New York Heroin Bust

New York Heroin Bust, A massive heroin mill operating out of a Bronx apartment has been shut down by New York and federal authorities.

According to narcotics investigators, nearly 29 pounds of heroin worth more than $8 million was seized Thursday night from an apartment on Wallace Avenue.

As WCBS 880’s Irene Cornell reported, investigators with the DEA Task Force raided the apartment after seeing one target of their investigation enter the building with two bags and coming out empty-handed.

Moments later, authorities said a second suspect scrambled out the window of a fifth floor apartment and trying to flee down a fire escape.

Spanish Cup Boycott Santander Football

Spanish Cup Boycott Santander Football, Racing Santander made good on its threat to boycott its Copa del Rey quarterfinal against Real Sociedad over unpaid wages, refusing to play on Thursday because the club’s president did not resign.

Sociedad held a 3-1 first-leg lead going into the match at El Sardinero Stadium, but players from third-tier Santander said they had no intention of playing if Angel Lavin and his board did not step down.

Both teams took to the field but Santander’s players immediately lined up near the half after kickoff and refused to play, with the referee suspending the game after one minute.

Sociedad kicked the ball around before shooting it into the stands where spectators showed their support for the players by chanting “don’t play!”

Yahoo Email Passwords Stolen

Yahoo Email Passwords Stolen, Yahoo said Thursday that usernames and passwords of its email customers have been stolen and used to access accounts, but the company isn’t saying how many accounts have been affected.

Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google’s Gmail, according to the research firm comScore. There are 273 million Yahoo mail accounts worldwide, including 81 million in the U.S.

Yahoo Inc. said in a blog post on its breach that “The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts’ most recent sent emails.”

That could mean hackers were looking for additional email addresses to send spam or scam messages. By grabbing real names from those sent folders, hackers could try to make bogus messages appear more legitimate to recipients.

The bigger danger: access to email accounts could lead to more serious breaches involving banking and shopping sites. That’s because many sites use email to reset passwords. Hackers could try logging in to such a site with the Yahoo email address, for instance, and ask that a password reminder be sent by email.

The breach is the second problem for Yahoo’s mail service in two months. In December, the service suffered a multi-day outage that prompted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer issue an apology.

Yahoo said it believes the usernames and passwords weren’t collected from its own systems, but from a third-party database. It’s not clear why a third-party database would have information on Yahoo accounts.

10 Things To Know Today: Sochi Terror Threat

10 Things To Know Today: Sochi Terror Threat, Security experts warn that Islamic militants in the Caucasus could achieve their goal by choosing soft targets away from the Olympic sites or even outside Sochi.

1. AP EXCLUSIVE: NAVY YARD GUNMAN LIED CONVINCINGLY TO DOCTORS

Veterans Affairs evaluators concluded Aaron Alexis had no mental health issues, documents obtained by AP show.

2. VICTIMS OF BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING HAVE RANGE OF REACTIONS TO RULING

“It shows that if you are going to terrorize our country, you are going to pay with your life,” one says of government’s decision to seek death penalty.

3. HOW EXTRADITION COULD PLAY OUT IN AMANDA KNOX CASE

U.S. State Department would evaluate a request from Italy, and both law and politics would factor into decision.

4. AP EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE PAKISTAN ARMY’S BOMB SCHOOL

Rebecca Santana is first reporter inside facility where instructors teach Pakistani forces the clever places militants hide homemade bombs.

5. SECURITY EXPERTS WORRY ABOUT SOFT TARGETS IN SOCHI

Olympic venues are tightly guarded, but Islamic militants could target vulnerable areas in or outside the sprawling resort.

6. AP FACT CS-EX-CK: HOW BAD TS-EX- NSA SECURITY LEAKS WERE

Top U.S. intelligence chief says they were the worst, but some historians cite more devastating intelligence breakdowns the past century.

7. WS-EX-RE CARS LACK AIR BAGS AND CRUMPLE EASILY

Some of India’s most popular small cars fail crash tests because of a lack of safety requirements and little regulation.

8. 10 SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS

9. WHAT COUNTRY VENEZUELA’S YOUNG PEOPLE ARE FLEEING TO

Its economy recovering from Europe’s financial crisis, Ireland has emerged as the top choice of students seeking opportunities abroad.

10. WHY BILL DE BLASIO WON’T BE AT TS-EX- SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

Even though it’s being played in his own backyard, the new NYC mayor says he’ll watch at home rather than foot the bill for the high-priced game. SUPER BOWL-NYC MAYOR

THE USELESS COLLEGE MAJORS OF WORLDS MOST SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE HUFFINGTON

TS-EX- USELESS COLLEGE MAJORS OF WORLDS MOST SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE HUFFINGTON, If you’re considering going back to school in hopes that you’ll graduate to more opportunities, there are certain degrees that you might want to avoid.

Consider the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ (NACE) 2012 Job Outlook study, which surveyed almost 1,000 employers on their future hiring plans. Many areas of study, such as fashion design and the performing arts, didn’t even make the list.

On the other hand, majors like business had 83 percent of the surveyed employers saying they planned to recruit them. Close seconds were accounting and computer and information science majors with nearly 60 percent of surveyed employers planning to recruit them.

At the other end of the spectrum are degrees that are either so specific they can’t be applied in a variety of fields, or those linked to careers with virtually little to no projected job growth.

Want to make sure you don’t pick a dud of a degree? Check out our list of most useless degrees.

Useless Degree #1 – Agriculture
Number of Students Awarded Degree in 2008-2009: 24,988
Typical coursework: Crops, plant diseases, animal husbandry, basic veterinary science
When schools such as the University of Idaho cut their agriculture programs, you know times are tough for this degree. The state has more than 25,000 farms, for cow’s sake, according to the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture census, in 2007.

Still, if your idea of a good day is getting up with the sun and working till it sets as an agricultural manager, a degree in agriculture might be your calling.

Just don’t expect farms and ranches to be calling you, says Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., and author of “The 10 Best College Majors for Your Personality.” “It’s true that farms are becoming more efficient now and so there is less of a need for farm managers,” he says. That means less jobs. In fact, the U.S. Department of Labor projects 64,000 fewer jobs in this field over the next seven years.

Total Number of Agricultural Managers in 2008: 1,234,000
Projected Change in Number of Jobs 2008-2018: -64,600
Percent Change: -5

Useless Degree #2 – Fashion Design
Number of Students Awarded Degree in 2008-2009: 89,140
Typical coursework: Fashion history, sewing, tailoring, color, design, pattern making
The world of high fashion is glamorous, exciting, and, unfortunately, highly exclusive and competitive.

“Fashion never dies out, never ends, and even though everything gets made overseas now, there’s always a need for designers. But it’s incredibly competitive. It’s one you really have to establish yourself in,” Shatkin says.

And those glamour positions are expected to be the ones with the fewest opportunities among an already small field, says the U.S. Department of Labor. Because it’s so tough, Shatkin suggests that getting a practical minor with this degree is very smart.

Total Number of Fashion Designers in 2008: 22,700
Projected Change in Number of Jobs 2008-2018: +200
Percent Change: +1

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Useless Degree #3 – Theater
Number of Students Awarded Degree in 2008-2009: 89,140
Typical coursework: Theater, acting, directing, design, playwriting, communications, dramatic literature
Here’s the good news: Sign up for theater as a major and at least you’ll be really good at acting like you have a job.

Here’s the bad news: Actors endure long periods of unemployment and frequent rejection, says the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department goes on to say that because earnings are erratic for actors, producers, and directors, many hold second jobs. In other words, how do you feel about waiting tables?

Of course, says Shatkin, “People go into this with such a love for it you can’t stop them.”

Total Number of Actors/Producers/Directors in 2008: 155,100
Projected Change in Number of Jobs 2008-2018: +16,900
Percent Change: +11

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Useless Degree #4 – Animal Science
Number of Students Awarded Degree in 2008-2009: 80,756
Typical coursework: Animal breeding, reproductive physiology, nutrition, meat and muscle biology
Here’s another degree aimed at a career that at first glance doesn’t look all that discouraging. After all, animal scientist employment is projected by the U.S. Department of Labor to grow 13 percent from 2008 to 2018.

But crunch a few more numbers and you quickly realize that you could be in for stiff competition to grab a piece of that pie. Fewer than 5,000 animal scientist jobs are projected to exist in the field by 2018.

The problem, says Shatkin, is the degree is so specific that trying to apply it to anything else means a tough time convincing people it gives you any useful skills for jobs outside animal science jobs.

Total Number of Animal Scientists in 2008: 3,700
Projected Change in Number of Jobs 2008-2018: +500
Percent Change: +13

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Useless Degree #5 – Horticulture
Number of Students Awarded Degree in 2008-2009: 24,988
Typical coursework: Crops, plant diseases, agricultural business and economics, crop and fruit science
If you like the farm life but aren’t all that keen on all the whining and clucking of an animal farm, perhaps a degree in horticulture is growing on you.

Unfortunately, the number of jobs in the field itself is not growing, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. And Shatkin agrees. “Better than agriculture, but not by much. If you’re lucky, you may find some way to apply that to a related business like food processing or production,” he says.

Total Number of Farmers and Ranchers in 2008: 985,900
Projected Change in Number of Jobs 2008-2018: -79,200
Percent Change: -8

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