“We wanted to completely rebuild the core mechanics and create a really slick, cool experience,” Rockstar Games vice president and “GTA IV” writer Dan Houser told The Associated Press following a 90-minute demonstration of the game.
Bellic, a thuggish Eastern European immigrant, has already become an iconic figure to the millions of viewers [...]
LOS ANGELES%26Two small planes that collided over Corona last week, killing five people, did not try to avoid one another before the crash, federal investigators said in a preliminary report Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board report cited a witness who saw both aircraft cruising toward each other for at least [...]
LOS ANGELES%26The pilots of two small planes didn’t move to avoid each other before colliding last week near Los Angeles, killing five people, investigators said Thursday. The preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board said a witness saw both aircraft cruising toward each other for at least five seconds without [...]
The city of Sunnyvale may look for different sites for homeless housing and a Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters proposed for Onizuka Air Force Station, which is slated to close in 2011.
The city is federally mandated to consider the VA’s request for a 52,000-square-foot headquarters and homeless services proposals, and the negotiations [...]
The Santa Clara County Crime Lab tied two suspects to an October auto theft and arson that destroyed a Budget Rental Car office in Gilroy - police said today.
Robert Cuevas, 32, and Joseph Jacob Uvalles, 21, were today charged with arson for burning the car rental office and auto theft for making [...]
DETROIT%26The year automakers have been dreading has begun. Analysts expect U.S. sales could fall by as many as 36,000 vehicles, or 3 percent, in January compared to the same month last year, bearing out predictions that 2008 could be the worst year for automakers in more than a decade. Automakers report [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa.%26The owner of a casino in the Pocono Mountains was charged with perjury Wednesday for allegedly lying about his relationships with organized crime figures to win a lucrative gambling license, and state regulators quickly barred him from the business. Louis A. DeNaples, who opened Mount Airy Casino Resort in October, [...]
ALLENTOWN, Pa.%26Few insiders bet against Scranton-area businessman Louis DeNaples when he bought the shuttered and decaying Mount Airy Lodge resort for $25 million and declared his intention to enter Pennsylvania’s budding slot-machine casino industry. DeNaples, 67, had just about everything going for him: He was powerful, wealthy and a household name [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa.%26The owner of a slot-machine casino in the Pocono Mountains was charged with perjury Wednesday, accused of lying about his connections with organized crime figures. Louis A. DeNaples, who opened Mount Airy Casino Resort in October, was charged with four counts of perjury after a Dauphin County grand jury investigated [...]
GENEVA%26The United States has told China to get serious about relaxing the restraints on financial information providers in a letter that could represent a final warning before the U.S. asks the WTO to intervene in the matter, the Associated Press learned Wednesday. In the letter to Chinese trade officials, the office [...]
