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VIA CNN: One passenger was killed when an airplane crashed in bad weather and split into two when landing early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said. The number of injured remained unclear Monday morning, but the national police said six of at least 127 people aboard the plane were not hurt. […]
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the skeletal remains found in Malibu Canyon Monday afternoon have been identified by authorities as those of Mitrice Richardson, the young woman who vanished nearly a year ago after being released from the Lost Hills/Malibu Sheriff’s Station, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The identification of […]
Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant blew his top on an incoming flight at Kennedy Airport on Monday, dropped the F-bomb over the intercom and bolted down an emergency slide. The mad-as-hell worker stunned passengers when he spewed profanity and boasted about quitting his job as the flight from Pittsburgh pulled up to the gate […]
The House passed a bill Tuesday afternoon providing $26.1 billion to cash-strapped state governments, and preventing roughly 161,000 teachers and 158,000 public works employees from being laid off. The vote was 247-161. Democratic leadership has been under tremendous pressure to pass legislation before the start of the school year policy-wise, and before the November elections […]
When Spike Lee speaks people listen. The folks doing the listening are the journalists tasking part in the Television Critics Association confab being held in LA. He’s outraged and says the U.S. government report that 75 percent of the spilled Gulf Coast oil is gone is a ‘lie.” Saturday, Lee told journalists that they should […]
*You just knew there was no way Rush Limbaugh was going to let Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain go by without spewing his special brand of hate at her. Friday he said that the media is allowing the First Lady to take a vacation as a form of reparations for “our slave past.” In discussing […]
As mom-and-pop businesses struggle to make ends meet, the latest attempt to help them has gotten mired in Washington politics. The debate began in October, when President Obama started pushing ways to get cheap capital to small businesses. It continued after his State of the Union address, in which he touted the proposal. But that […]
Bernie Mac didn’t have to die. That’s the contention of the comedian’s widow, Rhonda McCullough, who has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Chicago against one of his doctors. Mac, who for years suffered from sarcoidosis, a chronic autoimmune disease, died on Aug. 9, 2008, at age 50, of heart failure during a bout of […]
Via Eurweb: Below is a CBS News report about the backlash toward the Spain vacation taken by First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha. Some folks believe the expensive trip is in poor taste when many Americans are struggling under the bad economy. The New York Daily News called Mrs. Obama Marie Antoinette, the […]
*The cost of launching Oprah Winfrey’s cable network OWN is set to soar beyond its $100 million budget – because executives have already spent three quarters of the money before its January 2011 debut. Brass at Discovery Communications invested the sum in a joint venture with Winfrey to premiere the talk show host’s new […]
*WASHINGTON – President Obama today signed an historic piece of legislation that narrows the crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparity from 100:1 to 18:1 and for the first time eliminates the mandatory minimum sentence for simple possession of crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act (S. 1789), unanimously passed by the Senate in March and approved […]
In what is largely being called an epic fail, the Tea Party held its Uni-Tea Rally in Philadelphia over the weekend. Organizers were expecting 1,500 to 3,000 attendees yet fewer than 500 people showed up. After the Sherrod-Gate flap, the Tea Party group held a Uni-Tea convention to celebrate the movement’s diversity. The […]
