Dionne Warwick says Whitney Houston was the “little girl” she “never had”. The 71-year-old singer – who was the late star’s cousin: explained she saw the “I Will Always Love You” hitmaker as her own daughter, and her tragic death last month still hasn’t “sunk in”. Dionne said: “Whitney basically was the little girl I […]
U.S. politics had its “Super Tuesday” yesterday, and so did the sun – says Joseph Kunches from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. That’s because the sun had two solar flares associated with two coronal mass ejections. Coronal mass ejections involve massive amounts of energy and charged particles shooting out of the sun, […]
U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (New Jersey’s first black congressman) died yesterday after a months-long battle with colon cancer. He was 77. Payne represented the 10th Congressional District, which encompasses parts of Bayonne and Jersey City, in addition to portions of Union and Essex counties. First elected in 1988, he vowed to seek re-election this November, […]
Former New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra may be sentenced on Monday if a judge rejects his motion to withdraw a no-contest plea on charges of grand theft auto and providing a false financial statement. Dykstra (49) is seeking to withdraw his plea but faces up to four years in state prison if it’s not […]
Guitarist Ronnie Montrose (one of rock’s great sidemen, whose namesake band introduced Sammy Hagar to the world) died Saturday. He was 64. The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said his wife and manager, Leighsa Montrose. Mr. Montrose, a San Francisco native, got his first break when he was hired to play guitar on Van […]
Kirk Cameron (a former teen idol who once starred in the sitcom “Growing Pains” and is now a born-again Christian) is under fire after calling homosexuality “detrimental and destructive.” Kirk Cameron is interviewed by CNN’s Piers Morgan and makes some radical comments about his stance on homosexuality in this segment which aired Friday (March 2) […]
Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart was no respecter of the maxim that one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead – After the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 2009, he spewed venom all over the liberal lion’s grave via Twitter, calling him a “special pile of human excrement,” a “villain” and other things we can’t […]
Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart (an influential voice in Republican circles known for his online media attacks on liberals) died unexpectedly of natural causes in Los Angeles early on Thursday, his family said. He was 43. Breitbart, the founder of a news website named after himself, was walking late on Wednesday near his Los Angeles home […]
Davy Jones (who as lead singer of the Monkees turned a prefab TV band gig into a life-long career) died Wednesday of a heart attack in Stuart, Fla. He was 66. His death shocked fans and friends like by Bruce Morrow, the veteran city radio deejay. “I was stunned” – said Morrow. “He seemed to […]