International Business News - junk http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/117541-junk-raft.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/a-raft-made-of-junk-crosses-pacific-in-3-months.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/a-raft-made-of-junk-crosses-pacific-in-3-months.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:15:13 EDT The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/112249-election-junk.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/states-throw-out-costly-electronic-voting-machines.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/states-throw-out-costly-electronic-voting-machines.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:23:50 EDT Countrywide Financial Corp.'s credit rating was cut to junk on Friday by Standard & Poor's rating, after a regulatory filing called into question whether Bank of America would repay the troubled lender's outstanding debt after their planned merger. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080502/countrywide-standard-poors-credit-rating-junk.htm Fri, 02 May 2008 23:41:49 EDT The man accused of killing four people at an auto wrecking yard allegedly warned of the shooting a half hour before the carnage started. The caretaker of Black Road Auto said Lee Isaac Bedwell Leeds called him Tuesday afternoon and told him "there's going to be a shooting" at the property. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080320/possible-warning-of-junk-yard-shooting.htm Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:37:56 EDT The gunman who opened fire at an auto wrecking yard killed his father, who owned the business, and three others before dropping the weapon and trying to flee over a fence, police said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080320/owner-among-dead-in-junk-yard-shooting.htm Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:14:27 EDT Police alleged Wednesday that the son of an auto wrecking yard owner shot four people to death at the business, including at least one relative and two employees. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080319/4-die-in-calif-wrecking-yard-shooting.htm Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:15:02 EDT Police have detained a man suspected of fatally shooting four men at a junk yard as panicked customers fled, authorities said. Tuesday's shootings, all at close range, were "very deliberate" and the suspect likely reloaded at least once, police Chief Danny Macagni said. At least some of the victims worked at Black Road Auto in the outskirts of Santa Maria, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080319/4-killed-in-calif-junkyard-shooting.htm Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:27:34 EDT Police have detained a man suspected of fatally shooting four men at a junk yard as onlookers watched, authorities said. The victims were shot at close range Tuesday, Police Chief Danny Macagni told the Santa Maria Times. One victim was found outside Black Road Auto and three were found inside. All were dead when police and medics arrived. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080319/4-killed-in-calif-workplace-shooting.htm Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:51:50 EDT Four men were shot to death in a junk yard Tuesday northwest of Los Angeles in what police said was "a case of workplace violence," and a suspect was taken into custody. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080318/4-killed-in-socal-workplace-shooting.htm Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:53:16 EDT Police say that four people have died in a shooting in a junk yard northwest of Los Angeles. Police Chief Danny Macagni (mah-KAH'-nyee) tells the Santa Maria Times that the shooting was reported about 4 p.m. Tuesday. By the time police and medics arrived, all four were dead. Police are checking to see whether there are more victims. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080318/4-killed-in-shooting-northwest-of-la.htm Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:20:05 EDT