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Chef Gordon Ramsay has been named the U.S’s highest earning chef by grossing an estimated $38 million this year. Ramsay, who owns 24 restaurants worldwide, has several cookbooks and received 11 Michelin medals for his work. He is also known as the tongue-lashing expert featured on cooking shows like Master Chef and Hell’s Kitchen. "They […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Dark Knight Rises" was on track to earn $160 million, which would be a record for 2-D films, over the weekend following a mass shooting at a Colorado screening of the Batman film. Citing box office insiders, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and other media outlets reported […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials say the suspect in Friday's deadly shooting in Colorado is James Holmes, a 24-year-old white American. Officials believe Holmes killed a dozen people when he fired into a crowded movie theater in a Denver suburb. He was wearing a gas mask and set off an unknown gas in […]
__ July 20, 2012: At least 12 people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." — July 22, 2011: At least 80 people are killed at a summer camp on the […]
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — DirecTV and Viacom Inc. say they have settled a dispute that will bring shows such as those featuring the cartoon character Sponge Bob and the comedian Jon Stewart back to DirecTV subscribers. Seventeen Viacom channels — including BET, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon — had not been accessible to some […]
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into a crowded movie theater in suburban Denver at a midnight opening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 people and injuring at least 38 others, authorities said. Moviegoers didn't know what was happening and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman says former President George W. Bush is skipping the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., next month. Bush spokesman Freddy Ford says the 43rd president is enjoying his time off the political stage and respectfully has declined the party's invitation to attend the event. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will […]
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Police say a 39-year-old man is the only suspect in the deaths of a Detroit-area couple whose dismembered bodies were found floating in the Detroit River. The man was arrested Thursday but has not been charged in the deaths of Chris Hall and Danielle Greenway. Allen Park Police Chief James […]
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — The deadly shooting spree in Colorado consumed the presidential campaign Friday, sidetracking a bitter political contest with a tragedy that at least temporarily brought the candidates together in common purpose. "There are going to be other days for politics," a somber President Barack Obama said. The president and likely Republican […]
Some theaters and police around the U.S. stepped up security at daytime showings of the new Batman movie Friday after the massacre in Colorado, and while many fans were undeterred by the tragedy, others were nervous about going to see the film. Two police officers were stationed outside the AMC theater in New York's Times […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Gay rights advocates were surprised Thursday that the president of fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has taken a public position against same-sex marriage. Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy said this week that his privately owned company is "guilty as charged" in support of what he called the biblical definition of the family unit. The Atlanta-based […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — African nations are not receiving adequate international funding to fight HIV/AIDS, leaving them to face catastrophic consequences without enough medication, an independent, global medical and humanitarian organization said Thursday. Experts at Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, said Congo is only able to supply anti-retroviral drugs to 15 percent of the […]
