National News
A New York City TV anchorman issued a death threat against his wife as he was being arrested on charges of attacking her at their Connecticut home, according to a court document released Tuesday. New York City police, meanwhile, disclosed that they were called 11 times to the couple’s home when they lived in Manhattan. […]
DETROIT (AP) — A state-appointed review team has determined Detroit is in a financial emergency, paving the way for Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to appoint an emergency manager who would need to come up with a new plan to get the city out of its fiscal crisis. The team released its findings Tuesday, saying in […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Reeva Steenkamp‘s coffin was draped in a white cloth and carried by six pallbearers at a private funeral Tuesday, just a few hours before Oscar Pistorius said in a court affidavit that he mistakenly killed his girlfriend by shooting her through a bathroom door. Reeva’s uncle, Mike Steenkamp, broke down crying after […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Confidence among U.S. homebuilders slipped this month from the 6½ year high it reached in January, with many builders reporting less traffic by prospective customers before the critical spring home-buying season. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Tuesday dipped to 46 from 47 in January. It […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas woman has beaten long odds in delivering two sets of identical twin boys. The Houston Chronicle reports Tressa Montalvo delivered her sons on Thursday — Valentine’s Day — at The Woman’s Hospital of Texas. It says the odds of giving such a birth naturally are one in 70 million. The […]
A 250-pund Colorado woman was denied a massage because she is too ‘fat’. Laura Smith, booked an appointment at the Natural Healing Center in Colo. for a post half-marathon massage but she claims when she got there the masseuse said she could not be served. According to KDVR, the masseuse told her “I’m sorry but […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Olympian Oscar Pistorius fired into the door of a small bathroom where his girlfriend was cowering after a shouting match on Valentine’s Day, hitting her three times, a South African prosecutor said Tuesday as he charged the sports icon with premeditated murder. The magistrate ruled that Pistorius faces the harshest […]
Jerry Buss had been a chemist and a mathematician long before he bought the Los Angeles Lakers in 1979. The self-made millionaire with a head for business and an impresario’s heart assailed the NBA with every skill he acquired along the way. With his personal alchemy and charisma, he blended two generations of marquee basketball […]
Somebody hacked Burger King‘s Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald’s logo. The tweets stopped after a little more than an hour, and Burger King said it had reached out to Twitter to suspend the account. A Twitter spokesman did not immediately respond to a phone message […]
The Houston Galleria was forced to close down early on Saturday night due to massive crowds of people visiting the mall to celebrity watch during the NBA’s All-star weekend. The fire marshal closed down the mall at 8:15 p.m. because it had reached it’s legal capacity. According to reports, people were triggered by social media […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Maureen O’Connor was a physical education teacher who won a seat on the San Diego City Council when she was only 25 years old, later winning two terms as the city’s first female mayor as she charmed voters with a populist flair. But her rapid rise was matched by her fall, […]
Have you ever wondered what happened to all of those unsold Girl Scout cookies? Well, check out the video above and find out. What a shame. We could have used a box or two!
