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President Barack Obama’s official portrait for his second term was posted this morning to the White House Flickr page, showing off grayer hair and a wider smile. White House photographer, Pete Souza, took the portrait on Dec. 6, 2012 from the Oval Office, with the American and presidential flags on either side of him. This […]
Critics of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong are looking askance at his admission of using performance enhancing drugs after years of lying about it, suggesting that Armstrong has calculated the risk, has developed a strategic plan to mitigate legal action against him and try to revive a career in competitive sports, specifically triathlons. Whether anyone believes […]
DETROIT (AP) – Jurors at Kwame Kilpatrick‘s federal corruption trial have seen a video of the ex-Detroit mayor’s father taking a case of Cristal champagne from a businessman needing a favor. Kwame and Bernard Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson are accused of extortion and bribery. James Rosendall testified Thursday that he repeatedly paid cash to Bernard […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Judges decided Thursday that the custody fight over the infant daughter of former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, who fatally shot his girlfriend before killing himself, will be handled in Missouri, not Texas. The dispute is between the paternal and maternal grandparents of 4-month-old Zoey Belcher. In addition to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s something a little different these days about Michelle Obama: bangs in her hair. The first lady’s office posted a picture of Mrs. Obama’s new do on her new Twitter feed Thursday. It shows her meeting at the White House with one of eight citizens named co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s inauguration. […]
CHICAGO (AP) — He did it. He finally admitted it. Lance Armstrong doped. He was light on the details and didn’t name names. He mused that he might not have been caught if not for his comeback in 2009. And he was certain his “fate was sealed” when longtime friend, training partner and trusted lieutenant […]
According to J. Anthony Brown, Doritos and Bean Pies also need to be investigated for lacking in the quantity department. Doritos “because that bag ain’t full” and Bean Pies because they “have gotten smaller” yet the prices have gone up! Here’s the story below about Subway’s size issue. What other food items do you think […]
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.(AP) – A federal grand jury in Connecticut has indicted a former Roman Catholic priest and four other people in an alleged drug operation involving shipments of methamphetamine from California. Prosecutors say 61-year-old Kevin Wallin of Waterbury, former pastor at St. Augustine’s parish in Bridgeport, received shipments of methamphetamine from California and sold drugs […]
Bishop Larry D. Trotter out of Chicago is facing a lot of scrutiny after he posted a photo on Instagram with his 4-year-old granddaughter. Sounds innocent right? Well, it was where the photo took place that have people upset. In the photo, Trotter is smiling in a bubble bath with his granddaughter. Many people believe […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Two men had recently bought a house together in San Francisco, and the neighbors were annoyed. The men were entertaining “a very suspicious mixture of people,” the neighbors wrote, asking: “How can we improve the neighborhood?” “You could move,” Dear Abby replied. That zinger, contained in the 1981 collection “The Best […]
The FBI and the New York Police Department took down “Papa Smurf,” “Uncle Sonny,” “Joe Cali,” and several other mobsters related to three major crime families. Authorities made over 30 arrests in an operation known to the government as “The Waste Disposal Enterprise.” Police said the mobsters masked their schemes through their waste disposal business […]
A lot of people hate the media, equating them to soulless ghouls who prey on human misery or to lawyers, who simply profit off human misery. Either way, the once respected craft of journalism has fallen by the wayside in the 24-hour news cycle, which in itself deserves a great share of the blame. When […]
