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December 15, 2009 05:23 PM EST --
James Wernke is a Cal State Long Beach baseball player who disappeared on Saturday while out walking his girlfriend's dog. Police found a body this morning at about 10 am which they presume is Wernke, . . .
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December 15, 2009 09:43 AM EST --
In its logo today, Google marks the 150th birthday of Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof, or LL Zamenhof. Wikipedia is so helpful at times like this! Zamenhof (1859-1917) was a Polish ophthalmologist . . .
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October 19, 2009 03:19 PM EDT --
Lord Christopher Monckton, a conservative British MP, delivered a speech last week in St. Paul about the impending international climate change talks to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Monckton has . . .
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December 09, 2009 10:39 AM EST --
While students and other faculty were enjoying a talent show in another part of the school, foreign language teachers Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro may have been about to perform some of their own special . . .
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December 04, 2009 10:31 AM EST --
Another tragic police death to report, this time in Alabama. A Pelham police officer was shot and killed on the side of Interstate 65 during a traffic stop shortly before midnight Thursday. . . .
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August 03, 2009 02:09 PM EDT --
It looks like some as-yes-unidentified group has plastered a new anti-Obama poster in several conspicuous spots around Los Angeles. The image is a take-off of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark . . .
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October 13, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
Yesterday, the classic TV game show "The Newlywed Game" featured the first gay married couple on the show since its 1966 premier. Now hosted by Carnie Wilson, the show last night had George Takei . . .
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November 30, 2009 03:40 PM EST --
So everyone's talking about how Chelsea Clinton is now engaged to her long-time boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky. All I can think about is how ridiculous the notion is that she would change her name to . . .
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December 01, 2009 09:39 AM EST --
This is a really sad story, and shows the risks that many are willing to take to maintain their ideal figure. Former Miss Argentina Solange Magnano died on Sunday from complications related to a . . .
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December 08, 2009 10:41 AM EST --
A whole lot of people are finding out who E.C. Segar is today, thanks to Google. Web surfers have awoken today to find a "Popeye the Sailor Man"-themed logo on Google's homepage:
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November 21, 2009 08:52 PM EST --
Tens (hundreds?) of thousands of users were frustrated when they found eBay's search down through Saturday. Still at this hour, searches for anything I tried ("junk," "antique," "television") all . . .
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December 10, 2009 09:34 AM EST --
Attendees of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and reception heard something new this year: Jazz. Esperanza Spalding, the 25-year-old bassist and singer whose been hard at work enlivening a tired genre, . . .
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November 22, 2009 08:33 PM EST --
'Will Smith Dead,' supposedly in a car accident, is the latest fake (I hope) celebrity death rumor whispering it's way around the web. According to the Inquistr, the rumor is that Will Smith flipped . . .
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October 20, 2009 06:02 PM EDT --
Today and tomorrow, Dr. Phil is dedicating two consecutive shows to the so-called Wesson Family Massacre, a mass murder so gruesome that I'm still not sure what details I'm about to include here. . . .
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November 10, 2009 05:37 PM EST --
Former astronaut Lisa Nowak pleaded guilty today to lesser charges in the case of her confrontation and attempted kidnapping of Colleen Shipman, who was dating Nowak's ex-boyfriend William A. Oefelein . . .
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November 19, 2009 12:26 PM EST --
Technicians have finally repaired an FAA computer glitch that caused flight delays and cancellations around the US. The National Airspace Data Interchange Network, based at Hartsfield Jackson Airport . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:42 AM EST --
According to CBS , a baby's crib safety recall, possibly the biggest in American history, is imminent. There's no word yet on any particular brands or models affected by the recall, but rumor has . . .
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November 04, 2009 11:26 AM EST --
Tomorrow, gospel singer BeBe Winans will appear on Oprah again to play host for Oprah's Karaoke Challenge . The problem is that Winans was arrested in March for domestic assault on his wife (he . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:55 AM EST --
There's a story trending this morning about a University of New Mexico soccer player named Elizabeth Lambert, who in one game against BYU committed enough physical assaults on opposing players to make . . .
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July 23, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
Last night President Obama said on national television that Cambridge, MA police "acted stupidly" in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates after a passerby reported to police that someone . . .
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