iFive: Missing Tony Hayward, Spotify Rethinks Label Policy, London Bike Hire Launch, Galapagos Out of Danger, Miramax ...
While you were sleeping, innovation was swiping your credit card and giving you a ride through the streets of London on an inordinately hefty bicycle. 1. Now that Tony Hayward is gone from BP, are you missing him? (Anyone who wants to track him down should maybe go to Russia, as he's rumored to be visiting next week, alongside his successor, Bob Dudley.) The Telegraph wonders whether his muted ...

Dead toddlers mother takes plea
Katheryn Nycole Dale, the mother of the late 19-month-old Vincent Hill, pleaded no contest to charges of abuse of a child and aggravated endangerment of a child Thursday in Harvey County District Court.

Bears open up camp
A long line of dark SUVs with tinted windows rolled down Interstate 57 Thursday.

Mom pleads to some charges in boy's death
Two days before 19-month-old Vincent Hill died from severe abuse, his 20-year-old mother became upset with how he was eating, a prosecutor said in court Thursday.

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EAST BAY East Bay SPCA "Fanciful Bunny," 11 a.m. Aug. 7 adoptions, 4-5 p.m. art reception. Buy a work of art and adopt a bunny. 4651 Gleason Drive, Dublin.