PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Some well-known male chefs are getting behind a New Jersey girl’s call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven. Chefs including Manuel Trevino of TV’s “Top Chef” and Michael Lomonaco of Porterhouse New York are featured in a YouTube video applauding McKenna Pope’s online petition, which had reached about 40,000 […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The clock is ticking down to Dec. 21, the supposed end of the Mayan calendar, and from China to California to Mexico, thousands are getting ready for what they think is going to be a fateful day. The Maya didn’t say much about what would happen next, after a 5,125-year cycle […]

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys paid tribute to Jerry Brown at a private memorial on Tuesday that included Josh Brent, the player charged with intoxication manslaughter in the one-car accident that killed his teammate. Quarterback Tony Romo, owner Jerry Jones and other players, executives and staff members arrived at the service on a sunny […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Almost 300 dancers who strutted, shimmied and shook their way down a Soul Train line set a world record earlier this year in Philadelphia. Guinness World Records has certified February’s Soul Train line outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the world’s longest. Two hundred ninety-one dancers took a hip trip between […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Almost 300 dancers who strutted, shimmied and shook their way down a Soul Train line set a world record earlier this year in Philadelphia. Guinness World Records has certified February’s Soul Train line outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the world’s longest. Two hundred ninety-one dancers took a hip trip between […]

If you’re headed to the hometown of the First Family of the United States for the holidays, be ready for “the hawk,” the feisty wind…

Three teenagers will be charged as adults in the shooting death of a 22-year-old woman in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Kayla Peterson, 22, died after one of the teens shot her in the stomach as she stood on her front porch on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls. Todavia S. Cleckley and Marcus Velasquez, both 14, were charged with conspiracy to commit […]

Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has just launched its eighth digital cable TV network. Justice Central.TV, his first solely supported by advertising without any subscriber affiliate fees, debuted in HD on Monday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The network will carry Entertainment Studios’ growing roster of court shows after they play in broadcast TV syndication, as […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It’s a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal appeals court has struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois — the only state where carrying concealed weapons is entirely illegal. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that state lawmakers have 180 days to write a new law that legalizes concealed carry. The ruling is […]

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman must remain under 24-hour GPS monitoring while awaiting trial in the fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and must stay in the county despite the defense’s concerns about his safety, a judge ruled Tuesday. The defense presented a lengthy bond modification argument to Judge Debra Nelson that included […]

Tom, Sybil, Jay. I am hoping that your day is as fantastic as mine. For any of the TJMS family that has been mildly paying attention to the news around the NFL you are aware of two tragedies that took place in two weeks. First we got news of Jovan Belcher, a 25-year-old football player […]