When it comes to television series, no show has quite the cult following that 21 Jump Street has. It was created by Stephen J. Cannell way back in 1987, yet it has maintained a cult following thanks to it being the show that launched Hunter S. Thompson-loving Johnny Depp’s vampire career. Well, now it’s Jonah […]
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Jack The Ripper’s Stabbing Knife Discovered?
Posted 11/03/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to characters suspected of being Jack the Ripper, the most interesting theory is the belief that Queen Victoria’s personal surgeon, John Williams, had the free time to butcher five prostitutes when he wasn’t attending to the queen’s medical needs. One of many reasonable theories, it’s gaining popularity as the years go on. […]
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Former NASCAR Driver Jeremy Mayfield Caught With Meth, Stolen Goods
Posted 11/03/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganOnce upon a time, Jeremy Mayfield had a bright future. He was a driver on the NASCAR Sprint Cup series, making good money, and seemingly on the road to stardom, or at least a steady career as a professional race car driver. Then in 2009, NASCAR suspended Mayfield after he tested positive for methamphetamines. Mayfield […]
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Grand Theft Auto 5 Gets An Awesome Trailer
Posted 11/03/2011 6:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s been a long time, Rockstar Games. Since the debut of the Grand Theft Auto series in 1997, the GTA series has sold over 114 million games. There hasn’t been a new GTA game since Grand Theft Auto 4 came out in 2008, so we’re due for another installment. Right on time, Rockstar and Take-Two […]
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Reality TV Show Good Guy Ethan Zohn’s Cancer Returns
Posted 11/03/2011 1:36 am by Stephanie SturgisIt would be easy to think that a man who wins a million dollars and then begins a long-term romance with a beautiful young woman who has also won a million dollars leads a charmed life. Ethan Zohn might disagree with you. The 37-year-old winner of the television show Survivor knows real life can kill […]
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Justin Bieber, Bieby-Daddy?
Posted 11/02/2011 9:00 am by Ron HoganIs Justin Bieber the father of a Baby, Baby, Baby, Oh? Well, according to 20-year-old Mariah Yeater, the 17-year-old Canadian pop singer is the father of her three-month-old baby boy. Bieber’s reps are denying everything, of course, but Yeater has filed a lawsuit in California saying that Justin Bieber fathered her baby backstage at Bieber’s […]
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Gadhafi’s New York Florist Pen Pal
Posted 11/02/2011 8:30 am by Stephanie SturgisNo matter how you spell his name, Moammar Gadhafi was a reviled man living on borrowed time. One florist in New York gave the Libyan dictator sage advice, but he opted not to follow it, and not so long afterward the deposed leader was killed. Louis Schlamowitz, 81, was a pen pal with […]
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Bank of America Scraps $5 Debit Card Fee
Posted 11/02/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganIt took a lot longer than expected, but Bank of America has finally seen the light. The troubled nationwide banking firm announced a $5 fee for debit card use at the end of September. Well, it’s the beginning of November, and it looks like that fee won’t be happening. Bank of America has called off […]
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Domino’s Managers Arrested For Arson At Papa John’s
Posted 11/02/2011 7:30 am by Stephanie SturgisMarketing in the fast food industry calls for some creative thinking to keep a restaurant thriving. A pair of Domino’s Pizza managers in Lake City, Florida came up with an unusual way of getting business to heat up. Instead of making heart-shaped pizzas for Valentine’s Day or new products like breakfast pizzas or promoting a […]
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Amazon Launches Black Friday Website
Posted 11/02/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganBefore October was over, I’d seen my first Christmas commercial. On Halloween weekend, I saw my first Christmas decorations. Every year, the holiday rush towards Christmas gets faster and faster, and nothing moves quite as fast as the online world. Amazon has already debuted its combined Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals website, and the deals have […]
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US Army Soldier Arrested For Espionage
Posted 11/02/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to espionage, that’s a charge that the United States traditionally takes very seriously. Especially in the wake of the Wikileaks scandal, in which a US soldier leaked classified information online, the Army has been rooting out and cracking down on information leaks and espionage. Hence, a US Army soldier from Kentucky has […]
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Zooey Deschanel, Ben Gibbard Split
Posted 11/02/2011 6:00 am by Ron HoganYou’d think they were the perfect pair. Ben Gibbard, lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie, and Zooey Deschanel, the twee indie film darling turned honey-throated 60’s style pop star as the lead singer of She and Him. Their careers are going well; Death Cab dropped their seventh album this year and Zooey’s got a […]
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Daughters Switched At Birth Win Families Cash Pay-Out
Posted 11/01/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the weirdest child-swap accidents I’ve ever seen. When Yuliya Belyaeva was getting divorced from her husband, he refused to pay for his daughter because, as he said, she didn’t look like him. Irina Belyaeva, with her dark hair, dark eyes, and olive skin, doesn’t exactly look like her mother or her father, […]
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Neanderthal DNA Found In Modern Siberians
Posted 11/01/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganSiberia is a harsh, cruel land. It’s a dark, cold, lonely place, and it’s home to some of the most isolated places and communities in the world. It’s no wonder that Siberia has some interesting genetic oddities among its population. For example, ancient cavemen. Traces of DNA from the proto-human Denisovan Neanderthals have been found […]
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Kim Kardashian Files For Unsurprising Divorce
Posted 11/01/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganWell, the bad news has broken. The marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humpheries is now officially ending after only 72 days together. Married on August 20 in a lavish ceremony broadcast by E! as a two-day TV special dubbed “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding,” the fairytale has already met its unhappy ending. Just when you thought […]
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China Puts A Rocket Into Space
Posted 11/01/2011 6:00 am by Ron HoganThere’s a new member of the exclusive space club. While China launched its first rocket into orbit in 2003, there’s one thing the country hasn’t been able to accomplish, and that’s actually docking a space ship with something in orbit. Well, China already has the Tiangong 1 space module in orbit around planet Earth, and […]
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