Archive for May, 2011



‘Basketball Wives’ new season

‘Basketball Wives’ season 3 is making waves across the world and its latest season is going to be more or at least as enticing as the second season that was very well received throughout the duration of its broadcast. ‘Basketball Wives’’ third season is going to include not just wives of prominent football players but […]

Facts about Memorial Day 2011

The kinship Peter Puhalla shares with the late uncle he never knew runs deeper than family – a connection born of blood certainly but in a very real sense nurtured there, too. In blood and in sacrifice. Frank A. Puhalla was a 23-year-old Army private, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division serving in World […]

Cane Corso Mastiff kills a boy

A tamed Cane Corso Mastiff killed a 4-year-old boy by the name of Jayelin Graham in Brooklyn. Most of the people across the world keep pets to safeguard their homes and property, but sometimes those same pets can turn against you. A 4-year-old boy by the name of Jayelin Graham was killed by his family […]

Rap musician Gil Scott-Heron dies

New York — Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,’ died Friday at age 62. A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he died […]

Memorial Day 2011

Never mind what the calendar indicates, for Americans, summer begins with the Memorial Day weekend. And from all indications, Americans are ready to break out after almost two years of recession and clipped wings. AAA forecasts almost 35 million will travel at least 50 miles from home over the holiday weekend. And that’s a slight […]

Severe weather in Louisville

Louisville, Ky. – With the possibility of severe weather in the Louisville area, local leaders are on high alert. Mayor Greg Fischer met with his MetroSafe team. Including director Doug Hamilton. While they said they are hoping the weather threat does not bring a devastating tornado strike to the area, there’s certainly been precedent for […]

Bad weather in Dallas

Dallas — Storms that blew through North Texas and generated funnel clouds have left thousands of people without electricity and a police officer hurt after being struck by lightning. Oncor early Wednesday reported more than 39.000 customers without power in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Utility spokeswoman Ashley Burton says crews made significant progress overnight, after […]

Bob Dylan turns 70

When Bob Dylan was 19, he wanted to sound like he was 70. Today, he reaches that milestone without it seeming like a millstone. To ongoing generations, he still stands as a world-worn wellspring of wit, wisdom, whimsy and wonder. Just like the folk-blues masters he admired so deeply and emulated so earnestly while searching […]

Joseph Brooks dead at 73 of suicide

An Academy Award-winning songwriter who was awaiting trial for rape has been found dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment. You Light Up My Life writer Joseph Brooks (73) was discovered in his Upper East Side apartment around 12:30 pm by a friend with whom he had planned to have lunch – police […]

Iceland closed main airport after a volcano eruption

Iceland closed its main international airport on Sunday after a volcano eruption that sent a plume of ash and smoke high into the air. Iceland’s airport and air traffic control operator Isavia said that Keflavik airport was closed to all inbound and outbound traffic at 8:30 a.m. local time. “The ash is covering all of […]