car turning over as it went airborne and sailed into what's called the catch fence, which sits over a barrier designed to give a bit when cars make contact. Rescue workers were at Wheldon's car quickly, some furiously waving for more help to get to the scene.

"It's unfortunate that early on in the race they've got to be racing so close. ...," Team Penske owner Roger Penske said. "You always worry about those at these mile-and-a-halves at the speed and with this many cars."

Three other drivers, including championship contender Will Power, were hurt in the pileup.

Wheldon was airlifted from the track to University Medical Center; news of his death came from IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard:

"IndyCar is very sad to announce that Dan Wheldon has passed away from unsurvivable injuries," he said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family today. IndyCar, its drivers and owners, have decided to end the race."

In his honor, drivers, many sobbing openly, took part in a five-lap salute around the 1.5-mile oval as thousands of fans stood and cheered from the grandstand.

Also injured in the crash were JR Hildebrand and Pippa Mann. Both will remain in the hospital overnight. IndyCar said Mann was being treated for a burn to her right pinkie finger and will be released Monday morning; Hildebrand was awake and alert but will be held overnight for further evaluation. Power was evaluated and released. An autopsy was planned Monday for Wheldon.

"I'll tell you, I've never seen anything like it," Ryan Briscoe said. "The debris we all had to drive through the lap later, it looked like a war scene from Terminator or something. I mean, there were just pieces of metal and car on fire in the middle of the track with no car attached to it and just debris everywhere. So it was scary, and your first thoughts are hoping that no one is hurt because there's just stuff everywhere. Crazy."

IndyCar has not had a fatality since Paul Dana was killed at Homestead in 2006, during a crash in a morning warmup. Wheldon won the race later that day.

The accident appeared to start when Cunningham's car swerved on the track and Hildebrand drove over the left rear of Cunningham's car. Hildebrand appeared to go airborne, and Cunningham's car shot up into the wall, setting off a chain reaction among the cars behind him.

Some of those cars slowed, others didn't, and others spun in front of Wheldon and Power. There was so much confusion on the track it was hard to tell who was driving what car.

Power appeared to fly over Alex Lloyd's car, rolling into the catch fence and landing on its right side. His in-car camera showed one of the front tires coming toward him in the cockpit.

Wheldon then appeared to drive over a car driven by Paul Tracy, who seemed to be slowing down. Wheldon, however, went airborne and spun into the fence.

"It was like a movie scene which they try to make as gnarly as possible," said Danica Patrick, making her final IndyCar start. "It was debris everywhere across the whole track. You could smell the smoke. You could see the billowing smoke on the back straight from the car. There was a chunk of fire that we were driving around. You could see cars scattered."

Wheldon, who came to the United States from England in 1999, won 16 times in his IndyCar career and was the series champion in 2005.

Despite winning this year's Indy 500, Wheldon couldn't put together a full-time ride this season but had a deal in the works for 2012.

Andretti Autosport, the team with which Wheldon won the 2005 Indy 500, had agreed to a contract early Sunday for Wheldon to replace Patrick next season. The deal was supposed to be signed after the race.

"Back when he was with the team in '05, we referred to the team as The Beatles because it was such perfect harmony (with his teammates) ? and with Dan coming back, there was talk of putting The Beatles back together," said John Lopes, chief marketing officer and VP of marketing for Andretti Autosport. "So today is devastating. We not only lost a future teammate, but a longtime teammate. It's so sad. He's going to be sorely missed and fondly remembered."

Wheldon landed in the Las Vegas race thanks to Bernard's promise of $5 million to any moonlighting driver who could win the IndyCar season finale at Vegas. Although there were no takers, Bernard refused to scrap the idea and Wheldon was declared eligible for the prize, which would have been split with a fan.

Asked about speed after the crash, Wheldon's former boss Chip Ganassi said, "There'll be plenty of time in the offseason to talk about that. Now is not the time to talk about that."

And Franchitti said: "I agree. We'll discuss that and sort it out."

But driver Oriol Servia didn't mince words: "We all had a bad feeling about this place in particular just because of the high banking and how easy it was to go flat. And if you give us the opportunity, we are drivers and we try to go to the front. We race each other hard because that's what we do," he said. "We knew if could happen, but it's just really sad."

Wheldon had been providing blog posts for USA Today in the days leading up to the Las Vegas race, and in one posted Saturday to the newspaper's website he spoke of how he expected Sunday to be "pure entertainment."

"This is going to be an amazing show," Wheldon wrote. "The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out."

The accident spoiled what Bernard had hoped would be a showcase event for the struggling IndyCar Series.

The second-year CEO worked the entire season on turning the finale into a spectacle, and said he would offer his resignation to the IndyCar board of directors if ABC's broadcast didn't pull a .8 ranking. His goal was to improve upon last year's season finale's horrible television rating and give the series some momentum for a strong season in 2013 with the introduction of a new car and new manufacturers.

So Bernard poured everything into Las Vegas, renting the speedway from owner Bruton Smith and agreeing to promote the event himself. He landed enough sponsorship to at least break even on race, and the $5 million challenge bought him an enormous amount of publicity the entire year.

Bernard got the Las Vegas Strip to close to stage a parade of cars, hosted industry parties and a blackjack tournament all to boost interest in the race. He even got MGM Grand Resorts to offer a pair of tickets to anyone staying this weekend in one of the chain's 14 properties.

But what was hoped to be a day of celebration quickly turned somber.

When drivers returned to the track for the tribute laps, Wheldon's No. 77 was the only one on the towering scoreboard. Franchitti sobbed uncontrollably as he got back into his car for the memorial ride. The sound of "Danny Boy" echoed around the track, followed by "Amazing Grace." Hundreds of crew workers and representatives from each team stood at attention in honor of Wheldon.

"What can you say? We're going to miss him," Ganassi said. "Everybody in IndyCar died a little today."

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AP Writer Ken Ritter in Las Vegas, AP Auto Racing Writer Jenna Fryer in Charlotte, and AP Sports Writers Tim Reynolds in Miami and Mike Marot in Indianapolis contributed to this report.

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UK town gets royal title for honoring war dead

(AP) ? A small town that honored British soldiers killed in Afghanistan as their bodies were returned home received a royal title Sunday for its compassion ? the first such honor granted to a town in over 100 years.

Princess Anne delivered the Letters Patent ? official documents from her mother Queen Elizabeth II ? to the town of Wootton Bassett, giving it official permission to change its name to Royal Wootton Bassett.

The bodies of soldiers killed in Afghanistan used to be repatriated to the RAF Lyneham airbase near Wootton Bassett, 85 miles (135 kilometers) west of London, and driven through town to a coroners office.

Each time a cortege passed, residents shut the doors of their businesses and lined the sidewalks to salute the procession. Veterans and the families of the dead soldiers came to the town to take part in the ceremony, which began as an informal show of support for those killed and grew into a tradition that was broadcast around the country.

"I am privileged to be allowed to add my thanks to those of Her Majesty the Queen and the whole country for the example you set in respecting with dignity the losses that this country's operational responsibilities have forced upon us," Princess Anne said in a ceremony to mark the accolade.

Wootton Bassett now joins two other royal towns in England ? Leamington Spa was granted the title in 1838 by Queen Victoria and Tunbridge Wells received the title in 1909 from King Edward II. Both towns had petitioned for the honor in recognition of their antiquity and royal patronage of their spa facilities.

Wootton Bassett did not ask for any royal recognition ? British Prime Minister David Cameron had asked the queen to grant the honor.

Other areas in Britain have been made royal boroughs, rather than royal towns. Caernarvon in Wales was made a Royal Borough by the queen in 1963 and allowed to retain the honor when it became a town in 1974.

Greenwich is one of a number of other royal boroughs in England.

Associated Press

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Google CEO says Microsoft can 'hassle' partners with patent threats, but won't stop Android (Digital Trends)

Larry Page

Google reported record third quarter earnings yesterday, but CEO Larry Page wasn?t all happy. When asked about Microsoft, he did not hold back, saying that the company is bullying manufacturing partners into paying it and has introduced a sort of ?Android tax? on hardware makers.?

?Rather than seeing Microsoft compete in the marketplace with their own phones, they continue resorting to legal measures to hassle their own customers,? said Page, according to Electronista. ?We haven?t seen the details of those agreements and I assume our partners are making good deals for themselves. We see Android growing gangbusters and we don?t see anything that will stop that.?

Microsoft could be taking in as much as $400 million in Android licensing fees. The software maker has signed deals with HTC and Samsung, collecting an estimated $5 ? $10 for every Android handset those manufacturers sell. Manufacturers are possibly agreeing to the deals because they do not believe they can face Microsoft in court. Either that or Microsoft is offering other incentives. We do not know.

Commenting on other companies suing Android manufacturers, like Apple and Oracle, Page said Google is ?serious? about protecting Android, but didn?t specify how:??We see our partners and our ecosystem growing hugely. Ultimately other companies actions will alienate their customers,? Page asserted.??We?re serious about protecting the Android ecosystem.?

Eventually, Google is going to have to do less talking and more walking if it?s really serious about protecting Android.?

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