Sunday, March 20, marked the vernal equinox: the traditional start of official day of spring and the end of winter. The Sun yesterday was directly over the equator on the Tropic of Cancer. The Sun crossed into the Northern Hemisphere and will shine there for the majority of the time for the majority of time […]
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A spokesman for Wyclef Jean says the hip-hop star has been released from a hospital after being treated for a gunshot wound to his hand. Joe Mignon (senior program director for Jean’s Yele Foundation) says Jean was shot in the hand after 11 p.m. local time Saturday in the city of Delmas, just […]
In his first comments, Aristide mostly avoided overtly political issues but stressed the importance of including all Haitians in national life. He did mention the ‘exclusion’ of his Fanmi Lavalas party, Haiti’s biggest, which was barred from registering its own candidate for the elections. “We condemn all kinds of violence so that the education of […]
Chicago. Keisha Hampton has been to the NCAA tournament and has come home a first-round loser along with the rest of her DePaul teammates the past two years. She’s tired of it. “The first two tournament games (2009 and 2010) we lost because we didn’t defend anybody and we didn’t rebound” – said Hampton, who […]
St. Patrick’s Day revelry in Savannah is expected to fill the streets of Georgia’s oldest city with thousands of tourists. The sprawling parade started in 1824 by Irish immigrants to the Georgia coast kicks off Thursday morning. And hotel managers and bar owners in the city expect the celebration to continue through the weekend. Some […]
Rapper Nate Dogg has died at the age of 41. His death was confirmed late last night, March 15, in his home town of Long Beach, California by the Press-Telegram. The cause of death is not yet confirmed. Dogg (real name Nathaniel D Hale) had suffered two strokes previously – one in 2007 and another […]
The threat of radiation exposure was heightened Tuesday following an explosion and fire at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant which later prompted officials to warn people in a 30-kilometer (19-mile) radius to stay indoors. “Please do not go outside. Please stay indoors. Please close windows and make your homes airtight. Don’t turn on ventilators. Please […]
It’s March 14 – National Pi Day, a day to celebrate the number that is beloved by math geeks and wizards the world over – 3.14. For those of you who, like me, doodled during math class, here’s a refresher – Pi represents the relationship between a circle’s diameter (its width) and its circumference (the […]
Tonight is the start of Daylight savings time 2011 and this will be officially starting at 2:00 am this March 13, 2011. Most of the residents in the United States must set their clocks one hour ahead to 3:00 AM with the exception of Hawaii and Arizona. Most of the countries in Europe observe Daylight […]
The NFL lockout inched closer to reality as the players and team owners failed to agree on a new collective bargaining agreement to save the 2011 season. The NFL Players Association decertified as a union and said that it will become a professional trade association. That allowed the players to file an antitrust suit against […]